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The Ekiti State House of Assembly has ordered the Inspector General of Police, Mr. Ibrahim Idris, to arrest the Minister of Solid Minerals, Dr Kayode Fayemi, for allegedly misappropriating N40 billion of state funds when he held sway as governor. The chamber also directed the state Commissioner...

The Ekiti State Assembly has ordered that Nigeria's Minister of Mineral Resources, Kayode Fayemi be arrested by the Police. He is accused of misappropriating N40bn during his tenure as the state's governor. Speaker of the house Hon Kola Oluwawole and the Chairman, House Committee on...

Former Governor of Ekiti State and Minister of Mines and Steel Development, Dr. Kayode Fayemi on Tuesday instituted a libel suit against a member of Ekiti House of Assembly, Dr Samuel Omotoso; and Special Assistant on New Media and Public Communications to Governor Ayodele Fayose, Mr Lere...

Kayode Fayemi, Nigeria's Minister of Solid Minerals Development, has called on Nigerian youths, particularly graduates, to stop looking up to the government for solutions to their problems. Fayemi made this statement while delivering the 2016 convocation lecture of the University of Lagos...

The Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, has installed a new king for Isan Ekiti – the hometown of the immediate past governor of Ekiti State, Dr. Kayode Fayemi – now a Minister of Mines and Steel Development. The governor presented the Staff and Instrument of Office to the new Onisan, Oba...

Former president Olusegun Obasanjo hands still very dirty in a deal associated with the August 1, 2016 modified re-concession agreement of Ajaokuta Steel Company of Nigeria (ASC), Kogi state activist said. Kogi State born activist and legal practitioner, Barr. Natasha Hadiza Akpoti who has...

President Muhammadu Buhari-led federal executive council has approved 13 per cent derivation for mineral revenue to deserving states. The Minister of Mines and Steel Development, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, announced this Tuesday at a two-day workshop on special purpose vehicles (SPVs) in the...

The Minister of Mines and Steel Development, Dr Kayode Fayemi, has congratulated the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ondo State, Mr. Rotimi Akeredolu SAN, for his victory in Saturday’s governorship election, saying that the people of the State have made the right choice...

Kayode Fayemi, the former Governor of Ekiti State is currently on an appreciation tour with Ondo governor-elect Rotimi Akeredolu. See photos below:

Former Governor of Ekiti State and Minister of Mines and Steel Development, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, has given a seven-day ultimatum to a member of Ekiti State House of Assembly, Dr Samuel Omotoso, and Special Assistant on New Media and Public Communications to Governor Ayodele Fayose, Mr Lere...

President Muhammadu Buhari led-Federal Executive Council on Wednesday assessed the performance on his ministers in the past one year in office. Briefing reporters after the Council’s meeting, the Minister of Mines and Steel Development, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, said the meeting reflected on the...

Embattled gubernatorial flagbearer of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the forthcoming election in Ondo State, Dr. Jimoh Ibrahim has lambasted Ekiti State governor, Ayo Fayose over his statement that the party’s candidate can never be governor of Ondo State. In a terse message to the...

The National Steel Raw Materials Exploration Agency, NSRMEA in Kaduna, has been exposed for pressurizing the Bureau of Public Procurement (BPP) to award a contract worth N809m to Lasafa Limited. The BPP had disqualified the firm earlier for alleged fraud, officials said. NSRMEA, a parastatal...

President Muhammadu Buhari-led Federal Executive Council on Wednesday approved a N30bn intervention fund for the mining sector. It also approved technical advisers for the concession of railway line. The Minister of Information, Alhaji Lai Mohammed; Minister of Mines and Steel Development, Dr...

States with active mining of solid minerals in their domains are to receive 13 per cent derivation revenue, just as their counterparts in oil and gas producing areas, the federal government has said. The Minister of Mines and Steel Development, Kayode Fayemi, who said this in Abeokuta, Ogun...

Ekiti state governor Ayodele Fayose, has exalted his tenures as governor of the state, and at the same time, thrown a few jabs at his predecessor Kayode Fayemi. In a statement released on Saturday, Fayose condemned the political arena in the state and said he's only after the development of the...

The Minister of Mines and Steel Development, Kayode Fayemi, on Wednesday offered prospective investors in the Nigerian mining sector three years tax holidays, as part of federal government’s incentives to serious investors. The tax holiday, according to the Minister, would commence from the...

President Muhammadu Buhari viewed the Aeromagnetic map of the Nickel Discovery and its Independent Volumetric Analysis being presented by Minister of Mines and Steel Development Kayode Fayemi flanked by Minister of State Mines and Steel Development Abubakar Bawa Bwari at the Statehouse...

President Muhammadu Buhari led Federal Executive Council, yesterday, approved a road map for the growth and development of Nigeria’s mining industry. The road map, which is to outline the contribution of mining to the growth of the GDP, is said to be in line with the vision of President...

Nigeria has confirmed the discovery of an unusual nickel in small balls up to 3mm in diameter of a high purity in shallow soils in what could be the surface expression of a much bigger hard-rock nickel field. The nickel balls, rumoured to grade better than 90 per cent nickel and thought to be a...