London, Oct 19, 2019 (AltAfrica)-Ekiti State Governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi, on Friday, laid the foundation for the Ekiti Airport, signalling the commencement of work on the agro -allied cargo airport, aimed at boosting the state’s agricultural, tourism and educational endowment. The ground breaking ceremony was jointly performed by the Governor and the Minister of Aviation, ...

London, Oct. 12, 2019 (AltAfrica)-Ekiti State Government is to open up access to rural villages in the state with the construction and rehabilitation of 1,000 kilometres rural roads and renovation of all public primary schools in the state in the 2020 fiscal year. This is in addition to the rehabilitation of all the 177 primary ...

London, Sep 11, 2019 (AltAfrica)–Ekiti State Governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi, on Tuesday announced that the World Bank would soon embark on some legacy projects across the state worth about 500 million dollars. The Governor stated this in Ado Ekiti, the state capital, while presenting cheques worth N180 million to 19 benefiting communities under the state’s ...

London, August 2, 2019 (AltAfrica)–Ekiti State Government and the World Bank Group have forged an alliance aimed at working together to tackle gender-based violence, rape and female genital mutilation in the State. This was part of the outcome of an interface between the World Bank team and Ekiti State government’s top officials led by the ...

London, August 1, 2019 (AltAfrica)-The First Lady of Ekiti State, Erelu Bisi Fayemi has taken over the responsibility of sheltering, feeding and clothing a 110 year -old woman, Madam Jolaade Osho in Okeruku, area of lkere- Ekiti in Local Government Area of the state. The aged woman was found in a ramshackle building during the ...

London, July 30, 2019 (AltAfrica)-Ekiti State Governor Dr Kayode Fayemi has explained that his promise to employ the first set of medical graduates of the Ekiti State University (EKSU) Medical School was borne out of his desire to encourage the young graduates and other youths that there will always be light at the end of ...

London, July 25, 2019 (AltAfrica)-The Ekiti State Governor, Kayode Fayemi, symbolically stepped down for a seven-year-old boy, Daniel Olutope, from St. Michael’s African Primary School, Ado-Ekiti, to become the governor for a day. According to the Ekiti State Government official website, fate brought Mr Fayemi and the boy together on May 7, when the governor ...

London, July 14, 2019 (AltAfrica)-Ekiti State Governor Kayode Fayemi has said his administration will begin  the return of schools to missions in September as part of  the effort to  improve the quality of education in the state. Fayemi said this  in Ado Ekiti on Friday while hosting the Prelate of the Methodist Church, Nigeria, Dr ...

London, July 3, 2019 (AltAfrica)-Ekiti State Governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi has stated the readiness of the state government to strengthen farmers’ cooperatives in the State so that they could go into cottage industries. The governor who expressed this readiness when the leadership of the State chapter of the All Farmers Association of Nigeria (AFAN) visited ...

London, June 26, 2019 (AltAfrica)– Representatives of security agencies in Nigeria including the Army, Police, State Security Service (SSS), Civil Defence, NDLEA, and NAPTIP as well as officials in charge of security matters across the 36 states will converge on Ado-Ekiti, between Thursday and Friday for the Federal and States Security Administrators Meeting (FSSAM). The ...