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  • Panic in Ekiti as 59-year-old woman slumps, dies while urinating

    Palpable tension engulfed Ado-Ekiti, the Ekiti State capital on Wednesday when a 59-year-old unmarried woman, Victoria Yemisi Omoare, reportedly slumped and died while urinating.

    According to a report by The Nation, the incident occurred at about 9:45 am at Ilokun area close to Abattoir, along the busy Ado-Iworoko road.

    Narrating the incident, the driver of the vehicle, who was said be a lecturer in the Faculty of Agricultural Science, Ekiti State University, Mr. Orimaye Oluwafemi, said the deceased who alighted from his vehicle died while urinating.

    Oluwafemi said he was going to the campus to fetch some water leaf in his farm and withdraw some money at the ATM when the woman and a student, both his neighbours, opted to follow him.

    He said the incident happened close to the University gate when he stopped by the road side to take photograph of a tree plant he could use for his thesis and the woman seized the opportunity to answer the call of nature in a nearby bush.

    He added that they waited for her return for about five minutes in his car before they found out that the woman had slumped and died.

    According to him, the Akoko- born woman was a teacher at Adegbola Memorial High School, Akure in Ondo state and had been staying with his family in Ado Ekiti before coronavirus pandemic was confirmed in Ekiti, though he didn’t know any of her family members.

    He disclosed that the unmarried woman just finished her PHD course and recently complained about abdominal pain a day after she completed a three -day fasting.

    Meanwhile the deceased remains had been evacuated and deposited at the Ekiti State Teaching Hospital’s morgue for autopsy.

    When contacted the Ekiti State Public Relation Officer, Sunday Abutu said such report had not reached his office as at press time

  • Ekiti orders immediate 50% salary cut for Gov. Fayemi, deputy, all political appointees

    The Ekiti government has directed that salaries of Gov. Kayode Fayemi, his deputy and all political appointees in the state be slashed by 50 per cent with immediate effect.

    Chief Muyiwa Olumilua, the state’s Commissioner for Information and Values Orientation, disclosed in a statement in Ado Ekiti on Tuesday that Gov. Fayemi gave the salary cut directive.

    He said the development was due to the ravaging effects of the COVID-19 scourge.

    “The global economy has been severely affected and it has affected Nigeria’s economy as a nation and expectedly, Ekiti.

    ” As a responsive and responsible government, we have taken stock of our financial situation,” he said.

    According to him, the pay cut will affect the governor, his deputy, Chief Bisi Egbeyemi and all political appointees down the line.

    He however said that salaries of civil servants would not be affected in any way by the directive.

    He said savings from the pay cut would be channelled into the execution and completion of developmental projects in the State, as hitherto planned.

    ” This sacrifice is for the welfare of Ekiti people above all other considerations.

    “This is vis-a-vis the constantly decreasing receipts from the federation account, as well as the state’s dwindling internally generated revenue (IGR), and has therefore, been forced to wake up to the current realities of the state’s fiscal position.

    ” Your patriotism, patience, and co-operation, is highly appreciated at all times,” he said.

  • COVID-19 lockdown: Ondo, Ekiti deny rejecting Buhari’s palliative rice, others

    The controversies generated by the palliatives distributed by the Federal Government is far from being over as some state governments have now refuted claims of rejecting FG’s offer.

    First to debunk the rejection story is Ondo State Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu.

    According to reports, the palliatives sent to Ondo were 1,800 bags of rice and 700 gallons of vegetable oil as part of measures to cushion the effect of the COVID-19 lockdown.

    Akeredolu, who spoke through his Special Adviser on Public and Inter-Governmental Relationship, Ms. Ademosu Bunmi, said the state government never contemplated returning the rice to the Federal Government and expressed shock to have read in some sections of the media that he rejected the rice.

    He said it was unfair to say that he joined hands with the Oyo State Government to return the rice.

    Describing the report as unfounded, embarrassing, shocking and false, he said there was no plan to return the rice and other food items sent to the state.

    He said the Palliative Committee has begun the repackaging of the rice for distribution to the vulnerable in the state, as the rice has been tested and confirmed to be edible.

