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Governor of Ekiti State, Biodun Oyebanji has signed into law three bills including Ekiti state property protection (Anti land grabbing, second amendment law, 2024) passed by the state House of Assembly, stressing the need to regulate and sanitize land acquisition processes in the state. When fully operational, the law will prohibit forceful entry, illegal occupation […]
Continue ReadingGunmen suspected to be kidnappers have killed a 22-year-old Idowu Oguntuase and abducted four other persons in Ekiti State. The gunmen abducted the four victims along Isan-Iludun Ekiti road in Ilejemeje local government area of the state on Sunday, September 22, 2024. The victims were said to be traveling along the road on Sunday evening […]
Continue ReadingOperatives from Ekiti State Police Command have arrested a policeman who killed two persons at an accident scene in Ado Ekiti, the Ekiti State capital. The accident, which involved a Lexus car and a Jincheng motorcycle occurred late on Tuesday night at the Omisanjana area of Ado-Ekiti. Reports say, in the process of managing the […]
Continue ReadingIn a sad incident which occurred at Christ Avenue, in the Adebayo area of Ado-Ekiti on Saturday, April 27, 2024, a man identified as Dare Onipede allegedly stabbed his wife, Arinola Ikumapayi, to death over alleged infidelity in Ekiti State. Spokesperson (PPRO) for the police in the state, Sunday Abutu, who confirmed the incident on […]
Continue ReadingA High Court of Ekiti State, sitting in Ado Ekiti Division has sentenced six men to a total of 140 years for conspiracy, robbery and receiving stolen properties. Four of the convicts were sentenced to 21 years each for robbery and seven years each for conspiracy, the remaining two were jailed for 14 years each […]
Continue ReadingPastor Abiodun Sunday Oluwadare, has been arrested by the police for allegedly killing his pregnant wife, Tosin Oluwadare in Ido-Ile in Ekiti West LGA of Ekiti State. Spokesman of the State Police Command (PPRO), DSP Sunday Abutu, who confirmed the arrest, said that investigation was ongoing. It was gathered that the pastor popularly known as […]
Continue ReadingChief Medical Director of Ekiti State Specialist Hospital, Ikere-Ekiti, Dr. Olubiyi Olaolu Abidemi has allegedly beaten his wife, Dr. Olubiyi Adenike to a pulp during a disagreement at their residence on St. David Hospital Compound, Ifaki-Ekiti on Thursday, 14th September 2023. Trouble started when the wife was alleged to have refused to take care of […]
Continue ReadingIt is a sad episode as three persons have been crushed to death in auto crash along Ilupeju – Itapa Road in the Oye Local Government Area of Ekiti State on Friday. The accident involved a truck and a motorbike conveying the three persons along the road. According to a source, “The bike was heading […]
Continue ReadingA mother, Taiwo Olorunmowe, has sought the assistance of public-spirited Nigerians to enable her seven-year-old boy, Marvellous, who is suffering from a rare cancer known as sarcoma, to undergo surgery. According to the National Cancer Institute, Sarcoma is a rare cancer that develops in the bones and soft tissues, including fat, muscles, blood vessels, nerves, […]
Continue ReadingChief Judge of Ekiti State, Nigeria, Justice John Adeyeye, escaped death on Wednesday, when a section of the state high court complex collapsed on him while in the office. Adeyeye was still in his chamber while the unfortunate incident occurred. The incident caused palpable tension and apprehension around the premises of the court located at […]
Continue ReadingGunmen believed to be kidnappers have abducted the state chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ekiti, Paul Omotosho. Even though detail of the incident is still sketchy, it was gathered that the APC chairman was kidnapped on Saturday evening along Agbado – Imesi-Ekiti road in Gbonyin Local Government Area of the State, […]
Continue ReadingA High Court sitting in Ado Ekiti, Ekiti State, on Monday, May 15, sentenced three persons to death by hanging for conspiracy and armed robbery. The defendants: Omotayo Deji, 23, Chidiebere Ifeanyi, 25, and Bolaji Usman, 28, were arraigned before Justice Bamidele Omotoso on January 21, 2020, on a four-count charge bordering on conspiracy and […]
Continue ReadingOfficers of Ekiti State Police Command have arrested a chieftain of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) for alleged gangrape of a female student of Bamidele Olumilua University of Education (BOUE), Ikere-Ekiti. Spokesperson of the command, Sunday Abutu, who confirmed the arrest in a statement on Thursday, April 13, 2023, said the suspect […]
Continue ReadingPalpable tension engulfed parts of Ado-Ekiti, the Ekiti state capital after unknown gunmen suspected to be armed robbers killed a middle aged man simply identified as Mr. Olasunkanmi Joseph. According to Punch, the masked assailants were said to have caught up with the man in his car around the Irona area of the capital city […]
Continue ReadingEighty years old man, identified as Lucas Ateniola, was on Wednesday, March 29 remanded in prison custody by a Chief Magistrates’ court in Ado-Ekiti for allegedly murdering a woman identified as Elizabeth Nwamaka and attempted to murder a 20-year-old Alice Bodunride at their residence in Emure-Ekiti on March 24. While being arraigned before the court, […]
Continue ReadingEkiti State Council of Traditional Rulers led by its chairman, Oba Gabriel Adejuwon, the Onisan of Isan Ekiti, on Monday intervened in the impeachment crisis rocking the state House of Assembly with a view to finding peaceful resolution. The Assembly has been embroiled in a crisis over the impeachment of Gboyega Aribisogan by some lawmakers […]
Continue ReadingWhat goes around comes around First they came for the socialists, and I didn’t speak out because I was not a socialist. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn’t speak out because I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out because I […]
Continue Reading“The incubus of demagoguery unleashed itself in a way it has never done in any other state in Nigeria. Ekiti became the laughing stock of the nation, the hellhole of country bumpkins ruled by fiat and fear, subservient like oxen who adore their yoke. Friends and compatriots from other states called me, asking, with a […]
Continue ReadingEkiti State Government has said that the World Bank’s $25 million School Improvement Grant (SIG) released to the state would spur enrolment, increase beautification and quality of education in the 203 benefiting schools in the State. The government urged stakeholders in the benefiting schools to take ownership of the World Bank projects being executed, for […]
Continue ReadingOperatives of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Ekiti State command, have arrested a 36-year-old man, Ayodeji Ademiluyi, for allegedly parading himself as a medical doctor and defrauding Point-of-Sale operators in the state capital. Commandant of the agency in Ekiti State, Mr John Fayemi, said the suspect defrauded the operators by sending fake […]
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