INTRODUCTION Guidelines made pursuant to section 16 of the Electoral Act 2010 (as amended). Issuance of voters’ Cards is the responsibility of the Independent National Electoral Commission. The proprietary right in the voters’ cards is vested in INEC. 2.0 ABOUT THE PVC • Smart card-based Voter ID; • Stores voter’s information such as bio-data, biometrics and facial image; • The card technology provides adequate security features to reduce vulnerability to counterfeiting • The PVC shall be used for identification and authentication of voters during elections3.0 WHO IS ELIGIBLE TO COLLECT PVC? A person is eligible to collect PVC if he/she:-…
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L-R: Ekiti State delegates to the National Conference, Dr. Kunle Olajide; Prof. Akin Oyebode; Prof. (Mrs.) Olabisi Aina; Chairman, State Council of Obas, Oba Adamo Babalola; Governor Kayode Fayemi; Deputy Governor, Prof. Modupe Adelabu; Speaker, ESHA, Hon. Adewale Ominrin ; leader of the delegation, Chief Deji Fasuan; and Bishop, Catholic Dioceses of Ekiti, Most Rev. Felix Ajakaye, during courtesy visit by the team to the Governor, in Ado-Ekiti.. Ekiti State Governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi has explained that the All Progressives Congress (APC)-controlled states will be participating in the national conference “out of a sense of nationalistic responsibility”. The Governor who…
The Ekiti State Government has petitioned the State House of Assembly on what it perceived as the manipulation of proceeds of earnings into the Federation Account and calls for a forensic audit of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) account. The State Governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi, while addressing the State’s House of Assembly on the financial situation in the country and its implication on Ekiti State in Ado Ekiti on Monday, stated that the NNPC has continuously failed to fully account and remit proceeds of all oil exports into the Federation Account even as the Federation Account Allocation Committee (FAAC)…
L-R: Chairman, Board of Directors, Senior Citizens Care Foundation, SCCF, Prince Adesumbo Ajibola; Former Attorney General and Minister for Justice, Prince Bola Ajibola, SAN, Excellence Award Recepient/Ekiti State Governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi; and his wife, Erelu Bisi Fayemi, during the Award Ceremony by the SCCF on the Governor, in Ado-Ekiti. Elder statesman and former Justice of the International Court of Justice (ICJ), Prince Bola Ajibola (SAN) has commended Ekiti State Governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi for initiating the Social Security Scheme for the Elderly, saying that the Governor is a perfect replica of late sage, Chief Obafemi Awolowo who was a…
L-R: Commissioner for Integration and Intergovernmental Affairs, Mr. Funminiyi Afuye; Special Adviser to Kwara State Governor on Communication, Hon. Rahim Adedoyin; and Ekiti State Governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi, during the opening session of the 3rd South-West Regional Integration Programme, hosted by Ekiti State, in Ado-Ekiti. The Ekiti State Government has vowed not to relent in its fight to banish poverty and unemployment from the State by giving support to the growth of Small and Medium Scale Enterprises (SMEs) in the State. The State Governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi made the vow in Ado Ekiti at the 3rd South-West Regional Integration programme…
L-R: A Board Member of Ekiti State AIDS Control Agency, Chief Mopelola Akerele; Zonal Coordinator (South-West), Network of People Living With HIV and AIDS in Nigeria, Mr. Sikiru Jinadu; Project Manager, EKSACA, Dr. Charles Doherty; Wife of the Governor, Erelu Bisi Fayemi; and Chairperson, House of Assembly Committee on HIV/AIDS, Hon. Wunmi Ogunlola, during the distribution of empowerment materials to NEPWHAN members, in Ado-Ekiti. Wife of Ekiti State Governor, Erelu Bisi Fayemi, has distributed another set of empowerment materials worth over N5m to 108 People Living With HIV/AIDS in the state. The First Lady, who is also the Chairperson of…
Ekiti State Governor, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, has expressed shock on the massacre of students at Federal Government College, Buni Yadi, Yobe State on Tuesday by suspected terrorists. The Governor in a statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr. Yinka Oyebode, described the mass slaughter of innocent students as ungodly, barbaric, brutal, animalistic and inhuman. Dr. Fayemi regretted the gory treatment meted out to leaders of tomorrow who were killed where they had gone to acquire knowledge they needed to be useful to the society. He urged the authorities concerned to investigate the circumstances surrounding the withdrawal of soldiers from the…
