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By Alex Enumah in Abuja and Victor Ogunje in Ado Ekiti The COVID-19 pandemic continued its rage yesterday, claiming billionaire businessman and legal icon, Chief Bolu Akin-Olugbade. According to family sources, he died in Lagos at a private hospital accredited to manage the killer virus. He was 61. Known for his love for Rolls Royce, its largest collector, he was the Aare Onakakanfo of Owu Kingdom and had a massive business interest, spanning property development, construction, manufacturing, logistics, distribution, maritime and offshore services and investment banking. His death coincided w...

By Victor Ogunje The organised labour and the 21 workers allegedly sacked by the Ekiti State House of Assembly yesterday protested against the state lawmakers over their “unjust dismissal” from the service of the state Assembly. The protest, led by labour leaders, was held within the premises of the state Assembly complex, where they rendered series of derisive songs to castigate the Ekiti State House of Assembly Service Commission over the action. Addressing the dismissed workers, the Secretary of the Ekiti State Joint Negotiating Council, Gbenga Olowoyo, said it was wrong for the commis...

By Victor Ogunje The Ekiti State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB) has released the names of 600 newly recruited primary school teachers on the state website. The SUBEB Chairman, Prof. Femi Akinwumi, who made this known in Ado Ekiti, on Wednesday, explained that the newly engaged teachers were the first batch to be employed from successful applicants in the recruitment and documentation process carried out by SUBEB recently. Akinwumi advised applicants to check the list by logging on to the Ekiti State Website via: http://ekitistate.gov.ng/jobs. He said that the 600 successful applicant...

Victor Ogunje in Ado Ekiti The President of the National Association of Nigeria Students (NANS), Sunday Asefon, has described the 2021 budgetary allocation for the education sector by the President Muhammadu Buhari government as the worst in the last decade.Disturbed by the neglect of the education sector, which was allocated 5.6 percent in the 2021 budget, and the high level of insecurity in the country, NANS said it planned to organise a security and education summit to partner stakeholders on how to arrest the drift in the two critical sectors. Asefon stated this in Ado Ekiti, Ekiti State ...

Dr Kayode Fayemi Resolute to reform Ekiti State’s economy and make it a model before bowing out in 2022, Governor Kayode Fayemi has set a 21-goal development focus for the 2021 fiscal year. Education , Security, Infrastructures and Digital Economy top the agenda. Victor Ogunje analyses this development template , the politics behind it and its plausibility, in view of the lean resources of the state By October 16, 2022, the second term tenure of Governor of Ekiti State, Dr. Kayode Fayemi will lapse. Going by constitutional provisions, he enjoys no opportunity to vie for the governorship aga...