L-R: Acting Chief Medical Director, Ekiti State University Teaching Hospital, Ado-Ekiti, Dr. Kolawole Ogundipe; Wife of the State Governor, Erelu Bisi Fayemi; and mother of a newborn set of triplets, Mrs. Bose Omole, during the governor’s wife’s visit to the stranded nursing mother where the First Lady promised to rehabilitate her, Wife of Ekiti State Governor, Erelu Bisi Fayemi, has assured a stranded mother of a newborn set of triplets, Mrs. Abosede Omole, of her preparedness to rehabilitate her. Beyond settling the hapless woman’s accumulated medical bill, the governor’s said she would set her up in a business of her…
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Ekiti State Deputy Governor, Prof Modupe Adelabu flanked on the left by Assistant Inspector-General (AIG) of Police, Zone 8, Mr. Christopher Dega and Deputy Commissioner of Police, Ekiti State Command, Mr. Victor Ojo during a courtesy call by the police chief on the deputy at work in Ado-Ekiti. The Ekiti State Government has renewed its readiness to effectively collaborate with the police and other security agencies in the state to ensure a peaceful electioneering campaign and a hitch-free governorship election scheduled for June 21. Governor Kayode Fayemi gave the assurance when Mr. Christopher Dega, the Assistant Inspector-General (AIG) of Police…
L-R: Elderly citizen/Social Security beneficiary, Pa Dauda Olawunmi; Ekiti State Governor, Dr Kayode Feyemi; his wife Erelu Bisi Fayemi; and Deputy Governor, Prof. Modupe Adelabu, during the 49th Anniversary celebration of the Governor, Ifaki-Ekiti. Ekiti State Governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi on Sunday marked his 49th birthday with some elderly citizens in three local government areas of the State, restating the commitment of his administration to giving succour to the vulnerable members of the society. The Governor who spent the entire Sunday afternoon with the elderly citizens, including a 103 years old woman, had some interaction with them and members of…
Ekiti State Deputy Governor, Prof. Modupe Adelabu flanked on the right by Commissioner for Education, Science & Technology, Mr Kehinde Ojo and Chairman of Agency for Adult and Non-Formal Education(AANFE), Chief David Adeyanju, at Ola-Oluwa Grammar School, Ilawe Road, Ado-Ekiti. The distribution of scratch cards for the procurement of the Joint Admission Matriculation Board (JAMB) forms by Ekiti State government brightened hope for some 2,500 students with academic requirement for admission into higher institutions. Beneficiaries are out-of-school youths and repeaters who were registered by the Agency for Adult and Non-formal Education (AANFE) – an agency of the Ministry of Education,…
Protocol was broken for a few minutes at the recently concluded Nigeria Media Merit Award (NMMA) that took place at the redeveloped Ikogosi Warm Springs Resort, Ikogosi-Ekiti when the organisers announced a special presentation to Ekiti State Governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi. To the curious crowd of journalists, media executives, businessmen and government officials at the resort’s main auditorium, venue of the award ceremony, the question was what could be the special presentation other than the traditional award usually reserved for the host governor. The special presentation turned out to be an enlarged version of a cartoon published earlier in the…
L-R: Ekiti State Governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi; Vice Chancellor, Federal University, Oye-Ekiti (FUOYE), Prof. Isaac Asuzu; and University Liberian, Mr. Michael Afolabi, during the 3rd Matriculation Ceremonies of the Institution, in Oye-Ekiti. Ekiti State Government on Friday made a donation of N20 million to the Federal University, Oye- Ekiti (FUOYE) to assist the institution in its various infrastructural projects. The State Governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi, who announced the donation at the university campus in Oye-Ekiti during the third matriculation programme of the institution, said the state government is committed to the well being of the varsity which has many Ekiti…
L-R: Commissioner II, Ekiti State Civil Service Commission, Mrs. Kemisola Olaleye; State Women Leader of the All Progressives Congress, Chief Funke Owoseni; and Wife of the Governor, Erelu Bisi Fayemi, shortly after the governor’s wife registered as a member of the All Progressives Congress at Unit 409, Ilafon Ward, Isan-Ekiti. Wife of Ekiti State Governor, Erelu Bisi Fayemi, has urged members of other political parties to have a rethink and team up with the All Progressives Congress to take the country to the promise land. As a starter, she wants members of the opposition parties to take advantage of the…
How did you score yourself in terms of fulfilling your promises to the Ekiti people in the face of what we have been reading from the opposition that you have performed poorly, claiming that you are having crises with teachers, local government workers, civil servants, etc? Let me start by commiserating with the EkitiState Broadcasting Service on the loss of its chairman, Mr. Sesan Ogunro, who incidentally is very close personal friend, who was lost to the dastardly acts of the men of the underworld. In his short time here as the chairman, he was able to register what it…
In continuation of the tradition of participatory governance, Governor Kayode Fayemi will be having a no holds barred session with key social media actors (bloggers, activsits, factivists and influencers) from the 6th through 9th February 2014 at the Ikogosi Warm Springs Resort, Ikogosi-Ekiti, Ekiti State, Nigeria. This foremost, open and frank interactive discussion forum will look at the advancements, scorecard, challenges and shortcomings of the government under Kayode Fayemi over the past forty months. The forum offers a rare opportunity for Governor Fayemi to interface with the blogosphere and vice-versa. The session will feature over 100 participants both physically and…
The Oloye of Oye-Ekiti, Oba Michael Ademolaju, has lamented that the inability of the Federal Government to compensate the agrarian town for the farming land acquired for the Federal University of Oye project has brought poverty and hunger to the land. Despite alleged entreaties to the federal authorities to compensate farmers whose cash crops were destroyed when the land was acquired, he said they had not been forthcoming. The monarch bared his mind while welcoming the Wife of the Governor, Erelu Bisi Fayemi, to Oye-Ekiti for the ground-breaking and inspection of project site for the construction of modern neighbourhood market…