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The only member of the APC in the Ekiti State House of Assembly, Gboyega Aribisogan, has been arrested by security agents and whisked to Abuja. The lawmaker, who according to findings, was reportedly arrested around 6.30am on Wednesday, defected from the PDP to the APC last year. Before his...

An Ekiti State High Court sitting in Ado-Ekiti has sentenced a certain Raji Babatunde, to death by hanging for stealing seven bottles of beer and one packet of Rothmans cigarette. Justice Cornelius Akintayo, in a judgement delivered on Wednesday, found Babatunde guilty of armed robbery for...

Lere Olayinka, an aide to Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, on Wednesday reacted to the release of the abducted students from Government Science Secondary School in Dapchi, Yobe State. The governor’s aide alleged that those who “removed Military checkpoints” and allowed the girls to be...

The N-power scheme of the federal government became a political rallying point on Saturday as beneficiaries, split into pro- governor Ayo Fayose and pro-President Muhammadu Buhari camps, clashed. About 3,000 beneficiaries used the accreditation exercise which held at the AB Event Center, Ado...

Stakeholders in Ekiti State on Tuesday made inputs in a bill seeking to establish the Ekiti State Economic and Financial Crimes Commission and called for its speedy passage. The bill which is titled, Ekiti State Economic and Financial Crimes Commission(Establishment) Bill 2018, seeks to provide...

Hundreds of supporters of the Olukere of Ikere Ekiti, second largest town after the state capital, Ado Ekiti, yesterday stormed the magistrate court premises in Ado Ekiti, in solidarity of the man they called their monarch, and demanded for his unconditional release, insisting that the man did...

… Fayose to settlers: Don’t turn state to war zone There is tension in Oke Ako and Irele communities in Ikole local government area of Ekiti State following the alleged killing of a Fulani herdsman on Monday. The herdsman, whose name was given as Babuba Dengi, was killed in … via The Nation...

A five-year-old girl remains hospitalised Omu Ijelu Ekiti, in Oye council area of Ekiti, after her aunt inserted heated metal into her vagina for sharing her daughter’s food. The woman, Esther Agbundu, a native of Gwer council area of Benue, had earlier sprayed pepper on her niece’s private...

Muslim youths in Ekiti state have risen against the planned purchase and sewing of Christmas clothes for 20,000 children in the state by Governor Ayo Fayose describing the gesture as a ploy to elevate one religion over another. The youth under the aegis of the National Council of Muslim Youth...

Ekiti State Governor, Ayo Fayose has taken to Twitter to ask Buhari 8 critical questions concerning the President's anti-corruption campaign See questions below 1. I ask our President, what has happened to the report on the $43m discovered in an apartment at Osbourne Towers, Ikoyi, Lagos? 2...

The Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) Ekiti branch, have lamented the six months’ unpaid salaries owed their colleagues working in government hospitals. They revealed that the situation was causing them untold hardship READ MORE HERE

Ekiti State Conference of Nigeria Political Parties (CNPP) has slammed Governor Ayo Fayose of the state for allegedly diverting funds meant to pay pensioners and workers in the state. Reacting to a report by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), which indicted the Fayose...

The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ekiti State has blasted Governor Ayodele Fayose for declaring ambition to contest the 2019 presidential election. The party in a statement on Friday said that the governor should pay his workers being owed instead of aspiring to be president. APC said the...

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has admonished the Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose against his ambition to be the party’s presidential candidate in 2019. Fayose officially launched his presidential campaign recently. Reacting to his declaration, PDP warned Fayose against wasting his...

Bamidele Faparusi, former member of the House of representatives on Tuesday mocked Governor Ayo Fayose's rumoured presidential bid. According to THE NATION, speaking in Birnin-Kebbi, Kebbi state capital, during the inauguration of a N10 billion rice mill by Acting President Yemi Osinbajo...

Ekiti state Governor, Ayo Fayose is insisting that President Muhammadu Buhari was recently on life support. In a recent interview Fayose said, "What I said about the president is very clear. I said that the President at a point before these recent visits was incapacitated and has been on a...

The former Vice Principal of St. Mary’s Girls Grammar School, Ikole-Ekiti, Taiwo Ajayi, has been sentenced to life in prison after he was found guilty of raping a 12-year-old in 2014 at an Ekiti High Court. The offence is against Section 31(2) of the Child Rights Law of Ekiti State 2012...

Col. Mohammed Inuwa Bawa (rtd), former Military Administrator of Ekiti and Gombe States is dead. DAILY POST reports that Bawa died at the age of 67 on Friday due to complications from a surgery he had in Jos, Plateau State. He is survived by one wife and eight children.

Ekiti state Governir, Ayo Fayose will not be joining the league of ex-governors in the Nigerian Senate after he leaves office in 2019. PUNCH reports that Fayose made the remark in Ado Ekiti on Tuesday during a meeting with civil servants on grade levels one to seven in the state civil...

Ekiti State Governor Ayo Fayose during an interview session with PUNCH Newspaper defended his decision to rock T-shirts and patronise road side kiosks. He asked his critics to contest Governorshi elections if they think they're better than him. ''Let them go and contest and become governors...