It has been an incredible privilege to serve the Government and People of Ekiti State. I am leaving office humbled by the sheer audacity of what we have achieved. If not anything else I am satisfied with the prestige and respect that we have brought to the office of the Attorney-General and the Ministry of Justice. Gone are the days when the Attorney-General and State Counsel in the Ministry of Justice will be treated with disrespect. In the last four years, we have made the Ministry of Justice the centre of government business and rightly so. Nothing happens in government…
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African countries must discard the water privatisation agenda being pushed by Bretton Woods Institutions, a civil society group has warned. Florence Ifeanyi-Aneke, head of non-profit New-Life Community Care Initiative (NELCCI), alleged that African governments were already under intense pressure from the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. She said this was being done via promises of huge funds and loans to Africa. Ms Ifeanyi-Aneke said African communities are against the agenda to take their fundamental rights away from them and as such, African government must not give in. She made the call on Friday at an event to commemorate…
Twelve years after the United Nations (UN) Declaration of water as a human right, the Corporate Accountability and Public Participation Africa (CAPPA) and other water justice groups have warned African governments against privatisation agenda Water justice groups, including CAPPA, the African Women Water Sanitation and Hygiene Network (AWWASHNET), the Ecumenical Water Network of Africa (EWN/A) and the Our Water Our Right Africa Coalition, at a webinar hosted by CAPPA, alongside the Our Water Our Right Africa Coalition, in commemoration of the 12th year of the United Nations’ Resolution declaring water and sanitation a human right, unanimously identified privatisation as a…
The newly sworn in Governor of Ekiti, Mr Biodun Oyebanji, has rolled out six points agenda to further bring economic prosperity and good governance to the people of the state. Oyebanji, shortly after he was sworn in by the Chief Judge of Ekiti, Justice John Adeyeye, said that his six points developmental agenda would focus on youths development and jobs creation. Others are: human capital development, Agriculture and rural development and infrastructure, industrialisation, arts, culture and tourism as well as good governance. The governor said that his vision for the state was for it to be a land of prosperity,…
Ekiti Parapo Pavilion, Ado-Ekiti | Sunday, October 16, 2022 PROTOCOLS INTRODUCTION Ekiti Kete! Today is a great day for us, and we should all be proud. Today, we are observing history being made, and a new chapter of our story being written.Today, we are witnesses to the reversal of the previous political transitions fraught with tension and strife, and bear testimony to the dawn of peaceful transition of power from one administration to the other – the first of its kind in our history. It also marks the beginning of the implementation of the Ekiti State (Transition) Law, 2019 which…
One week after the discreet release of about 100 Boko Haram terrorists from the Kirikiri medium and maximum security facilities in Lagos, the Nigerian government kept mum and refused to acknowledge there was any such incident. The prisoners of state were allegedly set free as part of a swap deal for the release of the 23 remaining passengers who were abducted in the Abuja-Kaduna bound train on March 28. But since the release, there have been varied reactions, mostly condemning Federal Government’s action and querying its rationale. Just as there has been no word from the Ministry of Interior, which…
The Ogun State governor, Dapo Abiodun, has hit back at his predecessor in office, Senator Ibikunle Amosun, declaring that he would fail in his anti-party politics aimed at scuttling his reelection bid in 2023. Abiodun who flayed Amosun for playing “dirty politics” and openly declaring to work for the emergence of a governorship candidate of another party next year, said that the former governor would fall once again as he did in the 2019 governorship election. The immediate past governor recently declared that he would work against Governor Abiodun and support Biyi Otegbeye, the governorship candidate of the African Democratic…
Colgate University, New York, has honored US-based Nigerian poet and professor of poetry, Gbenga Adesina, by hosting him to a reading and celebration of his works. Organized by the 200-hundred-year-old university’s English Department, the event was hosted by Professor Jennifer Brice, an award winning writer and essayist, and Professor Peter Balakian, Pulitzer Prize winning poet and New York Times best selling author, who in his introduction described Gbenga Adesina as ‘one of the most compelling young voices of his generation, a poet whose work spans continents in scope, and a masterful teacher’. One of the programs of The English department is…
