Ekiti State Governor, Dr. Kayode Fayemi (left) receiving an Award of Good Governance from the President, Nigerian-American Chamber for Commerce and Industry, Mazi Sam Ohuabunwa, during the chamber’s Induction/Members’ Award night dinner, in Lagos.. In recognition of the all-round rapid socio-economic development of Ekiti State, the Nigeria-American Chamber of Commerce (NACC) on Wednesday, conferred on Ekiti State Governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi the award of Good Governance. Others who also got awards are Governors Ibikunle Amosun (Ogun), Segun Mimiko (Ondo), Isa Yuguda (Bauchi), Minister of Works, Mr Mike Onolememen, his Transport Ministry counterpart, Idris Umar, and Chief Executives of 11 corporate…
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The Imperative of Broadband in Nigeria’s Remotest Villages Speech delivered by: Mr. Kayode Jegede, Special Adviser, Infrastructure and Public Utilities, Ekiti State At the NCC Stakeholders’ Forum, Lagos. On Dec. 17, 2013 Protocols Greetings. I bring greetings from Governor Kayode Fayemi, who would have loved to be here but had other engagements that had been fixed before getting notice for this event. Introduction of Ekiti State For the benefit of those that have not had the opportunity of visiting or learning about Ekiti State, let me begin an introduction. It is the most ethnically homogenous state in Nigeria. Every town…
Ado Ekiti at Night The urban renewal efforts of Governor Kayode Fayemi-led administration in Ekiti State have peaked faster than many thought possible just two years ago. Sulaiman Salaw-udeen examines the effects on the residents The view across Ado-Ekiti, capital of Ekiti state and other towns in the state, far beyond being genial, is lately even inviting. Structures belonging to banks and other corporate outfits which verge major roads and streets now impress a stamp of newness and health on a capital which might finally have caught up with modernity earlier than imaginable only two years previously. Passing through the…
Although they represent different political districts in the state, they are united by one goal: to bring development and prosperity to Ekiti State. And they are not doing this in half measures. In an era where politicians, irrespective of clime or political affiliation, seek to undergo individual projects with the ultimate aim of getting accolades and recognition not shared, three lawmakers have towed a path that appears to be the first as far as politicking is concerned in the country. In 2012, three senators representing the state, Olubunmi Adetunmbi (Ekiti North), Anthony Adeniyi (Ekiti South) and Babafemi Ojudu (Ekiti Central),…
L-R: Adelabu, Erelu Fayemi and Osundare at the event US-based poet laureate, Prof. Niyi Osundare, entertained his people at the Ekiti State Festival of Culture and Arts Expo, AKEEM LASISI writes Unlike the proverbial Biblical prophet that is appreciated only in distant lands, renowned poet, Prof. Niyi Osundare, was honoured in his own land on Thursday. The New Orleans, US-based scholar and king of similes and metaphors was the star act at an ‘Evening of Poetry’ held at the Ikogosi Warm Springs and Resort, Ado Ekiti. The large audience that listened to him read and perform several poems from his…
An Ado-Ekiti High Court, on Monday awarded the sum of N2 billion as damages against the Western Publishing Company Limited, publishers of Compass Newspapers in a libel suit instituted by Ekiti State Governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi. Aside the N2 billion damages, the newspaper house was also ordered by the court to publish a retraction and apology to Governor Fayemi in three national dailies and on the Internet. The judgment was in regard of a malicious publication published by the Compass Newspaper in its Saturday, August 25th, 2012 issue, where it alleged that the Governor was deducting N1 billion illegally from…
Ekiti State Governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi; fielding questions, during an interactive session between the Governor and Local Government Employees, in Moba LG Secretariat. Ekiti State Governor, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, has assured local government workers in the state of security of their jobs. The Governor who gave the assurance on Friday during interactive sessions with council workers in five local government areas, also revealed that their leave bonuses have been paid to their respective councils. He also told the workers that his administration gives the local councils what is due to them from the Federation Account and had never tampered with their allocations from…
