Tag: ekiti
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2019: We’ll repeat what we did in Ekiti, Osun elections – Police IG
The Inspector General of Police, Mr. Ibrahim Idris has said that the Nigerian police is prepared to replicate the feat it recorded at the Ekiti and Osun States Governorship elections in the forthcoming 2019 general elections. The IGP made this known yesterday at a two-day train the trainers’ workshop for senior police officers on election…
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Supreme Court orders Ekiti to relocate LG’s headquarters
The Supreme Court on Friday ended the 19-year legal dispute over the right location of the headquarters of Ilejemeje Local Government Area of Ekiti State. Resting the case in its judgment, a five-man bench of the apex court unanimously ordered the Ekiti State Government to immediately restore the headquarters of the local government to Eda-Oniyo…
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Court remands Ekiti pupil for stabbing schoolmate to death
An Ado-Ekiti Chief Magistrate’s Court has ordered the remand a 16-year-old pupil, Timilehin Kehinde, who allegedly stabbed his schoolmate to death. Timilehin, a student of Ado Grammar School, Ado-Ekiti, is facing trial for allegedly stabbing his colleague, Matthew Favour, in the chest on December 6 after school hours. They were said to be testing the…
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Ekiti: I never said I will probe Fayose – Fayemi
Gov. Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti State has clarified his stance on the fate of the immediate past governor of the state, Ayodele Fayose. Fayemi spoke with State House correspondents after a closed-door meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. Fielding questions whether he would probe his predecessor, Fayemi explained that…
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Ekiti PDP rejects Olujimi, pledges loyalty to Fayose
The State Executive Committee of the Peoples Democratic Party in Ekiti State has reaffirmed former Governor Ayodele Fayose as the leader of the party in the state. The SEC dissociated itself from the purported stakeholders meeting which had earlier declared the Senate Minority Whip, Senator Biodun Olujimi, as the party leader. The SEC is the…
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Panic as Police take over Ekiti PDP secretariat
The Ekiti State People’s Democratic Party (PDP) secretariat was on Thursday taken over by the police following its invasion by some aggrieved members protesting alleged mismanagement of the party. Led by a former PDP State Secretary, Dr. Temitope Aluko, the aggrieved party men chased out the State Working Committee (SWC) members and workers and took…
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Ekiti PDP lawmaker shot by gunmen is dead
Micheal Adedeji, a member of the Ekiti State House of Assembly, who was shot in the head by gunmen on Friday, is dead. Jackson Adebayo, publicity secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the state, confirmed his death to TheCable on Monday. “The lawmaker died at the Federal Medical Center, Ido Ekiti, early this…
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Ekiti lawmaker shot by unidentified gunmen
Some unidentified gunmen on Friday shot a member of the Ekiti House of Assembly, Mr Michael Adedeji, at a close range at Ado Ekiti while driving to Akure, Ondo State. The News Agency of Nigeria, (NAN) reports that Adedeji who was said to have survived by the whiskers was initially rushed to the Ekiti State…
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Gunmen Kill APC Treasurer in Ekiti
The Treasurer of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Ekiti State chapter, Mr. Moses Adeoye, has been killed by unknown gunmen. Adeoye was murdered Wednesday night when the gunmen reportedly invaded his house in Otun Ekiti in Moba Local Government of the state. The gunmen, according to the APC Publicity Secretary in Ekiti, Hon. Ade Ajayi,…
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Tears, uncertainty as Fayose departs Ekiti for Abuja
The outgoing Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, left the state on Sunday amid hailing and emotional farewell from his admirers. He had earlier on Saturday embarked on a ‘Thank you walk’ around major streets of Ado Ekiti, where he received accolades from traders, artisans and other residents of the state. Fayose, clad in a T-shirt…