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The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), South West Zone D, has called on Ekiti Governor, Ayodele Fayose to meet to the demands of the striking workers of Ekiti State University (EKSU), Ado Ekiti, to enable them return to work. In a statement, in Ado Ekiti, on Wednesday, the students threatened a complete shut down of the state capital, should there be no action towards the reopening of the institution within 72 hours, adding that it would “cause the students in Ekiti State to embark on mass action.” NANS Zone D Co-ordinator, Lukman Adekitan and Treasurer, Ayodeji Amoran, said that the current disruption in the academic calendar of the institution “will automatically become impossible for them to participate in the NYSC mobilisation process.” The students also demanded reduction in school fees in the state-owned tertiary institutions namely EKSU, College of Education, Ikere Ekiti and College of Health Technology, Ijero-Ekiti and called for outright stoppage of “ac...

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 ...

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