Kwara State’s Community Health Insurance Scheme secured more global acclaim on Tuesday when it won a finalist prize at the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development(OECD) Development Assistance Committee awards for taking development initiative to scale. The scheme which entitles beneficiaries to subsidized year round basic healthcare for a N500 premium had earlier received commendation from the UN and Bill ... Read More »
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Picture of the day- Kwara State Governor Alhaji Abdulfatah, former Governor of the state, Senator Bukola Saraki and Mr. Onno Schellekens, CEO of PharmaAccess discussing the Gone unity Health Insurance Scheme at the Paris HQ of OECD.. today
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Only trouble makers are leaving Ekiti, Fayose replies Falana
Ekiti State Governor-Elect, Mr Ayodele Fayose, has denied the claim by Lagos-based lawyer, Mr Femi Falana (SAN) that people are relocating from the state in large number because of his impending inauguration as the governor. Speaking in Ado-Ekiti on Tuesday through his Chief Press Secretary, Mr Idowu Adelusi, he described the claim by the lawyer as irrational, bunkum and baseless. ... Read More »
PDP is planning another insurrection in Ekiti -APC
The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ekiti State has accused the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) of planning another fresh insurrection in the state, with the aim of intimidating everyone into submission towards the October 16 handing over to the PDP candidate, Dr. Ayodele Fayose. In a release signed by the APC Publicity Secretary in the state, Taiwo Olatubosun, the party ... Read More »
Gov Ahmed, Mo Ibrahim to discuss Africa’s Future at OECD New World Forum in Paris
Kwara State Governor, Alhaji Abdulfatah Ahmed and renowned African Entrepreneur, Mo Ibrahim are among a high-powered panel scheduled to discuss new pathways to African growth and development at the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development(OECD) New World Forum, holding in Paris 7-8 October 2014. The discussion, tagged Africa: The Future is Now will explore among others whether Africa is taking ... Read More »
Tinubu, Ladoja and Obasanjo’s Discussions.
On Thursday APC National Leader, Bola Tinubu, told the Press “We have come to consult him (Obasanjo) as some of his former boys are contesting in our party. We need to know what he thinks about them”. An authoritative source close to the meeting has however revealed that Alhaji Tinubu was not telling the truth. “The meeting he had with ... Read More »
PDP Writes Chief justice of Nigeria over plan to abort Fayose’s Inauguration.
The Ekiti State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has written the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Alooma Mukthar, of plans by the Ekiti State Chief Judge, Justice Ayodeji Daramola, to connive with the outgoing governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi, to abort the inauguration of the Governor-Elect, Mr Ayo Fayose, on October 16, this year. In the letter entitled ‘Another ... Read More »
Fayose faults Fayemi’s appointment of new permanent secretaries
Ekiti State Governor-Elect, Mr Ayo Fayose, has faulted the appointment of new permanent secretaries by the outgoing administration of Governor Kayode Fayemi, saying Fayemi is engrossed with playing politics with issues that have dire consequences on the welfare of the state. Fayose, in a statement in Ado-Ekiti on Thursday by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr Idowu Adelusi, said recent actions ... Read More »
Breaking: I’M STILL ALIVE, says Shekau look-alike in new video
A man claiming to be Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau has dismissed Nigerian military’s claims of his death in a new video obtained today by AFP. He said in the video that the militants had implemented strict Islamic law in captured towns. “Here I am, alive. I will only die the day Allah takes my breath,” Shekau said in the ... Read More »
Sad!Dimeji bankole loses 7year old daughter to sicklecell
This is the release from the family YEWANDE SEMIAT BANKOLE – 7yrs- Female. With gratitude to Almighty Allah and with heavy hearts we announce the demise of our daughter Yewande Semiat Bankole aged 7yrs at a London hospital. Yewande is the grand daughter of Chief Alani Suara Bankole and the daughter of Rt Hon. Dimeji Sabur Bankole. Yewande was born ... Read More »