Ekiti Governor Signs 2025 Budget into Law Governor Biodun Oyebanji signed the ₦375.79 billion 2025 budget into law on Monday. The budget allocates 51% for recurrent expenses and 49% for capital projects. Priority sectors include agriculture, wealth creation, and infrastructure development. Governor Biodun Oyebanji of Ekiti State has signed the 2025 budget into law. The … Read more
The Founder of Afe Babalola University Ado-Ekiti (ABUAD), Aare Afe Babalola, has been named the 2024 winner of the Best Nigerian Patriot Award. The announcement comes after a human rights activist and lawyer, Dele Farotimi, was accused of defaming the nonagenarian in his book, ‘Nigeria and its Criminal Justice System.’ The award was confirmed in … Read more
Ekiti Governor Thanks Afe Babalola for Support on Airport Project; Requests Charity Donations for Birthday Ekiti State Governor, Airport Project has written a letter of appreciation to Afe Babalola, the founder of Afe Babalola University, for his financial contribution to the development of the Ekiti Agro-Allied International Cargo Airport. In the letter, delivered to Babalola … Read more
Lagos-based lawyer and activist Dele Farotimi has filed a preliminary objection challenging the defamation charges against him at the Ado Ekiti Magistrate Court. Represented by a formidable legal team led by Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) Adeyinka Olumide-Fusika and supported by three additional SANs and 16 other lawyers, Farotimi seeks to have the case struck … Read more
Eko Hot Blog reports that Aare Afe Babalola says sitting judges should not preside over election petition tribunals to avoid the halt of cases unrelated to elections. Babalola spoke on Monday in Ado-Ekiti at an event to mark his 60th anniversary at the bar. EDITOR’S PICKS Nigerian Police Officers Need Special Classes In Empathy — … Read more
Tribunal has upheld Oyebanji’s election as the duly elected governor of Ekiti State. EKO HOT BLOG reports that the Ekiti State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Ado Ekiti, the State capital, on Thursday, upheld the election of Governor Biodun Oyebanji of the All Progressives Congress (APC) as the duly governor of the State. The … Read more
Kazeem Olafisoye and Owolabi Usman were found guilty of conspiracy and armed robbery, and the court in Ado Ekiti sentenced them to death by hanging and life in prison, respectively. Eko Hot Blog reports that the two inmates were accused on three counts and arraigned before Justice Adekunle Adeleye. EDITOR’S PICKS BREAKING: Gunmen Abduct Labour … Read more
A total of 121 graduating students of the Afe Babalola University, Ado Ekiti, (ABUAD) are to be awarded with First Class degrees from different disciplines during the 2022 convocation ceremony of the institution. Eko Hot Blog reports that the Vice-Chancellor of the University, Professor Smaranda Olarinde, stated this in Ado Ekiti on Monday at the … Read more
Amotekun have arrested seven suspected robbers in Ekiti EKO HOT BLOG reports that the Ekiti State Amotekun Security Corps has arrested seven persons including two women for various criminal offences such as burglary and armed robbery. EDITOR’S PICK Police Arrest Suspected Cultist Exposed By CCTV In Lagos 2023: BVAS Has Put An End To Manipulation … Read more
EKSUTH workers have begun indefinite strike over poor pay EKO HOT BLOG reports that Health workers in the Ekiti State University Teaching Hospital on Monday in Ado-Ekiti protested the non-implementation of minimum wage by the state government, among other demands. The protest by the workers under the aegis of Joint Health Workers Union … Read more
Ekiti records 74 new cases of COVID-19 – Health Commissioner …Others are reporting at the nearest health facility when sick, getting tested and isolated if positive and adhering to COVID-19 measures by banks and other institutions. EDITOR’S PICK: Police Storm Peoples Gazette Newspaper’s HQ In Abuja, Arrest 5 Staff Akeredolu Reveals When He Will Buy … Read more
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Alaafin Of Oyo Is Dead The famous Yoruba monarch had been sick due to complications from old age, and a plan had been made to fly him overseas before he gave up the ghost late Friday night. EDITOR’S PICK [BREAKING] 2023: Goodluck Jonathan Opens Up On ‘Contesting’ For President [BREAKING] 2023: Protesters Storm Jonathan’s Office … Read more
The monarchs in Ekiti have met with Tinubu. Tinubu said he decided to consult with the traditional rulers before declaring because of the enormous respect he placed on culture and tradition. EKO HOT BLOG reports that as part of his ongoing consultation for the 2023 presidential election, former Governor of Lagos State and presidential aspirant, … Read more
Police have declared 16-year-old female PoS operator missing in Ekiti EKO HOT BLOG reports that the Ekiti State Police Command has declared a point-of-sale operator (PoS) Faith Olatunji, of Oke Bola Street, Ado Ekiti, missing. The state Commissioner of Police, Tunde Mobayo, said the 16-year-old “left home on December 29, 2021 around 7.45am to … Read more
Gunmen have attacked the residence of the Yoruba Nation leader, Prof. Akintoye. EKOHOTBLOG reports that the residence of the Yoruba Nation coordinator, Prof. Banji Akintoye, in Ado-Ekiti has been attacked by unknown gunmen. The incident was disclosed via a statement by the umbrella body of Yoruba Self-Determination Groups, Ilana Omo Oodua, Tuesday. The statement, which … Read more
Gunmen have kidnapped no fewer than 8 persons in Ekiti State. EKOHOTBLOG reports that unknown gunmen suspected to be kidnappers have abducted 8 persons in Itapaji Ekiti in the Ikole Local Government Area of Ekiti State. This online newspaper reports that the latest abduction in the state is coming barely a week after four … Read more
Ademola, 50, told the court that his wife goes out at will as well as starving him, adding that she would not cook for him but would only cook for herself. An Ado-Ekiti Customary Court has on Friday dissolved a 7-year-old marriage between Adeparusi Ademola and his wife, Adeparusi Yinka. Both parties had earlier given … Read more
10 persons involved in indiscriminate dumping of refuse has been sentenced to two months imprisonment each by a mobile magistrates court in Ado Ekiti, the Ekiti State capital. The prosecutor, Mrs Bolaji Ogunsan, told the court that “the offenders were caught in the act at Ajilosun and Nigerian Television Area road areas in the state … Read more
The Ekiti State Chief Judge (CJ), Justice Ayodeji Daramola, has released 34 inmates as part of the effort to decongest Ado Ekiti correctional centre. The freed 34 inmates were part of the 386, whose cases were reviewed during the CJ’s visit to the correctional centre in Ado Ekiti on Tuesday. Meanwhile, 27 inmates including a … Read more