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Nigeria will destroy you, make you useless and kill your dream unless you have a strong connection to the political godfathers. I have met Kemi Adegoke-Badenoch in 2010 while she was distributing flyers of her election campaign to passersby around Dulwich Library in 2010. She was contesting for a member of the London Assembly. She didn’t win and She was 30years old at the time. In 2012, Kemi Adegoke stood for the Conservatives party in the London Assembly election where she was placed fifth on the London-wide list. In 2017, Kemi was elected as MP for the Saffron Walden constituency…

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Director General, Ekiti State Council of Arts and Culture, Ambassador Wale Ojo Lanre has urged youths to be part of the cultural reorientation and promotion of traditional heritage in the state. Ojo Lanre said this while speaking with leadership of Federation of Ekiti State Students Union (FESSU), Ekiti State University Chapter, who visited him in his office in Ado-Ekiti. He said the council’s mandate was to rejuvenate, promote and support any ideas that would enhance creativity, job creation and add value to the people of the state. “You are the strength of the nation, you need to be involved in…

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The ongoing comprehensive verification exercise embarked upon by the Teaching Service Commission (TESCOM) has been described as a unique and reliable method to ascertain the correct data of Secondary School Staff in the State. The Chairman of Ekiti State Teaching Service Commission, Hon Babatunde Abegunde made the assertion while addressing secondary school workers from Efon and Ekiti West Local Government Areas who converged at Aramoko District Commercial Grammar School (ADICO), Aramoko-Ekiti for the verification exercise. Honourable Abegunde, explained that the verification exercise was cost effective in the sense that it could detect what biometric pay system may not capture particularly…

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Governor Kayode Fayemi has been lauded for his initiative and prompt action to ensure Ekiti State key into the national program of Primary Health Care Under One Roof. The Chairman, Ekiti State Primary Health Care Development Agency (PHCDA), Chief Mrs. Monisola Oloro who was represented by the Permanent Secretary of the Agency, Pharmacist Olabisi Arogundade gave this commendation in Ado-Ekiti during the official takeover of files of Primary Health Care staff by the Primary Health Development Agency . Chief (Mrs.) Oloro described the step as important and crucial to making the National Policy on Primary Care come under one roof,…

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Ekiti State Governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi, has disclosed plans for joint patrol of Southwest states by security operatives under the aegis of Operation Rapid Response Squad to tame the insecurity in the region. As the Chairman of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum, Fayemi also said that he had been midwifing series of meetings across the country and Southeast in particular on the need to have a joint security network that would stamp out criminals from the zone. The governor, who spoke on Monday night during a statewide radio/television programme tagged ‘Meet your Governor’, said, “Very soon, our people in the Southwest…

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Let me begin this contribution with brief history of the United States and Ado Ekiti. I will need to do so so as to have a draw down to my point. United States is a country in North America, began with the settlement of Indigenous people before 15,000 BC. Between 1790 and 2015, America grew from 4 million people to 321 million with economic growth making them the world economic power house. While the economic and population expansion was driven by a quest for inexpensive land for yeoman farmers and slave owners. Became the leading industrial power at the turn of the 20th century due to an…

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Ekiti State Governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi, has stressed the need for the Federal Government to allocate more fund to the states in order to make them more responsible and responsive to the yearnings of the people. Fayemi who expressed his displeasure on the present revenue sharing formula where the larger chunk is allocated to the Federal Government, leaving the federating states and local governments with low allocation, said approval of the new minimum wage by the Federal Government required that government make moves to increase states’ funding to enable them effectively take up the responsibility. The Governor, who spoke on…

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Members of the Nigerian Union Of Local Government Employees (NULGE), Ekiti State chapter, have met with the top management of Ekiti State Local Government Commission in Ado-Ekiti, the state capital, as part of cementing the new relationship between local government workers and government after last administration’s harsh policy that threw workers’ welfare overboard. The State President of NULGE, Bunmi Ajimoko, led his colleagues to a meeting attended by the Chairman of the Commission, Samuel Abejide; the Commissioners and top officials of the commission where the union listed demands that would reposition the local government administration for better productivity. Praising the…

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Ekiti state government, through the Office of the Special Adviser on Social Investment and Senior Special Assistant to the Governor on Women Empowerment in collaboration with the Business Development arm of WEMA Bank Plc. (Ekiti), have organised an empowerment scheme for young women in the state. According to the Senior Special Assistant to the Governor on Women Empowerment Bolaji Olagbaju, the scheme is part of the government’s efforts to empower women in the state. “We understand the need to ensure our women are empowered to gain access to funds and opportunities that will build their skills and make them good…

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