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…
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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…