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  • Ekiti DJ arrested for impersonating singer, Portable

    Ekiti DJ arrested for impersonating singer, Portable

    A disc jockey (DJ) known as Famotemi Toluwani Timothy, who is based in Ekiti State, has been arrested for allegedly impersonating hip-hop singer, Habeeb Okikiola, popularly known as “Portable”.

    TheNewsGuru.com reports that DJ Timothy was arrested by operatives of the Ilorin Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Thursday, September 29, 2022.

    Timothy, a native of Igede-Ekiti in Ifelodun Local Government Area of Ekiti State, allegedly opened an Instagram account with the name “Zazoo Omolalomi Portable” where he claimed to be the singer.

    Investigations showed that the suspect met one of his victims, Adebayo Adedimeji Lukman, running a Club in Offa, Kwara State, on social media and introduced himself as “Portable” and bargained to perform at the Club for the sum of N1 million naira.

    The suspect requested that 80 percent of the money be paid before the event, and Adebayo reportedly paid the sum of N790,000 (Seven Hundred and Ninety Thousand Naira) into a bank account number provided by the suspect.

    However, the self-styled artiste, “ Portable” did not show up at the event, which was held on February 18, 2022 and eventually blocked all means of communication with the suspect.

  • Mentally-challenged woman gives birth to twins in Ekiti

    Mentally-challenged woman gives birth to twins in Ekiti

    A mentally-challenged woman in Ekiti, popularly called `Iya Kamo’, was delivered of a set of twins, a boy and a girl, on Saturday.

    She was delivered of the babies at the Federal Teaching Hospital, Ido-Ekiti in Ido/osi Local Government Area of the state.

    “Iya Kamo’’ and the new babies are doing well, the spokesman of the hospital, Mr Bank Akinnuoye said on Sunday.

    He thanked the hospital’s management and the Ido/Osi Local Government Council for its timely response to the hospital’s call.

    “Iya Kamo’’ had a child with whom she roamed the streets of Ido-Ekiti before Saturday’s delivery.

    It was gathered that she regained her consciousness while she was pregnant and the hospital had been giving her antenatal care.

    Reacting to the delivery, chairman of Ido-Osi Local Government Council, Dr Sola Ogunsina, expressed gratitude to God and to the management and staff of the hospital for taking care of the woman and the babies.

    He presented cash gifts to support the needs of mother and babies and called on well-meaning Nigerians to extend humanitarian gestures to the trio considering the mother’s situation.

    It is unclear whether any member of her family has showed up at the hospital since she was delivered of the babies.

  • We’ve delivered on our campaign promises to Ekiti people – Fayemi

    We’ve delivered on our campaign promises to Ekiti people – Fayemi

    Gov. Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti has said that his administration in the last four years delivered on its campaign mantra to restore the values of Ekiti people.

    He said his administration had also laid the foundation for sustainable development.

    Fayemi stated this in Ikere-Ekiti on Tuesday during his “Thank You” tour of the Ekiti-South Senatorial District, as part of the activities marking the end of his tenure.

    The governor, while enumerating some of the achievements recorded by his administration especially in the district, said that the legacies would be sustained by the incoming administration.

    He maintained that his administration performed well in the areas of education, human capital development, health, social security, social amenities and infrastructural development in all the senatorial districts of the state.

    “It is easy to forget that when we embarked upon this journey four years ago, Ekiti was still in the dungeon.

    “We had a lot of challenges and we promised to restore the value of our people and reclaim the land for progress and development.

    “I believe that four years down the line we have discharged that duty to the best of our ability.

    “I think we can thick the box in all of the areas in which we pledged to make life better for our people whether in education, human capital development,“ he said.

    Fayemi said his administration upgraded the College of Education to the University of Education, Science and Technology and named it after Elder Bamidele Olumilua.

    He said the upgrade was to complement the state, federal and private universities in Ekiti.

    The governor described the airport project as extensive and said the “Knowledge Zone“ linked to it would in future constitute an Airport City.

    “This is because of a lot of development that will happen there will be to the benefit of the state.

    Fayemi, while thanking the people of the state for their support, noted that the privilege to serve as governor gave him the chance to become the Chairman of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF) and President, Forum of Regions of Africa (FRAS).

    “Gratitude to our people in Ekiti State, particularly to the people of Southern Senatorial District.

    “The people of the South Senatorial District have been good and gracious to us as a government and they have been good to us as a party.

