A new index has ranked 19 Nigerian states below the benchmark for transparency and accountability in the use of public funds and overall governance. The report...
The Ekiti #EndSARS Panel of Inquiry has recommended payment of over N3.07 million compensation to shop owners in the Odua Textile building, whose goods were looted...
Former Senate spokesperson and the National Chairman of the South West Agenda for 2023, Senator Adedayo Adeyeye, has called on the leaders of the All Progressives...
It was mixed fortunes for Nigerian states, as 18 states out of 36 including federal capital territory recorded negative Internal Generated Revenue (IGR) in 2020. This...
Police operatives in Ekiti State have arrested two men for being in possession of 10 stolen goats in Igbemo-Ekiti, Irepodun/Ifelodun local government area of the state....
About six suspected herdsmen have brutally attacked three female farmers with machetes, in a farmland at Irele-Ekiti, Ikole Local Government Area of Ekiti State. The incident,...
The Ekiti State Police Command on Sunday confirmed the abduction of one Agbanigo Isaac by unknown gunmen in the state. The incident brought to 10 the...
The Ekiti Police Command on Sunday, April 4, in Ekiti confirmed the kidnapping of one Agbanigo Isaac, from his farm, bringing to 10 the number of...
The abducted wife of a former Surveyor-General of Ekiti State, Mrs. Funmilola Osalusi, has regained her freedom. Osalusi, who is a staff of Ado-Ekiti Local Government...
The Federal High Court sitting in Ado-Ekiti on Thursday, March 25, adjourned a suit filed by the Ekiti State governemnt against the Inspector-General of Police (IGP)...
Gunmen on Sunday kidnapped Mrs. Funmilola Osalusi, wife of the late Surveyor-General of Ekiti State, Felix Oladapo Osalusi, in Ado-Ekiti. Osalusi, who is a staff of...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has vowed not to surrender to any attempt aimed at discrediting the electoral process and retuning pre-determined outcomes in the...
The Ekiti State Governor, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, on Saturday directed police in the state to perpetrators of the violence that marred the state’s by-election. At least...
Ekiti State Government and the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) on Thursday agreed that a drug-free certificate should be the condition for intending couples before...
The organised labour in Ekiti State on Saturday gave the state government a May 1 deadline to pay all outstanding workers’ salaries in the state. In...
Herdsmen on Friday killed two farmers in Isaba Ekiti, Ikole local government area of Ekiti State. A resident of the community told journalists on Saturday the...
The Ekiti Government has pledged to pay N7.2 million in compensation to 24 petitioners, Commissioner for Justice, Olawale Fapohunda, has said. Fapohunda made this known during...
An Ado-Ekiti Magistrate Court has ordered that a 23-year-old man, Kolawole Taiwo, be remanded in the Correctional Centre at Aafo, Ado-Ekiti, over attempted murder. The police...
A suspected female kidnapper who attempted to abduct three school children in Ado-Ekiti, the capital of Ekiti State, has been arrested by the police in the...
The Joint Security Team in Ekiti State on Thursday arrested a suspected kidnapper, Mrs. Tawa Kazeem, and rescued three school children. The spokesman of the Ekiti...
The Ekiti State Government on Tuesday said it will soon commence the registration of herdsmen operating in the state. The state government also disclosed that identity...
The Ekiti State Security Network Agency also known as Amotekun Corps on Friday arrested four suspected kidnappers in the state. The Corps Commander, Brig. Gen. Joe...
The Ekiti State government on Sunday night relaxed the curfew imposed on the state. The government had last year imposed a curfew regime of 8:00 p.m....
For dumping refuse on Ekiti roads, ten persons have bagged one month imprisonment each in a mobile court in Ado-Ekiti, the state capital. The magistrate of...
A petroleum products dealer, Alhaji Suleiman Akinbami was on Sunday night abducted by unknown gunmen in Ado Ekiti, the Ekiti State capital. Akinbami was said to...
