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The Department of States Service, (DSS) has arraigned two suspected herdsmen, Namajo Mohammadu, 32, and Abubakar Abase, 18, before an Ado-Ekiti Magistrates’ Court over alleged murder and armed robbery. The Prosecution from the DSS, Mr Olaoluwa Olatunbosun told the court on Wednesday that the defendants committed the offence on Jan.18 in Ido-Ekiti. He alleged that the defendants on the said date, while armed with guns and other offensive weapons, unlawfully murdered one pregnant Tiv woman, Mrs Muwaga Felix in her farm. Olatunbosun also said the duo committed the offence of armed robbery to the people of the community. According to him, the offence is punishable under Section 516, 402 and 319 of the Criminal Code. The defendants were not represented by any counsel and their plea was not taken as well. The prosecution urged the court to remand the defendants in DSS custody pending the conclusion of the investigations on them. The Chief Magistrate, Mr Ropo Adegboye, orde...

This is not just the first white wedding in Ekiti State or the old Ondo State but in the whole of the Western Region. It was the wedding of Mr and Mrs John Oke Agbede held at Igede-Ekiti on the 11th of January,1940

ABUAD commences work on its 121-unit Industrial Park The man of history, an avid Entrepreneur and a consummate Educationist, Aare Afe Babalola, CON, SAN, begins the writing of another chapter of history in his homestead in Ado-Ekiti, South-West Nigeria this morning. Naturally, the questions that would quickly race to the mind of readers are how and why? But the answers to these simple questions are not fetched, they within easy reach. To further oil the wheel of its resolve of producing well-rounded young men and women who will be sure-footed employers of labour instead of shopping for white-collar jobs which are fast disappearing, Afe Babalola University, Ado-Ekiti (ABUAD), on Thursday, January 25, turn the sod of its 121-unit Industrial Research Park. The turning of the sod which is coming 96 days after the commissioning of the ultra-modern and world-class 400-bed ABUAD Multi-System Hospitalwhich the Chief Medical Director (CMD) of the University Teaching Hospital (UCH), Pro...

Our attention has been drawn to a story published in  The Nation  of 11-8- 2017. The report quoted a group called the Ekiti Student Union and some Youth Coalition (ESYC), as saying the management of the Federal University, Oye Ekiti harbours an anti-Ekiti agenda and that it is replacing Ekiti professionals with those from other states, specifically Ogun. Let me state that this is factually incorrect and smacks of an attempt to bring crisis to our institution. To put the records straight, while the Vice-Chancellor is from Ogun State; the Librarian, Dr. Gboyega Adio is from Oyo State. The Ag. Bursar and her husband are from Oyo/ Osun State and the Director of Administration, Mr. O. Odusanya is from Lagos State and not Ogun State as alleged. The Deputy Vice-Chancellor is from Ogun State, but is married to an Ekiti woman. Meanwhile, it should be noted that the Deputy Vice Chancellor was overwhelmingly voted for by a Senate whose membership is largely drawn from Ekiti. It ...

Mrs. Winifred Ekanem Oyo-Ita the new Head of Service Photo: Femi Ipaye/PM News The monarch of Okemesi Ekiti, Oba Micheal  Adedeji has honoured the Head of Civil Service of the Federation, Mrs Winifred Oyo-Ita, with the  chieftaincy title of Mayegun of the town. The monarch announced the honour when Oyo-Ita visited the palace on Thursday. Oba Adedeji commended her hard work and diligence. He said he was delighted to receive  her in his palace at Okemesi Ekiti.  And with the support that Mrs Oyo-Ita has given to my son, Ayodele Folayan,  I am giving her the chieftaincy title of Mayegun of Okemesi as a sign of gratitude to her. ” I also believe that ‎she will continue to support our town and our son to climb the ladder of success during her tenure,” he said. Mrs Winifred Oyo-Ita, said she was highly delighted about the honour,   even though it came to her as a surprise. ” I am so happy with the reception and title that his royal hig...

Terkibi Yakpe, husband of an eight-month pregnant woman, Mnwaga, who was killed by Fulani herdsmen in Orin Ekiti, Ekiti State, has spoken out.

