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No fewer than 18 Cups of expired Bioracee Vitamin C and other drugs have been impounded by the Ikole Local Government Council of Ekiti State. Mr Tunde Famuyisan, the Head of Environment and Sanitation Department of the council, told newsmen on Wednesday in Ikole-Ekiti that the drugs were seized from patent medicine store. Famuyisan, who conducted newsmen round the seized items at the council’s secretariat, listed other impounded drugs as 14 packs and two pieces of Coflin by Dr Meyer, five packs and six pieces of Losargen 50, 11 packs and one piece of Diabeta. According to him, seven packs and seven pieces of Nuiprofen and one Vitamin C syrup, 25 satchets of Colcol, one Cofmix, One Sevicid, three Bentcol and five satchets of Contafam were also confiscated from the store. He explained that officials of the department impounded the expired drugs following a tip off by a resident, whose name was not disclosed for security reasons. “On Tuesday, Feb., 6, a resident complained to u...

The Federal Science and Technical College, Usi-Ekiti in Ido/Osi Local Government Area of Ekiti State is known for its peace, tranquillity and excellent academic performance. Of late, however, the once-peaceable school has been in the news in the wrong reason. The members of staff and students are up in arms against their Principal, Mrs. Oluwatoyin Kolawole who they alleged is using  juju  against them. The mysterious death of one of the members of staff of the school, Pastor Steve Adeegbe in an auto crash fuelled the insurrection. As a result of this development, things are no longer at ease at the college as other members of staff accused the Principal, Mrs. Kolawole of “spiritually masterminding” the late teacher’s death. The teachers also alleged that many of them who are not in the good book of the principal, have been marked for death in similar circumstances. They also alleged that the principal is fetish as she consults spiritualists in a bid to diabolically ...

Armed persons on Sunday killed a farmer in Ekiti State with residents saying they believe the victim was killed by armed herdsmen. The victim, Olayemi Tunde, was murdered on Sunday in Ipao Ekiti, Ikole Local Government Area. The incident occurred on Sunday afternoon, when the victim was returning home from his farm. Mr. Olayemi, a commercial motorbike rider, had a farm at the Ipao farm settlement, where he had gone to harvest cassava. The attack is coming two days after the state governor, Ayo Fayose, vowed to resist the attacks by armed herdsmen within the state. Violence between herdsmen and farming communities has caused scores of deaths across Nigeria in 2018. A skirmish in January between some herdsmen and Tiv farmers in Ekiti resulted in the death of two persons, a situation which was brought under control with the timely intervention of the governor. The state also operates an anti-open grazing law which regulates the activities of the herdsmen in the communit...

A mobile application to alert the officers and men of the Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) in the case of emergency has been developed by an officer attached to the Ekiti State Command, Mr. Adeoluwa Oyebode. The mobile app named “EkitiAlert”, according to Oyebode has been submitted to the NSCDC Commandant in the state for the use of the corps in its operations. Oyebode while speaking on the innovation said “EkitiAlert is an emergency security phone app developed to bring crime rate in Ekiti State to the lowest ebb, sequel to the modern definition of security as a function of response time to crimes.” The app, he further explained, “is a call directory of NSCDC Ekiti State Command formations across the state on a dial.” The app was presented to the state Commandant of NSCDC, Mr. Donatus Izuka Ikemefuna, for onward transformation to the national headquarters of the security agency. He said the development of the app was based on his observation that, “one of the major challeng...

An Ado-Ekiti Magistrate’s Court on Thursday freed two persons who were accused of destroying a hotel belonging to the Olukere of Ikere-Ekiti, Oba Ganiyu Obasoyin, in the Gbemisola area of the town. The two suspects – Ayodele Osanyinbola and Babatunde Ayodele – had been arrested and detained by the police in connection with the attack on the hotel on December 25, 2017,  three days after it was inaugurated. The suspects had been remanded pending legal advice from the Directorate of Public Prosecutions. The magistrate, Mrs. Doyin Akosile, on Thursday ordered their release, saying the advice from the DPP stated that they had nocase to answer. Some thugs had attacked the hotel because the monarch said Ikere had yet to have a candidate for the 2018 governorship election. The state Deputy Governor, Kolapo Olusola, a native of the town, had been anointed as the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party.  The monarch’s loyalists allegedly launched a reprisal on those sus...

