An Ado-Ekiti High Court on Friday sentenced an unemployed man, Olumide Ogunrinde to 12 years in prison for kidnapping. Justice Cornelius Akintayo sentenced the convict after the court had listened to to the arguments and submission of both prosecution and…
Ekiti goes tough on sex offenders (Punch)
Ekiti State Government has said it will henceforth conduct compulsory psychiatrist test on sex offenders in addition to publishing names and photographs of convicts on websites and their home communities. The state Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice, Mr Wale Fapohunda,…
Jubilation in Ekiti as APC wins all 3 senatorial seats (Punch)
Scores of All Progressives Congress’ members and supporters in some parts of Ekiti State on Sunday trooped out in large numbers to celebrate the outcome of Saturday’s elections. The News Agency of Nigeria’s Correspondent who monitored the situation reports that…
Man lynched in Ekiti for eating faeces with bread (Vanguard)
An unidentified man, believed to be in his 30s, was lynched by a mob at Matthew Street, Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti State, for allegedly eating human faeces with bread. The incident, which occurred in the early hours of yesterday, attracted people from…
Fayemi mourns victims of Ekiti truck accident (Nation)
Ekiti State Governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi has consoled with the people of Iworoko and families of the bereaved over Saturday’s accident which led to the demise of about 12 people and four casualties. The fatal accident was caused due to…
APC, FG behind Zamfara killings, Fayose alleges (Guardian)
The former governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose has alleged that the Nigerian government plotted the killings in Zamfara State in a bid to suspend general election from holding in the state in 2019. “I have been reliably informed that…
Insecurity: Ekiti begs military to restore checkpoints (Nation)
The Ekiti state Government has appealed to the military authorities to restore the highway checkpoints recently dismantled in the state. Deputy Governor, Chief Bisi Egbeyemi made the appeal while on a familiarisation visit to officials and members of the Correspondents’…
16-year-old student dies in ‘juju’ superiority contest in Ekiti (Nation)
A secondary school student at the Ado Grammar School, Ado Ekiti, Mathew Favour, died on Thursday following injuries he sustained in a superiority contest with a colleague on the efficacy of their charms. Sources told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN)…
Ekiti orders arrest of Herdsmen carrying weapons (Nation)
The Ekiti State government has ordered the arrest and prosecution of any herdsman caught with guns and other dangerous weapons, promising to visit the full weight of the law on suspects. The Deputy Governor, Otunba Bisi Egbeyemi, disclosed this on…
Robbers attack Ekiti bank in an ambulance, kill four (Nation)
The Police in Ekiti State have said that four persons were killed during a violent robbery attack on a bank in Ijero-Ekiti in Ijero Local Government Area of Ekiti State. A source told the our reporter that the robbers invaded…