Tag: Ekiti
On lockdown: Governor Amaechi stranded at Akure airport
by Isi Esene Governor Rotimi Amaechi was on Friday stranded at the Akure Airport after attending the burial of the ...
Akintunde Oyebode: A weekend at Ikogosi (Y! FrontPage)
As Maya Angelou said, “a bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.” ...
How Osun deputy governor disguised to pray with Ekiti’s Funmi Olayinka few hours before her death
Reports say the Osun state deputy governor, Grace Titi Laoye-Tomori visited and prayed with the late Ekiti state deputy governor, ...
Young and emerging leaders have dinner with Gov. Fayemi at The Future Awards Symposium (PHOTOS)
Participants visit the Ekiti State House for a dinner withy the governor, Kayode Fayemi.
Abubakar Usman: Governor Amaechi and his false impression of a revolution
by Abubakar Usman If we are pushed to the wall, we shall revolt and that revolution shall consume them all. ...
Michael Orodare: #TFASymposium – Time for change is now (Y! Politico)
by Michael Orodare To prove that we are not cowards like Governor Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers state has described us, ...
SEE Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Ebuka Obi-Uchendu, Cheta Nwanze, Gbenga Sesan, more at The Future Awards Symposium (PHOTOS)
What: The Future Awards Symposium. Where: Ikogosi Warm Springs Resort, Ekiti. When: April 7, 2013. Photos by Hycinth Iyereosa
Ife Adebayo: Nigeria – 2015 and youth participation (Y! Politico)
by Ife Adebayo Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who ...
Japheth Omojuwa: #TFASymposium thoughts – Our common debt and Nigeria (Y! FrontPage)
I believe without an iota of doubt that the young people present at The Future Awards Symposium are enough to ...
Photo of the Day: Are all Nigerian businessmen corrupt? Govs. Amaechi and Fayemi answer Tonye Cole
by Isi Esene No, the question wasn’t, “Who wants Ice-cream.” This photo shows what happened at The Future Awards Symposium ...
Opinion: What I could not tell the Minister at the The Future Awards Symposium in Ekiti
by Kingsley Iweka “By 2030, boys will become men, ideas will become industries; yet seeds not sown will not yield ...
“Wrong information sounds more sexy” – Ngozi Okonjo-Iwela speaks at The Future Awards Symposium
by Isi Esene The second day of the Future Awards Symposium which took place on April 7 at the Ikogosi ...
You are all cowards, me too – and more, in today’s news roundup with Cheta Nwanze
by Cheta Nwanze Rewriting the history books is what #DSPAlams is doing now, and getting people to believe his side ...
Forget it! “Nigerians are not ready for a revolution” – Rotimi Amaechi
by Isi Esene The Rivers State governor, Rotimi Amaechi has expressed his doubts that a bloody revolution can happen in ...
“Kayode, where is Funmi… your deputy?” – Olayinka’s mother asks Fayemi
by Isi Esene The governor of Ekiti state, Dr. Kayode Fayemi could not control his emotions yesterday when he and ...
Ekiti deputy governor, Funmilayo Olayinka dies of cancer at 52
There are reports that the Ekiti state deputy governor, Funmilayo Olayinka has died in a Lagos medical facility. Olayinka who ...
Michael Orodare: Between Alamieyeseigha and NANS president (Y! Politico)
by Michael Orodare It’s so unfortunate that NANS today has degenerated to a state where its annual convention can pass ...
Just terrible: Policemen tied my son’s hands to his back, tortured, and shot him dead – Grieving mother
From when he cried into the world about 28 years ago, till he took his final breath just two weeks ...
N2.02 billion: Ekiti awards contract for 2nd phase of new governor’s office
The Ekiti State Government has awarded the construction of the second phase of the new Governor’s Office for N2.02bn. The ...
Opinion: The progress in West Africa is visible, but uneven
From The Economist The day that Nigeria works properly, the battle for Africa’s future will have been won. Leaving the ...
N5 million largesse: “He has no right…” – Church members threaten to sue bishop
by Isi Esene Some members of the St. Paul Millennium Church, Odo Owa Ekiti, yesterday threatened to sue Bishop of ...
Cold: Ekiti hospital detains woman and her twins for 45 days over N100,000
An indigent mother of a newly born set of twins, Mrs. Toyin Adebayo, was detained by the management of a ...
Michael Orodare: Why Fayemi will surely lose an Ekiti re-election (Y! Politico)
by Michael Orodare Fayemi has failed the teachers, the entire state workforce, the students and even the artisans, so who ...
Justice: Man sentenced to death by hanging for raping and killing grandma
A High Court in Ekiti State has condemned a 27-year-old man to death by hanging for raping and killing a ...
Tunde Fagbenle: Setting the record straight on Ekiti
by Tunde Fagbenle Last week’s column on my visit to Ekiti State and the good job Governor Kayode Fayemi is ...
Tunde Fagbenle: Something is happening in Ekiti – for real!
by Tunde Fagbenle I think what stands Fayemi in good stead are his frugality, integrity, intellectual base, and his vast ...
15 polytechnic students arrested for armed robbery
by Akan Ido The Ekiti State police command have announced the arrest of 15 students of a polytechnic in Kwara ...
My husband is coming back as governor in 2014 – Fayose’s wife
Wife of a former governor of Ekiti State, Mrs. Feyisetan Fayose, on Monday predicted that her husband, Ayo, would return ...
Police arrest couple for dumping day-old-baby in the bush
by Isi Esene A couple in Ekiti State, Dada Ojo, and his wife, Adejoke, were on Friday arrested for allegedly ...
Dirty old man: 85-year-old grandpa arrested for raping 12-year-old says, ‘she seduced me’
An 85-year old man, Pa Samuel Oladipupo, was nabbed by the men of Ekiti State Police Command for allegedly defiling ...
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