Ekiti State Governor, Biodun Oyebanji has assured residents, whose properties were destroyed by rainstorm, that the government would not abandon them to suffer at this trying time. The News Agency of Nigeria(NAN) reports that, Oyebanji gave the assurance on Monday, when he inspected over 100 buildings affected by rainstorm...
Ekiti State
An Ekiti High Court in Ado Ekiti, on Monday, sentenced one Gabriel Emmanuel to life imprisonment for kidnapping. The 25-year-old convict was arraigned before Justice Adekunle Adeleye on March 8, 2023, on three count charge of murder, kidnapping and demanding property with menace with intent to steal. In his...
Operatives of the Amotekun Security Network, Efon-Alaaye Command, have handed over 43-year-old Mrs Damilola Clement to the police for allegedly hitting her 9-year-old son on the head with a pestle. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that details of the incident were contained in a statement signed by...
The Ekiti High Court sitting in Ado-Ekiti, on Monday, sentenced one Prophet Adeleye Akingbaso, 47, to life imprisonment for raping a 13-year-old girl. Akingbaso was first arraigned in September, 2022 before Justice Blessing Ajileye on a two-count charge of rape and coercion. Delivering her judgment, Justice Ajileye said, “in...
An Ekiti High Court sitting in Ado Ekiti on Tuesday, sentenced two teachers to 44 years imprisonment for offence of rape without an option of fine. The Prosecution, Mr Kunle-Shina Adeyemi told the court that the defendants, Gbenga Ajibola (43) and Olaofe Ayodele (52) were arraigned before Justice Adeniyi...
Ekiti State Government has denied the establishment of a Sharia Court or an Independent Sharia Arbitration Panel in the State. In a statement made available to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Ado-Ekiti on Thursday, the State Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice, Mr Dayo Apata SAN, also said...
The police on Thursday arraigned a 42-year old man, Ogundare Anuoluwapo in Ado-Ekiti for sexually harassing his neighbour’s wife. Anuoluwapo, whose address was not provided, was charged with sexual harassment before an Ado-Ekiti Chief Magistrates’ Court. He, however, pleaded not guilty to the change. The prosecutor, Sgt. Alice Ojo,...
A Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship aspirant in Ekiti, Dr Peter Obafemi, has described Gov. Abiodun Oyebanji’s flyover initiative as a misplaced priority. In a statement after a stakeholders meeting of Ekiti indigenes in Lagos on Sunday, Obafemi said that development initiatives in the state should not lack purpose....
Politician and former governor of Anambra State, Peter Obi has offered to fulfil the bail conditions for the release of human rights lawyer, Dele Farotimi. Farotimi was granted bail by an Ekiti Magistrate Court in a defamation case involving Afe Babalola. The bail conditions require a N30 million bond,...
Human rights lawyer, Dele Farotimi has been granted ₦30 million bail by a Magistrate court in Ekiti State. The court also asked Farotimi to provide 3 sureties with a landed property within the jurisdiction. He was told to refrain from media interview and to submit his international passport. The...
Chief Afe Babalola (SAN) has described the Federal Government’s approval of an agro-allied cargo airport in Ekiti as the best thing to happen to the state in the outgoing year 2024. It would be recalled that the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) recently granted license to the Ekiti state...
Ahead of Tuesday’s hearing of the defamation charge against Dele Farotimi, the Lagos-based legal practitioner has filed a preliminary objection asking the Ado Ekiti Magistrate Court to strike out the suit. The preliminary objection dated December 9, 2024, was filed through his lawyer, Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Adeyinka Olumide-Fusika,...
A Federal High Court sitting in Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti State, has granted bail to rights activist and legal practitioner, Dele Farotimi. Farotimi was granted bail on Monday morning. The court granted him bail for ₦50m with a surety in the same amount. The surety must also provide a landed property...
Ekiti State Police Command is investigating the circumstances that led to the drowning of four young men at a shallow river after attending an event in Okemesi-Ekiti, headquarters of Okemesi-Ido-Ile LCDA. The Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) of the command , DSP Sunday Abutu, said on Monday in Ado-Ekiti...
An Ekiti State High Court in Ado-Ekiti has sentenced a 71-year old man, Sule Adeola, to life imprisonment for raping a minor. The convict was arraigned before Justice Blessing Ajileye on June 22, 2023, on a charge of raping his friend’s grand-daughter. In her judgment, Ajileye said, it was...
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has destroyed over 100,000kg of cannabis spread across 51 hectares of farm land in Ekiti. This is contained in a statement by the Director, Media and Advocacy NDLEA, Mr Femi Babafemi on Sunday in Abuja. Babafemi said that NDLEA operatives supported by...
Wema Bank has said it would train and empower 100,000 youths and Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) in Ekiti. The bank’s Executive Director of Retail and Digital Business, Tunde Mabawonku, in a statement on Thursday, in Ado-Ekiti, said the training would be in partnership with Ekiti...
The Police Command in Ekiti has banned any unlawful gathering in the state following reports of plan by a cult group to celebrate its anniversary on July 7. This is contained in a statement by the Commissioner of Police, Mr Akinwale Adeniran, made available to newsmen on Saturday...
The Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) has suspended the planned power outage on Osogbo/Akure and Ado-Ekiti 132KV lines. The outage was earlier scheduled for two months according to the Benin Electricity Plc (BEDC) Evelyn Gbiwen, Head, Branding and Corporate Communications, BEDC, who said this in a statement on...
Ekiti State Police Command has arrested 21 suspects in connection with the recent killings and other crimes in the state. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that four persons including a commercial motorcycle ticket agent were recently killed by gunmen at different locations in Ado-Ekiti metropolis. The command’s...