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By Victor Ogunje The Ekiti State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA) has raised the alarm that there might be shortage of food in the state in the next planting season with the rate at which fire has been ravaging food and cash crops across the 16 local government areas of the state. The Chairman of the agency, Capt Sunday Adebomi (rtd), said the recent fire incident in the state had affected about nine local governments and destroyed food crops belonging to about 2,400 farmers, which he described as a bad omen for food production and supply. Adebomi raised the alarm on Monday while inspecting...

Victor Ogunje in Ado Ekiti As the gale of students’ abduction by gunmen spread across the Northern part of the country, the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), NANS/JCC, Ekiti chapter, has revealed its readiness to partner security agencies in Ekiti State to ensure safety of students in all the campuses in the state. The new Chairman of NANS in the axis, Com. Felix Olanrewaju, said he had met with the Commissioner of Police, Mr. Babatunde Mobayo and other security outfits like Department of State Services (DSS) and Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) on the ne...

By Victor Ogunje in Ado-Ekiti and Bassey Inyang in Calabar No fewer than two policemen were killed yesterday and their rifles stolen by gunmen in two communities in Cross River State. A Chinese expatriate was also on Tuesday evening kidnapped by bandits in Ekiti State and his whereabouts were yet to be ascertained by security agencies as at yesterday. In the Cross River State incidents, the gunmen killed the policemen at two checkpoints at Ofatura and Onyadama in Obubra Local Government Area, in the early hours of yesterday. There was an unconfirmed report that six policemen and a soldier wer...

By Victor Ogunje The Ekiti State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA), has lamented the destruction of over 200 hectares of land of cocoa and kola nut farms by fire in some towns it described as the cocoa belt of the state. The fire disaster occurred at Ikoro and Iloro communities in Ijero Local Government Area of the state. The Chairman of the SEMA, Capt. Sunday Adebomi (rtd), stated that other farm produce that were gutted by the fire included oranges, palm trees, plantains, pineapples, cassava as well as maize that were worth several millions of Naira. The SEMA boss made the revelation in Ik...

By Victor Ogunje The founder of Afe Babalola University, Ado Ekiti (ABUAD), Chief Afe Babalola (SAN), has attributed the crises confronting the country to the decay in the Nigerian education system. Babalola stated this in Ado Ekiti, yesterday when he played host simultaneously to leaders of Bursars’ Association of Polytechnics and Colleges of Technology (BURSCON), and the federal government Gas Expansion Committee, who paid a courtesy call to ABUAD. The BURSCON President, Chief Adolphus Obi, and the leader of the federal government Gas Expansion Committee, Dr. Mohammed Ibrahim, applaude...