    According to him, “we have no plans to return the rice, and such report never emanated from the state government or any member of the palliative committee.

    “The state government had commended the gesture of the Federal Government towards cushioning the effect of the lockdown across the country. It behoves on us to appreciate the gestures rather than condemn it.

    “The items are in good shape, tested and good for consumption. The expiry dates are boldly written on the rice, we cannot distribute what is harmful to our people.

    “We don’t want to lose them, irrespective of their political leaning. We will not sacrifice the people we govern by giving them expired or products that are not good for human consumption.

    “The onus is on the governor to protect the people. We have cooked part of the rice to be sure they are edible and good for consumption.

    “We must not create another problem while finding solution to one. We have tested the rice, checked the expiry date and I can confirm to you that the rice is of good quality and good for consumption.”

    The Ekiti State Government also said it did not return 1,800 bags of rice donated to the state by the Federal Government as a palliative to mitigate the effects of the lockdown.

    The Coordinator of the COVID-19 Task Force and Director-General, Office of Strategic Transformation and Delivery in Ekiti, Prof. Bolaji Aluko, made the clarification in Ado-Ekiti.

    “We have not rejected or returned any rice to the Federal Government,” Aluko said while dismissing speculations that some of the bags of rice were returned because they were expired.

    Aluko was giving the daily update on the efforts by the task force to curtail the spread of the pandemic.

    He said government had begun the tracking of commuters who forcefully entered the state with a view to quarantining them.

    Aluko urged residents in border towns to give information that could help in apprehending those entering the state illegally.

    “Quarantine points have been provided in the 16 local governments.”

  • Ekiti buries dead COVID-19 victim

    Ekiti buries dead COVID-19 victim

    The Ekiti government says the 29- year-old pregnant woman, who died in the state on Wednesday as a result of complications arising from the COVID-19, had been buried according to Islamic rights.

    The Commissioner for Health, Dr Mojisola Yaya-Kolade, made this known in Ado Ekiti on Friday while giving an update on the Covid- 19.

    He said the deceased was buried in Ado Ekiti by the government and the family in strict compliance with the recommendations of the World Health Organisation on coronavirus casualties.

    ” The young woman has been buried according to Islamic rites and the government of Ekiti State will liaise with the family on how to raise the surviving baby,” he said.

    The commissioner said the private hospital where the dead woman was first operated upon leading to the infection of the doctor now in isolation had been shut by government.

    The commissioner also directed private hospitals intending to treat COVID-19 patients to register in line with the directive of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control.

    Yaya-Kolade further spoke on the current statistics of index cases of coronavirus in the state, saying “as of now, we have only recorded four cases; we have one active, one dead, two discharged cases.”

    Earlier, Prof. Bolaji Aluko, the Director General, Office of Strategic Transformation and Delivery and member of the State Response Team, said commuters who wanted to forcefully enter the state were being arrested and quarantined at their own expense or sent back at the borders.

    ” For this period of lockdown, corpses will not be allowed into Ekiti since there is no way we can verify the cause of the death.

    ” All corpses must be stopped at the borders and this we have conveyed to security (agents),” he said.

  • [Video] Herdsmen, their cows chased away by Amotekun in Ekiti

    [Video] Herdsmen, their cows chased away by Amotekun in Ekiti

    Amotekun anti-grazing team peacefully escorted herdsmen out of Ekiti state – The anti-grazing unit of the south west security network, also known as ‘Amotekun’ has been spotted peacefully escorting herdsmen out of a town in Ekiti state.

    In a video currently trending online, the armed officers of Amotekun can be seen ‘chasing’ some herdsmen along with their cows out of Ekiti State.

    Recall that Ekiti state is one of the states in Nigeria with strict anti-grazing law which prohibits herdsmen from openly gracing cattle on the streets or farmlands.

  • JUST IN: Ekiti records first Coronavirus death

    A 29-year-old health worker, who was the third index case of coronavirus in Ekiti state, has been recorded as the first casualty after she died of the pandemic on Wednesday.

    The Commissioner for Health, Dr. Mojisola Yaya-Kolade, announced this at a press conference in Ado Ekiti.