    “If we checked the result of the last election, you will see that our governor-elect received overwhelming support from the southern part of the state.

    Mr Sunday Filani, a representative from Ikere Local Government Area, in his goodwill message, thanked the governor for the achievements of his administration.

    He listed the upgrading of the College of Education, Ikere, to a degree-awarding university and the construction of Adelogun Bridge as some of the unprecedented achievements in the area.

    Newsmen reports that representatives from the other council areas also took time to enumerate the administration’s achievements in their domains.

    The event was attended by the wife of the governor, Mrs Bisi Fayemi,  Deputy Governor, Otunba Bisi Egbeyemi, The Speaker, Ekiti State House of Assembly, Mr Funminiyi Afuye and the Ekiti Govenor-Elect, Biodun Oyebanji and his wife, Dr Olayemi Oyebanji.

    The Deputy Governor-Elect, Mrs Monisade Afuye and the Ekiti Chairman of the All Progressives Congress party (APC), Mr Paul Omotosho, were in attendance.

    Others were Olowuro of Orun-Ekiti, Oba Aderounmu Adewumi; Olukere of Ikere-Ekiti Oba Ganiyu Obasoyin and other government officials and party members.

  • Legislators call for additional three LCDAs in Ekiti state

    Legislators call for additional three LCDAs in Ekiti state

    The House of Assembly in Ekiti state has submitted a bill for the creation of additional three  Local Council Development Areas, LCDAs

    The bill was passed to the committee on Local Government and Chieftaincy for onward review.

    If finally endorsed the total number of Local governments and Council Development Areas in the state would have risen to 38.

    The lawmakers unanimously agreed that the creation of additional LCDAs is a step in the positive direction, believing that it would enhance development at the grassroots, balancing and equity among communities in the state.

    The lawmaker representing Moba Constituency 1, Mr Adeyemi Ajibade, and his colleague from Ido constituency one, Akin Oso, advocated for the creation of LCDA in their constituencies.

    Ajibade harped his request on the fact that Efon Alaaye had a local government, urging the government to reconsider Otun’s agitation for the creation of Ifedapo LCDA

    Responding, the Speaker, Mr Funminiyi Afuye, charged the lawmaker agitators to channel their requests to the Committee on Local Government and Chieftaincy affairs, while admonishing the committee to work for collective interest.

    Also at the plenary, the House voted in support of the creation of State Police and Judicial Autonomy in the ongoing Constitution amendment.

  • Ekiti High Court sentences two kidnappers to death

    Ekiti High Court sentences two kidnappers to death

    An Ekiti State High Court, Ado Ekiti Division, has sentenced two kidnappers to death by hanging.

    The sentenced criminals are 41-year-old Kola Makinde, and 30-year-old Haruna Bika.

    The court also sentenced the two men, who were arraigned on six counts bordering on conspiracy, armed robbery, rape and kidnapping, to life imprisonment for kidnapping.

    According to the charge, the two men, armed with cutlass and gun, on October 6, 2021, at Idi Mango Camp, Ilasa Ekiti, robbed Taiwo Oni and Mohammed Ayomide of their phones and as well Adejuwon Gbenga of N31,000.”

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    They were also said to have “on the same date and place, kidnapped one Adejuwon Daramola and also raped a 19 years old mother of five month-old-baby.”

    The prosecutor, Olasanmi Oluwaseun, said their offences were contrary to Sections 516, and 401(2) of the Criminal Code Law, Cap. C16, Laws of Ekiti State, 2012 also Section 2 (2) of the Ekiti State Gender Based Violence (Prohibition) Law, 2019 and Section 3 (a) of the Kidnap and Terrorism (Prohibition) Laws of Ekiti State, 2015″.

    In his statement to the police, one of the victims, who said he was woken up by a bang on his door and ordered with a gun pointed at his head to open the door, said, “When they entered, they beat my wife and I with cutlass, they took away N31,000 I collected from a business centre in the afternoon.

    “Thereafter, they took my daughter outside and with the intention to rape her, but she resisted following which they ordered her to sit with those already captured outside. They kidnapped Adejuwon and later demanded for N5 million ransom,” he said.

    Another victim, a 19 year mother of five months old baby said that she had wanted to escape, following shouts of her neighbour, “but before I knew it, they entered our house, they asked of my neighbour, I told them I did not see him, they collected my baby from me, they removed my pant and had sex with me.”

    “They were later arrested by the vigilantes in the community, they were recognised and identified by their face and cap forgotten at one of the crime scene.”

