Browsing: Kayode Fayemi

Ola stated that the N852 million was UBEC’s fund for the state in 2012 and instead of the state government to use it for the development of basic education, the Fayemi administration used the money for something else.

Fayemi, who presented a keynote address, titled: “Mining for Prosperity: Fueling Nigeria’s industrialisation in the 21st Century,” said the investment would allow Nigeria to close its current infrastructure gap and sustain an ideal infrastructure stock level of 70 per cent of GDP and build infrastructure assets across the seven critical sectors – roads, rail, ports, airports, power, water and ICT

Fayemi, who made this known in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Abuja, said the collaboration was with a view to making the privatised enterprises functional

He said: “Talking specifically about the conditions in places like Jos and Enugu, if you look our budget this year, you will see specific allocation for reclamation of those mines that have been damaged through open cast mining.

According to him, four million square metres of granite is used in the country even when it has a whole range of dimension stones that can be packaged and marketed

Fayemi, who doubles as Chairman of the Governing Board of the Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative, said this on Monday while presenting NEITI’s 2013 Audit Reports in Abuja

Parliamentarian Group on Nigeria, at the Parliament, Westminster, London on Thursday, urged them to shun negative views about the country, which according to him are usually unduly exaggerated

This city was also my refuge in exile during the 1990s, when I and many other democracy activists rallied friends of freedom at home and abroad against a brutal dictatorship that had seized power in my home country. To me, London stands as a shining city upon a hill and a bastion of liberal values. Indeed, much has changed in Nigeria since my days here in exile, same as here in the United Kingdom, and my return here at this time as a representative of my country is significant of how far we have come from those days when I was officially declared a persona non grata by the then military administration

In the petition dated March 3, 2016 and signed by its Chairman, Comrade Akinloye Oyeniyi, the group alleged that as Governor of Ekiti State, Fayemi, in contravention of Section 11(2) of the Universal Basic Education (UBE) Act, 2004 authorised the illegal withdrawal of N852,936,713.92 from SUBEB Access Bank Account Number 0065385694 on October 8, 2014, eight days to the end of his tenure

Earlier, before the special session, the Speaker had read the letter written by the former governor in response to a resolution of the House mandating him (Fayemi) to appear before the Assembly on Tuesday to shed light on the misappropriated fund, which has made it impossible for the state to access SUBEB funds like its counterparts since the assumption of t he Ayodele Fayose-led succeeding government

He said government would come up with realistic decision that would enable it turn the steel sector into a viable sector and foundation for future industrialisation of the country

According to him, President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration has taken solid mineral development as one of its key areas of interest, with the sole aim of boosting the nation’s economy.

He said solid minerals were vehicles to diversify the economy and boost the Gross Domestic Product.
He said: “We will deliver on the promises made by President Muhammadu Buhari to Nigeria to diversify the economy from crude oil to solid minerals

Fayemi, who was received by top officials of the ministry, held a meeting with them

The governor said in a statement issued in Ado-Ekiti by his Special Assistant on Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka, that President Muhammadu Buhari must have considered the need for commercial exploitation of the solid minerals spread across towns and villages in Ekiti State before arriving at the choice of Fayemi as Solid Minerals Minister

The Nigerian problem is the unwillingness or inability of its leaders to rise to the responsibility [and] to the challenge of personal example which are the hallmarks of true leadership

The inaugural edition of the biggest media talk shop, slated for October 15 in Lagos, would be organised in partnership with Troyka Holding and the School of Media and Communication of the Pan-African University

The Publicity Secretary of the APC in Ekiti State, Taiwo Olatunbosun, said in a statement in Ado-Ekiti that Buhari’s gesture was also a testimony to the life of honour and devotion to duty, which marked out Fayemi as a dependable and forthright compatriot always eager to lend himself to patriotic service of the nation

The party said instead of regaling in the destruction of Fayemi’s legacies, which presented the best opportunities for Ekiti State to grow, Fayose was not only destroying himself, but also mortgaging the future of the people through stomach infrastructure that provides a kilogramme of rice and three-month-old chicken every Christmas

The Ekiti State Chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party has alleged that the immediate past government of the All Progressives…