Ijero-Ekiti remains the seat of untapped wealth in Ekiti State. A land so endowned with mineral resources.Over the three decades ago we were taught in elementary school of the vast deposit of solid minerals in Ijero-Ekiti. This natural gift has not been properly harnessed by the Federal Government. Ijero Ekiti  is a town in Ekiti State of Nigeria in West Africa. “Ijero Ekiti” refers to a common thought or mutual understanding which is situated in the northwest part of Ekiti State. Ijero Ekiti is the headquarters of Ijero Local Government since 1976. She has other component town under her control such as Ijurin Ekiti, Ikoro Ekiti, Iroko Ekiti, Ayegunle Ekiti, Ipoti Ekiti, Iloro Ekiti, Temidire Ekiti, Ilukuno Ekiti and others are Epe Ekiti, Ara Ekiti, Araromi Ekiti, Oke Oro Ekiti, and Odo Owa Ekiti. The main language spoken by the indigenes of Ijero Ekiti is Ekiti dialect and the Yoruba language. Ijero Ekiti coordinates in the north by 07.42.61 degree, east 00517.9 degree a...

Christ's School, Ado Ekiti is a day and boarding, government-owned secondary school located in Ado Ekiti, Ekiti State, Nigeria. The school is a coeducational school with the girls' section located directly opposite the boys' section. The school was founded on 30 June 1933 by the British missionary, Archdeacon Henry Dallimore, it was originally christened 'Ekiti Central School,' a co-educational secondary school, taking students into classes V and VI. It was renamed 'Christ's School, Ado Ekiti' by Sir Bernard Henry Bourdillon, the governor of then Northern and Southern Protectorates of Nigeria. In 1936, it moved to its permanent and current site, the Agidimo Hills.It was conceived as an attempt to advance secondary school education in Ekitiland and Western Nigeria in an atmosphere where discipline, diligence and academic excellence would be nurtured and guaranteed. ‘The total impact of the education to be given was to make the individual a useful pers...

The  Economic and Financial Crimes Commission ,  Ibadan  Zonal Office has arrested a suspected undergraduate internet scammer, Ilesanmi Babatunde Yemi, 31, a final year Accounting student of  Ekiti State University  for alleged Internet fraud. Babatunde who poses on the internet as an American Army Officer by the name Dennis Martinez allegedly serving in Libya engages in Internet love and romance scams.  He engages unsuspecting ladies on the internet in a dating and romance scam through which he fleeces them of their money.  Last of his victims were the duo of Sandra Simundza and Lily F, both in Australia, from whom he claimed to have obtained about Five hundred dollars in tranches. Babatunde, according to series of intelligence gathered by the Commission, allegedly lives an ostentatious life without a definite job. He confessed to have been engaged actively in internet romance scam in the last four years from which he sustained his fla...

Ikere Ekiti or simply Ikere is an ancient Yoruba town in the present day Ekiti State, Southwest Nigeria. The town has a boundary in the north with Ado Ekiti, in the South with Akure [Ondo State]having Iju/Ita Ogbolu as the closest towns in the south. Ikere has a boundary with Ise Ekiti in her eastern flank while Igbaro Odo/Ilawe are the next neighbors to her west. Thus Ikere can be said to be the gateway to Ekiti State from the south. The paramount ruler goes by the title  OGOGA OF IKERE KINGDOM. According to oral history, Ikere was founded by a man named Aladeselu who is reported to have come from Uselu near Benin. As it was the practice in those days, itinerant immigrants moved from one place to another in search of suitable place to settle. In doing this they usually consulted the oracles to know the suitability of a place in terms of security, fertility of land for subsistence living and prosperity before picking a place for settlement. Aladeselu and his people con...

In virtually every Yoruba town, like many other places in Nigeria, there are different taboos which no one is allowed to violate freely. And anyone who violates such taboos does not go unpunished. Igede-Ekiti, headquarters of Irepodun/Ifelodun Local Government Area of Ekiti State, is no exception to this rule, said its traditional ruler, Onigede of Igede- Ekiti, Oba James Aladelusi. Speaking with Daily Sun recently, the monarch listed the taboos of the town. Igede is one of the first towns founded in Ekiti land. The ancestor of the town, Ake and his wife, Erindo, migrated from Ile-Ife. The patriarch, according to Oba Aladelusi, had 16 children who grew up to become very powerful. After his death, the power struggle over who would ascend the throne led to a serious crisis, to the extent that they resorted to using diabolical means to fight one another. Legend has it that four of the children transformed into rivers, while some of the rest disappeared into the ground alive! Am...