Tag: Ekiti
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‘First plane’ lands in Ekiti as Fayemi commissions airport, exits office
Ekiti State on Saturday made history as its first plane landing as Governor Kayode Fayemi commissioned an airport. The NAF 930 aircraft conveying the Minister for Aviation, Hadi Sirika, and his team landed on the runway at 20 minutes past 10am. Speaking after the landing, Sirika described the airport as a bridge that will connect…
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Disco vows to resist takeover by Fidelity Bank
The Benin Electricity Distribution Company has said that there is no legal basis for the takeover of the company following the purported activation of the call on its collateralised shares by Fidelity Bank. The company disclosed that all matters relating to the BEDC and Fidelity Bank were subjects for litigation before a competent court, adding…
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Ekiti Election: Group seeks criminalisation of vote trading
A Non-Governmental Organisation(NGO), the Stop-Violence Against Women in Politics (Stop-VAWIP) has called for the amendment of the Electoral Act to criminalise vote trading. The Executive Director of Stop-VAWIP, Tumininu Adedeji, made the call at the post-election joint media briefing with the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps(NSCDC), Ekiti Command, on Monday in Ado-Ekiti. The two…
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Nigerian graduates becoming parasites, Akande laments
All Progressive Congress Chieftain, Chief Bisi Akande, on Wednesday charged the nation’s tertiary institutions to lay emphasis on the production of employable and self-employable science-driven technological minds. The former Governor of Osun-State lamented that the average of 100,000 youths turned out yearly in the country’s universities, polytechnics, and colleges of education “have been forced to…
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Seven Ekiti governorship aspirants withdraw from APC primary poll, allege misconduct
Seven aspirants in the APC primary poll have withdrawn from the primary election. The aspirants alleged that Fayemi, through his influence, is making an attempt to foist Biodun Oyebanji, a governorship aspirant, as the party’s governorship standard-bearer in the state. As many as seven governorship aspirants of the All Progressives Congress have withdrawn from the…
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Bisi Kolawole, Fayose’s candidate, wins Ekiti PDP Guber Primary
Bisi Kolawole has emerged as the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the June 18 governorship election in Ekiti state. Kolawole, former chairman of the PDP in Ekiti, edged out Segun Oni, an ex-governor, and Kolapo Olusola, a former deputy governor of the state. The primary election took place in Ado-Ekiti on Wednesday.…
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Police arrest Ekiti kidnap syndicate, arrest members in Kwara, Osun
The Commissioner of Police, Ekiti State Command, Tunde Mobayo, on Wednesday, has said a dismissed policeman, identified only as Samuel, was among members of a kidnap syndicate arrested by officers and men of the Rapid Response Squad in the state. He said the suspect has confessed to participating in different abductions and robberies in the…