Four suspected fake naval officers were napped by the Ekiti State Police Command for parading themselves as Merchant Navy Officer in Igede Ekiti. Roll visual : Parading the impostors and eight others for heinous crimes before journalists at the Command’s headquarters in Ado Ekiti,the State Commissioner of Police, Mobayo Babatunde who was represented by the […]
The All Progressive Congress(APC) in Ekiti has endorsed the State Governor Kayode Fayemi to contest the 2023 presidential election on the party’s platform. The ruling party said its members will drag the governor into the presidential race, if he refuses to willingly contest, saying Fayemi is eminently qualified to occupy the exalted position considering his […]
APC _ The Governor Mai Mala Buni-led Caretaker/Extra-ordinary National Convention Planning Committee of the All Progressives Congress has set up a six member committee to resolve the crisis in the Ekiti State chapter of the party. READ ALSO: BREAKING: APC suspends Gov. Fayemi Secretary of the APC National Caretaker Committee, Akpan Udoedehe, inaugurated the panel […]
The Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment, Otunba Richard Adeniyi Adebayo, has rejected speculations dragging him to contest in the governorship race of Ekiti State come 2022. Daily Times gathered that the Minister was the first executive governor of Ekiti State between 1999 and 2003. Adebayo described the development as concoctions from some quarters. He […]
A High Court on Monday in Ado Ekiti, Ekiti State sentenced a 26-year-old, Dele Ojo, to death by hanging for killing a farmer who had been stealing his yam. READ ALSO: Ekiti to dismiss any male worker found guilty of sexual assault Delivering judgment, Justice Abiodun Adesodun said, “The circumstances of this case do not […]
Irate youth attacked the palace of Onire of Ire Ekiti in Oye Local Government Area of Ekiti State, Oba Bobade Adeleke on Monday, after the monarch cancelled the annual Ogun festival. Daily Times gathered that the onire of Ire-Ekiti, Oba Victor Adeleke Bobade via a press release cancelled the 2020 Ogun Onire festival due to […]
Workers in Ekiti State began a three-day warning strike today over welfare and other pertinent issues. Daily Times gathered that the 14-day ultimatum that organized Labour comprising Nigeria Labour Congress, Trade Union Congress and Joint Negotiating Council had issued to the state government expired in the midnight of Sunday, August 2. Rising from a meeting […]
The organised labour in Ekiti state, on Friday, said that their minds have been made on its planned commencement of a three-day warning strike from Aug. 3. READ ALSO: Hide your face in shame, let Fayose account for N10bn airport project allocation, Ekiti APC tells PDP The strike, according to the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC), […]
The State recently issued a Certificate of Occupancy (C of O) to Stallion Group for a $10 million rice mill in Ado-Ekiti, the state capital, while Dangote Group is also finalizing plans to locate a $5 million mill within the same location, which is now being seen as the rice processing hub of the State. […]
A 78-year-old widow, Mrs. Sabianah Aranilewa, was discovered to have been gruesomely murdered in Ikere Ekiti, Ekiti state by suspected ritualists. The Daily Times learnt that she was slaughtered before her blood and vital organs were drained and harvested respectively, for ritual purposes by the suspects. The deceased’s son, Mr. Eyitope Aranilewa told our correspondent that […]
Tragedy struck in Ado Ekiti on Tuesday as two staff of the Federal Polytechnic, Ado Ekiti, were electrocuted. Eyewitness informed journalists in Ado Ekiti on Tuesday, that the victims were staff of the polytechnic’s department of works and were said to have died while working on a defective borehole on campus. READ ALSO: Reps okay […]
Kayode Fayemi, Ekiti State Governor, has appointed Femi Adeoye, the man who publicly reprimanded his son who returned from Lagos despite his warning as coronavirus ambassador. The video of Mr Adeoye refusing to cover up for his son over fear of contracting and spreading COVID-19 in Ekiti State went viral after it was shot days ago. Adeoye […]
The federal government on Monday donated 6,000 bags of rice to Oyo, Osun, Ekiti and Ondo states as palliatives against the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the people. Mrs. Helen Ngozi, the area controller, Oyo and Osun Command delivered the 6,000 bags of rice on behalf of the Nigeria Customs Service to the representatives […]
The Ekiti State Government on Thursday urged schools students at all levels to engage in practical agriculture and entrepreneurship skills. The state Executive Secretary of Schools Agriculture and Enterprise Agency (SAEA), Dr Funmilayo Ayeleso, made the appeal in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Ado-Ekiti. She said that the vision of […]
The Ekiti State government says it will commence teaching of primary school pupils on the state-owned radio station, Ekiti FM 91.5. According to a statement made available to our correspondent in Ado Ekiti on Sunday by the Chairman of the State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB), Prof. Francisca Aladejana, the 30-minute daily programme has been […]
The National Identity Management Commission has ordered the immediate shutdown of enrolment centres in Lagos, Katsina, Ekiti, Ogun and Anambra states as part of preventive measures against the spread of the coronavirus. The announcement is contained in a statement issued by the Head of Corporate Communications of NIMC, Mr. Kayode Adegoke on Friday in Abuja. […]
Gbenga Sodeinde, Ado Ekiti The crisis rocking the Ekiti state chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) took a new turn yesterday as armed policemen took over the secretariat following the bloody clash between loyalists of former Governor Ayo Fayose and Senator Biodun Olujimi over the conduct of ward congresses. The crisis broke out around […]
Ekiti Head of Service, (HoS), Mrs ‘Peju Babafemi, on Tuesday paid an unscheduled visit to some Ministries, Departments and Agencies, (MDAs) and the State Secretariat, commending the workers for their punctuality. Babafemi expressed happiness over the prompt report of the workers at their duty posts, and particularly commended the Ministry of Women Affairs and Social […]
Ado-Ekiti – No fewer than 25 corps members of the 2019 Batch A have been sanctioned by the National Youth Service Corps,(NYSC) in Ekiti for absconding during their compulsory service year. The State Coordinator for NYSC, Mrs Emmanuella Okpongete disclosed this on Thursday during the Passing-Out Parade of 2019 Batch A corps members in Ado-Ekiti. […]
Three secondary school teachers, Olaofe Ayodele (50), Gbenga Ajibola (40) and Adeyanju Olaitan (44) on Monday appeared before an Ado-Ekiti Chief Magistrates’ Court over charges bothering on alleged child molestation and abuse. The first and second defendants are standing trial on a charge of rape, while the third is charged with child molestation. The trio had […]