A senior traditional chief in Ijero Ekiti Local Government Area of Ekiti State, Adewole Ajayi, has been murdered.
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Fayose, at the event graced by the Speaker of the Ekiti State House of Assembly, Kola Oluwawole, and some members of the Assembly, chided the All Progressives Congress and the Governor-elect, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, for raising questions on the budget.
The Nigeria Union of Local Government Employees in Ekiti will begin an indefinite strike on Friday.
Boss Mustapha, Secretary to the Government of the Federation, has advised Ekiti Governor-Elect, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, to ensure prompt payment of staff salaries and address illegal mining in the state.
The governor-elect, in a statement by the Media Director of his campaign organisation, Wole Olujujobi, said the consequences of illegal appropriation of public funds would be very grave for individuals who participated in any illegal act to defraud the state.
The APC insisted that the outgoing governor was planning to seek safe landing to enable him run away from the country.
The Peoples Democratic Party Governors’ Forum has condemned the refusal of President Muhammadu Buhari to sign the Electoral Act (Amendment) Bill.
Exactly 35 days to his leaving office, outgoing Ekiti state governor, Ayodele Fayose on Sunday says his handover note is ready for the scrutiny of people making enquiries about his government.
This was contained in a statement issued and signed by the National Coordinator of BCO, Alhaji Pasali Danladi, on Saturday in Lagos and made available to newsmen.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the governor, had indicated intention to contest for the nation’s number one position early in the year.
He said he would accept whatever liability and assets left behind by the outgoing government, saying he believed government is a continuum, and that he was coming to office to simply make a difference.
Ekiti State Government on Saturday announced extension of the current long term holidays for students in public and private primary and secondary schools.
The Governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose, has told Governor-elect, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, to wait until he is inaugurated to take over the running of the affairs of the state.
The Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose has described the Curriculum Vitae of a former Minister of Special Duties and Intergovernmental Affairs and frontline presidential aspirant on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, Kabiru Taminu Turaki, as fantastic and excellent.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that Adeyeye is contesting on the platform of the All Progressives Congress after defecting from the Peoples Democratic Party.
No fewer than 259 aspirants have so far declared their interests in Senatorial, House of Representatives and State House of Assembly seats, in the forthcoming 2019 general elections in Ekiti.
In a statement on Sunday, the Managing Director and Chief Strategist of Chain Reactions, Israel Jaiye Opayemi, disclosed that incumbent political office holders and their challengers can take advantage of different plans in the firm’s public affairs and political campaign management service bouquets to run better and well structured campaigns to win in this election cycle.
The News Agency of Nigeriareports that the APC elders came out with the position at the end of a marathon meeting held in Igbara Odo, in Ekiti South West Local Government Area of the state.
Babatunde Akilo, the Permanent Secretary, Local Government Service Commission in Ekiti State, gave the advice at the monthly meeting of the State Branch of the Chattered Institute of Personnel Management in Ado-Ekiti on Friday.
Her twin sister Taiwo; brother, Tosin; and mother, Dupe, told newsmen on Thursday that the late Kehinde did not survive a stab she received in her neck and that she died at the Federal Teaching Hospital, Ido-Ekiti on Monday.