L-R: Ekiti State Governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi; Ewi of Ado-Ekiti, Oba Rufus Adejugbe; his wife, Eyeosrun Abosede; newly installed chief/wife of Ekiti State Governor, Bisi Fayemi; and Deputy Governor, Prof. Modupe Adelabu, during the conferment of chieftaincy title of Eye Ajiseye of Ado-Ekiti on Erelu Bisi Fayemi, in Ado-Ekiti. The Governor of Ekiti State, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, has commended his wife, Erelu Bisi Fayemi , for her untiring struggle for gender equality, women empowerment and protection of child rights and social justice across the globe. The governor gave the commendation during the conferment of the chieftaincy title of Eye Ajiseye…
It began as a rumour; then developed into what looked like a game-like gambit; and then the importunacy became truly worrisome. What is going on? What could have gone wrong? Why this? Why now? So many other questions troubled the mind, my mind. Why is it that at every point when the Yoruba people, my people, seem to set foot on the path of political progress and economic emancipation something, the devil, always jumps out to negate the dream; someone, somewhere, throws a spanner in the works? I am a big brother, or egbon, to the two combatants; Opeyemi Bamidele…
CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION, ADO-EKITI: INTERVIEW OF SUCCESSFUL CANDIDATES IN THE RECRUITMENT EXAMINATION HELD ON 7TH SEPTEMBER, 2013. THIS IS TO INFORM ALL SHORTLISTED APPLICANTS WHO WERE SUCCESSFUL IN THE RECRUITMENT EXAMINATION HELD ON 7TH SEPTEMBER , 2013 THAT THEY ARE TO APPEAR FOR INTERVIEW AT THE CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION, ADO-EKITI ON THE DATES INDICATED AGAINST THEIR CADRES/POSTS. 2. THE INTERVIEW WILL COMMENCE AT 9:30 A.M. EACH DAY AT THE PLENARY ROOM OF THE CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION, ADO-EKITI. ALL CANDIDATES ARE THEREFORE REQUESTED TO BE FORMALLY DRESSED AND COME ALONG WITH THE ORIGINAL COPIES OF ALL THEIR CREDENTIALS. 3. MEANWHILE,…
Ekiti State Governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi (left), presenting a gift and his recently authored book, “Regaining The Legacy” to the Deputy British High Commissioner to Nigeria, Mr. Peter Carter, during a working visit to the State, in Ado-Ekiti. The British government has assured that it would give support to Ekiti State to enhance the rapid economic development of the State as well as improve the living standard of the people. The British Deputy High Commissioner to Nigeria, Mr Peter Carter gave the assurance during a courtesy call on the State Governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi in Ado Ekiti on Tuesday, saying…
Ekiti State Governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi; acknowledging cheers from workers, after an interactive session with Local Government Employees, in Gboyin LG Secretariat, Ekiti State Governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi, has assured local government workers in the state that the arrears of the minimum wage of N19,300 which the State currently pays its workforce will be cleared this month. Speaking during an interactive session with council workers in Gbonyin, Oye, Ikole, Emure and Ekiti East Local Government Councils on Wednesday, and their colleagues in Ekiti West, Efon and Ijero Ekiti Local Government areas on Thursday, the Governor stated that machinery has been…
Let me begin with Chinweizu, the non-conformist pan- African intellectual who wrote The West and the Rest of Us, a lucid, penetrating and fierce critique of the imperial conquest and enslavement of Africa. In October 1990, Chinweizu published Anatomy of Female Power,a book he described as amasculinist dissection of matriarchy. Echoing Esther Vilar’s The Manipulated Man, he argues with passion and wit in this book that men may rule the world, but women rule the men who rule the world. According to him: ‘’There are five conditions which enable women to get what they want from men: women’s control of…
