Nigerian Gazette

Owa of Ilogbo-Ekiti hails South West Governors on Operation Amotekun The Owa of Ilogbo-Ekiti, Oba (Dr) Edward Ajayi has commended the south West governors on establishment of the new security outfit in the region, "Operation Amotekun" ,saying they took right action at the right time. The monarch commended the governors recently in Ilogbo-Ekiti, during the  thanksgiving ceremony of 25th anniversary of his coronation. He said he was in support of Amotekun because it would help to combat the insecurity in the region. While giving thanks to God at Christ Apostolic Church, Oke Ooye, Ilogbo-Ekiti, the king beseeched all indigenes of the town to see love as their watchword and to always find fact, before reacting to issues, adding that a community where its people love themselves will be living in unity.   The monarch ,who was chased out of the town in 2018 by some irate youths when a problem ensued between one of his sons and the community youths,said he had a joyous and glorified ...

Your wife is Guilty of Irregular Appointment, Disengaged staff Tell VC, Accuse Fayemi's Spokesperson of Telling lies  The Ekiti workers travails which led to unending lies being peddled around by the government functionaries depicted  a clear case of the uninformed to be dishing out misinformation. This case can be attested to through the reaction of the  Commissioner for Information to Ekiti State Government, Hon Muyiwa Olumilua who displayed a crass ignorance of the happenings among the workforce and this singular act has put paid to the insinuations surrounding the unjust disengagement of certain workforce in Ekiti State that the state government is the master minder and the executioner of the said development especially the scenario in Ekiti State University where some group of workers were targeted for undue relieve of their jobs and for just no cause or tangible reasons..  The commissioner in his reaction made categorical statements against these innocent worke...

Call for Audit of FASA Account, Long Overdue -Stakeholders  Stakeholders in Faculty of Arts Students Association, (FASA) have applauded the unanimous decision of the faculty management to audit the account of the Association today. This is coming after a wide agitations from Fasaites to Faculty management to scrutinize the account of the Association given the alleged of misappropriation of funds. The stakeholders made this known today after a joint sitting to review the postmortem result of the suspended Fasa election. The meeting which was well attended by students across all the departments, examined the remote and immediate causes of the poor preparation of Electoral Committee which led to suspension of FASA election. The stakeholders said Comr. Oba should be made to give account of his stewardship and held accountable for any misappropriation to serve as a deterrent for others if found guilty in the course scrutinising the account. The stakeholders said they were convinced...

FASA Election: Stakeholders Allege Conspiracy to Install O’FOUR by Electoral Committee, calls for Review of Committee Stakeholders in Four Departments, Theatre Arts, Philosophy, Religious studies of the Ekiti State University, Ado Ekiti have condemned in its entirety the ill- preparedness of the Electoral Committee, headed by the SUB-DEAN of Faculty of Arts, Dr. Titi Falana, adding that conspiracy to impose O’FOUR for whatever reasons will not see the light of the day. The Faculty of Arts Students Association (FASA) election was suspended by the Dean of faculty after controversies on criteria for voting today. Addressing students after the suspension of the election, today, they said the Chairman of the Electoral Committee; Dr. Titi Falana was not fit to conduct credible election. “Today, we have seen the conspiracy between the Electoral Committee Chairman, Dr. Titi Falana, EKSU-SU President, Mr. Gbadero and the incumbent Faculty President, Mr. Oba to install unpopular candidate agains...

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...

RE: Eleka in a "Come-and-Chop arrangement with Makinde"......a balderdash - Oluwole Olusola The founding father of Ekiti Grassroots Movement, Hon. Oluwole Olusola has called on well meaning indigenes of Ekiti to disregard the poorly constructed propaganda being circulated by some faceless miscreants to downplay the integrity of Prof. Kolapo Olusola who has served Ekiti selflessly, adding that Fayemi has failed in his responsibility to deliver on his campaign promises. In a text message received from Oluwole yesterday, he challenged the faceless group and those behind it to identify themselves and stop acting cowardly. "We know the poorly constructed write up emanated from some disgruntled elements in the APC who are seeking relevance after being denied access by their pay master, Dr. Kayode Fayemi" "There is no doubt in the fact that the last governorship election in Ekiti was marred by violence, external power, massive rigging and other undemocratic means whic...