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Ekiti State Deputy Governor, Monisade Afuye, has declared that ensuring security across all Ekiti towns and maintaining high respect for the traditional

As the race to the 2023 presidential race becomes fiercer, the Catholic Bishop of Ekiti, Most Reverend Felix Ajakaye, has urged Nigerians to elect a

Emma Okonji, Nosa Alekhuogie in Lagos and Victor Ogunje in Ado Ekiti The Catholic Bishops of Ibadan Ecclesiastical Province, has condemned the National Assembly for allegedly voting against electronic transmission of election results and other issues of national interest based on partisan interests. The Bishops described as absurd and grotesque, a situation, where elected federal lawmakers put parties’ interests above national interests, by working against electoral reform, press freedom and ...

Victor Ogunje The Ekiti State House of Assembly has promised legislative backings to the state Governor, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, and security agencies to contain the rising wave of kidnapping in the state. The Assembly’s Chief Whip, Hon. Bunmi Adelugba, stated this in Emure Ekiti, Emure Local Government Area of the state, last Saturday when he inaugurated some projects in the town. Some of the projects built and donated by Hon Adelugba to Emure community included two blocks of classroom to Emure G...

Victor Ogunje Members of the National Assembly, under the aegis of Southern Senators’ Forum, have appealed to Nigerians to embrace peace and dialogue in settling differences, rather than threatening division and war. They said the country’s diversity had been its greatest strength, respect and reckoning in the global politics, adding that Nigeria has immeasurable dividends to savour in staying united than disintegrating. The senators, in an Eid-el-Kabir message yesterday by the forum’s Ch...

Victor Ogunje in Ado Ekiti Former Ekiti State Deputy Governor, Dr. Sikiru Lawal, has warned President Muhammadu Buhari against re-presenting his Special Assistant, Mrs. Lauretta Onochie, to the Senate as a Commissioner in the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), saying doing so would be insulting to Nigerians. Lawal in a statement issued in Ado Ekiti yesterday commended the Senator Ahmed Lawan-led Senate for the outright rejection of the nomination. He said the rejection of the spe...

Victor Ogunje in Ado Ekiti Ekiti State Governor, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, has congratulated former Governor of Ogun State, Aremo Olusegun Osoba, on the occasion of his 82nd birthday anniversary. Fayemi in a statement signed by his Chief Press Secretary, Yinka Oyebode, said the highly revered veteran journalist has lived his entire life serving the people and the country as a celebrated journalist, politician and statesman. The chairman of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF) hailed the former Ogun St...

By Victor Ogunje The Ekiti State Government yesterday warned its residents that the Delta Variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus was deadlier and more infectious, noting that the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) had already confirmed the case of the new variant in the country. Consequently, the state government urged the residents to always use their facemasks in public places and ensure social distancing to avert the spread of the deadlier, more infectious and transmissible virus in any part...

Victor Ogunje The Ekiti State Chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has denied the allegation raised by former Minister of Works, Mr. Dayo Adeyeye, that those loyal to the National Leader of the APC, Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu, were prevented from attending party’s meetings. Adeyeye, who is the National Chairman of the Southwest Agenda (SWAGA) 2023 for Tinubu’s Presidential Candidacy, averred that prominent members of the group were prevented from attending the stakeholders’ parl...

Deji Elumoye, Chuks Okocha, Adedayo Akinwale, Udora Orizu in Abuja and Victor Ogunje in Ado Ekiti More people and groups yesterday joined the crusade, revived by the Southern Governors’ Forum, for the South to produce the next president with endorsements from Borno State Governor, Prof. Babagana Zulum; Taraba State Governor, Mr. Darius Ishaku, and senators from the region. The senators stated that rotating the presidency to the South would end secessionist agitations, a position the Peoples D...