…the victims included the principal of a secondary school, two teachers and a nurse Report reaching The Daily Vendor indicates that no fewer than four persons were on Monday abducted by gunmen along Oke Ako-Irele Road in the Ajoni Local Council Development Area of Ekiti State. According to sources, the victims included the principal of
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‘The 1st convict bagged a death sentence by hanging’ Two suspects, Kazeem Olafisoye and Owolabi Usman have been sentenced to death by hanging for conspiracy and armed robbery, and life imprisonment for attempt to murder. The two convicts were charged and arraigned before Justice Adekunle Adeleye of Ekiti State High Court sitting in Ado Ekiti
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‘Fayemi said he derived fulfillment in his journey as the Ekiti governor’ Gov Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti State says he would be leaving the state better than he met it when he assumed office on October 16, 2018. Dr. Fayemi, whose tenure would end on Sunday, spoke at the closing session of a two-day international valedictory
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A fire in Isan-Ekiti, the hometown of Governor Kayode Fayemi, at the weekend destroyed 20 hectares of cocoa and kolanut plantations. Its cause could not be ascertained at press time. A community leader, Chief Ray Akin-Oguntosin, said the fire affected cocoa, kolanut, orange and coffee plantations and rendered farmers jobless. Occupants of 200 houses at
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EKITI State Governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi, said that his administration had begun the construction of fences in public schools as part of proactive ways to forestall abduction of students. The governor, who spoke on Tuesday in a statewide radio and television programme tagged ‘Media chat’, said, “The Government of Ekiti State, in efforts to boost
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The Ekiti State Government on Wednesday said it had uncovered 362 ghost workers in it’s payroll, receiving N20 million monthly as salary in some Local Governments. The Commissioner for Local Government and Community Development, Prof. Adio Folayan, made this known while presenting a State Staff Verification Committee report to Governor Kayode Fayemi in Ado Ekiti
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Former Governor of Ekiti State, Ayo Fayose, has warned the Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde, to keep off from the leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), in Ekiti State. This, he disclosed on Wednesday, at the meeting of the National delegates of the PDP, in Abeokuta, Ogun State. In attendance at the meeting were
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The Commissioner for Health in Ekiti, Dr Mojisola Yaya-Kolade, says the state government will commence random test of residents across all the 16 Local Government Areas of the state next week. Yaya-Kolade made this known in Ado Ekiti at a news conference by the State COVID-19 Task Force Committee. She said the exercise was to
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The Ekiti State Government said on Friday that it has concluded arrangements to open its own COVID-19 testing laboratories in the next one week. When in place, the laboratories would serve as places where suspected Coronavirus infected patients could be tested without having to wait for higher authorities any longer. This is coming just as
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The Ekiti government has directed that salaries of Gov. Kayode Fayemi, his deputy and all political appointees in the state be slashed by 50 per cent with immediate effect. Chief Muyiwa Olumilua, the state’s Commissioner for Information and Values Orientation, disclosed in a statement in Ado Ekiti on Tuesday that Gov. Fayemi gave the salary
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Residents of Owode Quarters in Ado Ekiti, Ekiti State, were stunned on Wednesday when an apprentice, Peter David, was caught making love to a pregnant goat at an uncompleted building in the neighbourhood. David, who claimed to be an indigene of Benue State, was caught in the act following the bleating of the goat which
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A loud explosion in the old secretariat of Ekiti State Government, Ado Ekiti in the early hours of Saturday has thrown the entire state capital into confusion. The explosions, which occurred about 7.05 am in the Explosion Ordinance Disposal Unit situated within the old secretariat, reduced the EOD building into rubble and shattered windows and
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Angry youths in Ayegbaju Ekiti in Ekiti State on Thursday, embarked on a protest following the killing of two persons by a motorist, who was said to be an undergraduate. According to the report, the incident, occurred at about 2.30pm at a bend between Ifaki Ekiti and Ayegbaju Ekiti, and was attributed to over speeding
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The organised labour in Ekiti State has protested the ongoing mass sack of workers by the Ekiti State Government. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), reports that the state government recently sacked 1,000 workers of Ekiti State University. Also sacked were 200 workers of Ekiti State University Teaching Hospital (EKSUTH), who received their sack letters
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…the wrapper signifies protection, solidarity and sisterhood A speech by the Ekiti State First Lady, Bisi Fayemi has gone viral and still trending on social media. In the piece “Where Is Your Wrapper”, Bisi called out women to unite in sisterhood and stand up for one another. Urging them to protect one another, “I ask
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