Environment

Ekiti Govt. Increases Salary of Street Sweepers

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Ekiti State government has procured additional four new heavy-duty waste trucks.

The government has also increased the salary of over seven hundred street sweepers in the state to enhance waste management and environmental sanitation.

Unveiling the new waste trucks in Ado-Ekiti, Chief of Staff to the Governor, Mr Oyeniyi Adebayo said the initiative was part of the efforts of Governor Biodun Oyebanji in ensuring a cleaner and healthier environment.

He charged residents to join hands with the state government in its efforts to manage waste, reduce environmental pollution and mitigate the effects of climate change.

On her part, the Commissioner for Environment and Natural Resources, Mrs Tosin Aluko observed that acquisition of additional waste trucks would enable the agency to cover more grounds, respond faster to waste collection needs and improve the cleanliness of the state.

Also, the Director General,  Ekiti State Waste Management Authority EKSWAMA, Mr Olasunkanmi Onipede explained that the new equipment would improve the agency’s efforts of refuse collection and disposal to address the challenges in waste management.

He announced that the governor had also increased the salaries of sweepers, operatives, supervisors and drivers in the agency for the second time to enhance its drive for a cleaner and healthier environment in Ekiti.

According to Mr Onipede, Ekiti State had over 700 sweepers, including operatives and the drivers.

 He noted that the sweepers were formerly earning twelve thousand naira (12,000), but the governor had increased their salary to thirty five thousand naira (35,000). 

Governor Oyebanji has equally jacked up the salaries of operatives from twenty thousand naira to fifty thousand naira, drivers from twenty five thousand naira to fifty thousand naira, and the Supervisors from fifteen thousand naira to forty thousand naira.

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Economy

We have distributed all COVID-19 palliatives – Ekiti Govt.

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Ekiti State Government says all COVID palliatives donated to the state have been distributed.

This is contained in a Press Release by the Commissioner for Information and Values Orientation, Mr Akinbowale Omole

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 PRESS RELEASE 

NO COVID-19 PALLIATIVES LEFT IN EKITI STATE, NO PALLIATIVES WAREHOUSE 

The attention of the Government of Ekiti State has been drawn to plans by some hoodlums to storm some warehouses in the state under the guise of looking for Covid-19 palliatives believed to be stored in warehouses in the state.

The Government would like to state categorically that ALL palliatives donated to the state have been successfully distributed to various categories of residents including 

16 Local Government areas in the State (collected by LG teams), Senior Citizens, Market Women, Various associations (Unions, women’s groups, artisans, etc),Youth groups, NGOs, Widows, Churches, Mosques, Landlord Associations, Community Leaders, Traditional Rulers, Transport Unions, State orphanages and special schools, Communities in Farmsteads, Security Officers and other vulnerable persons during the lockdown period. 

These facts can be verified from all the beneficiary groups listed. 

We therefore caution those involved in the plan to desist from any attempt to invade any location under the guise of looking for COVID-19 palliatives in Ekiti State.

Government has a responsibility to protect citizens’ lives and property and will not condone any brigandage in any part of the state.

Signed: 

Mr Akinbowale Omole

Honourable Commissioner for Information and Values Orientation

Education

Ekiti Govt. to Develop Curriculum with Focus on Science and Technology

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Ekiti State Government says it will develop a curriculum that will focus on the teaching of science and technology oriented subject’s right from the basic level of education to tertiary levels.

Governor Kayode Fayemi made this known at the distribution of science equipment worth about ten million Naira to Public Secondary Schools in Ado-Ekiti.

Represented by the Deputy Governor Otunba Bisi Egbeyemi, Governor Fayemi said that the step was aimed at meeting the global best practices in the teaching of Science subjects.

He explained that all teachers would also be trained in compliance with global standards of teaching Science subjects, while the students would be given easy access to the use of Science equipment. Earlier, the Commissioner for Education, Science, and Technology, Mr. Foluso Daramola urged the benefiting schools to make proper use of equipment in order to meet the government expectations on education.