Nigerian Gazette

Group condemns EFCC invasion of Ibadan club house, calls for caution A Civil Society Organisation (CSO), Justice For All Nations (JFAN) has condemned yesterday’s invasion of a club in Ibadan, Oyo State by operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), describing it as capable of collapsing business activities in the city. In a release issued on Sunday, and signed by its Coordinator, Dr. Dada Popoola, JFAN, which called for caution concerning the EFCC operations, questioned the propriety and legality of the EFCC sending its operatives to raid relaxation centres, injuring people, including waiters and whisking them away in handcuffs like common criminals. The group called on the EFCC Acting Chairman, Ibrahim Magu, to caution his men so as not to turn the respected agency to an object of ridicule and attacks by the public. JFAN, which said the EFCC was fast taking over the barbaric acts of Police State Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS), said it was wrong for operatives of the ...

Fayemi's Sacking Episode; A killing Spree There is no gainsaying in the fact that the second coming of Fayemi as the executive governor of Ekiti state is a wind that blows nobody good. This could be seeing in the spate at which disengagement/ sack letters has become a daily meal to Ekiti workers, in other words,it could be termed as a revisit of political vendetta on his perceived political enemies by extension pulling down of the already in place structures of past administration which has been  extended to the workforce which he believed are beneficiaries of last administration efforts in putting smiles in people's face through massive employment and infrastructural developments. His dangling axe of retrenchment was first tested on those employed few months into the expiration of last administration into the Teaching Service and SUBEB claiming their employment to be irregular. His last and recent disengagement exercise was planned and hatched in Ekiti State University where o...