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Victor Ogunje in Ado Ekiti The Chairman of the Ekiti State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB), Prof. Femi Akinwumi, yesterday disclosed that the state government had paid the sum of N7.3 billion as counterpart funding to Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC) for the execution of projects in public primary and secondary schools in the last two years. The chairman made the disclosure in Ado Ekiti, the state capital, while briefing journalists on the activities of the body and its strides to improve basic education in the state. Akinwumi stated that the state Governor, Dr. Kayode Faye...

Victor Ogunje in Ado Ekiti As part of efforts to make Ekiti safe for investment and living in 2021, the Governor of Ekiti State, Dr. Kayode Fayemi is to launch a safety City Project to tackle kidnapping, banditry, robbery and other social menaces in the state. To bolster harmonious government, workers’ relationships, Fayemi said he would fulfill promises to recruit over 1,500 new employees into the teaching, healthcare and various cadres of the civil service, as well as pay all outstanding salaries, promotion and pension arrears due to active and retired civil servants. Fayemi spoke in A...

By Victor Ogunje As part of the efforts to make Ekiti State safe for investment and safety in 2021, the Governor of Ekiti State, Dr Kayode Fayemi, will launch a safety city project to tackle all forms of kidnapping, banditry, robbery and other social menaces in the state. To bolster harmonious government-workers’ relationship, Fayemi said he would fulfill promises to recruit over 1,500 new employees into the teaching, healthcare and various cadres of the civil service, as well as paying all outstanding salaries, promotion and pension arrears due to active and retired civil servants. The gov...

By Victor Ogunje The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), has accused the proponent of #RevolutionNow, Mr. Omoyele Sowore, of using his connections in the media to destroy the image of the association. Specifically, NANS alleged Sowore of deploying his online medium to malign the new President of NANS, Sunday Asefon, over his open declaration that students under him won’t join the #RevolutionNow activism being spearheaded by him (Sowore). Asefon won the NANS’ presidential election a couple of weeks ago in a fierce and keenly contested election, which made his opposition to in...

By Victor Ogunje The Ekiti State Judicial Panel of Inquiry probing into issues of human rights abuses allegedly perpetrated by the police and other allied matters in the state, has recommended aggregate payment of N1.5 million as compensation to six petitioners, who brought their cases before the panel. The panel at its resumed sitting Wednesday and presided over by the Chairman , Justice Cornileus Akintayo, took the decisions as part of its resolutions to ameliorate the sufferings of the victims. In the case of Inspector Omokhua Benjamin, whose car was vandalised when some hoodlums attacked ...