Ekiti State Governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi; acknowledging cheers from Teachers, during a Teachers’ Sensitization on World Bank Project of the State Educational Programme Investment Project (SEPIP), in Ado-Ekiti. Teachers in Ekiti State under the aegis of the Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT) and Academic Staff Union of Secondary Schools (ASUSS) have predicted the victory of the State Governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi in the coming governorship election in the State. The teachers who in two different letters of appreciation to the Governor thanked him for giving them a new lease of life, adding that Fayemi’s performance in the State is unparallel…
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In the build-up to the 2014 Ekiti State Governorship Election on June 21, the state governor who is seeking reelection for another four-year term, Kayode Fayemi of the All Progressives Congress ( APC), fielded questions from Steve Osuji and Femi Macaulay, The Nation Editorial Board members, on poll-related issues, at his country house in Isan-Ekiti. ON a general note, what are the critical lessons you have learnt since you took up this job? There are lots of lessons. Firstly, I have discovered that every politician comes to terms with the obvious realisation that political timetable does not always synergise with…
All Progressives Congress’ APC, Governorship Candidate, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, being received by Ayebode community, during the JKF Re-Election Campaign rally at Ayebode-Ekiti, in Ikole LGArea. Ekiti State Governor, and the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, has been described as a “tree planted by God that cannot be uprooted in the June 21 governorship election”. This was the position of a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Mr. Ayo Owoseni, who defected to the APC with his followers at a rally addressed by the governor in Ijesa-Isu in Ikole Local Government Area on Thursday. Apart from Owoseni, the Secretary…
Ekiti State Governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi; flanked by his wife, Erelu Bisi Fayemi (left); and deputy Governor, Prof. Modupe Adelabu, addressing a crowd that received his campaign train, in Ikere-Ekiti. An unprecedented crowd of residents and party supporters welcomed Governor Kayode Fayemi to Ikere-Ekiti on Tuesday when the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate’s campaign train hit the town. The Ikere rally was a huge carnival in which indigenes of the town defied the scorching sun and trooped out in their thousands to welcome Fayemi and his entourage amidst singing, dancing, drumming and trumpeting. The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) suffered more…
Ekiti State Governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi has flagged off the construction of Ikere-Ondo State boundary dualization project aimed at ameliorating the plight of commuters who ply the Ado-Akure road. Flagging off construction work on the deplorable road which has been abandoned by the Federal Government on Tuesday, the Governor said the dualization project is in demonstration of the commitment of his administration to nfrastructure development as enshrined in the 8- point agenda. Governor Fayemi who stated that the project is in fulfilment of his promise to the people of Ikere- Ekiti who have yearned for the dualization of the road,…
L-R: Beneficiaries of the Millennium Development Goals’ Village Health Workers Scheme: Ogunmola Yetunde (Oye Local Government); Olaleye Sade (Ikole LG); Wife of Ekiti State Governor, Erelu Bisi Fayemi; and Special Adviser to the Governor on MDG and Development Relations, Mrs. Bunmi Dipo-Salami, during the launch of the scheme, in Ado-Ekiti. Wife of Ekiti State Governor, Erelu Bisi Fayemi, has said that the impactful populist programmes and policies of the Dr. Kayode Fayemi-led administration will aid the re-election bid of the governor in the June 21 governorship election. She was also optimistic that the country would be a better place for…
Ekiti State Governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi, on Monday announced the decision of his administration to commence payment of the 27.5 percent Teachers’ Pecuniary Allowance. The Governor whose administration currently pays 16 per cent of the allowance, based on negotiation with then teachers, announced the readiness of his government to effect full payment while addressing teachers at the sensitization programme on the State Education Programme Investment Project (SEPIP) in Ado Ekiti on Monday. Also, the Governor announced the abolishment of the Teachers Development Need Assessment (TDNA) and its replacement with well structured capacity building programmes and administration of questionnaires to students.…
L-R: Ekiti State Governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi; his wife, Erelu Bisi Fayemi; and National Leader, All Progressives Congress, APC, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu; and his wife, Sen. Oluremi Tinubu, during a Fund Raising Dinner, hosted by “Friends of JKF” in Lagos. Ekiti State Governor, Dr kayode Fayemi and his Osun State counterpart, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, have called on the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to rescind its decision not to use Voters Card Reader machines in the forth coming Ekiti and Osun states governorship elections. The two governors who faulted INEC’s decision to defer the use of card reader machines till…
Wife of the Governor of Ekiti State, Erelu Bisi Fayemi, addressing protesters during a ‘Bring back the Chibok girls’ protest march, in Ado-Ekiti. The Deputy Governor of Ekiti State, Prof. Modupe Adelabu, and Wife of the Governor, Erelu Bisi Fayemi, on Friday, lamented the spate of insecurity and widespread bloodshed causing weeping and mourning daily across the country. They bared their mind during a solemn procession of Ekiti women, led by the First Lady, to protest the abduction of the 234 female students of the Government Girls Secondary School, Chibok, Bornu State, on April 15. Before the protesters hit the…
Ekiti State Governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi, accessing a group of Students with their Computer laptops, during commissioning of the State’s Digital Transformation Programme, in Ado-Ekiti. Ekiti State Government again on Wednesday took another giant step towards transforming the state into a knowledge power house in Africa as the Ekiti State Digital Transformation Programme was commissioned by the state Governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi in Ado- Ekiti, the state capital. The Ekiti State Digital Transformation Programme (EDTP) with a two-prong approach- the Broadband Internet and the Safe City Project -is designed to avail the citizens of the state a fast internet service…