The Governor of Ekiti State, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, has admonished Ekiti men that the signing of the Equal Opportunities Bill into Law does not translate to equal responsibility between men and women. He said this just as his Wife, Erelu Bisi Fayemi, warned that the country’s development will continue to be retarded and its security under perennial threat except the vulnerable members of the society were adequately catered for. They spoke after the governor signed the Equal Opportunities Bill (EOB) initiated by his wife into Law in Ado-Ekiti, the state capital, on Tuesday. The governor’s wife and the Commissioner for…
L-R: Ekiti State Governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi; Ewi of Ado-Ekiti, Oba Rufus Adejugbe; Chairman, Sawmillers Association of Nigeria, Ekiti State Chapter, Mr. John Okunrojifa; and Commissioner for Environment, Dr. (Mrs.) Eniola Ajayi, during a donation of buses to the Association, shortly after a programme on the Inception Review of Forestry Law/Governance, in Ado-Ekiti. Ekiti State Government has received the support of the European Union/Food and Agricultural Organisation to the tune of $57,661 for the review of Forestry Law and Governance. The State Governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi made this known in Ado Ekiti at the inception programme on the Review of…
Ekiti State Deputy Governor, Prof Modupe Adelabu (middle), beaming with smile while Wife of the Governor, Erelu Bisi Fayemi (right) and the Director General, Centre for Black African Arts & Culture (CBAC), Lagos, Prof. Tunde Babawale exchange pleasantries at the Colloquium organised to celebrate EKIFEST 2013 at Adetiloye Hall, Trade Fair Complex, Ado-Ekiti. The adoption of mother tongue as the mode of communication and the use of traditional attire by children in Yoruba land took the centre stage at a colloquium Deputy Chairman Professor Modupe Adelabu, who chaired the event urged parents to encourage their children to always use their…
Ekiti State Governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi (Right), presenting the 2014 Appropriation Budget to the Speaker, Ekiti State House of Assembly, Dr. Adewale Omirin, in Ado-Ekiti. Ekiti State Governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi on Tuesday presented a budget proposal of N103.882 billion for the 2014 financial year, with water supply gulping the lion share. The budget which is christened “Budget of Stability and Growth” is to be sourced from statutory allocation, VAT, Excess crude proceed, Internally Generated Revenue, External Grants, MDGs Conditional Grant scheme, reimbursement on federal roads, ecological fund, bond, FAAC augmentation and transfer from prior fiscal year. Presenting the appropriation…
BUDGET OF STABILITY AND GROWTH FY 2014 Budget Speech by His Excellency Dr. Kayode FAYEMI Governor, Ekiti State, Nigeria on the occasion of the Presentation of the FY 2014 Budget Proposal to the Ekiti State House of Assembly Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti State Tuesday, December 10, 2013 Protocols It is with great pleasure and pride that I welcome you all to the presentation of the Budget Proposal for the Financial Year 2014. First and foremost, permit me to thank God Almighty who has made it possible for me to be here in person to deliver the last budget speech…
The most memorable moments of life’s varied encounters sometimes come without a force or fanfare. But as events unfold years later, we come to recognise their landmark nature and what truly defined them. Such was my first chanced meeting with the former governor of Lagos State, the icon of democracy, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu in 1993. It remains an unforgettable scenario which was replicated later with the current, highly resourceful governor of Ekiti State, Dr. John Kayode Fayemi. One can still vividly recall that I was just settling down at The Guardian Newspaper. It was during one of the most…
L-R: Ekiti State Deputy Governor, Prof. Modupe Adelabu; Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Mr. Olawale Fapohunda; Governor Kayode Fayemi; Ruman Rights Lawyer, Mr. Femi Falan, SAN; and Secretary to the State Government, Alhaji (Dr) Ganiyu Owolabi, during the Presentation of Legal Advisory on the Creation of Local Council Development Areas (LCDAs) in Ekiti State. Ekiti State Government on Monday began the process for the creation of Local Council Development Authorities (LCDA) in the state with the submission of a legal document by the Justice Ministry to Governor Kayode Fayemi, detailing the various steps to be taken in actualising it…