The House of Representatives during Thursday plenary session, urged Federal Government to revisit the establishment of Ekiti airport which was approved by President Goodluck Jonathan in 2011. The resolution was passed following the adoption of a motion sponsored by Segun Adekola, who harped on the need to attract foreign investors to the enormous tourism potentials in the state. According to him, former President during the State Visit to Ekiti state in 2017 gave technical approval for the establishment of airports in Bayelsa, Delta, Gombe and Ekiti States. He observed that the establishment of the airport remains an integral part of economic infrastructure which contributes significantly to the economic growth, potential and development of any state or nation. According to the lawmaker, the proposer airport will also “provides the necessary connectivity and accessibility required in the movement of people and goods, thereby promoting industrialization, employment...

Ijero-Ekiti,Nigeria Mining activities in Ekiti State have received a boost as small scale miners in Ijero-Ekiti axis will benefit from a N5 billion intervention fund from the Federal Government. The Federal Ministry of Mines and Steel Development and the Bank of Industry (BoI) are making available N2.5 billion each for the intervention fund to assist the miners. The miners will access the cash through cooperative societies to empower them and stop illegal mining in the state. The Programme Director of African Centre for Leadership, Strategy and Development (Centre LSD), Mr. Monday Osasah, broke the news yesterday in Ado-Ekiti, the state capital, at policy dialogue on Mining supported by Open Society for West Africa (OSIWA). He said the N5 billion intervention fund for artisanal and small scale miners was a conscious effort to grow and develop the Mining sector and make it contribute to government revenue. Osasah said qualified artisanal miners would be allowed to acces...

A    governorship aspirant under the platform    of All Progressives Congress (APC)    in Ekiti    State, Bamidele Faparusi    has promised to turn the state    economic by exploring    her    tourism potentials. Faparusi ,former    member of Federal House of Representatives hinted    this in Ado Ekiti at the weekend while    featuring on a programme tagged: ‘My Agenda’    organized    by    the Nigeria Union of Journalists(NUJ), Ekiti    State Council. Unveiling his agenda, Faparusi promised to rebuild Ekiti’s economy through what he termed Commercial Agriculture,Technological Innovation and Tourism. He     recalled that the Table    Mountain    in South Africa which is now a global tourist    attraction is not as unique as some of the mountains in Ekiti. He    acknowle...

The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) has commended the Ekiti State House of Assembly for passing the State Traffic Management Law. It noted that the law had impacted positively on traffic control and management. Zonal Commanding Officer in charge of Kwara, Kogi and Ekiti States, Dr A. A. Nwaka gave the commendation during a courtesy visit to the Ekiti State House of Assembly in Ado Ekiti on Tuesday. Nwaka, who was accompanied to the assembly by the Ekiti State Sector Commander, Mr Ismaila Kugu, described the visit as purpose driven. He expressed gratitude to Governor, Ayodele Fayose, for his drive toward achieving an overall development in Ekiti State. The FRSC official noted that the networks of roads in state were now better than what it used to be in the past. He called for synergy between the state government and the corps toward reducing accidents on Ekiti roads. Speaker of the Assembly, Kola Oluwawole, charged the commission to step up their sensitization progr...

An Ado-Ekiti Magistrate court, on Tuesday, remanded three persons for allegedly gang-raping a 14-year-old girl in Ekiti. The suspects, Samuel Farotimi, 27, Sunday Ajimoko, 40, and Sunday Ilugbo, 30, were arraigned for allegedly taking turns to rape the girl. According to the charge sheet, the accused, whose addresses were not given are standing trial on a two-count charge of conspiracy and rape. At Tuesday’s hearing, the police prosecutor, Oriyomi Akinwale, a sergeant, told the court that the suspects committed the offence at about 9.00 p.m. on January 29 at Odo Ado area of Ado-Ekiti. He said the suspects conspired among themselves to rape the victim, who was coming back from an errand. The prosecutor noted that the offences contravened Sections 33 and 31 (2) of the Child Rights Law of Ekiti State Cap C7. The Magistrate, Dolapo Akosile, in her ruling, ordered that the suspects be remanded in prison custody pending receipt of legal advice from the Director of Public Pro...

The Ekiti State government is set to upgrade the in-house Staff Development Centre to a full-fledged institute for public servants. The Head of Service (HOS), Dr. Olugbenga Faseluka, broke the news yesterday in Ado-Ekiti, the state capital, during the second convocation ceremony of the centre. The HOS said Governor Ayodele Fayose had approved the advancement of officers in the secretarial cadre from their previous cadre bar to a more advanced level. The gesture, according to Faseluka, is a display of the commitment of the current administration to making public service more proficient while prioritising the welfare of workers. Faseluka said the development centre, which caters for the training of the secretary cadre only, would be upgraded to become a vibrant citadel of learning that can handle the training of all cadres in public service. Emphasising that the government was aware that training was key to a better, more professional public service, Faseluka said Fayose r...

