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By Victor Ogunje Ekiti State Government has taken delivery of another 40,000 doses of AstraZeneca vaccines from the National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA). In a statement made available to journalists in Ado Ekiti, yesterday, the state Commissioner for Health, Dr. Oyebanji Filani, said the delivery of the second consignment of the 40,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccines would enable the state to continue inoculating its residents against the virus. The commissioner said the consignment would be deployed in the 16 local government areas of the state to give those at the hinterlands...

By Victor Ogunje The Governor of Ekiti State, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, has insisted that the formation of a group called Southwest Agenda for 2023 (SWAGA) to lead the presidential aspiration of the former Governor of Lagos State, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, was tantamount to anti-party activity. Fayemi said it was wrong for the group to have been conceived in the first instance, even when the Lagos State Governorship Advisory Council(GAC) chaired by Tinubu had dissolved all groups in All Progressives Congress (APC) in Lagos, for internal cohesion. Senator Adeyeye had last Wednesday blasted Fayemi for alle...

By Victor Ogunje The National Chairman of the South West Agenda for 2023 (SWAGA), Senator Dayo Adeyeye, has called on the National Caretaker Committee Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Governor Mai Mala Buni, to place Ekiti State Governor, Dr. Kayode Fayemi on the watchlist of suspected disloyal members. Adeyeye said this in reaction to Tuesday’s suspension of the APC ward 8 chairman in Ado Ekiti Council area, Mr. Clement Afolabi, for allegedly coordinating for SWAGA in his ward. SWAGA is a political pressure group within the APC, rooting for Senator Ahmed Bola Tinubu as the ...

By Victor Ogunje As a way of coping with the current economic situation in the country, Ekiti State stakeholders yesterday agreed with the state government on measures to cut government spending in order to bail the state out of current economic challenges occasioned by downturn in global economy. The state Governor, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, disclosed that his administration would not sack any worker despite the cash crunch being experienced in the state as well as the need for a cut in government spending. Fayemi said if the state must survive the current economic quagmire, there was need to cut o...

By Victor Ogunje The Nigeria Bar Association (NBA) has insisted that the 36 state governors must respect what the 1999 Constitution stipulates on the contending issue of full autonomy for the judiciary. The legal body regretted that the closure of courts across the country has not only debased the country’s democracy, but has adversely affected the fortunes of the legal practitioners, urging the governors to swiftly accede to the request of the Judiciary Staff Union of Nigeria (JUSUN) to resolve the conundrum. The NBA also urged the federal government to convene a roundtable discussion, whe...