Heavy security cordon has been thrown around Ado-Ekiti, the Ekiti State capital, ahead of the All Progressives Congress (APC) flag off rally Tuesday. Armed security operatives are standing guard on all major roads in the city. Regular policemen lined the…
Osinbajo, Oyegun storm Ekiti Tuesday for Fayemi (ThisDay)
Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo will Tuesday visit Ekiti State to flag off the governorship campaign of the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Dr Kayode Fayemi, for the July 14 election. A statement by the Director of Media and Publicity of the Kayode Fayemi…
Killings : Benue, Taraba, Ekiti, Afenifere, Ohanaeze, others take on DHQ (Vanguard)
Benue, Taraba and Ekiti state governments, yesterday, reacted angrily to claims by Acting Director of Information, Defence Headquarters, Brig Gen. John Agim, that politicians were using thugs as herdsmen to cause attacks on communities across the country. Same reactions from…
Attacks in Ekiti: Protect your land from external invasion—Fayose, Babalola, Olajide (Vanguard)
Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State; founder, Afe Babalola University, Aare Afe Babalola and Secretary General, Yoruba Council of Elders, YCE, Dr. Kunle Olajide, yesterday, proffered ways out of the multiple cases of kidnappings, destruction of farm lands by herdsmen…
Fayose fires 2 Board chairs (SUN)
Governor Ayodele Fayose, of Ekiti State, has sacked two board chairmen of the Ekiti State Teaching Service Commission, Chief Gabriel Falayi and Chairman, Governing Council of the College of Education, Ikere-Ekiti, Prof. Babajide Alo. Their removal takes immediate effect. Consequently…
Fayemi alleges plot by PDP to cause violence across Ekiti (Vanguard)
The Governorship candidate of the All Progressive Congress in the July 14 election in Ekiti State, Dr Kayode Fayemi on Sunday denied the report that Opeyemi Bamidele has been flown abroad for further treatment, describing the story as false and…
ONSA’s N1.2bn: Again, EFCC goes after Fayose’s Lagos, Abuja properties (Punch)
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has approached the Federal High Court in Abuja for a fresh order of interim forfeiture of six Lagos and Abuja properties linked to the Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose. Despite that EFCC’s fresh application …
Bamidele’s shooting won’t derail our focus -Loyalists (Vanguard)
Inspite the shooting of Opeyemi Bamidele, his loyalists have declared that the situation won’t derail their focus from actualizing the victory of the All Progressive Congress in the July 14 governorship election. Bamidele a member of the seventh House of…
Ekiti 2018: Election ‘Fire’ will consume Fayose, says Fayemi (Nation)
The All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship candidate in Ekiti State, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, has declared that Governor Ayo Fayose will not be able to survive the heat of the July 14 election. Fayemi declared that “the coming fire will consume…
Only God saved me, others from death, Reveals Fayemi (ThisDay)
The All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship candidate for the July 14 election in Ekiti State, Dr Kayode Fayemi, on Tuesday relived how he and other top notches of the party escaped death during last Friday’s rally organised in his honour…