Nigerian Gazette

27th November, 2017 Ekiti State Police Command, Ado-Ekiti, has invited Governor Ayodele Fayose's media aide, Lere Olayinka, and three others to answer charges against them by Ado-Ekiti lawyer, Adeoye Aribasoye, over alleged violation of Cybercrime Act. In the petition to the Commissioner of Police by his lawyer, A.A Daramola, Aribasoye complained that Olayinka and three others were engaged in alleged incessant criminal attacks founded on falsehood against some eminent personalities who are his guarantors, the consequence of which he had missed many opportunities that would have accrued to him if Olayinka and others had not tarnished their image, contrary to Section 24 of the Cybercrimes (Prohibition, Prevention ETC) Act 2015. Investigation revealed that the petition had been referred by the Commissioner of Police to the OC SIB for investigation. It was also learnt that OC SIB had written an invitation letter to Olayinka while three others' Bola Agboola, Debola Akingba...

28th November, 2017 Olufemi Alonso "Tolerance is the positive and cordial effort to understand another's beliefs, practices, and habits without necessarily sharing or accepting them" - Joshua Liebman. This would be the second time that I would pen on the political immaturity and intolerance among members of the main opposition party in Ekiti State. My first article on this matter was written in August last year when the spokesman of the party in the state, Chief Taiwo Olatunbosun reported my able friend, Bola Agboola to the Nigeria police for posting negative stories on social media against APC and President Muhammadu Buhari. In the article, I was able to explain how weak and intolerant most members of APC were and how Dr. Kayode Fayemi, the former governor of the state ignorantly elevated Lere Olayinka. I said in the piece that Lere Olayinka would continue to be grateful to God for using Fayemi to boost his profile. Had it been Fayemi did not arrest Lere in ...

26th November, 2017 At least 10,000 indigent children in Ekiti State will be provided Christmas dress made from ankara and other materials during the yuletide season. The State Governor, Chief Ayodele Fayose, disclosed this during a meeting with tailors in Ado-Ekiti. In a press release by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr Idowu Adelusi, the sewing and distribution of the clothes would take place in designated centres across the 16 local government areas of the state. Moreover, the governor said he would buy 100 sewing machines to complement those to be used by volunteer tailors during the exercise. The 100 sewing machines would later be given out to tailors through a transparent balloting process. “When we were young, we always looked forward to the Christmas and New Year festivities that at least our parents would buy clothes for us. But with the prevailing economic situation in the country, some parents may not be able to do that and we felt we can help to bridge such gap....

26th November, 2017 At least 10,000 indigent children in Ekiti State will be provided Christmas dress made from ankara and other materials during the yuletide season. The State Governor, Chief Ayodele Fayose, disclosed this during a meeting with tailors in Ado-Ekiti. In a press release by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr Idowu Adelusi, the sewing and distribution of the clothes would take place in designated centres across the 16 local government areas of the state. Moreover, the governor said he would buy 100 sewing machines to complement those to be used by volunteer tailors during the exercise. The 100 sewing machines would later be given out to tailors through a transparent balloting process. “When we were young, we always looked forward to the Christmas and New Year festivities that at least our parents would buy clothes for us. But with the prevailing economic situation in the country, some parents may not be able to do that and we felt we can help to bridge such gap. ...

Bola Agboola 21st November, 2017 Students under the Aegis of Combined Leadership of Ekiti Students' Movement on Tuesday commended the Ekiti State governor, Mr. Ayodele Fayose for the passage into law of a bill prescribing death penalty for cultists in the state. Members of National Association of Nigerian Students' Joint Campus Committee and the leadership of the Ekiti State University, College of Education Ikere Ekiti, Federal Polythecnic, Ado Ekiti, and College of Health Technology, Ijero Ekiti Students' Union Government gave the commendation during a solidarity rally to the Ekiti State governor's office today. The student leaders who started the rally in their hundreds from Fajuyi Park area of Ado-Ekiti marched to the governor's office with banners and placards appreciating Mr. Fayose for saving their lives by criminalising cultism in Ekiti institutions. National President of the Federation of Ekiti State Students' Union (FESSU) Comrade Adewumi...

Youths in the All Progressives Congress (APC), in Ekiti State, under the aegis of Ekiti APC Youths Congress (EAYC) have described reports that Minister of Mines and Steel Development, Dr Kayode Fayemi has tipped the National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP), Prince Dayo Adeyeye, as his running mate if he emerges as the APC governorship candidate in the 2018 election as unacceptable to the generality of youths in the party. The EAYC said in a press statement issued after its monthly meeting in Ado-Ekiti on Thursday that the governorship candidate of the APC must come from the Southern senatorial district of the State, and not the North where Fayemi hails from. According to the statement jointly signed by Mr Tope Ogunkuade and Comrade Tunji Adeleye, EAYC Convener and Secretary respectively, the APC was in need of quality people in the Southern Senatorial district to fly its flag in the 2018 election and if not that Adeyeye is already above 60 years, the...

Barring any last minute change of plans, the incumbent National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Prince Adedayo Adeyeye, is poised to emerge as running mate to Minister of Mines and Steel Development, Dr Kayode Fayemi, who is as good as clinching the All Progressives Congress, APC gubernatorial ticket. Dr Fayemi and Prince Adeyeye met in Abuja a few days ago where the deal to use him (Adeyeye) as running mate and the APC governorship candidate in 2022 was sealed. Already, Fayemi has secured the nod of President Muhammadu Buhari to contest the 2018 governorship election. The former Ekiti State governor was given go-ahead when he met the President alongside the Governor of Ondo State, Mr Rotimi Akeredolu on October 3, 2017. A close associate of Fayemi who craved anonymity disclosed to our reporter that the meeting between Adeyeye and Fayemi was brokered by a former Southwest governor, who is aggrieved about Governor Ayodele Fayose’s choice of his depu...