    The prosecutor, Oluwaseun, called seven witnesses and tendered defendants’ statements and cap as exhibit while the defendants, who spoke through their counsels, called one witness.

    In the judgment, Justice Olalekan Olatawura found the two men guilty of conspiracy, kidnapping and armed robbery and convicted them accordingly.

    The judge pronounced, “For Count one (conspiracy), the defendants are sentenced to seven years, counts two and three (armed robbery), the defendants are sentenced to death and be hanged by the neck until they will be dead, may God have mercy on your souls, count six (kidnapping), the defendants are sentenced to life imprisonment.

    “The sentences are to run concurrently,” the judge ordered.

  • 2023: Some Govs in opposition parties secretly behind Peter Obi – Labour Party

    2023: Some Govs in opposition parties secretly behind Peter Obi – Labour Party

    Labour Party’s Deputy National Chairman, Bashiru Apapa has said some governors in other political parties are secretly giving support to the presidential bid of Peter Obi to emerge victorious in the 2023 elections.

    Apapa disclosed this while speaking in Ado Ekiti during a sensitization workshop for LP members and Peter Obi’s support organizations in Ekiti State on Saturday.

    He stated that the party and Obi were becoming more popular among Nigerians, which will help it win the 2023 presidential election.

    Apapa stated that Nigerians were tired of the country’s negative trend under the control of the All Progressives Congress and the Peoples Democratic Party and that Obi’s presidential campaign was daily gaining overt and covert backing from numerous governors and noteworthy leaders.

    The deputy chairman called for stronger support and mobilization for the party to win the presidential election.

    Apapa, who noted that Obi’s goodwill and past achievements were attracting Nigerians to the party, said, “There are some people who you may not believe are coming up to support Obi; some leaders up to heads of state are in support of Obi. Many governors, more than five of them, are supporting the party underneath. We don’t want to mention their names for now.

    “It is because of the way Obi performed before. Again, not all of them believe that Nigeria should continue the way it is going now. They want change, better and positive change for that matter, not like the other change we experienced in the past.”

    He added, “It is because of the popularity of the LP now that everyone is embracing the party; clearly, the APC and PDP are worried.”

    He claimed that the APC and PDP had made the LP the target of their criticisms because they were afraid of the increased support it was experiencing.

    In his remarks, Odunayo Okunade, the chairman of the LP in Ekiti State, asked members and supporters to keep organizing people “in a quest to have a government that will be sensitive to the plights of Nigerians in 2023.”

    He expressed happiness with the party and Obi’s growing support in the state.

  • How spiritualists duped aspiring Reps member N24m for political ambition in Ekiti

    How spiritualists duped aspiring Reps member N24m for political ambition in Ekiti

    The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arrested two self-acclaimed spiritualists for allegedly conspiring to defraud an aspiring House of Representatives member in Ekiti State.

    TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) reports the EFCC gave the names of the spiritualists as Alfa Abiodun Ibrahim and Wale Adifala but failed to provide the identity of the aspiring House of Representatives member.

    According to the anti-graft agency, Ibrahim and Adifala connived with one Ifawole Ajibola (aka Baba Kalifa), who is currently on the run, to defraud the aspiring House of Representatives member of the total sum of N24,071,000.

    The spiritualists claimed that the N24 million was to be used to secure spiritual help for the political ambition of the aspiring politician.

    They were arrested on July 7, 2022 in Ado-Ekiti by operatives of the Lagos Command of EFCC, following a petition against them, alleging that after collecting the said sum, the whole efforts came to a dead end.

    Under interrogation, Adifala, admitted to collecting the sums of money from their victim, including N2.9 million, which he claimed was used to buy black, brown and white cows, rams, lavender perfume, rings among other items, to carry out sacrifices at different times.

    “I also linked up on the matter with Ifawole Ajibola, and we continued with the sacrifices together, until we were arrested by EFCC,” he said.

    Ibrahim, who was the one who had prior contact with the victim, admitted to collecting money at different times.

    “Our own is just to pray and do the necessary sacrifices, which we did, and to leave the rest to God, however, along the line, the zoning for the Reps seat was taken away from Oye-Ekiti to Ikole-Ekiti,” he said.

    “They were arrested along with some of their instruments of trade. They will soon be arraigned in court,” the EFCC said in a statement.

