Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, has appointed Mr. Olalere Olayinka as the Senior Special Assistant on Public Communication and Social Media with immediate effect. A statement late Friday by the Director of Press in the Minister’s office, Anthony Ogunleye, said Olayinka, a seasoned media and communications professional, would bring over 20 years of experience in journalism, …

The President, Nigeria Union of Local Government Employees, Ekiti State Branch, Oluseyi Olatunde, has said that the former Governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose, lacks necessary ideas about the workings of the local government system. Olatunde spoke in a statement in Ado Ekiti on Tuesday in response to Fayose’s statement during a television interview that “most council officials do not …

Former Governor of Ekiti State, Mr. Ayodele Fayose, on Monday, dismissed insinuations that he had dumped the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the governing All Progressives Congress (APC). Fayose, who said he would never join APC, appealed to PDP members to stop maligning his character and person and cautioned them against politics of bitterness. The former governor, who spoke …

A former operative of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mr Abubakar Madaki has told a Federal High Court in Lagos how a former minister of state for defence, Musiliu Obanikoro, handed over the sum of N1,219,000,000 in cash to former Ekiti State governor, Ayodele Fayose. Fayose and his firm Spotless Investment Limited are being prosecuted by the EFCC …

A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party in Ekiti State, Lere Olayinka, has described those calling for the suspension of former governor Ayodele Fayose from the party as “political almajiris seeking unavailable lifeline”. In a statement on Thursday, Olayinka said it was funny that those championing the call had yet to come to terms with the fact that elections were …

The leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has made a u-turn after the party suspended some of its key leaders including a former Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Senator Anyim Pius Anyim. The opposition in a statement signed by its National Publicity Secretary, Barrister Debo Ologunagba said that the National Working Committee (NWC) of the PDP at …

Former Ekiti State Governor, Mr Ayodele Fayose, and seven out of the nine National Assembly candidates contesting on the platform of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) shunned Tuesday’s presidential campaign in the state. Twenty out of the party’s 26 House of Assembly candidates and some State Working Committee and members loyal to Fayose were also absent at the rally held …