Ekiti State Governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi, addressing a gathering of Commercial Motorcycle (Okada) riders, who paid him a solidarity visit at his Oke Bareke office, Ado-Ekiti. Commercial motorcyclists numbering thousands, on Wednesday, stormed Ekiti State Governor’s Office to declare their support for the re-election of Governor Kayode Fayemi ahead of the June 21gubernatorial election in the State. The motorcyclists, popularly called Okada riders, led by their State Chairman, Mr Adebo Olu-Martins said they are giving support to Fayemi to continue “the good works” because he has transformed the transport sector by providing well-tarred road network across the State and this…
Ekiti State Governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi, has forwarded to President Goodluck Jonathan a list of the state’s nominees to the National Conference. The list was contained in a letter addressed to President Jonathan and dated February 19th, 2014. The Ekiti delegation include: International Law expert, Prof Akin Oyebode; Prof (Mrs) Bisi Aina; Catholic Bishop of Ekiti Diocese, Rev’d Felix Ajakaye ; elder statesman and chairman of defunct Movement for Ekiti State Creation, Chief Oladeji Fasuan ; Secretary, Yoruba Unity Group, Dr Kunle Olajide and Chairman, Ekiti State Council of traditional rulers, HRM, Oba Idowu Adamo Babalola. According to the Governor’s…
Ekiti State Governor, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, on Thursday played host to Executive Management Team of Champion Newspapers Limited (CNL) led by Group Managing Director (GMD), MRS. NWADIUTO IHEAKANWA. On the team also were the Executive Director, Publications/Operations, MR. SAM IBEMERE; General Manager, Publications/Chairman, Editorial Board, MR. SIMON IBE and the State Correspondent, VICTOR OGUNJE. He fielded questions from the team on various issues including governance in the state and other national issues after formally receiving a letter of CNL’s Award of ‘Governor of the Year 2013’. Excerpts: Leadership has been viewed from different prisms. Could you share with us your…
Nigeria’s main opposition party, the All Progressives Congress (APC) has told Nigerians that the party is poised to give the country purposeful leadership come 2015. This was the summary of the first Progressives Governance Lecture organised by the Progressive Governors Forum (PGF). The lecture tagged “unemployment and the crisis of governance in Nigeria: the way forward” held in Ibadan on Monday. Giving the highlights of Policy Recommendations and way forward on the theme, Ekiti State Governor and Chair Governance Steering Committee of the PGF, Dr Kayode Fayemi, said the lecture series was aimed at examining the challenges besetting the country…
L-R: Children of the deceased, Oluwasegun and Mosebola Aderemi; his wife, Rachael; and Ekiti State Governor, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, during the Funeral Service in honour of late former Speaker, Ekiti State House of Assembly and former Acting Governor, Hon. Friday Aderemi, at St. Stephen’s Anglican Church, Ayetoro-Ekiti. The remains of the former acting Governor of Ekiti State, Chief Friday Aderemi were laid to rest in his country home, Ayetoro Ekiti on Saturday amidst eulogies Speaking at the funeral service held at St Stephen’s Anglican Church, Ayetoro, the State Governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi stated that “the historic feat” of the deceased…
CALL FOR SUBMISSION OF MEMORANDA In a bid to meet the yearnings of the good people of Ekiti State on requests and agitation for the creation of additional Local Government Areas in the State in line with Subsection (3) of section 8 of the 1999 Constitution of Federal Republic of Nigeria on the creation of Local Government Areas, His Excellency, the Governor of Ekiti State, Dr. John Kayode Fayemi has approved the constitution of a Committee to handle this all important assignment. 2. TERMS OF REFERENCE. The terms of reference of the Committee are as follows; i. To commence the…
