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...
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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...
An Ado-Ekiti High Court presided by Justice J.O Adeyeye on Wednesday sentenced one Ojo Ayegbusi to life imprisonment for the rape of a 15-year-old minor. The Director of Public Prosecutions, Mr. Julius Ajibare, in his submissions, said the convict, who faced a lone count charge of rape, perpetrated...
The Police Command in Ekiti has confirmed the killing of a man in the early hours of Tuesday by two gunmen riding on a commercial motorcycle, popularly known as Okada in Ado-Ekiti. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the middle-aged man, whose identity had yet to...
Two young men were mistakenly killed by a bullet from a policeman’s gun in Ekiti State. Witnesses report that the incident occurred around 10 pm on Tuesday in the Omisanjana Area of Ado Ekiti. According to reports, there was an accident in the area, and some irate youths attempted...
The New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) Chairman in Ekiti, Mr Ade Ayeni, has said the state would soon become the gateway for the party in the Southwest. Ayeni said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Tuesday in Ado-Ekiti. He said...
The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Ekiti State Command, has arrested a 27-year old man, Ojo Afolabi, for allegedly defiling a four-year old girl. The suspect, who lives on Olujoda Street, Ado-Ekiti, was arrested after the mother of the girl made a formal complain at the...
An Ekiti High Court sitting in Ado-Ekiti has sentenced three convicts to death by hanging for armed robbery. The defendants, Bidemi Babalola, 28, Oluwaseun Akinwale 26, Sola Oyebanji a.k.a Solademmy, 31, Azeez Jimoh a.k.a. Asela, 31, and Babatunde Ogunlade, 28, were arraigned before Justice Lekan Ogunmoye. The five...
The Police Command in Ekiti has arrested a man who allegedly specialised in stealing phones from worship centres in Ayegbaju-Ekiti and Oye- Ekiti towns. Commissioner of Police, Ekiti command, Akinwale Adeniran, said that the suspect was arrested on Saturday after allegedly carting away seven phones, belonging to different...
Police in Ekiti have started investigating the stabbing to death of a woman by her husband at Ado-Ekiti over charges of infidelity. Police spokesman in the state, DSP Sunday Abutu, confirmed on Sunday at Ado-Ekiti that the murder took place on Saturday. A neighbour told newsmen that the...
The Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ekiti, Mr Paul Omotosho, is dead. According to a family member who pleaded anonymity, Omotosho died in the early hours of Wednesday after a brief illness. The APC chairman the source said attended political meetings even on Monday “He...
The Police Command in Kwara said it had rescued the wife of the late Oba Olusegun Aremu-Cole, the Onikoro of Koro-Ekiti and one other in Ekiti Local Government Area of Kwara. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that suspected gunmen on Feb. invaded the Oba`s palace, killed...