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An Ilawe-Ekiti born legal luminary, Barr. Babasoji Awe has approved a substantial amount of money for 2017/2018 graduating Law Students from his Ekiti South West Local Government who has been successfully mobilized for Law School Barr. Babasoji Awe whose moral and financial impacts in area of youths empowerment has been felt across board in his home town in the past years is the son of the Emeritus Justice L. S Awe from Okebedo Qrts Ilawe Ekiti the headquarter sit of Ekiti South West Local Government. The recent Bursary gesture is aimed at contributing his little quota towards sustaining Fayose led educational legacies in the State, encouraging embryonic attorneys from his constituency and lessening their financial burdens. Criteria: => You must hailed from any of the Towns in Ekiti South West Local Government => You must be able to present your LG Attestation Letter, Admission Letter and Law School Kindly Contact Prof. Sam through 08146795355 (Call/WhatsApp) for t...

When an honorary chief is given a title in Ado tradition, it is in recognition of his past deeds or contributions that is being appreciated or recognised and not the future deed that he may commit. All ends there and nothing is expected for the award other than good conduct and continued support for Ewi and Ado people. An honorary (ceremonial) chief in Ado-Ekiti is like a prize winner, award winner, someone given an award of honour or recognition for various reasons and or services rendered to Ado community. However no honoured or ceremonial chief of Ewi is a member of the Ewi in Council (Ewi Cabinet). He can only attend ceremonial functions of the Ewi and traditional festivals of Ado as an honorary chief. It is only sancrosant for Ewi Ado to however remove from office, any Chief that doesn't live up to expectations or who breaks the oath of allegiance to Ewi after due process of inquiry and trial had been followed. It however seldomly occur. These applies to traditional Chi...

Ekiti State Governor, Mr Ayodele Fayose has challenged the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, to name those “treasury looters” that he claimed were sponsoring the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), saying “it is high time Nigerians begin to hold the Information Minister accountable for his frivolous claims.” Governor Fayose, who said the Information Minister was fast assuming the position of the "Liar-General" of the federation, having lied to gain power and still lying to sustain it, pointed out that;’ “more than 20 months after he claimed that 55 Nigerians stole over N1.34 trillion from the country’s treasury from 2006 to 2013, Lai Mohammed is yet to tell Nigerians who the 55 people are.” In a statement issued on Tuesday, by the Governor's Special Assistant on Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka, he described Lai Mohammed as “an embodiment of contradictions, who speaks from several sides of his mouth, turning himself to a vege...

  Former Minister​ of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode, has hailed Minister of Women Affairs, Aisha Alhassan (Mama Taraba) ​for her declaration that she will support former vice president Atiku Abubakar over President Buhari in 2019. Fani-Kayode, in a statement to DAILY POST on Sunday, described her as a woman of immense courage. “​Mama Taraba is a courageous woman who has spoken the truth. Vice President Abubakar Atiku is a blessing to this nation whilst President Muhammadu Buhari is a curse. The APC sun is about to set​”, he said.​ ​”​Mama Taraba has a duty to tell us all she knows about Governor Nasir El Rufai’s alleged role in the Chibok girls scam and Boko Haram. I urge her to do so. ​”​I said it BEFORE, DURING and AFTER the 2015 presidential campaign that the truth about the Chibok girls and those behind BH was yet to be heard. Now it is all coming out. Nothing is hidden under the sun. ​”​Thank you Mama Taraba. Others will also come out to tell us what they know. Soon the ...

Special Assistant to the Ekiti State governor on New Media and public communication, Lere Olayinka has offered to cross President Buhari's 'National Redline'. Olayinka made this known in a letter, written and circulated online on Sunday, 10th of September 2017. The political and new media giant's letter Reads: September 10, 2017. General Muhammadu Buhari (rtd), President, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, Federal Republic of Nigeria, Aso Rock Presidential (Residential) Villa, Abuja. Dear President Buhari, OFFER TO CROSS YOUR NATIONAL RED-LINE Your Excellency Sir, because of your health, I will go straight to the main reasons for writing this letter. My name is Lere Olayinka, a citizen of Nigeria from Okemesi-Ekiti, Ekiti West Local Government, Ekiti State. Upon your return to Nigeria after 103 days abroad, spending our money to treat yourself of sickness you never disclosed to us, you came up with your National Red-Line threat. Ev...

Less than twelve months to the 2018 governorship election in Ekiti State, critical stakeholders of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the State have adopted the Deputy Governor, Prof Kolapo Olusola, from Ekiti South Senatorial District, as the preferred candidate of the party. Adoption of the deputy governor, who is a professor of Building Technology from the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife, Osun State, was the major decision reached at the party’s stakeholders meeting in Ado Ekiti today. The meeting was attended by 177 councillors, 177 ward chairmen, 16 Local Government party chairmen, 16 Local Council Chairmen, Chairmen and members of Boards and Parastatals, State Executive Council, Ekiti State House of Assembly members, serving and former members of the PDP State Working Committee, former Deputy Governor, among others. The communique issued at the end of the meeting reads; “After due consultation, without prejudice to the provisions of the Electoral Act 2010 (as ...

In what appears like the coming together of two sworn enemies to achieve a common goal, the duo of former President Olusegun Obasanjo and the Senator representing Ogun East Senatorial District, Buruji Kashamu met a few days ago to strategize on ways to stop the Ekiti State Governor, Mr Ayodele Fayose from installing a successor in the next year governorship election. Obasanjo, it should be recalled had hinged his leaving the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on the recognition of Buruji Kashamu as Southwest zonal leader of the party, saying then that; “I cannot and I will not subscribe to a wanted habitual criminal being installed as my zonal leader in the party; a criminal for whom extradition has been requested by the US Government.” In a bid to nail Kashamu, who used to be Obasanjo’s political associate, the former President had in a letter dated January 7, 2014, sent six incriminating documents to the then President Goodluck Jonathan and the leadership of the Peoples PDP to s...

Ekiti State Governor, Mr. Ayodele Fayose has cautioned Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) faithful in the State against sowing seeds of discord amongst aspirants and leadership of the party. According to a statement issued by his Special Assistant on Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka, Governor Fayose, who sounded the note of warning during a meeting on Monday, at his Afao Ekiti residence with aspirants and leaders from Ikole, Ijero and Ise/Orun LGAs on Monday, said he had nothing against the aspirations of those eyeing the Ekiti top seat. The governor stressed that; "Followers need not create a wedge between me and gubernatorial aspirants. As much as aspirants have the right to aspire, I also reserves the right to support whoever God asks him to support. "If I were asked to pick a candidate to succeed me, I would have picked Kayode Oso straight off. But I have called him into the room and told him to allow me seek God's consent concerning it. "I...