In a bid to bring succour to indigent households during the period of movement restriction occasioned by the coronavirus pandemic, the Ekiti State Governor, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, on Tuesday flagged-off cash transfer to 5,000 households in collaboration with the National Cash Transfer Office and Ekiti State Cash Transfer unit.
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Senator Opeyemi Bamidele, the Chairman, Senate Committee on Judiciary, Human Rights and Legal Matters, has donated N10 million toward fighting the Coronavirus in Ekiti State.
The panel of inquiry set up by Governor Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti State to investigate the explosion that occurred at the Police Anti-Bomb Unit within the premises of the Old Governor’s Office, Ado Ekiti has submitted its reports.
The Chief Judge of Ekiti State, Justice Ayodeji Daramola, has directed that only urgent criminal matters should be attended to in all the High Courts in the state.
The repentant FGM Practitioners, mostly women, also signed a legal agreement with the State Government not to return to the widely acclaimed outdated practice
The Supreme Court had on December 9 ordered the State Government to pay the chairmen and counsellors N3.3 billion as compensation
Fayemi had appointed caretaker committee into his government to carry out most of the functions that the local government chairmen and councilors would have done
The rally was meant to counter attempt by the lawmakers to impeach the governor
The Ekiti State Labour Veterans said it sounds unimaginable that a governor who failed to pay two months’ workers’ salaries and pension arrears as well as made all requisite deductions alleged to have been illegally deducted from workers’ benefits during his tenure, could make such mouth-watering donation to a campaign outfit
The group said the frauds were perpetrated through N2.6 billion construction of new civic centre, N383.9 million earthwork for the new Governor’s Office, diversion of State Universal Basic Education Board and Local Councils funds through contracts worth N4.2 billion, inflation of road contracts worth over N10 billion and diversion of N1.2 billion FADAMA fund
Abubakar added that most of the developmental projects he had commissioned in recent times in some states were initiated and completed by state governments
Feyisola said it was mandatory for every political office holder in all parts of the country to declare their assets before getting into and leaving office
Also billed for commissioning on Monday are the renovated general hospitals in Ijero and Okemesi
Fayose had challenged the assumption of jurisdiction by Justice Olusegun Ogunremi of an Ado-Ekiti High Court on the matter and also filed a Stay of Proceedings on the hearing of the substantive sui
Other highlights of the fourth anniversary celebration which will climax in the handing over of power and inauguration of a new government on October 16th., include book presentation, thanksgiving service and launch of a new housing scheme
He also pointed out that the Ekiti State governorship election was more of an eye opener to the party on the need to entrench internal democracy and refrain from imposition
Banjo, in a statement on Sunday, saluted the citizens of the state for shunning violence for peace and for trooping out to exercise their birthrights amidst terror
Their names were yet to be released as at press time on Monday.
The new chairmen are to be sworn-in on August 5, 2014 at the Jibowu Hall of the Government House, Ado-Ekiti by 9am
The money, according to the PDP, was part of the accumulated slashed allocations due to the 16 local government areas in the state since the coming of the outgoing All Progressive Congress administration in October 2010 and other foreign and local aids collected by the government of the state since then
As much as I have a strong aversion for vindictiveness, I also loathe a sitting government using the power entrusted in him to suppress and subvert the rule of law. Fayose must allow the rule of law to run its full course on those answering murder charges in court among these belligerent Fayemi’s aides to teach a strong lesson that power belongs to GOD