Ekiti State Governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi, has approved the retirement of the Head of Service, Dr Gbenga Faseluka, from the State’s service. The retirement which was conveyed in a letter signed by the Secretary to the State Government, Mr Biodun Oyebanji, and dated November 30, 2018, was with immediate effect. Dr Faseluka was to hand over to the most senior Permanent Secretary, Mrs Peju Babafemi. Mrs Babafemi was to function as Acting Head of Service pending the appointment of the substantive holder of the post. Meanwhile, the Governor had also approved the immediate redeployment of all Education Secretaries from the 16 Local Government Education Authorities. The affected Education Secretaries were to hand over to the most senior officers in their respective local government education authorities. A new set of Education Secretaries would be appointed in due course. In a related development, Governor Fayemi also approved the voluntary retirement of two of the rece

25-YEAR-OLD Anambra born Chidinma Aaron, representing the South-East zone and a graduate of Business Administration from Lead City University, Ibadan has emerged winner of the 42nd Edition of the prestigious Miss Nigeria Beauty Pageant held yesterday at the Convention Centre, Eko Hotels &Suites, Victoria Island. Chidinma emerged first, beating 17 other beautiful contestants to clinch the ultimate prize of N3 million, a luxury apartment and an automobile. While the duo of Chisom Dunu and Ameh Munirah emerged first and second runner-up respectively. The event, which attracted the crème de crème of the society, kicked off the red carpet moment hosted by 2018 Big Brother contestant, Tobi Bakre. Speaking on this year’s edition of the pageant, chairman Folio Media group, Mr. Fidelis Anosike, stressed the need that the pageant had, over the years, improve and impact in the lives of its participants. In his word, he said, “Yearly, the Miss Nigeria theme h

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board on Wednesday said the president reduced the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Board Examination (UTME) registration fees because he wanted to reduce the burden of examination costs on parents. The fee was reduced from N5000 to N3,500 for 2019 session, was also. Earlier thursday, the Federal Executive Council endorsed the reduction, in an announcement by education minister, Adamu Adamu. Fees for NECO and BECE were also slashed. JAMB’s Head of Media, Dr. Fabian Benjamin, in a statement in Abuja, the nation’s capital on Wednesday, also said the reduction has been approved by President Muhammadu Buhari. The statement said Buhari was concerned about the burden of the registration fees on the plight of ordinary Nigerians. “In Mr. President’s determination to alleviate poverty and ensure that every Nigerian desirous of tertiary education is not deprived, government had introduced policies and incentive to boost the eco

Ekiti State Governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi, on Thursday closed his defence before the Ekiti State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal, sitting at the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Apo, Abuja. This is even as the tribunal adjourned its sitting till January 9, 2019 for adoption of final written addresses of parties in the petition. The People's Democratic Party (PDP) and its candidate in the July 14 governorship election in contention, Professor Olusola Kolapo Olubunmi, filed the petition before the tribunal, challenging the declaration of Governor Fayemi as the winner. The petitioners had alleged that victory of Governor Fayemi was as a result of vote buying, wide spread rigging, malpractices and that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) officials favoured the governor during the election. They, therefore, prayed the tribunal to declare them as winners of the election on the ground that they scored majority of the lawful votes.

Did you know that you can use WhatsApp on PC and not just on your mobile phone? Millions of Nigerians are addicted to their handsets connected to the Internet, and this is why it becomes necessary to learn how to install WhatsApp on PC.  Keep reading to find out how to do this in two easy ways. How to install WhatsApp on PC WhatsApp. Method 1: Step 1 : Find a good mobile emulator for your computer. Many users really like Bluestacks tool, but you might wish to use something different, download and install it on your PC. Step 2 : If you have installed Bluestacks or another emulator to your wish, you will be asked to sign in via Google account. Step 3: Go to App Center in Bluestacks on your PC and find WhatsApp mobile app. Step 4: Click to install WhatsApp messenger and it will appear in the field called ‘My Apps’ right in the emulator. Open it from here. Step 5: Enter your real mobile phone number and wait until you receive a special code to

By Ganiyu Salau The commissioner of police, Bello Hammed has admitted that Vote buying is not a new phenomenon in Nigerian politics. He made this claim on Wednesday, 28th November, 2018 at the Nigerian Union of Journalists' Press Centre along NTA road in Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti State. The CP was the guest lecturer  at the second anniversary lecture and awards of excellence organized by the Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria (Progress FM) Chapel of NUJ where he delivered a lecture titled: "Expectations and the roles of the police, the Media and members of the public in vote buying". Meanwhile, the resident electoral Commissioner in Ekiti State, Professor Abdul Ganiyu Raji who was present at the occasion had urged the press to always balance their reports in order not to truncate this democracy. The commissioner of police who was represented at the occasion by the head of Intelligence Unit of the State Command, Mr Julius Adedeji, a lawyer, took time to reflect on

When Governor John Kayode Fayemi was sworn in for a second term as the Executive Governor of Ekiti State recently, his avowed priority was the restoration of the state's core values of hardwork, honesty, and integrity. Most importantly, the governor, not known for empty boasting, display of gangsterism or cheap populism, made it crystal clear that education was high on his priority list and he would give it the much desired premium. No sooner had he mounted the saddle than the governor started walking his talk. Instantly, he removed the hostile policies imposed on education by his predecessor in office, revoked the education levies in primary and secondary schools and crowned it with the provision of N200 million to be accessed by the teachers as housing and car loans. The loans, which are to be disbursed on a first come, first served basis, have placed the teachers in Ekiti State in the Number One position to receive such a largesse in this second coming of Governor F

A lot of WhatsApp Users have been using the news whatsapp status feature, in fact, many users now update their WhatsApp status more than they update on Facebook. While many view their friends and families' whatsapp status, they do not know how to save those statuses after watching them. Even though, whatsApp has not updated the application to one that saves statuses except for GB WhatsApp which was created by some tech guys, i am glad to teach you now in 2 minutes, how you can save WhatsApp statuses after viewing, especially videos. Follow the Steps Below. If You use an Andriod Phone 1. After viewing A photo/video on your contact's Status 2. Minimize your WhatsApp 3. Go to your MENU BAR 4. Open your FILE MANAGER 5. Under your file manager, go to  INTERNAL STORAGE if you do not use a Memory Card 6. Open Your WHATSAPP FOLDER 7. Open MEDIA 8. Now, after opening MEDIA, you will see list of folders like, WhatsApp Animated Gifs, WhatsApp Audio, WhatsAp