Category: Ekiti State

As part of concerted efforts to improve healthcare accessibility and outcomes for the people of Ekiti State, the State Government is set to commence a comprehensive Free Surgical Mission aimed at providing essential surgical care to residents of the state. In a statement signed by the Commissioner for Health and Human Services, Dr Oyebanji Filani […]

The Alara of Ara in the Ikole Local Government Area of Ekiti State, Oba Adebayo Fatoba, has narrated how he managed to escape from gunmen who attacked and killed two of his colleagues last Monday. Fatoba, along with two other monarchs from the state – Onimojo of Imojo Ekiti in Oye LG and the Elesun […]

The new commissioner for police in Ekiti, Adeniran Akinwale has assured the people of the state that the command under his leadership would review the security architecture for optimum performance. Akinwale, who spoke with newsmen at the command’s headquarters in Ado-Ekiti, the state capital on Wednesday upon his assumption, explained that he would lead the command in […]

Ekiti State Governor, Biodun Oyebanji The proprietor of the Apostolic Faith Group of Schools, Emure Ekiti, Gabriel Adesanya, on Wednesday, lamented that kidnapped pupils and staff members of the school were being subjected to a series of maltreatment by their abductors. Adesanya who spoke on Wednesday, said whenever the kidnappers called the parents, the children […]

Ekiti state monarchs have threatened to invoke traditional methods including the Yoruba gods against kidnappers who are terrorising the state. The hoodlums, who hitherto operated in the North-West, have in the past weeks laid siege to the South-West where they have unleashed havoc on residents. On Monday, they killed two Ekiti monarchs-the Onimojo of Imojo, […]

Mrs Yetunde Ogunsakin, the widow of the slain traditional ruler of Esun Ekiti in Ajoni Local Council Development Area of Ekiti State, Oba Babatunde Ogunsakin, has disclosed her husband’s last request before he was gunned down by his assailants. Gunmen suspected to be kidnappers on Monday killed two Ekiti State monarchs on the Ipao-Oke Ako […]

Ekiti State Governor Biodun Oyebanji calls for immediate release The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) has condemned in strong terms the abduction of six schoolchildren in Emure Ekiti, Ekiti State, and called for the immediate release of their abductors. NANS President, Comrade Lucky Emonefe, described as unacceptable a situation where pupils and students have […]

There is an outrage across the land over the killing by gunmen on Monday of two traditional rulers in Ekiti State, the Onimojo of Imojo-Ekiti, Oba Olatunde Samuel Olusola and the Elesun of Esun-Ekiti, Oba David Babatunde Ogunsola. The thread cuts across starting from President Bola Tinubu and tying Ekiti State Governor Biodun Oyebanji and […]

Ekiti State Governor, Mr Biodun Oyebanji has condemned Monday’s dastardly attack in Oke-Ako area, Ikole Local Government, which led to the gruesome killing of two traditional rulers. He ordered security agencies in the state to fish out the killers. The two traditional rulers- the Onimojo of Imojo Ekiti, Oba Olatunde Samuel Olusola and the Elesun […]

Farmers at Idege, a farmstead in Ado Ekiti, the capital city of Ekiti State, invested millions of naira in cultivating their farms, but they are currently in tears as a result of the destruction of their farms by herders, Abiodun Nejo writes: Some farmers at Idege, a farmstead under Ado Ekiti, the capital city of […]