Tag: ekiti
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Coronavirus patient in Ekiti fully recovers, discharged
The only coronavirus-hit patient in Ekiti State has tested negative and allowed to go home. The unidentified male patient has been discharged from hospital. The patient had served as a driver to an American who came on a visit to Nigeria and spent two weeks in Ibadan. The American later died on suspicion of succumbing…
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Query to royals: Fayemi visits Alaafin of Oyo
Ekiti State Governor, Kayode Fayemi on Sunday paid a visit to Lamidi Adeyemi, Alaafin of Oyo. The governor visited the traditional ruler days after the letter Oba Adeyemi wrote to him went viral. In the letter, the monarch had asked Fayemi to be very careful in the manner he handles the leadership crisis rocking the…
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Ekiti dismisses 3 randy secondary school teachers
Ekiti Government on Friday announced the immediate dismissal from service of the three public secondary school teachers accused of sexually harassing their female students. The State Teaching Service Commission (TESCOM), which made this known in Ado Ekiti, said the board dismissed the erring teachers for sexual molestation and for bringing the state into disrepute. Their…
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Nine APC, PDP governors, other dignitaries storm Ekiti for Fayemi’s 55th birthday
Ado-Ekiti, the Ekiti State capital, was agog on Sunday for the 55th birthday of Governor John Kayode Fayemi. Governors, top politicians, monarchs, clerics, friends, students, farmers, the young and the elderly, gaily dressed market men and women as well as other well-wishers accompanied the governor to St. Patrick’s Catholic Cathedral, Agere in the capital town.…
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Panic as explosion rocks old Ekiti govt secretariat
There was a loud explosion in the old secretariat of Ekiti State Government, Ado Ekiti in the early hours of Saturday throwing the entire state capital into panic The explosions, which occurred about 7.05 am in the Explosion Ordinance Disposal Unit situated within the old secretariat, reduced the EOD building into debris and shattered windows…