The Ekiti and Kwara States have inaugurated a joint committee to resolve the boundary disputes between Eda Oniyo in Ekiti State and Obo Ayegunle community in Kwara State. Governor Ayodele Fayose made the disclosure during a peace parley involving the leadership of the two communities, the representative of the Kwara state government and the Commissioners…

Chief Segun Oni, the Deputy Chairman (South) of All Progressives Congress (APC), has called on members of the party in Ekiti State to open their doors, minds and hands wide to embrace whoever is interested in joining the party. Oni, who had declared his interest to contest the July 14 Gubernatorial Election in the state,…

Ekiti State Governor Ayodele Fayose has warned that the corporate existence of Nigeria is being threatened by selective administration of justice, marginalisation and vendetta against perceived political opponents. He called on the people to salvage the situation, even as he decried the level of poverty in the country, saying many Nigerians are dying in silence.…

Ahead of the scheduled July 14 governorship election in Ekiti State, governorship aspirant and incumbent Deputy Governor, Prof. Kolapo Olusola of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has appealed to the electorate to return the ruling party. Olusola said his position was based on the fact that the PDP has been of more benefits to Ekiti…

The traditional ruler of Efon-Alaaye Ekiti, Oba Emmanuel Aladejare, has asked the Federal Government to help rebuild the burnt hostel of the Federal Girls College (FGC), whose students now suffer as a result of the inferno. The hostel, which accommodated no fewer than 115 students, was razed on January 9 this year, while students were receiving…

Ekiti State government has sued former governor, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, and his finance commissioner, Mr. Dapo Kolawole, for allegedly misappropriating N4.9 billion while in office. The development came less than two weeks after releasing a white paper on the report of the Justice Silas Oyewole Judicial Commission of Inquiry into the finances of the state…

Political aide to National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Soni Idahagbon, yesterday dismissed speculations that the presidency had endorsed Kayode Fayemi as the party’s candidate for the July 22 governorship election in Ekiti State. Idahagbon, who spoke in Benin City, noted that insinuations that Fayemi’s recent visit to President Muhammadu Buhari was an…

Ahead of the scheduled July 14 governorship election in Ekiti State, the incumbent Deputy Governor, Prof. Kolapo Olusola has urged the state’s electorate to vote massively for the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for continuity of the developmental projects being executed by the administration of Governor Ayodele Fayose. Kolapo, who is also the preferred governorship…

Ekiti State government has barred the Minister of Mines and Steel Development, Dr Kayode Fayemi and his ex-finance commissioner, Mr Dapo Kolawole from holding any public office in the state and Nigeria for 10 years. This followed the acceptance of the report of the White Paper on the Judicial Panel of Inquiry set up by the…

Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, has said the high youth unemployment in the country was a time bomb that could explode if nothing was done urgently to arrest it. He stated this in Ado-Ekiti yesterday while interacting with beneficiaries of the N-Power Programme. His words: “The people here today are a fraction of unemployed youths.…

The Appeal Court sitting in Ado-Ekiti yesterday ordered the Chief Judge of Ekiti State to reassign the suit filed by the Catholic Church challenging education tax imposed on pupils by the state government for retrial. It set aside the judgment of an Ekiti High Court, which struck out a suit filed by the Incorporated Trustees…

Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, has said after his foray into politics, he could end up as a pastor who would win souls for God. The governor, who stated this at a private event in Lagos during the week, said he had the premonition of becoming a great evangelist with a big ministry. A statement…