    Yaya-Kolade said the woman died on Wednesday around 6:58 am at the Intensive Care Unit of Federal Teaching Hospital, Ido EkitI.

    The woman, who until his death was a Community Health worker with Lagos State Government, sneaked into Ekiti last week before she fell into prolonged labour leading to the discovery that she had contracted the infectious disease.

    Yaya-Kolade regretted the deceased infected a 45 -year old medical doctor, who had been identified as the fourth index case by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control(NCDC).

    “The woman showed signs of stability on Monday but unfortunately her condition deteriorated yesterday, and we lost her exactly 6.58 am today (Wednesday),” she stressed.

    On whether her body will be released to the family, Yaya-Kolade said the state will take standard precautions and comply with the World Health Organisation’s safety rules on the burial.

    “We are going to liaise with the family on her burial. We are going to consider safety despite that there was an assumption that the virus is not active in the corpse, because we don’t know much about the virus.

    “But whatever we are going to do won’t be against the interest of the family. But let me assure you that the state will also be on the side of safety”, she stated.

    She said FETHI where the patient died, had been sanitised and cleaned up since the woman was hospitalised, urging the patients and members of the public not to stigmatise the hospital or afraid of patronising it.

    The Commissioner assured the state will proceed with its surveillance and engaging the people on sensitization, to ward off COVID 19 in Ekiti.

    She added that all the 78 persons who had contacts with the deceased and the medical doctor, had been traced and placed on isolation.

  • Ekiti shutsdown major markets over threats of Covid-19 spread

    Ekiti shutsdown major markets over threats of Covid-19 spread

    Ekiti State Government on Tuesday said food markets in Ado Edition and Ikere Edition with history of heavy population would no longer be allowed to operate during the period of lockdown.

    The state government explained that the ban become necessary in view of increasing number of COVID-19 cases and the need to fully enforce the social distancing in such places.

    The Special Advisers to the state Governor on Public Affairs and Media, Chief Nyi Ojo, and Mrs Mary Osho-Omotosho, respectively, said in Ado Ekiti at a media enlightenment forum that the new order would take full effect from Thursday.

    Ojo said that the failure of some traders and residents to comply with the various precautionary measures put in place by government to check the spread of the pandemic were also being considered

    Ojo, who gave names of the affected markets to include Oja Oba, Bisi Market and Shasha market asked residents who wished to restock their homes with food items to limit their purchases to their immediate neighborhood until further notice.

    According to him, the recent confirmed case of another COVID-19 case, who had over 70 contacts, had put the state on a high risk considering the numbers of places and people she had contact with.

    In her own contribution, Mrs Omotosho pleaded with the traders to adhere to the stay-at-home order and stop trading in these markets to avoid sanctions from the government.

    She urged members of the public to bear with the government, explaining that the state government was aware of the inconveniences and hardship the lockdown had caused them.

    “Every step taken by the government is in the best interest of citizens,” she said

  • Ekiti discharges second COVID-19 patient

    Ekiti discharges second COVID-19 patient

    The Ekiti State Government has discharged the second index case of COVID-19 who has been receiving treatment for coronavirus disease at the State Infectious Disease Hospital, Ado-Ekiti.

    The patient who was said to have contracted the virus in Lagos, was isolated and treated at the isolation centre for 10 days after testing positive for the coronavirus.

    With the discharged of the 42-year-old Ekiti indigene, the total number of survivors from the centre has risen to two.

    The Governor of Ekiti, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, who made this known via his Twitter handle on Friday, said the survivor was discharged after two tests run on him came back negative.

    “Our second COVID-19 patient tested negative the second time and was discharged from our Infectious Disease Hospital today. While thanking our team for a job well done, the job is not finished. #StayHomeSaveLives.”

    He reassured the people of the state that his government was doing all within its to stem the spread of the coronavirus, urging them to cooperate with his administration to defeat the hydra-headed pandemic.

  • COVID-19: Fayemi names Fayose,others in committee

    COVID-19: Fayemi names Fayose,others in committee

    Ekiti Governor Dr. Kayode Fayemi has set up a 47-member panel of distinguished citizens of the state, including three former governors, to help mobilise resources to combat the COVID-19 pandemic.

