Accident Claims Three Lives in Ekiti - By Olalekan Ayeni

Accident Claims Three Lives in  Ekiti

By Olalekan Ayeni

 A Toyota car today crushed three  persons to death in Ado Ekiti

The accident which occurred between a commercial motorcycle and a Toyota car led to the death of two men on the motorcycle and one other person who was said to be on the walkway at Okesha Roundabout Ado Ekiti when the incident happened.

According to witness, Mrs Oluwadare Funmilayo said that the driver of the  Toyota Camry car who is a teenager was coming from the Okesha market toward the overhead bridge but lost control and rammed into a guy making a call on the walkway and those on the motorcycle.

The corpses of the deceased have been deposited at mortuary and the teenager who drove the car has been arrested.

Ekiti Govt. Decries Hawking of Facemasks by Children

Ekiti State Government has frowned at children selling facemasks on the streets across the city of Ado-Ekiti.

The Commissioner for Information and Values Orientation, Mr Muyiwa Olumilua, who made this known at a press briefing on COVID 19 in Ado-Ekiti, described the act as child abuse which was punishable under the law.

Mr Olumilua maintained that henceforth, any child caught selling facemasks on the highways and major streets in Ekiti would be arrested, while the parents of such child would be prosecuted for child labour and abuse.

He observed that Ekiti State Government under the present administration was against actions violating the child rights and it would not hesitate to deal decisively with anyone caught sending their children to sell on the highways and major streets in the state.

 (Radio Nigeria Ibadan)

Fayemi Reduces Broadband Way Charges From N4.5m To N145k Per 1km In Ekiti

The Governor of Ekiti State, Dr. John Kayode Fayemi has signed an Executive Order to reduce the Right of Way charges related to laying broadband or any other telecommunications infrastructures from N4,500 to N145 per meter in Ekiti state.

Ekiti is the first state in Nigeria to adhere and comply with the NEC on approving Right of Way charges for broadband, by now Ekiti state has become the cheapest state for broadband infrastructure investment as 1km of cable will now cost just N145,000 instead of N4.5m previously.

Fayemi said the executive order is part of the ongoing reforms by the Ease of Doing Business project inaugurated by the Governor last year to improve indices that will make Ekiti State an attractive destination for national and international investments in 5 years.

According to the Special Adviser Investment, Trade and Innovations, Mr. Akin Oyebode @AO1379, this decision will ensure Ekiti achieves full broadband penetration by 2021 to attract new businesses, create jobs, improve access to quality healthcare and digital education while improving internally generated revenue. 

 It is also aligned with the ongoing development of the Ekiti Knowledge Zone, designed to be Nigeria’s first service-based innovation park.

Nigeria records 184 new COVID-19 cases, total now 4,971

Nigeria recorded recorded 184 new cases of coronavirus on Wednesday.

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control announced this on its website.

The 184 new cases are reported from 22 states- Lagos(51), Jigawa(23), Bauchi(16), Katsina(16), Kano(14), FCT(10), Rivers(10), Kwara (9), Delta(5), Kaduna(5),  Sokoto (4), Oyo(4), Kebbi(3), Nasarawa (3), Osun(3), Ondo(2), Ebonyi(1), Edo(1), Enugu (1), Anambra(1), Plateau (1), Niger (1).

It said the total number of COVID-19 cases in the country has increased to 4,971.

Data from the centre’s website showed that six new COVID-19 fatalities were recorded in the country.

Also, 111 patients were discharged after testing negative twice for the virus, making the total number of recoveries rise to 1070.

STATE HOUSE PRESS RELEASE: THREE OF FIVE FG PRIORITY PROJECTS TO DRAW FROM ABACHA LOOT

STATE HOUSE PRESS RELEASE

THREE OF FIVE FG PRIORITY PROJECTS TO DRAW FROM ABACHA LOOT

 

The recently repatriated Sani Abacha loot will go towards three of @NigeriaGov’s five priority projects, excluding the Mambilla power and East-West road projects.

In an earlier statement, I had mistakenly noted that the Mambilla Project was one of five priority projects to benefit from the $311 million Abacha loot under the Presidential Infrastructure Development Fund (PIDF) managed by @nsia_nigeria. That error is regretted. 

According to the document, only the second Niger bridge, Abuja-Kaduna-Kano expressway, and Lagos-Ibadan expressway will benefit from the repatriated funds. The funds are domiciled in the NSIA.

All print and online media should please take note of this correction and make the necessary adjustments to their previous publications on the issue. 

Thank you. 

Garba Sheu

SSA, Media & Publicity 

COVID-19: Ekiti To Begin Random Testing For Residents

To avert the community spread of the dreadful COVID-19 pandemic, the Ekiti State government would next week begin random testing for residents across the state.

The government also restated its commitment not to allow security agencies enforcing the lockdown to infringe on the rights of the suspected offenders in the state.

The Commissioner for Health, Dr Mojisola Yaya-Kolade spoke in Ado Ekiti, yesterday while giving an update on the COVID-19 report in the state.

The commissioner added that all the claims by institutions that they have produced an herbal cure for COVID-19 must be scrutinised and make to pass through medical screening before approval.

She said the random testing, which will be done across the 16 local government areas and which must be undertaken in view of the geometric increase in number of COVID-19 victims, will not be done by coercion, but through sensitisation and volition.

Yaya-Kolade revealed that the state would soon set up a molecular laboratory to boost the state’s testing capacity, so that many people can know their statuses and be aware of their safety.

The Commissioner stated that the state presently has only five patients in the isolation centre, which she said are stable, responding to treatment and asymptomatic.

“We are still tracing some contacts and we are expecting our molecular laboratory soon just as we are still preaching prevention and containment through usage of masks and keep to personal hygiene and social financing. (Vanguard)