Nigerian Gazette

Youths in the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the State, under the aegis of Ekiti APC Youths Congress (EAYC) have warned leaders of the party against any unnecessary protests aimed at causing chaos in the State. The youths said three buses loaded with thugs arrived Iyin-Ekiti today and challenged leaders of the party to put their own children forward to lead whatever protest they were planning before expecting youths in the party to join them. In a press statement issued on Friday and jointly signed by Mr Tope Ogunkuade and Comrade Tunji Adeleye, Convener and Secretary respectively, the EAYC cautioned youths in the APC against participating in any protest being planned to create anarchy in the State with a view to imposing emergency rule. They alleged that the protest being planned for next week was meant to be bloody, with some APC vehicles to be destroyed so as to create tension in the State, cautioning that no responsible youth in the APC should present himself to be ...

Ekiti State Governor, Mr Ayodele Fayose has said that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) is only on wild goose chase in the State, noting that "the anti corruption commission has now shifted attention to the finances of Ekiti State after its failure to establish any link between him and fund from the Office of the National Security Adviser under Col Sambo Dasuki (rtd)." The governor who was speaking on Orange FM radio station in Akure, Ondo State today, said the EFCC was now harassing banks in Ekiti, seeking for records  of government finances and chasing contractors, claiming that the contractors gave him kickback. "They are on vendetta mission.They said I collected money from Dasuki and I have told them that I did not collect a dime from Dasuki. I have N300 million in my fixed Deposit Account in Zenith Bank and I declared it in my Assets Declaration Form. "I have challenged them to publish the statement made to the EFCC by Dasuki where he...

The political hues about Abuja-Kaduna rail has been laid to rest by the company that handled the project. When contacted on phone by Nigerian Mirror Abuja correspondent, Kunle Adaranijo for clarification, NM source in CRCC said the project was initiated, started and completed by President Goodluck Jonathan, and not by this present administration as erroneously claimed in some quarters. His words, "the project started in 2011 and completed in 2014." Read the story as reported by Chinese media house Shanghai Daily: Chinese firm rounds off track-laying work in Nigeria's first standard rail project Dec 01,2014 ABUJA, Dec. 1 (Xinhua) -- Chinese rail construction giant China Railway Construction Corporation (CRCC) on Monday officially rounded off the track laying work of Nigeria's first standard gauge railway modernization project linking the capital city Abuja and the northwestern state of Kaduna. With Nigeria's Minister of Transport Idris Umar tighteni...

•Former President Goodluck Jonathan’s men are being held or prosecuted by the Buhari-led administration for alleged corruption •He has now been reportedly fingered by the All Progressives Congress (APC) in an allegation the party is making against Governor Mimiko •The party is threatening to invite the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to Ondo state to probe its allegation against the governor Former President Goodluck Jonathan has again been drawn into allegations against Governor Olusegun Mimiko by the All Progressives Congress (APC). Governor Olusegun-Mimiko is alleged to have spent state allocation for re-election This time, the ex-president is accused of approving a huge sum drawn from the federal purse to the governor for him to prosecute his second term election in the state. The APC in Ondo state has put the sum at N15 billion spent by Governor Mimiko for his re-election in 2012. Political activities are daily heating up in the state ahead of the the...

Ekiti State Government has distributed over 2.2 million naira compensation to the 27 people that would be affectded in the dualization of Ise Ekiti township road. The governor was welcomed by the people of Ise Ekiti in their large numbers. Performing the ceremony at Ise Ekiti, Governor Fayose said that despite pucity of funds, he would continue to have impact in all the communities in the state. He added that the project was another promise kept, the governor also promise to work on some failed portions of the road leading to Ise town to be able to give the dualized road a good look. Some beneficiaries Mr Bayode Afolabi and Gabriel Owoseni whose shops and houses were affected thanked the governor for the compensation. In his response, Kabiyesi, Arinjale of Ise Ekiti appreciates the effort of the Governor for bringing road dualization to Ado Ekiti in his first term in office and for extending the good gesture to five different Local Government Headquaters in the state in his s...

Quest for the governorship ticket of the All Progressives Congress (APC) towards the 2018 gubernatorial election in Ekiti State is now tearing the party apart as two senatorial chairmen of the party have been axed. The party's Vice Chairman (North Senatorial district), Mr Wale Aina has been expelled while his counterpart for Ekiti Central, Chief Femi George Ojo (Saribi) was suspended. The duo were accused of working against the governorship ambition of the Minister for Solid Minerals, Dr Kayode Fayemi. Wale Aina who is from Moba Local Government was expelled for allegedly working for a certain governorship aspirant from Omuo Ekiti, Ekiti East Local Government while Chief George Ojo was suspected to be working for the former governorship aspirant of the Labour Party (LP), Hon Opeyemi Bamidele. Both George Ojo and Opeyemi Bamidele are from Iyin Ekiti, Irepodun Ifelodun Local Government Area. Though the suspension of George Ojo and expulsion of Wale Aina is being kept aw...

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has lambasted President Muhammadu Buhari and the All Progressive Congress (APC) for appropriating the Abuja - Kaduna Standard Gauge Rail Line Project which was conceptualized, awarded and constructed by the PDP's administrations. The Party in a Statement by its Chief Spokesman, Prince Dayo Adeyeye on Wednesday, July 27, 2016 said, the Rail Project was conceptualized by the Obasanjo Administration and successive PDP administrations of President Umaru Yar'Adua and Goodluck Jonathan, commenced work and built the Project to 99% completion saying that the only work done by President Muhammadu Buhari on the project was yesterday's Commissioning. The Party said the usual rhetoric  of the APC had always been that the 16 years of PDP's rule were years of waste asking if the Railway Project was also a waste? "The truth which history will bear out is that the PDP in its 16 years of rule successfully completed numerous projects that subst...