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From inception, there had been a seeming misconception that feminism was about rivalry between male and female genders. But Ekiti State First Lady, Erelu Bisi Fayemi thinks otherwise, writes Victor Ogunje Most appalling has been the fact that most of the proponents of feminism on the African continent, had painted an erroneous impression that it was a muscle-flexing game between the two opposing sexes and a desperate contrivance to bring men under control and suppress their chauvinistic posturi...

By Victor Ogunje The federal government has disclosed that Nigeria has lost thousands of its citizens to substandard products, saying the Standard Organisation of Nigeria (SON) has been empowered to arrest, confiscate and prosecute any person with substandard products. The apex government, therefore, urged the SON, Nigeria’s sole statutory body vested with the responsibility of standardising and regulating the quality of all products, to work out strategies that will rid Nigeria of counterfei...

Victor Ogunje An Ado Ekiti Chief Magistrate Court in Ekiti State has remanded Muhammed Abubakar Ardo Duni, 50, and Bello Mohammed, 35, in the Nigerian Correctional Centre, Ado Ekiti, for allegedly kidnapping a monarch in the state, Oba David Oyewumi. The Magistrate Court presided over by Abdulameen Lawal granted the order to remand the duo pending legal advice from the Department of Public Prosecutions (DPP). The prosecutor, Bamikole Olasunkanmi, requested for the order to allow him forward the...

Victor Ogunje i The Ekiti State Government has distributed 70,000 various species of tree seedlings to serve as a springboard for aggressive afforestation move in the state. Speaking in Ado Ekiti yesterday, the state Commissioner for Environment, Iyabo Fakunle-Okieimen, said the gesture became imperative to prevent the forests from going into extinction. The seedlings are those of Obeche, Afara, APA, Teak, Parkia, Brachystegia, Ayunre, Mahogany, Gmelina, Mansonia, Nutmeg), Ure, Ijebu, Ayin and ...

Victor Ogunje in Ado Ekiti A Yoruba rights activist, Mr. Sunday Adeyemo (a.k.a Sunday Igboho) yesterday threatened that there would not be any election in the Southwest in 2023, saying the people of Yoruba Nation were weary of Nigeria. Igboho added that the Yoruba people could no longer tolerate the feudal and political dominance in the federation, which he said, had been a source of concern nationwide. He made these remarks yesterday during a pro-Yoruba Nation rally he addressed in Ado Ekiti, ...

By Victor Ogunje The Federal University, Oye-Ekiti (FUOYE) has suspended one of its lecturers, Dr. Jonathan Mbachaga, over alleged sexual harassment. Mbachaga was, until his suspension, an Associate Professor in the institution’s Department of Theatre and Media Arts. A statement signed by the Chief Information Officer to the Vice Chancellor, Mr Foluso Ogunmodede, on Tuesday, said Mbachaga’s suspension came after a committee inaugurated by the institution to investigate the alleged sexual ha...

By Victor Ogunje Ekiti State Governor, Dr. Kayode Fayemi; Osun State Governor, Gboyega Oyetola; Niger State Governor, Sani Bello, and Yobe State Governor, Mala Buni, yesterday visited the family of the late Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Attahiru Ibrahim, to condole with them over the death of the Chief of Army Staff at a Kaduna crash on Friday. Fayemi made this known in a statement he issued yesterday, where he also shared pictures of himself and the other governors at the late Attahiru’s ...

By Victor Ogunje A legal icon and founder of Afe Babalola University, Ekiti, Chief Afe Babalola (SAN) , has written a letter to the Southern Governors Forum (SGF), seeking the governors’ backing for his proposed convocation of a private summit to discuss all the problems confronting the nation. Babalola sought the SGF’s backing for the concept tagged: “Summit of Hope,” having passed a resolution urging President Muhammadu Buhari to convene a National Conference to restructur...

By Victor Ogunje No fewer than 12,000 farmers are to benefit from the Rice Pyramid Programme in Ekiti State, as the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Tuesday flagged off the programme in the state, with a vision to finance over three million rice farmers to boost production and improve the agriculture value chain. This came as the Governors of Ekiti State, Dr. Kayode Fayemi; Rotimi Akeredolu (Ondo), Atiku Bagudu (Kebbi), Mohammed Badaru Abubakar (Jigawa), and Gboyega Oyetola of Osun State described...

Deji Elumoye, Udora Orizu in Abuja, Victor Ogunje in Ado Ekiti and George Okoh in Makurdi Ondo State Governor, Chief Olurotimi Akeredolu, has said there is no chance in hell that President Muhammadu Buhari would ignore the call by Southern Governors’ Forum for a national dialogue, restructuring and respect for the principle of federal character in his appointments. Akeredolu spoke last night on ARISE NEWS Channel, the broadcast arm of THISDAY Newspaper, and said he was sure that Buhari wou...