Wife of President Muhammadu Buhari, Aisha, on Thursday, August 4, 2016, arrived the United States of America, USA, ahead of a programme she is billed to attend. Her visit precisely to Washington DC comes after some people claimed she was avoiding travelling to the Uncle Sam’s country because of her alleged involvement in the popular…
The Ekiti State governor, Ayodele Fayose, has warned armed herdsmen carrying out deadly attacks in across the country to desists or meet their waterloo in Ekiti State. Fayose, while speaking at a function in Ibadan, Oyo State on Tuesday, said he has informed his people to poison water cattle belonging to the rampaging herdsmen. The…
Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State has declared a 3-day mourning period for the six medical doctors from the state that died on their way to Nigerian Medical Association, NMA, congress in Sokoto recently. Fayose described the death of the six doctors and one driver as the lowest point in the history of the State…
Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State has written to the Chinese government to withdraw the $2 billion loan it promised to give to Nigeria. Fayose, in his letter addressed to the President of China, Xi Jinping, said Nigerians are totally against the loan. The letter, dated April 12, 2016, with reference number EK/GOV/28/10, noted that…
Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State and former secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the state, Tope Aluko, have finally settled their differences, a video received by Aproko247 suggests. It was learnt that the two politicians, who have recently been at loggerheads, met at a place in Lagos on Sunday. An aide…
On Monday, March 14, 2016, lawmakers from the Ekiti State House of Assembly were in Abuja to kick against invasion of the Assembly by the Department of State Services, DSS, officials on Friday, March 4, 2016. The legislators took their protest to the embassies of the United States of America and the United Kingdom in…
Nigerian oil and gas mogul, Ifeanyi Ubah, has played down claims that he was involved in the alleged rigging of the 2014 Ekiti gubernatorial election. Ubah, who controls the affairs at Capital Oil and Gas, while speaking on a Channels TV programme, Politics Today, claimed if consulted by the Federal Government, he will work out…
Governor Ayo Fayose of Ekiti State distributed rams and food items to some Islamic clerics in the state despite a directive from the League of Imams and Alfas in the state banning its members from collecting the governor’s gift. A communiqué signed by the state’s Assistant Secretary of the clerics’ body, Alhaji Quadri Oguntuase, and…
A former Board of Trustees, BoT, member of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Dayo Okondo, has turned down his membership appointment into the Governing Council of the College of Education, Ikere Ekiti. The Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, recently announced Okondo as member of the institution’s Governing Council. But speaking with journalists on Friday at…
The inauguration of the Ekiti State House of Assembly has kicked off and several dignitaries and residents of the state are presently at the occasion. Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State was welcomed into the hallowed chamber amidst loud roar of cheers from the audience. He will be performing the inauguration of the state Assembly…