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The body of a middle-aged man, simply identified as Femi, has been recovered from a well along the Ado Ekiti-Afao Ekiti Road in the Ekiti State capital. Sources said the deceased left home on Friday and all efforts to locate his whereabouts were futile until his dead body was found in a well allegedly on his plot of land on ...

The Chairman, Trade Union Congress (TUC) in Ekiti State, Sola Adigun, has called for the state government to mobilise experts to save the Ureje Bridge linking Ado Ekiti with the Afe Babalola University and Federal Polytechnic along Ado-Ikare Road from a complete collapse.  Part of the bridge was washed away by the flood last week, and Adigun said the state ...

Ekiti State Deputy Governor Bisi Egbeyemi said on Wednesday that the state Property Protection (Anti-Land Grabbing) Law 2019 was aimed at ending land disputes in Ado Ekiti and other parts of the state. Egbeyemi, who spoke at the palace of the Ewi of Ado Ekiti, Oba Adeyemo Adejugbe, advised quarter chiefs, family heads and landowners to be truthful and carry ...

Ekiti State Commissioner for Natural Resources, Gbenga Agbeyo, said on Monday that the state government had impounded 497 illegal planks and 16 logs of Teak billets allegedly evacuated illegitimately from forests in the state. Agbeyo assured that the perpetrators, who escaped on sighting his vehicles, would be fished out and sanctioned accordingly. The commissioner said that the planks and logs ...

The Ekiti House of Assembly has called on Gov. Kayode Fayemi to urgently provide palliative measures to the deplorable Isinbode-Ekiti and Omuo-Ekiti Road and the abandoned bridge linking Itapaji with Iyemero. The Assembly made the call through its unanimous resolution on Tuesday at its plenary sitting presided by the Speaker, Mr. Funminiyi Afuye in Ado-Ekiti. Mr. Oluwajuwa Adegbuyi, (Ekiti East ...

The controversy surrounding the true ownership of Agamo land in Iludun-Ekiti has been resolved as an Ekiti State High Court, Ido Ekiti Judicial Division, ruled that the land actually belongs to the community and not individuals or groups. Delivering judgment in suit No. HID/8/2017 filed by Rev. David Adeosun and five others on behalf of themselves and their families against ...

The Ekiti State Government has begun work on the construction of Ado-Osun State boundary road valued at N8.9bn. Governor Kayode Fayemi began the construction work on Thursday by formally handing over the first phase, the new Ado – Iyin Road construction project, to the Chinese Civil Engineering Construction Company Nigeria Ltd to commence work on the road which was originally ...

A member of Ekiti State House of Assembly, Dr. Samuel Omotoso, has removed markings of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) from a two-storey commercial building in Ado Ekiti, the Ekiti State capital. The building, marked “Under Investigation, Please keep off” by EFCC, was among property believed to be linked to former Ekiti State Governor, Mr. Ayodele Fayose, that ...

There is an intense argument between the immediate past governor of Ekiti State, Ayo Fayose, and the current governor, Kayode Fayemi, over the state of infrastructural projects across the state. Gov. Kayode Fayemi has decried the poor state of the Ikogosi Warm Spring Resorts, owing to deliberate abandonment of the facility by the immediate past administration. Speaking with journalists after ...

The Governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose, has called for the provision of basic infrastructure in schools. A development that is obligatory for every responsible government. To this end, the state government has distributed desks and chairs for use by students across Primary and Secondary schools in the state. The first phase of the distribution took place at All Souls ...