The deplorable Akure-Ado Ekiti Road Flags off dualization of Akure-Ado Ekiti highway Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, explained the reasons that President Muhammadu Buhari has continued to award contracts as well as borrow despite having just a few days left until the end of his tenure. According to Fashola, the tenure of the […]
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The immediate past Ekiti Deputy Governor, Bisi Egbeyemi, is dead. He died at age 78. Egbeyemi was a deputy governor to Governor Kayode Fayemi. He served between 2018 and 2022. The former deputy governor died around 8 pm on Friday after a brief illness. He reportedly died at a private hospital in Ado-Ekiti. The Punch
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Ekiti State Governor, Biodun Oyebanji, has appealed to residents to continue to accept the old and new naira notes as means of transactions in line with the Supreme Court judgment which extended the validity of the N500, and N1000 old notes till December 2023. He appealed to all businesses operating in Ekiti State to remain […]
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By Banji Ayoola At last, reprieve seems to be on the way of commuters plying the deplorable Akure – Ado Ekiti Road as the Federal Government has re-awarded the reconstruction of the road. The minister of State for Transportation, Prince Ademola Adegoroye, dropped the hint in a statement on Thursday by his spokesman, Prince Ebenezer […]
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The abductors of an Ekiti State Catholic priest, Rev. Fr. Michael Olofinlade, have set him free after spending three days in their den. Sources said that Olofinlade, who was abducted at about 6pm on Saturday on the Itaji Ekiti-Ijelu Ekiti Road in the Oye Local Government Area of the state while he returning to his […]
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The Peoples Democratic Party Presidential Campaign Organisation, on Sunday, named the Ekiti State presidential campaign council ahead of the 2023 General Elections. The PDP governorship candidate in the just concluded election that was held in the state, Bisi Kolawole, was named the Chairman of the council and Chief Makanjuola Ogundipe was named as the Vice […]
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The embattled Speaker of Ekiti State House of Assembly, Hon. Olugboyega Aribisogan yesterday cried out to the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Usman Baba Alkali over an alleged security threat to his life. Both Akingholu and Olajide along with some lawmakers were immediately suspended indefinitely after the impeachment of Hon Aribisogan Aribisogan in a petition, […]
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Governor Biodun Oyebanji of Ekiti has signed the N122.6 billion Ekiti State 2022 Supplementary Appropriation Bill into Law. Oyebanji, while signing the appropriation bill in Ado-Ekiti on Friday, noted that the lawmakers have the capacity to solve their internal crisis, saying, “democracy allows for crisis but we must place the interest of the state above […]
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Assembly on familiar terrain If not for the present leadership crisis in the Ekiti State House of Assembly, the sixth assembly inaugurated on June 5, 2019, might not have been a problem in a house of assembly that has a history of leadership crises. Although the First Assembly was relatively peaceful, crises have been a […]
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The principle of Separation of Powers provides that the three arms of government would function interdependently and act as checks and balances to one another, to frustrate arbitrariness. This governance principle propounded by John Montesquieu, is observed in the breach at the states level. The Legislature and the Judiciary are like mere appendages of the […]
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