The pan-Yoruba socio-political organization, Afenifere, has described the disclosure on Thursday last week that more than half of the borders in the North East and North West of Nigeria are unguarded as very worrisome and disturbing because of the immense danger it poses to the security of Nigerians. In a Press Release by the organisation’s National Publicity Secretary, Comrade Jare Ajayi, Afenifere expressed regret that less than a year to the end of Press Muhammadu Buhari’s administration, the government is yet to take necessary steps on what the Army Chief considered as “a key source of criminality and violent crimes in those parts of the country”. It would be recalled that the Chief of Defence Staff, General Lucky Irabor who confirmed that “our borders are largely unmanned”, further revealed that 137 out of about 261 borders in the North-East and North-West regions of the country are unguarded and that these porous borders accounted for the easy access of terrorists from neigbourin...

• APC tips to win 2023 Presidential election By Karounwi Oladapo August 29, 2022. If PDP has remained a united party like it was in 2019 Presidential election, APC would have been in serious trouble ahead of 2023 Presidential election for a number of reasons which are not the center piece of this article. However, the fortune of the PDP has nosedived and the Party has broken into three strong Political Parties in the build up to the 2023 Presidential election; the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP led by Atiku Abubakar; the Nigeria National Peoples Party, NNPP, led by Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, and the Labour Party, LP, led by Peter Obi. All the three Presidential Candidates were leaders of the PDP up to the first quarter of this year 2022. It should be noted that no major or dominant party broke out of the very strong and dominant APC with the incumbency advantage at its disposal.  This means that the APC strong bases of North West and South West where it secured its majority votes in 2015...

  Ayu Esuku Medical workers of the  Ekiti State University Teaching Hospital (EKSUTH), Ado Ekiti, on Monday locked up the health institution while protesting over alleged unpaid emoluments  by the management. The staff, under the auspices of the Joint Health Sector Union (JOHESU), had converged  at the main gate of the tertiary health facility located at Adebayo area and sealed off the  hospital. For over four hours, spanning 8am and 12 noon, no worker, including members of the management and doctors, were given free entry and exit throughout the time the warning protest lasted. The aggreived workers locked the major entrances to the hospital, thus preventing all other workers from gaining access to the hospital. The action of the workers is sequel to the alleged failure of government to attend to their demands as confirmed by JOHESU Chairperson, Comrade Omotola Farotimi. She said:It’s a long time matter which government has failed to resolve over the years. “It...

  .....NEMA  tasks residents to take precautionary measures. Ayu Esuku | Fountain Newsbreaker  The National Emergency Management Agency Head of Operations (Ekiti, Ondo and Osun), Kadiri Olanrewaju, has called on residents of Ekiti State to take precautionary measures against the flooding predicted to occur in the state and its environs later this year. Olanrewaju, who said the forecast by relevant agencies had named Ekiti among the states expected to experience flooding based on increased volume of rainfall, said most local government areas in the state were flood-prone with high risks due to sessional rainfall. He said this in Ado-Ekiti during a meeting with critical stakeholders on disaster risk management, tagged, ‘Duties, functions and responsibilities in disasters management’, organised by the agency to improve community awareness and enhance stakeholder response. In his words: “Everyone of us has witnessed the recent floods in Nigeria, which claimed lives, displaced...

Ayu Esuku Former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode yesterday has assured Nigerians, particularly Christians, not to worry about the Muslim-Muslim ticket of the All Progressives Congress (APC). He gave the assurance in a statement, saying the presidential candidate of the APC, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu “has not plan to Islamise the country.” Fani-Kayode however faulted PDP,NNPP for picking northerners as their presidential candidates, the former minister said the PDP and NNPP “are offering a “very dangerous narrative and volatile cocktail. “The point is that, whoever your candidate may be, we must ensure that power comes to the south in order to stop this dangerous cycle of regional and ethnic tension, enhance and entrench national unity and give Nigeria a chance to survive and experience the peace that we seek,” he said. Speaking on the Muslim-Muslim ticket, Fani-Kayode noted that the presidential candidate of the APC would make major concessions to Christians as regards appointments. H...

  Ayu Esuku The National Association of Nigerian Students(NANS), has threatened to sue the Federal Government and claim damages for wasting the precious time of the university students over the intractable strike embarked on by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU). NANS posited that wasting the precious time of university students is actionable and that appropriate actions would be taken to advance their cases in court and get commensurate compensations for its members. The National President of NANS, Sunday Asefon, said this on Thursday in a statement made available to journalists in Ado Ekiti, the Ekiti State capital.  Asefon, who agreed with the Minister of Education, Mallam Adamu Adamu that the students are due for compensations, however, picked holes in the belief that ASUU should be held liable. The NANS' leader contended that only the employer, which is the federal government, can be held accountable under the present circumstance . He said: "Our attention ha...

