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Victor Ogunje in Ado Ekiti The Chairman of the Ekiti State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB), Prof. Femi Akinwumi, yesterday disclosed that the state government had paid the sum of N7.3 billion as counterpart funding to Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC) for the execution of projects in public primary and secondary schools in the last two years. The chairman made the disclosure in Ado Ekiti, the state capital, while briefing journalists on the activities of the body and its strid...

Victor Ogunje in Ado Ekiti As part of efforts to make Ekiti safe for investment and living in 2021, the Governor of Ekiti State, Dr. Kayode Fayemi is to launch a safety City Project to tackle kidnapping, banditry, robbery and other social menaces in the state. To bolster harmonious government, workers’ relationships, Fayemi said he would fulfill promises to recruit over 1,500 new employees into the teaching, healthcare and various cadres of the civil service, as well as pay all outstanding...

By Victor Ogunje As part of the efforts to make Ekiti State safe for investment and safety in 2021, the Governor of Ekiti State, Dr Kayode Fayemi, will launch a safety city project to tackle all forms of kidnapping, banditry, robbery and other social menaces in the state. To bolster harmonious government-workers’ relationship, Fayemi said he would fulfill promises to recruit over 1,500 new employees into the teaching, healthcare and various cadres of the civil service, as well as paying all o...

By Victor Ogunje The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), has accused the proponent of #RevolutionNow, Mr. Omoyele Sowore, of using his connections in the media to destroy the image of the association. Specifically, NANS alleged Sowore of deploying his online medium to malign the new President of NANS, Sunday Asefon, over his open declaration that students under him won’t join the #RevolutionNow activism being spearheaded by him (Sowore). Asefon won the NANS’ presidential elect...

By Victor Ogunje The Ekiti State Judicial Panel of Inquiry probing into issues of human rights abuses allegedly perpetrated by the police and other allied matters in the state, has recommended aggregate payment of N1.5 million as compensation to six petitioners, who brought their cases before the panel. The panel at its resumed sitting Wednesday and presided over by the Chairman , Justice Cornileus Akintayo, took the decisions as part of its resolutions to ameliorate the sufferings of the victi...

Victor Ogunje in Ado Ekiti As part of the ways to stem the tide of criminality, Ekiti State Governor, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, has reiterated the need for a reform that will improve citizens’ trust in the Nigeria Police in order to enhance the quest for community policing. Fayemi stated this during a stakeholders’ forum on community policing, involving heads of security agencies, public servants, politicians, civil society organisations, youth and women organisations, heads of government institut...

•Nigerians to get vaccine free, says PTF coordinator •UK imposes flight restrictions on South Africa over new virus variant •W’African nations mull UK flight ban Olawale Ajimotokan in Abuja, Victor Ogunje in Ado Ekiti, Hammed Shittu in Ilorin and Kayode Fasua in Abeokuta Nigerians are in for a low-key Christmas celebration tomorrow as states yesterday rolled out measures to tackle the resurgence of COVID-19. Some of the measures such as restrictions on religious gathering, social activi...

By Victor Ogunje The Governor of Ekiti State, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, has commiserated with his Ondo State counterpart, Mr. Rotimi Akeredolu (SAN), and the people of the state on the passing of the state’s Commissioner for Regional Integration and Special Duties, Prof. Bayonile Ademodi. Ademodi, who was a Professor of Chemical Engineering, died last Saturday, aged 68 years. Fayemi, in a condolence message that was signed by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr. Yinka Oyebode, described the late Ademodi a...

By Victor Ogunje The Ekiti State’s House of Assembly has passed the state’s 2021 Appropriation Bill of N109.6 billion into law. The bill, which was passed yesterday, was presented to the House by the Ekiti State Governor, Dr. Kayode Fayemi on October 27. The passage of the N109.6 billion budget, with the theme “Budget of Recovery and Economic Restoration,” was a prelude to the submission of the report of the House Committee on Finance and Appropriation by its Chairman, Mrs. Olubunmi Ade...

By Victor Ogunje The First Lady of Ekiti State, Erelu Bisi Fayemi, has called on rich Nigerians to stop seeking medical treatments abroad, saying the multi-system nature of Afe Babalola University Teaching Hospital (ABUTH) can rival any hospital in the world. Fayemi added that ABUTH is well equipped with personnel and instruments with indisputable capacity to offer quality healthcare delivery that any hospital in India, United States of America, Britain and other advanced nations could offer. T...