SIR: Ekiti State was carved out of the old Ondo State on October 1, 1996 alongside five others by the military dictatorship of the late General Sani Abacha. Before the creation, it had about twelve local governments under the old Ondo State. Upon creation, it took off with sixteen (16) Local Government Areas and the status quo is still being maintained. Though, lacking in industrial development, the state is reputed to have produced the highest number of professors in Nigeria. Among several renowned academics from the state were Professors Adegoke Olubummo (the 1st Nigerian Professor of Mathematics), Adeyinka Adeyemi (1st…
L-R: Country Director, United Nations Development Programme, (UNDP), Pa Lamin Beyai; Ekiti State Governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi; and Commissioner for Budget, Economic Planning and Service Delivery, Mr. Biodun Oyebanji, during a working visit and Signing of Memorandum of Understanding, (MoU), in Ado-Ekiti. International Development agency, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has signed a memorandum of understanding with Ekiti State for the State to benefit in the 8th country programme between 2014 and 2017. Signing the MoU in Ado Ekiti on Thursday, UNDP Country Director, Dr Pa Lamin Beyai stated that Ekiti was selected to participate in the programme based…
Executive Director (Publications and Operations) Champion Newspapers, Mr Sam Ibemere; Group Managing Director/Editor-in-Chief of the paper, Mrs Nwadinto Ikeakanwa and Ekiti State Governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi, during the presentation of letter of nomination as Champion newspapers’ Governor of the Year to the Governor in Ado-Ekiti. The management of Champion Newspapers has named Ekiti State Governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi as recipient of the newspaper’s Governor of the Year award for 2013. According to the letter of nomination presented to Governor Fayemi at his office in Ado-Ekiti on Wednesday, the management of Champion Newspapers said the award was the organisation’s way of…
Cross-Section of Newly Sworn-In Local Government Caretaker Chairmen, taking their Oath of office, in Ado-Ekiti. Ekiti State government has expressed its determination to conduct local government elections in the state later this year. The State governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi, stated this during the inauguration of caretaker chairmen of the 16 local councils in the state in Ado-Ekiti on Wednesday. Plans by the Fayemi administration to conduct the local government election in 2012 was aborted by a law suit instituted against the State Independent electoral Commission (SIEC) by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Fayemi however told a cheery crowd of supporters…
Ekiti State Deputy Governor, Prof. Modupe Adelabu flanked by the Executive Secretary, National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS), Dr. Femi Thomas (right) and Ekiti State Commissioner for Health, Dr. Olusola Fasuba during a courtesy call by the NHIS Team to the deputy governor at work. A plan to fast-track the implementation of its health programmes and its free health care services to infants, expectant mothers and the aged was yesterday unfolded by the Ekiti State government. It spoke of plan to use the window offered by the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) to fulfill its health obligation to the citizenry. Deputy…
Ekiti State Government has emerged winner of the 2014 Alder Top Social Media Brand in the Social Media Icon Government category. The state was trailed in the category by Lagos State Government and the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), which came second and third respectively. The Alder Social Media Report was put together in 2013 to look at brands that make effective usage of social media in entertainment, Government, Business, Technology, and Culture. According to Leke Alder of Alder Consulting, this is the first report and the main focus is for it to be an African and a global report that will…
I was in the middle of my usual quiet hour of meditative thinking sometime on Sunday when the thought of the forthcoming governorship elections in Osun and Ekiti states overwhelmed me. Instantly, I became visibly worried. I was not worried because the election would be greeted with perils. Not at all! The nightmarish experience of the past, how the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) wavered in the face of daunting challenges, flooded my subconscious. I told myself that for INEC to get it right with the elections, after the Anambra debacle, it must do something extraordinary to regain the confidence…