  • Gov Fayemi fires political appointees ahead of handing over

    Gov Fayemi fires political appointees ahead of handing over

    Ahead of his exit from office on October 16, Governor Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti State has fired his political appointees.

    This was contained in a memo by the Permanent Secretary, Office of the Secretary to the State Government, Dr. T.G on behalf of the SSG on Sunday in Ado-Ekiti, the state capital.

    According to the memo dated July 15, 2022, the political appointees were the Senior Special Assistants, the Technical Assistants, the Special Assistants and Executive Assistants.

    It stated the termination of the appointment take effect from July 30, 2022, adding that the decision was to ensure a seamless transition from the current administration to Governor-elect Biodun Oyebanji.

    It further said the action will pave way for the State Government to process all outstanding allowances to affected appointees, for a smooth transition from the incumbent administration to the new government.

    The memo reads in part: “A Transition Committee was constituted to among others, evolve strategies for a smooth transition from the incumbent to the incoming government.

    “One of the duties of the Committee, in line with Ekiti State Transition Law, is to ensure the payment of entitlements of political office holders including their terminal benefits.

    “His Excellency Dr John Kayode Fayemi has approved that the services of all Senior Special Assistants, Special Assistants, Technical Assistants and Executives Assistants would end on 31st July 2022 to enable the State Government process all outstanding allowances of the affected officials more so that the Government is winding up.”

  • Ekiti Governor-elect, Oyebanji visits Fayose in Lagos

    Ekiti State Governor-elect, Mr Biodun Abayomi Oyebanji paid a courtesy visit to the Lagos residence of former Governor of the State, Mr Ayodele Fayose.

    Oyebanji  mentioned that  the visit was to extend his courtesies to Fayose as a former governor of the state, who, according to him, demonstrated statesmanship by congratulating him shortly after he was declared winner of the June 18 election.

    On his part, Fayose, urged the Governor-elect  to be magnanimous in victory and see himself as a servant leader who has a listening ear.

    Continuing , fayose advised Oyebanji to accomodate every well meaning Ekiti people regardless of party affiliation.

    Oyebanji had earlier gone on a thank you visit to the Governor of the State, Dr Kayode Fayemi in Ado-Ekiti, a day after the incumbent Governor led two other APC governors to visit him at his Ikogosi Ekiti country home.

    The Governor-elect has also visited the first civilian Governor of the state, currently Minister of Investments, Trade and Industry, Otunba Niyi Adebayo, at his Iyin-Ekiti country home earlier in the week.

    He had earlier also visited Chief Deji Fasuan, the nonagenarian elder statesman who chaired the committee for the creation of Ekiti State, under whom he served as Secretary (to the committee) as well as the Ewi of Ado-Ekiti, HRM, Oba Rufus Adeyemo Adejugbe.

    Biodun Abayomi Oyebanji, fondly called BAO, is a politician and member of the All Progressives Congress, who was born on December 21, 1967 in Ikogosi-Ekiti, Ekiti State. He is 54.

    Biodun Oyebanji is the immediate past Secretary to Ekiti Government.

  • Ekiti guber: PDP candidate, Kolawole congratulates Oyebanji

    The Peoples Democratic Party candidate in the Saturday governorship election in Ekiti state, Otunba Olabisi Kolawole, has congratulated the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate, Mr Biodun Oyebanji on his victory at the poll.

    Kolawole in a congratulatory letter he personally signed, was addressed to the APC candidate, Oyebanji and made to newsmen in Efon-Alaaye on Sunday.

    “Following the announcement of your victory in the June 18 Ekiti Governorship Election by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), I hereby write to congratulate you accordingly.

    “I believe that power belongs to God and He bestows upon whoever he chooses.

    “I also believe in popular choice that the unfettered expression of the peoples mandate as one of the crucial hallmarks of democratic principle and practice.

    “Democracy must therefore deliver to the people dividends of security or protection and enhance their social welfare and well-being basically, and among other deliverables.

    “These were the motivation for my own ambition in the governorship of Ekiti State which I feel strongly to reiterate here in view of the precarious situations of our people at the moment.

    “Please take urgent actions aimed at redressing the plights of our people when you fully assume the mantle shortly.

    “Finally, I wish you the guidance of the Almighty God in the onerous task ahead.

    Congratulations to your spouse and also running mate,” he stated.

    Oyebanji won Saturday’s election with 187, 057 votes, while the candidate of the Social Democratic Party (SDP), Chief Segun Oni got 82, 211 votes, and Kolawole came third with 67,457 votes.