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  • Court orders remand of herdsman for damages to farm in Ekiti

    Court orders remand of herdsman for damages to farm in Ekiti

    An Ado-Ekiti Magistrate Court has ordered the remand of a herdsman, Abdulahi Abubakar in prison custody for allegedly conspiring with others now at large to cause damage to farm valued at N1.2 million.

    The police prosecutor, Sgt. Caleb Leranmo told the court on Friday that the accused and others at large committed the offence on December 4 at about 5:00pm at ‎Itapaji-Iyemero in Ikole-Ekiti.

    He alleged that the accused conspired together to commit an offence ‎to wit malicious damage, punishable under Section 7 of Cattle and other Ruminants Grazing, Ekiti State Law 2016.

    The prosecutor said the accused, on the said date, with others at large, did unlawfully rear cows into yam farm belonging to one Emmanuel Augustine and destroyed the farm value N1.2 million.

    According to him, the accused committed an offence punishable under Section 4(3) and 7 of Cattle and other Ruminants Grazing, Ekiti State Law 2016.‎

    The accused pleaded not guilty, as his counsel, Miss Oluwasayo Ayomide‎ applied for his bail but was opposed by the police prosecutor.

    The prosecutor stated that the offence was rampant and also it would enable the police to arrest others involved in the crime.

    Chief Magistrate Adesoji Adegboye ‎ refused to grant bail and consequently remanded the accused in prison custody.

    He adjourned the case to Jan.13 for further hearing

  • 114 youths to get 600 hectares for farming in Ekiti

    114 youths to get 600 hectares for farming in Ekiti

    No fewer than 114 youths are to get about 600 Hectares for crop farming in Ekiti State under the Agriculture Service Provider Programme.

    The initiative is a collaboration between the State Government and the Agro Nigerian Ventures Limited in Ado Ekiti.

    Under the ASPP, at least five graduates from each of the 16 Local Governments in the state had been trained in farming, especially crops.

    Speaking in Ado Ekiti, the Chairman of ANVL, Mathew Ajayi Aderiye, said the collaboration would improve food security in the nation and reduce unemployment among youths.

    “We have just trained the 114 youths at the Federal Polytechnic, Ado Ekiti. The programme has changed the thinking of these trainees towards farming.

    They have signed a Memorandum of Understanding with crops association that wants to make use of their services once they get their power tiller machine.

    “They have also signed an agreement with off takers – companies that want to buy their products at harvest – especially maize.

    “A company has approached us for 800,000 tonnes of maize and they are looking for people to plant them.

    They offered the youths to plant two hectares of maize for them. The company will supply the seedlings; so Ekiti would soon become the food basket of the nation.”

    Aderiye appealed to the government to give more priorities to farming because Nigeria is blessed with good climate and potential to be among the world best food producers

  • Those saying Pastor Adeboye collected bribe from Fayose are scum – Fani Kayode

    Former Aviation minister, Femi Fani-Kayode, has lambasted critics who said the General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Pastor Enoch Adeboye, collected bribe from Ekiti State Governor Ayodele Fayose.

    This is coming after the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ekiti State frowned at the comment made by Pastor Adeboye, commending Governor Fayose.

    Adeboye had admonished state governors in the country to emulate their Ekiti State counterpart after he commended the governor’s courage and willingness to defend his people and the cause of the common man in the country.

    But the state’s APC, in its reaction, said it was alarmed that a cleric of Pastor Adebayo’s standing could praise Governor Fayose for his persistent insults and abuses on President Muhammadu Buhari, noting that Pastor Adeboye should be seen as speaking for himself and his comment must not be seen as representing that of the entire members of the RCCG.

    Reacting, however, FFK took to his Twitter handle @realFFK to say: “Those who accused pastor Adeboye of collecting bribe from Governor Fayose simply because he commended the governor’s courage, are scum.”

  • Fayose orders sack of 400 workers engaged by Ekiti varsity

    The Ekiti State University, Ado Ekiti, has sacked over 400 workers recently engaged by the institution because their recruitment did not follow due process.

