Tag: Ekiti State
19 students arrested for cultism in Ekiti
The police in the Nigerian western State of Ekiti Monday arrested 19 students of All Souls’ Anglican Grammar School, Ado Ekiti,…
Appeal Court Dismisses Ex-Gov Fayose’s N1b Libel Suit Against TheNEWS
The legal move by a former governor of Ekiti State, Mr. Ayo Fayose, to restore his reputation has suffered a…
Lagos ACN Lauds Fayemi On Court Victory, Berates Oni
The Lagos State chapter of the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, has congratulated the Ekiti State Governor, Dr. Kayode Fayemi…
Court Dismisses Oni’s Case against Fayemi
GBENRO ADESINA/Ado Ekiti A five-member Appeal Court panel sitting in Ado Ekiti today in a unanimous verdict dismissed the application…
Nigeria’s First Lady Debate: Speaking for Myself
Bisi Fayemi Three weeks ago I was at a meeting in Accra, Ghana, in preparation for the biennial African Feminist…
Man Drugs Wife, Sells Baby For N350k
A 26-year old man, Ibrahim Oladele who drugged his wife, Damilola Balogun after she delivered her baby boy and sold…
Ekiti To Penalise Defaulting Contractors
The Ekiti State House of Assembly has warned that any contractor that fails to deliver quality jobs on schedule in…
Fashola, Fayemi, Hail Tinubu’s Acquittal
Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State and his counterpart in Ekiti State, Dr. Kayode Fayemi and the Action Congress of…
Fuel Queues In Abuja
Queues at filling stations have surfaced in Abuja, the nation’s capital as motorists engaged in panic buying following reports that…
Women, Key To Resolving Nation’s Huge Challenages –Fayemi
The 11Th National Women Conference organised by the Committee of Wives of Lagos State Officials (COWLSO) came to a close…
Gov Fayemi Approves N13,000 Relativity Pay
The Governor of Ekiti State, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, yesterday, approved the N13,000 relativity pay agreed with the workers. The governor…
Parties Back Ojudu For Senate
The Conference of Nigerian Political Parties, CNPP, in Ekiti State has adopted the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, Central Senatorial…
Elections 2011, News, Politics
APRIL 2 POLLS: Ekiti ALGON Commends Security Agencies
Association of Local Governments of Nigeria (ALGON) in Ekiti State has given kudos to security agencies that participated in the…
Ojudu: Action Congress Moves to Scale Legal TrapCongress
Justice Abdul Kafarati of a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has adjourned till Thursday ruling on an application by…
2 PDP Lawmakers Defect To ACN
Two Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, lawmakers in the Ekiti State House of Assembly today, defected to the ruling party in…
Two Fraudsters Remanded In Prison
Two suspected fraudsters, Aladetoyinbo Augustine Ayodeji, 35 and Obayemi Idowu Samuel, based in Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti State, Southwest Nigeria, have been…
Ekiti To Create Local Council Development Areas
The Ekiti State Governor, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, has said that his administration is committed to bringing development to the grassroots…
Fayemi Promises Completion Of RoadsPromises
Gov. Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti State on Monday promised to complete the Ado-Iworoko-Ifaki Road project before the end of the…
Protests Over ACN’s Sham Primaries; Remi Tinubu, Solomon, Ashafa Unopposed
The primary elections of the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, across the country have been marred by violence, intimidation and…
Political Manipulation: OBJ, The Unlikely Democrat At It Again!
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo appears determined to foist his selfish political agenda on Ogun State regardless of the rules and…
Why ACN Cancelled Ekiti Election
The primary election of the Action Congress of Nigeria to select candidate for the Ekiti Central Senatorial seat in Ekiti…
Stop Riding Okada, Ojudu Tells Graduates
A Senatorial aspirant in Ekiti State, Mr. Babafemi Ojudu, has urged university graduates in the state who are currently riding…
LG Administration: Fayemi And Temptation As Usual
By Francis Abayomi1 The recent dissolution of the executive of local government councils in Ekiti State and the subsequent composition…
Fayemi Faults Sale Of Ekiti Water Dams By Oni
The Ekiti State Governor Kayode Fayemi has faulted the sale of major dams in the state by the ousted administration…
‘Honourable’ Members’ Double Standard
The recent resolution of the House of Representatives calling on the Accountant General of the Federation to seize the monthly…
Lagos ACN Lashes At House Of Reps Over Ekiti Councils
The Lagos State chapter of the Action Congress of Nigeria has lashed out angrily at the House of Representatives for…
Yoruba Youths Congratulate Fayemi
Yoruba youths under the aegis of the Coordinating Council of Oodua Self Determination Groups, COSEG, has congratulated the new Ekiti…
Falana Slams Reps Over Ekiti LGs
Human rights lawyer and activist, Barrister Femi Falana has condemned the resolution of the House of Representatives on the dissolved…
Gov Fayemi Reads Riot Act To Sacked LG Bosses
Ekiti State Governor, Dr. Kayode Fayemi has warned that the state government would take decisive legal steps if the sacked…
Fayemi Dissolves Ekiti Local Govt Councils
Ekiti state Governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi has dissolved the 16 local government councils in the state. The dissolution which was…