Today, I joined the Ekiti Adolescent Girls’ Initiative for Learning & Empowerment Project (AGILE) Project unit of the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology’s sensitization engagement with The First Lady of Ekiti State, Erelu Bisi Fayemi The Sensitization Engagement which had the Wives of Ekiti State Local Government Chairmen, Personnels from the Ministry of Education, and the AGILE committee gave insight into the role of the Wives of Local Government Chairmen on the Ekiti State Adolescent Girls Initiative for Learning and Empowerment (AGILE) project.  A World Bank-assisted project with the goal to assisting adolescent girls’ access to secondary education opportunities.  The participating States are Borno, Ekiti, Kaduna, Kano, Katsina, Kebbi and Plateau. Ekiti State will receive U$25m for this project over five years. This will give our female students an opportunity to access secured, digitalized and serene environment as they proceed in their secondary school educ...

The Nigeria Union of Journalists NUJ Ekiti State Council has extolled the Ekiti State Governor-elect,  Hon. Biodun Oyebanji for the donation of two standing Air Conditioners to the council. In a statement in Ado Ekiti, Chairman of the Union, Comrade Rotimi Ojomoyela explained that leaders and members of the union were surprised after the items were delivered and installed barely 24hrs after he made the promise.  Ojomoyela explained that the action had further attested to the fact that the Governor-elect is a man of his word. The NUJ leadership appreciated the Governor-elect and prayed God to grant him success in office. It assured him of maximum support of the media through fair journalism.

  • Suggests Way Out  The pan Yoruba socio-political organization, Afenifere, has described the handling of security situation in Nigeria by the Federal Government as tantamount to ceding the country into the hands of terrorists. A statement by the National Publicity Secretary of the organization, Comrade Jare Ajayi on Monday, August 15, 2022, described the confession by President Muhammadu Buhari’s spokesman, Garba Shehu, that terrorists ‘deceived’ the government into releasing his wife and children without releasing victims of Abuja-Kaduna train as “very unfortunate and an admission of failure” as a government. “In view of the fact that government is expected to possess superior power in virtually everything than any others in a country, considering the fact that the primary responsibilities of the government are the provision of security and welfare for the people and considering the fact that the present administration has failed to provide either security or welfare for t...

Ekiti State Governor-elect, Mr Biodun Abayomi Oyebanji, has said his administration will be open to criticisms, as he will  immediately rescind any policy or decision widely criticized by the people of the state. Oyebanji stated this during his "thank you" visit to the leadership and members of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Ekiti State Council, at the Press Centre, Ado Ekiti, on Thursday. Addressing the journalists, Oyebanji said he would sustain the continuity agenda by building on the legacy of Governor Kayode Fayemi and  prudently deploying the state's lean resources for radical development of the state.  He added that he will not disappoint the people as  he pledged his administration's intention to deliver on  campaign promises of implementing legacy developmental projects. "We know Ekiti people need good governance and we are desirous to give it to them. We will also welcome constructive criticisms. If there is a policy that the people are critic...

• Warns Ebira In Ondo Against Venturing Into Kidnapping  Ondo State Governor, Arakunrin Oluwarotimi Akeredolu,SAN, has confirmed the arrest of the attackers of St Francis Catholic Church, Owo. The Governor confirmed the arrest shortly after the Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), General Lucky Irabor made the announcement in Abuja.  Governor Akeredolu further disclosed that the owner of the house where the attackers stayed before the June 5 attack in Owo has also been arrested  He noted that government did not spare a moment in trailing the terrorists since the horrendous attacks on innocent worshipers at the St Francis Catholic Church, Owaluwa, Owo.  Arakunrin Akeredolu spoke during a courtesy visit to his office by the leadership of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) led by the Chairman of the Council, Prince Leke Adegbite.  He said:”Now that the military has announced it, I can tell you that five of them have been arrested now. They are still on the trail of th...

Seven weeks after Segun Oni SDP lost Ekiti Gubernatorial election, the emergency Political Party, called SDP, that was not founded on any principle, ideology or manifesto; the party of the aggrieved from the PDP and APC; a special purpose vehicle put together only for the purpose of standing for election, is gradually disintegrating, despite a very feeble attempt to put something together, however illogical, and placed before the election petition tribunal, just to keep the unsuspecting and naive members of the party together with the false impression that all hope is not lost, when in reality, the Party is in a hopeless situation! The wise members of the Party have borrowed themselves sense and took a flight to either APC or PDP As at today, the two leadership of the party, the Governorship and Deputy Governorship Candidates have parted ways and divided the party down the middle. While the Segun Oni faction is now ATIKULATED, his Deputy, Ladi Owolabi faction, is now  BATIFIED. Sim...

• Kayode Ojo rejects High Court Judgement, heads to Appeal  A Federal High Court sitting in Ado Ekiti has thrown out a suit filed by a contestant in the January 27 All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship primary, Mr. Kayode Ojo, challenging the victory of the Governor-elect, Mr. Biodun Oyebanji. The court upheld the preliminary objection of the counsel to Oyebanji, Mr. Kabir Akingbolu, that the writ of summons and statement of claims of Ojo were defective which dealt a fatal blow to the case. The court in a judgment on Thursday delivered by the presiding judge, Justice Babs Kuewumi, threw out Ojo's case and agreed with the Oyebanji's counsel that the discrepancies in the originating processes had rendered the case academic. Justice Kuewumi held that the names of counsel on the Plaintiff's originating summons and statement and the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) stamp ran contrary which is against the law rendering the suit defective and incompetent. While the name on th...