Dr. Kayode Fayemi

We played politics with ex-Pres. Jonathan’s subsidy removal in 2012 — Ex-Ekiti gov

It was all politics when we staged a protest against fuel subsidy removal during the administration of ex-President Goodluck Jonathan in 2012, so...

Alleged N4bn fraud: EFCC detains, grills ex-Ekiti Gov. Fayemi

After taking leave to attend former President Muhammadu Buhari’s book launch, the immediate past governor of Ekiti State, Dr Kayode Fayemi, on Thursday...

New Ekiti Governor, Oyebanji, Takes Oath Of Office As Fayemi Exits

Mr Abiodun Oyebanji of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has been sworn in as the Ekiti Governor, taking the reins from Dr Kayode...

Breaking: Fayemi exits as NGF Chairman, Tambuwal takes over

After about three years stint as the Chairman of the Nigeria Governors Forum (NGF), Ekiti Gov. Kayode Fayemi is quitting the position for...

PDP Vice-Presidential Candidacy Brouhaha: APC governors woo Wike

Following the crack in the main opposition party, the PDP, some leaders of the All Progressives Congress (APC) are making overtures to Rivers...

Just in: Ekiti Gov. Fayemi joins the bandwagon, declares for President

The number of presidential aspirants on the platform of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) is increasing by the day with the jumping...

Abuja-Kaduna train attack: 19 days after NGF commiserates with Kaduna

The Chairman of the Nigerian Governors’ Forum (NGF), and Ekiti Gov. Kayode Fayemi on Friday led a two-man delegation of the forum to...

State of the nation: Nigerian Governors Forum mobilizes 36 State Speakers for emergency meeting in Abuja

In a bid to find urgent solutions to what they called issues of national importance, the 36 State Governors under the aegis of...

Parlous state of security and economy may run states aground, alerts Nigerian Governors Forum

The 36 state governors under the aegis of the Nigerian Governors Forum (NGF) have cried out that the current parlous state of the...

Ekiti Gov. Fayemi defends Buhari for declining assent, says he is comfortable with direct or indirect primary

  In a stout defence of President Muhammadu Buhari on his refusal to assent to the 2021 Electoral Act (Amendment) Bill, Ekiti Governor...

In Ekiti State, in spite of stiff penalties for rape, an incestuous father has deflowered his 11-year-old daughter

In spite of the stiff penalties for rape and other forms of sexual violence in Ekiti State, an incestuous father has chosen to...

Rape, sexual violence: Ekiti Govt. goes tough, to confiscate hotels, houses, facilities used for the crime

In Ekiti State, the government is to henceforth confiscate any private residential apartment, facility and hotel used for the rape of a minor....

Deaths of Army Chief, 10 other officers: Nigeria’s security challenges compounded, says Buhari

Nigeria’s Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces and President Muhammadu Buhari, who lost some generals and other officers to last Friday’s air crash, says...

Nigerian Governors Forum disowns governor over ill-fated comment on COVID-19 vaccine

  The Nigerian Governors Forum (NGF) has distanced itself from a statement credited to a state governor on COVID-19 vaccine, saying the NGF...

Insurgency, banditry: Nigeria Governors Forum expresses worry, plans parley with Pres. Buhari

  Peeved by the massacre of more than 43 farmers in Borno State, a fall-out of the deteriorating security situation in the country,...