The Ekiti State government on Sunday imposed a fresh curfew on the state over the spike in COVID-19 cases. The government also banned the gathering of...
The Ekiti State government has cancelled the customary interdenominational service scheduled for Monday (today) due to the outbreak of a second wave of COVID-19. This was...
Unknown gunmen on Friday, abducted two travellers on the Isan-Iludun-Ekiti highway in Oye Local Government Area of Ekiti State. It was learnt that the victims identified...
The Ekiti State government on Wednesday imposed fresh restrictions on worship centres and other public facilities over the spike in confirmed COVID-19 cases in the state....
The Ekiti State Police Command on Friday confirmed the arrest of one person in connection with the abduction of a former Commissioner for Agriculture in the...
The police command in Ekiti State on Friday confirmed the killing of a police officer as gunmen allegedly abducted a Chinese expatriate in Ado Ekiti, the...
The Ekiti State High Court, Ado Ekiti, on Tuesday sentenced two persons, Adekunle Osho and Chinedu Ugwu to death by hanging for armed robbery. In his...
Gunmen on Wednesday night shot dead a young trader, Olanrewaju Oladapo, in Dalimore area of Ado Ekiti, Ekiti State. An eyewitness told journalists the deceased, who...
Ekiti State Governor, Kayode Fayemi, on Saturday lifted the curfew imposed on the state. The governor imposed the curfew last week over the crisis that trailed...
The Ekiti State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has alleged that the state government mismanaged the ‘over N3 billion’ received from the federal government,...
Ekiti State Governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi, has extended the 24-hour curfew that was imposed in the state earlier in the week till October 26 to forestall...
The Ekiti State Police Command on Tuesday banned all forms of protest in the state. The command spokesman, Sunday Abutu, who disclosed this in a statement,...
Unknown gunmen have killed a security guard with the Federal University, Oye Ekiti (FUOYE), Mr. Matthew Malik. Malik, 62, was found dead in his farm on...
Police on Monday arraigned three men at the Ado-Ekiti Chief Magistrates’ Court for allegedly exhuming corpses at a cemetery in the state. The defendants —Kola Fatoye,...
Gunmen on Saturday killed a pastor identified as Kayode Ogunleye in Ekiti State. Family sources told journalists on Sunday that Ogunleye, who was a pastor with...
A community in Ekiti State, Oke-Ako, has sent a strong message to the state governor, Kayode Fayemi over a collapsed bridge that has cut the community...
Daredevil armed robbers on Friday attacked a commercial bank in Iyin Ekiti, the Irepodun/ Ifelodun local government area of Ekiti State. Eyewitnesses told journalists the robbers...
The Ekiti State Police Command on Thursday raised the alarm over alleged plans by some bandits to invade the state and wreak havoc on innocent people....
Ballooning debt portfolio, a penchant for committing funds to expenditures that are not capable of delivering utilitarian value and absence of a shrewd fiscal planning have...
The Ekiti State police command has placed a N5 million bounty on a suspected criminal, Samuel Oguntoyinbo, who has been declared wanted for alleged bank robberies...
Gunmen on Tuesday killed one person and abducted two others at Ijan Ekiti, Gbonyin local government area of Ekiti State. One of the abducted persons is...
The Ekiti State government said on Thursday the recruitment of qualified applicants into the Special Public Works programme would begin on Monday. The Federal Government planned...
The Ekiti State High Court sitting in Ado Ekiti on Monday sentenced a 26-year-old man, Dele Ojo, to death by hanging for killing a farmer. Justice...
Justice Adekunle Adeleye of the Ekiti State High Court on Thursday sentenced a 25-year-old herdsman, Muhammadu Haruna, to death by hanging for matcheting his colleague to...
The organised labour in Ekiti State on Saturday gave the state governor, Kayode Fayemi, a 14-day notice to pay all outstanding workers’ salaries or face indefinite...
