Nigerian Gazette

Atiku Abubakar Presidential Campaign Organisation has advised those urging the presidential candidate of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to put the outcome of the 2019 election behind him not to forget that democracy grants him the liberty to exhaust the legal option in his pursuit of justice. Spokesman of the organisation, Segun Sowunmi, stated this, yesterday, in Abuja during a media parley. According to him, it is too early to ask Atiku to withdraw his case because those asking him to prepare to test the waters again in 2023 do not know how “emotionally and financially draining” the presidential contest is.   He said: “Men must be fearful of playing God, for God will be eternal and omnipotent, omnipresent and he is the absolute ruler over the affairs of men. We are yet to bury the carcass of 2019, so it is too early to start to speculate about 2023. “In any case, what is important is that democracy is not a relay race where you take a baton and give it to the next person; it is n...

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Ekiti PDP Media Group slams Fayemi over stoppage of “N50 per pupil” school feeding programme  The Ekiti State Chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party National New Media Group (PDP-NNMG) has described the stoppage of the School Feeding Programme launched on May 7, 2019 by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo as another clear manifestation that the programme was designed to loot public fund. The PDP-NNMG, which said food vendors had stopped participating in the programme because of the ridiculous amount they were being paid, disclosed that a sum of N35, 000 was being paid to feed 70 pupils for 10 days, “meaning that N50 was provided for the feeding of one pupil per day.” In a statement on Monday, the Ekiti State Coordinator of the PDP-NNMG, Bola Agboola asked; “what manner of food can N50 provide for a child in this present day Nigeria?”  The Ekiti PDP media group said it was unspeakable that a government, which claimed to be fighting corruption, could display sumptuous meals for pupils...

Ijaw Youths decries marginalization in NNPC employment exercise, want shortlisted candidates published The Ijaw Youth Council (IYC) has decried what it described as marginalization of the Ijaw nation in the ongoing employment exercise in the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), demanding that names and states of origin of candidates shortlisted for interview must be published in national dailies. IYC President, Pereotubo R. Oweilaemi, who made this call in a release issued on Sunday, said that not more than ten persons from Bayelsa, Delta and Rivers States put together were shortlisted, while states in the Northern and Western parts of the Country got more than twenty slots each. He said; "We have been reliably informed by competent sources within the NNPC that the Parastatal has shortlisted candidates for its ongoing employment exercise.  "However, to our chagrin, not more than ten persons from Bayelsa, Delta and Rivers States put together are featured in the list...

Unknown to many Nigerians, apart from his involvement in professional misconduct while in the USA, Majority Leader of the House of Representatives, Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila was  involved in Social Security scam.  Femi Gbaja, as he was known then used the Social Security Numbers (SSN) 256-67-6946 and 250-76-7891 belonging to one MILDRED E.BLAKENEY who died on 02/07/1995 at the age of 69. The SSN 256-67-6946 was issued in Georgia between 1988-1989 while SSN 250-76-7891 was issued in South Carolina in 1962. This and many others were revealed by Basah Mohammed, who is the editor of Corruption Reporter Communications Limited in a petition to the All Progressives Congress (APC) National Chairman, Adams Oshiomhole, dated 23rd May 2019.  Oshiomhole was told in a fresh petition that the outgoing House leader lacks the reputation to hold the office of the number four person in the country.  The petition follows a court action initiated by a taxpayer, Philip Undie to stop Gbajabi...

Zamfara Gov, Yari plotting manipulation of Friday’s Supreme Court Judgment, Northern Youths Allege The Northern Youths Movement (NYM) has accused the Zamfara State Governor, Abdul’aziz Yari of abandoning the people of the State and running to Saudi Arabia to plot manipulation of the Supreme Court judgment on the dispute over the validity of the All Progressives Congress, APC, primary elections that produced the candidate fielded by the party in the last general elections.  The youths, which berated the governor for abandoning the people of Zamfara to killings by armed bandits, alleged that the governor, who is banking on legal technicalities, travelled to Saudi Arabia to persuade President Buhari to tie confirmation of the Acting Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN, Justice Tanko Mohammed to ensuring that the Friday judgment is in favour of his (Yari) APC faction in Zamfara. They said even though the Zamfara APC case is not different from that of Rivers State, and INEC already confirmed ...

The Ekiti State Chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party National New Media Group(PDP-NNMG) has condemned in strong terms, the mindless retrenchment of about 2000 workers employed into Teaching and Civil Services of the State during the immediate past Peter Ayodele Fayose administration. The group which described Fayemi's action as one filled with vile, hate, wickedness and vendetta asked the governor to be reminded about the ephemeral nature of power and authority stressing that it is only a matter of time before the governor's heinous actions are brought under review since nothing lasts forever. The group said Ekiti State has never been so divided since its creation, stressing that the seed of discord being sowed amongst indigenes of the singular most homogeneous state in Nigeria by the governor be stopped forthwith. It would be recalled that the Ayo Fayose administration recruited about 2000 junior and senior workers to fill vacancies in the state government workforce in an e...

Fayose's Trial: After arrest and detention, EFCC "forces" witness to write new statement against Fayose A few days after a Prosecution Witness in the trial of former Ekiti State governor , Mr Ayodele Fayose contradicted his extrajudicial statement to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, by telling the court that he did not move cash from Afao Ekiti, Fayose's hometown on the 16th of June 2014 and that the two vehicles he used to drive in Zenith Bank were grounded  on that day, the witness has been made to write a new statement, alleging that he was threatened by the former governor. The witness, Mr Adewale Aladegbola Clement,  a former driver to Zenith Bank Ado -Ekiti branch, who gave evidence on Friday, as the second witness was arrested by the EFCC and detained for hours last Friday, after giving testimony before Justice Mojisola Olatoregun. On Friday evening, his wife, Olajumoke Aladegbola, had raised the alarm that she couldn’t reach her husband sinc...

For insisting that Fulani herdsmen must be registered in Ekiti, the State Governor, Kayode Fayemi has suspended Sola Durodola, Coordinator of Anti-Grazing Task Force Marshals. Durodola had disclosed to reporters on Saturday, that Governor Fayemi, in a bid to stem herdsmen attack on farmers and residents, the State government will conduct a registration of herdsmen in Ekiti. He explained that the registration of the herdsmen would assist the government to know their number and be able to trace any act of criminality carried out by any of them in any part of the state. However, this report drew the ire of Fayemi, who had earlier warned the Anti-Grazing Coordinator never to engage in anything that will portray the government as being anti-herdsmen. A government house source said Governor Fayemi was particularly angry that the newspaper report on registration of herdsmen in Ekiti will anger President Buhari as well as the presidency cabal. "Anything against Fulani herdsmen is a direct...

 The Speaker of the Akwa Ibom State House of Assembly, Mr Onofiok Luke has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to be neutral in tackling the lingering insecurity problem in the country.  Speaking during the Workers Day Celebration in Uyo, Luke said party lines must be secondary in fighting the deteriorating security situation in the country.  “I have a message for the leaders of Nigeria on this Workers Day. The time has come that the leaders must put their hands together and look beyond party lines.” Speaking further, Mr Luke added. “We need a bi-partisan approach to solving the crises which we are facing in the country. Today there is insecurity in Nigeria, and it is affecting everyone; it is affecting the workers.”  “I urge the president to rise and mobilise the entire leadership of Nigeria, the entire workers, so that we can put a stop to this insecurity.”  “Without security in the country, there is not going to be foreign direct investment. Without foreign dire...