    The action followed a directive of the state Governor, Ayodele Fayose, who expressed reservation about the recruitment process.

    The governor, who said this on Wednesday in Ado Ekiti, wondered why more than 400 persons would be offered employment without the positions being advertised.

    He spoke during an interactive session with the participants in the N-Power Programme of the Federal Government from the state at the Government House, Ado Ekiti.

    No fewer than 3,400 people are taking part in the programme in the state.

    Participants are to take part in education, health, community and agriculture sectors for the next two years and would be paid a monthly stipend of N30,000 each.

    Fayose at the event promised a reward of N1m and full employment for the best participant in the N-Power Programme.

    He, however, called on the Federal Government to tackle unemployment headlong, saying the N-Power Programme was only a palliative.

    “This is only a palliative as it will last for only two years and I am strongly appealing to the Federal Government to take the issue of job creation serious. When somebody partakes in this programme and is sent back to the labour market after two years, that is going back to where he or she started, the labour market.

    “As for us, we will do our duty to distribute participants to where they would work and monitor them as well as ensuring that we do a proper data capturing of the participants.

    “For those in the agriculture arm of the programme, they can take advantage of our desire to adequately support rice and cocoa cultivation. We will support in the provision of inputs and clearing of land.

    Next year, we are committing about N250m to clear farmlands across the state. From among the participants, we can get serious ones who could be useful in the teaching service and other areas,” he said.

    The governor also emphasised the need to make appointment into public service free, fair and transparent.

  • Fayose drops bombshell, says, I am not sure of the platform to use for Ekiti 2018 governorship election

    Sequel to the recently concluded results of the Ondo State governorship election which the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP lost to the All Progressives Congress, APC Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State has said he is not sure if he will present his candidate on the platform of the PDP.

    Fayose, who dropped the hint in Ikere Ekiti while meeting with the members of the Suppliers’ Association of Nigeria, Ikere chapter, said “I don’t know the platform I will use for the 2018 election yet and at the appropriate time, I will tell you”.

    “We are still studying the situation. We have to play the game left, right and centre and whoever we are going to use and the platform, you will all be part of the process because party politics is about the people”. Fayose also said the victory of Mr. Rotimi Akeredolu, the candidate of the APC in the Saturday’s governorship poll in Ondo State does not in any way threaten the popularity and general acceptability of the PDP in Ekiti.

    The governor, who described Akeredolu’s victory at the poll as a collaborative effort of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC and the ruling APC, added that the victory did not confer legitimacy on the poll or lent credence to the fact that Ondo electorate had voted rightly.

    “You all saw how people sold their votes in Ondo state, I am confident that that will not happen in Ekiti. I am close to the people you are the source of my strength . Even if it requires just 48 hours to any election, if I tell you where to go, you will surely follow me there”, Fayose said.

    Meanwhile at a separate meeting with the junior staff of the state civil service, Fayose had also boasted that he will repeat the 16-0 he meted out to Ex-governor Kayode Fayemi in 2014, where he defeated the incumbent in all the sixteen local governments.

    In his words: “APC will be fooling itself if it thinks it will conquer Ekiti like it did in Ondo. Ekiti is a peculiar place and I am the man on ground here. I want to assure my supporters and Nigerians that APC won’t win a local government here in 2018, even if President Muhammadu Buhari moves down all the money in FG’s TSA.

    “Governor Olusegun Mimiko and Eyitayo Jegede must have lost in Ondo State, but that does not mean the people had voted rightly. In 2015, people clamoured for change and what have we got now? Nigerians are becoming poorer than ever.

    “Today, I am the only one among the APC governors in the southwest. I am now like the nation of Israel surrounded by enemies, but I shall defeat and triumph over them. “APC has never defeated me in any battle, either political or legal. Whether they like it or not, I will win in Ekiti no matter the animosity, because I have the people behind me”, Fayose said.