The First Lady of Ekiti State, Erelu Bisi Fayemi on Monday launched the Women Empowerment Team (WET), designed as a capacity building and empowerment programme for women across the 177 wards in the state. The scheme will operate through cluster and cooperative groups to be established across the state. Speaking at the launch, Mrs. Fayemi said the initiative was proposed to be a “women-helping-women approach through a network of cooperative societies designed to foster peer-learning, knowledge sharing, skills acquisition and socio-economic and risk mitigation interventions for vulnerable women in the state.” She added that the purpose of the initiative, code-named…
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There has been one indivisible connection between child abuse and legal studies which I will discuss here whilst antagonizing the prospect of the Law as supreme and its limitation in addressing the child abuse phenomenal. ByOpinionNigeriaSeptember 22, 2020 Law can simply be defined as the norms that guide the welfare of the society. Child abuse is an act of harassment either emotionally, sexually and other ways which counteract the wellbeing of the child. It has been one recurring crime over the last few decades, though the law has been able to break the camel’s back once but it has been…
Africa intra-trade, which is also known as Intra-African Trade, according to United Nations Trade and Development or African Economic Outlook, is the average of intra-African exports and imports, and a key to sustainable development. It allows the spread of products across the continent for more trade between regions with large food demands. Intra-industry trade on the other hand refers to the exchange of similar products belonging to the same industry. The term is usually applied to international trade, where the same types of goods or services are both imported and exported. Examples of this kind of trade include automobiles, foodstuffs…
The Lagos State House of Assembly on Tuesday began probe on the 2019 Auditor-General’s Statutory Report on the accounts of the state’s Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs). Chairman of the Assembly’s Public Accounts Committee on State, Nurudeen Saka-Solaja made this known while addressing newsmen before commencement of the exercise in Lagos. The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the public accounts committee is a statutory establishment of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. The committee is an important instrument of checks, probity and accountability by the legislature both at the federal and state levels. Saka-Solaja explained that the purpose…
Ekiti State Governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi, has commiserated with the immediate past Governor of the State, Mr Ayodele Fayose on the death of his elder sister, Mrs Mojisola Ladeji. Dr Fayemi in a statement signed by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr Yinka Oyebode, said he received the news of Mrs Ladeji’s death with shock as he was aware that the deceased was hale and hearty before the news of the untimely death was broken. The Governor who described the deceased as a sister having shared the bond of attending the same Secondary School, Christ’s School Ado- Ekiti, added that the…
The UN General Assembly’s annual debate kicks off on Tuesday, with world leaders addressing the forum via video speeches instead of gathering in New York for the first time ever due to the coronavirus pandemic. Brazil is the traditional first speaker at the days-long event, followed by the U.S. U.S. President Donald Trump’s speech will be the main focus of a “fairly boring” general debate, according to UN expert Richard Gowan from the think tank Crisis group. Coming just weeks before the country’s presidential election in November, the “America First” president’s address will likely be geared towards a domestic audience. The speech also…
In a fresh interview with newsmen, Mrs Olusola Jejelowo is the wife of the Ekiti director, Mr. David Jejelowo, who was shot dead by assailants in his living room in Ado Ekiti, recounts the ordeals her husbandwent through in life as she calls for justice What kind of person was your husband? He was Prince David Jejelowo. He was from Eda Ile in the Ekiti East Local Government Area. We got married around 1994. We have three boys. He was a lover of peace. He was never a politician or a businessman. He was a good father. He was very affectionate…
A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, Chief Chukwuemeka Eze, has blamed the loss of the governorship election in Edo State on a former National Chairman of the party, Adams Oshiomhole. The incumbent and candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Godwin Obaseki, who was forced out of the APC by Oshiomhole, won the election. Obaseki defeated the candidate of the APC, Osagie Ize-Iyamu, favoured by Oshiomhole, for the loss. Speaking on the development, Eze, a former National Publicity Secretary of the defunct New PDP, said the unpleasant carriage and incoherent disposition of Oshiomole was the single factor that caused the…
The Commissioner, Federal Capital Territory Police Command, Bala Ciroma, has ordered that a post-mortem be conducted on a lady, Ifeoma Abugu, who was arrested by operatives of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad in place of her fiancé, Adam Ugwunwa. The spokesman of the Command, DSP Anjuguri Manzah, confirmed the development in a statement on Monday. Available report had it that Abugu, a graduate of the Institute of Management and Technology, Enugu, was arrested on September 10, 2020 by the SARS operatives in the residence of Ugwunwa in Wumba village, Lokogoma area of Abuja. The operatives were in the house to arrest…
Former National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Adams Oshiomhole, has become the source of jokes on the social media. This followed the loss of the APC to the Peoples Democratic Party in Saturday’s governorship election in Edo State, where his anointed candidate or the governorship seat, Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu, lost. The incumbent and candidate of the PDP, Godwin Osagie, defeated Ize-Iyamu, the favoured candidate of the former governor of Edo State. The Independent National Electoral Commission declared Obaseki as having won the election when he polled a total of 307,955 votes to defeat Ize-Iyamu, who scored 223,619. A total…