    The panel, which is officially known as Ekiti State COVID-19 Response Resource Mobilisation Committee, has the former Minister of Health and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Juli Pharmacy, Prince Julius Adelusi-Adeluyi as Chairman.

    The Founder/Chancellor of the Afe Babalola University, Ado Ekiti (ABUAD), Aare Afe Babalola will serve as the Grand Patron while three former governors of the state were named as Patrons.

    The three former governors to serve as Patrons are Otunba Niyi Adebayo, Chief Segun Oni and Chief Ayodele Fayose.

    The Committee has as members captains of industry, distinguished private sector players, renowned professionals and prominent members of Ekiti in the Diaspora.

    The list include former Chairman of O’dua Investment, Sir Remi Omotoso; former Chairman of United African Company (UAC), Mr. Ayo Ajayi; Principal Partner of Aluko Oyebode and Co, Mr. Gbenga Oyebode (SAN); CEO of Ecobank International, Mr. Ade Ayeyemi; Chairman, Boyage Oil and Gas, Otunba Olutoye Ariyo; President, Nigeria-American Chamber of Commerce, Otunba Toyin Akomolafe; a former President of Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Chief Wole Olanipekun (SAN) and Senator Ayo Arise.

    Others include celebrated Oncologist and Director, Global Medicine, University of Chicago, USA, Prof Funmi Falusi-Olopade; Vice President, International Affairs, Kings’ College, London, Prof Funmi Olonisakin; former Executive Secretary, NHIS, Dr Femi Thomas; Human rights lawyer, Mr Femi Falana (SAN); Managing Director, Luk Oil Nigeria Ltd, Mr Kunle Gidado, CEO Agro Innovate, Mrs Foluso Olaniyan and former NBA National Secretary, Mr Debo Adesina (SAN).

    Also in the list are: Chairman , Deux Projects Ltd, Dr Tunji Olowolafe; Director, Risk Management, Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Ms Folakemi Fatogbe; Executive Director, Sahara Energy Ltd, Mr Wale Ajibade; and a Director at Globacom, Otunba Niyi Adewunmi.

    The Special Adviser to the Governor on Development Partnerships, Mrs Margaret Fagboyo, is the secretary to the committee.

    According to a release by the Secretary to the State Government, Hon Biodun Oyebanji, the committee’s mandate among others, is to mobilise and advise on funds and project management, direct funding campaigns for the Covid-19 response.

    He said the state government would do everything humanly possible to contain the spread of the covid-19 pandemic in the state, while assuring the citizens of the Dr Fayemi-led administration’s commitment to accountability and transparency in the management of resources mobilised.

  • COVID-19 not a respecter of anyone-Dr Akindele Owolabi

    COVID-19 not a respecter of anyone-Dr Akindele Owolabi

    A medical expert and an illustrious son of Ekiti state, Dr Makanjuola Akindele Owolabi popularly called Dr MAO has appealed to his people in Ekiti State just as he has done to other Nigerians and humanity worldwide, to strictly obey and adhere to the directives given by WHO which is aimed at curbing the spread of the deadly Coronavirus.

     

    Dr Akindele Owolabi in a statement made available to newsmen, advised people of the state to ensure regular handwashing with soap and clean water and obey all preventive measures.

     

    The medical expert who is also a globally recognised aviation consultant, equally called on the people to stay at home for the two weeks prescribed, saying that it is for our collective safety and that it is better to stay at home and be alive than to disobey or be careless and end up in the grave forever due to the effects of Covid-19.

     

    Owolabi therefore appeals to the entire people of Ekiti state to see the precautionary measures put in place as means of protecting them and everyone from the deadly virus and not as punishment or to inflict hardship on anyone as we are all in this together. “Covid-19 is not a-respecter of anyone whether you are poor or rich! It is that serious”, he said.

     

    The medical expert also warns that the Covid-19 is easily spread like a bushfire in dry season if these measures are not keenly followed.

    He said that this is not the time to visit one another, attend parties or crowding of any kind at this perilous time.

    He also noted that people would see this as a time to be their brothers’ keeper because God has used this to show us that what affects one, affects all.