A Nigerian man named Fakorede Sola, has taken to Facebook to lament his loss after his farm was set on fire by suspected Fulani herdsmen in Ekiti state. According to the distraught man, he invested his live savings on the farm because of the passion he has for farming before it was set on fire by the herdsmen because they were warned to stop their activities on the farm. Read what he shared online; Four Years ago, I went back to to the farm.Invested my life savings and borrowed more money from friends. Took bank loan. Considering the future and invested in my passion. Got labour from locals and also employed few from Benin Republic. Planted over 4,000 stands of palm tree; over 2,000 stands of plantain; over 500 stands of cashew and about 300 stands of Cocoa. I was always excited traveling to Ekiti twice a month from my base in Lagos to monitor the progress of my passion and investment. Unfortunately, my hope was dashed this morning when I got the call that Fulani Herdsmen set my ...

No fewer than 5,000 youths in Ekiti State have benefitted from the free JAMB forms and computer base trainings (CBT) instituted by Kayode Fayemi, the minister of mines and steel development. The scheme is being piloted by the JKF Leadership Centre in Ado-Ekiti. Addressing the beneficiaries on Saturday, Fayemi expressed joy that the youths turned out in large numbers for the programme. Fayemi, who is the immediate past governor of the the state, however, expressed regret that his successor, Ayo Fayose, could not sustain one of his (Fayemi) legacies, regretting that during his time as the state governor, free JAMB forms and registration was the responsibility of the state. The APC stalwart promised not to waiver in his quest to ensure that nothing jeopardised the future of Ekiti youths. “I am happy to see you here and I would have loved to sit with you at this training, left for my tight schedule. When we were in government, the state used to be responsible for this scheme b...

 Electricity consumers in Ekiti State have raised the alarm over what they termed “outrageous and killing’ bills being slammed on them by the Benin Electricity Distribution Company (BEDC). Acting under the auspices of the Ekiti State Landlords Electricity Consumers’ Association, the body threatened to seek redress in court. They ordered the company to make available to them pre-paid meters to end the regime of extortion and arbitrary bills being imposed on the residents of the state. The consumers in a statement signed by its Chairman, Deacon Ibukun Ogundipe and Pastor Seye C.O. and others made available to newsmen in Ado Ekiti on Friday directed all the landlords in the state to be paying N3, 000 monthly charges until the prepaid meters that will ensure accurate reading of electricity consumed by the people are provided by the company. Revealing that their lawyer had been directed to file a suit against BEDC over the pain they are subjecting the people to they urged the Consu...

A 30- year-old businesswoman, Ebun Babalola, was on Friday brought before an Ado-Ekiti Magistrates’ Court for allegedly slapping a policewoman while on duty. The accused is being tried for assault. According to the Police Prosecutor, Sgt. Akinwale Oriyomi, the accused committed the offence on Feb. 2 at 7.00 a.m. at Okesa Street in Ado Ekiti. He alleged that the accused assaulted and slapped Sgt. Isekhaigbe Blessing while performing her lawful duties. The offence contravened Section 356(1), (5) of the Criminal Code, Laws of Ekiti State 2012. The woman, however, denied the charge and her lawyer, Mr Timilehin Omotosho, urged the court to grant her bail on liberal terms, assuring she will not jump bail. In her ruling, Magistrate Dolapo Akosile granted the businesswoman bail in the sum of N10,000 with one surety in like sum and adjourned the case until March 3 for further hearing.

Ekiti State Governor, Chief Ayodele Fayose, has said the state government is taking its free health programme to homes and farmsteads because many sick people can’t afford coming to towns to access quality health care services. He stated this in Ikere-Ekiti on Thursday during the flag off of the programme tagged “Ilera Ayo.” Ekiti State Governor, Chief Ayodele Fayose at the show of strength rally organised by the Osoko Mass Movement (OMM) to support Professor Kolapo Olusola in Ado-Ekiti on Monday 29/1/18 In a statement by the governor’s Chief Press Secretary, Mr Idowu Adelusi, he quoted the governor as saying that medical personnel involved in the programme would be going to homes of the aged and even the seriously sick and assess their situations and make necessary recommendations. “People requiring being referred to higher level of health care facilities up to the teaching hospital level would be referred. Some sick people in far flung places such as Omuo for instance may ...