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 ...

London, June 25, 2019(AltAfrica)-The Ekiti State Multiple Birth Trust Fund, which provides support for families with multiple births has been revitalized after a four- year break, with the disbursement of products to 104 families by the First Lady, Erelu Bisi Fayemi. Erelu Fayemi who made the first tranche of the disbursement in Ado-Ekiti on Monday, ...

London, June 23, 2019 (AltAfrica)– The 32 Artillery Brigade, Nigeria Army (NA) Owena Barracks, Akure, has deployed the use of technology to fight the scourges of kidnapping and banditry within the Ondo and Ekiti States axis. The Commander of the 32 Artillery Brigade, Brig. General Zakari Logun Abubakar, disclosed this on Saturday during the launch ...

London, June 19, 2019 (AltAfrica)-Ekiti State Governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi, has canvassed the enactment of a transition law to prevent succeeding governments from abandoning projects initiated by past administrations. The Governor said the law is needed to check the wanton abandonment of projects simply because they were not initiated by the incumbent. Specifically, Governor Fayemi ...