By Rotimi Ojomoyela Ado-Ekiti-As part of measures to check the incessant cases of rape, the governor of Ekiti State, Dr. Kayode Fayemi has directed the office of the State Attorney General (AG) and Commissioner for Justice to always oppose bail application and plea bargaining for rape offenders. In recent time, there have been rampant cases […]

By Rotimi Ojomoyela – Ado-Ekiti Ekiti State Government, on Thursday, formally expanded its isolation centre to 150 bed space, following the delivery of 100 hospital beds and other medical equipment from the Nigeria Private Sector Coalition Against Covid-19 (CACOVID) in support of the fight against Coronavirus in the State. The expansion, according to Governor Kayode […]

Professor Ladipo Adamolekun Leadership in Turbulent Times (2018) by Doris Goodwin is a study of leadership crafted around the presidencies of Abraham Lincoln (1861-1865), Theodore Roosevelt (1901-1909), Franklin Roosevelt (1933-1945) and Lyndon Johnson (1963-1969). Goodwin selects one particular incident during each president’s tenure as a case study in leadership and fleshes out four different leadership […]

By Rotimi Ojomoyela – Ado-Ekiti To avert the community spread of the dreadful COVID-19 pandemic, the Ekiti State government would next week begin random testing for residents across the state. The government also restated its commitment not to allow security agencies enforcing the lockdown to infringe on the rights of the suspected offenders in the […]

Ado-Ekiti—Ekiti State Governor, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, has said the state’s Covid-19 testing centre, would commence operation before the end of the week.

GOVERNOR Rotimi Akeredolu of Ondo State and his Ekiti State counterpart, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, yesterday, vowed to prosecute any individual or organization found disobeying the social distancing order and face mask use to contain the spread of COVID-19 in their states.

The Ekiti Government on Wednesday said it would prosecute a positive case of COVID-19 who defied the interstate travel ban to enter the state from Katsina State. The woman, who came from Katsina to visit her husband working in the state, was discovered to have contracted COVID-19. The discovery was made after her husband, a […]

The Ekiti State Governor, Kayode Fayemi, on Friday attributed the delay in the implementation of the new minimum wage for senior civil servants in the state to the spread of the COVID-19 to the state. The governor disclosed this in an address to commemorate the 2020 International Workers’ Day celebration in Ado Ekiti. He said […]

Ado-Ekiti—In the bid to strengthen the mechanism for combating the deadly coronavirus in Ekiti State, the state governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi has unveiled Ekiti State Covid-19 Response Hub, a Geographic Information System- based application that would help to curtail the spread of the dreaded disease.

Gov. Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti on Saturday said there may be another extension of the current lockdown following the discovery of a new case of COVID-19 in the state. Fayemi, at a media briefing in Ado Ekiti, confirmed the new case earlier announced by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC). The governor said the […]