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As part of its efforts to combat insecurity, the Ekiti State Government has said it plans to acquire a sophisticated drone to complement the one it currently has. Similarly, the Ogun State Government says it is considering deploying closed-circuit television in some critical areas in the state.
The Special Adviser on Security Matters to Governor Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti State, Brig.-Gen. Ebenezer Ogundana (retd), said government had begun negotiations with a vendor for the purchase of a more sensitive drone to meet the security needs of the state, especially with the peculiar nature of its environment.
Sanwo-Olu, Fayemi, welcome New Year babies
Abiodun Nejo
Wives of the governors of Lagos and Ekiti states, Dr Ibijoke Sanwo-Olu and Bisi Fayemi, respectively, on Friday, welcomed and presented gifts to babies born on New Year’s Day in their states.
Sanwo-Olu welcomed the babies in four state-owned health facilities, namely Mushin General Hospital, Alimosho General Hospital, Orile Agege General Hospital and Ayinke House, Lagos State University Teaching Hospital.
According to a statement, baby Amao, a male who weighed 3kg and wad given birth to at exactly 12:01am by Mrs Tomilola Amao, was the first baby of the year at Mushin General Hospital.
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Abiodun Nejo, Ado Ekiti
VETERAN journalist and public relations expert, Chief Femi Ajayi, has expressed the need to encourage the culture of reading among Nigerians, saying such will contribute largely to the fight to eradicate social vices among the younger ones.
Ajayi said it was in a bid to redirect the attention of children of school age to reading that he constructed a library in Oye Ekiti in Ekiti State to help raise educated future leaders who might not have the opportunity to full time educational training instructions.
The public relations expert, who spoke while handing over the library to the state government, urged maximum maintenance of the facility, even as he solicited support from the government to ensure community-based private public libraries in the 16 local government areas of the state.
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Abiodun Nejo, Ado Ekiti
The organised labour in Ekiti State has resolved to mobile for protest in the first week of January to press home its demand for the payment of minimum wage and consequential adjustment to public sector workers.
The organised labour, comprising Nigeria Labour Congress, Trade Union Council and Joint Negotiating Council .rose from a meeting on Tuesday, insisting on payment of the minimum wage as agreed between the state government and organised labour last Tuesday ad implementation effective from January.
Trouble started on Thursday last week when labour accused the state government of bringing in fresh proposal as against the one earlier agreed upon.