An important feature of the state is the large number of hills it possesses, which are often the site of towns in which much of the population resides. The State enjoys a tropical climate with two distinct seasons.
These are the rainy season April — October and the dry season November — March. Temperature ranges between 21oC and 28oC with high humidity. The south — westerly winds and the North East Trade winds blow in the raining and dry Harmattan seasons respectively.
Tropical Forest exists in the south, while guinea savanna predominates in the northern peripheries. Agriculture is the main occupation of the people of Ekiti, and it is the major source of income for many in the state. A detailed list of agricultural produce is contained in the tables below. Ekiti is rich in natural mineral resources, with several of these yet to be tapped.
Fortunately, she did not have to wait for days before receiving her test result. Antigen-based rapid diagnostic test Ag-RDT is new diagnostic tool which is fast and an easy-to-deploy generates result in minutes and a viable alternative to molecular-based platforms for confirming COVID cases. The antigen RDT was deployed to the Primary Health Care PHC level to enhance testing at community levels, making testing nearer to the people, improve result turnaround time and enable quick management decisions.
However, there had been challenges such as accesst0 the test and the long result turnaround time. It posed the challenge for timely result turnover, especially at the PHC levels, where even symptomatic cases have had to wait for a minimum of 3- 4 days to know their COVID status. Also, some clients had to travel long distances from their settlements to the few sample collection sites, to submit samples for PCR tests as the only Real-time PCR testing facility is located in Ado Ekiti, the state capital.
On average, it takes a minimum of 3days to get results depending on the number of samples collected. The introduction of the Ag-RDT has contributed greatly to increasing access to testing, as they can be utilized at the point of care and results are released quickly. Nigeria as at 19 September , has reported , cases with deaths.
But with the introduction of the Ag-RDT testing in Week24 June which concided with the onset of the Covid third wave, there has been a steady increase in testing and confirmed cases in the state amounting to Statistics from Ekiti Sitrep.
In addition, all towns in Ekiti State take a common suffix, "Ekiti," after their names. The people of Ekiti State live mainly in towns. Ekiti as a nation and districts of Yoruba race had her progeny in Oduduwa, the father and progenitor of Yoruba race. Just like every major subethnic division in Yorubaland. Ekiti has her origin from Ile-Ife the cradle land of Yorubaland. The Olofin, one of the sons of the Oduduwa had sixteen 16 children and in the means of searching for the new land to develop, they all journeyed out of Ile-Ife as they walked through the Iwo - Eleru crave near Akure and had stop over at a place called Igbo-Aka forest of termites closer to Ile-Oluji.
The Olofin, the sixteen children and some other beloved people continued with their journey, but when they got to a particular lovely and flat land, the Owa-Obokun the monachy of Ijesha land and Orangun of Ila decided to stay in the present Ijesha and Igomina land of in Osun state.
While the remaining fourteen 14 children continued with the journey and later settled in the present day Ekiti land. They discovered that there were many hills in the place and they said in their mother's language that this is 'Ile olokiti' the land of hills. Therefore the Okiti later blended to EkitiI. So Ekiti derived her name through hills. Memories Overview Gallery People Find. Sign in Create Account. Family Tree.
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