Welcome to Fayemioye's Blog

Nigerians this morning heaved sighs of relief and expressed happiness at the news that the Port Harcourt Refining Company Limited in Rivers State, southern Nigeria, would commence operation two weeks from now. The announcement was made Thursday by the Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC,  Dr. Joseph Dawha , in Abuja after a tour of some filling stations in the country’s capital city.

Remember  the war over acronym between African  Peoples  Congress and All Progressives Congress?  Remember how some politicians approached INEC to register another political party called African  Peoples  Congress, APC? I thought that was the beginning of the end of the All Progressives Congress. But the African  Peoples  Congress didn’t have the Lion of Bourdillon leading its charge, so it lost. After winning the acronym war, APC was faced with another  battle of  selecting interim executives, with the merging political parties (Action Congress of Nigeria, All Nigeria  Peoples  Party, the Congress for Progressive Change, and a  faction  of the All Progressive Grand Alliance) insisting on holding the “juicy” leadership positions.

A 30 year old Nigerian defender, David Faramola Oniya who plays for a Malaysian based club, T-Team died today June 13th on the field during a Friendly match between his club and another club.

Arianna Alexander was accepted into 26 colleges – including six Ivy League universities – and was awarded a combined total of more than $3 million in scholarships.

President  Muhammadu Buhari  and his wife,  Aisha,  on Friday in Abuja met with the mothers of the missing Chibok Girls to re assure them of the government’s determination to rescue the girls.

Williams, a former governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Lagos State was murdered at his residence in Lagos in June 2006. Trial judge, Justice Rita Ofili-Ajumogobia had earlier struck out the suit which was filed by a former detainee in the Williams’ murder, Bashir Junaid. The judge had struck out the suit for want of diligent prosecution. But on Monday, the judge granted an application to re-list the suit.

Chris Brown has opened up after his ' humiliating ' run in with Karrueche last week.The star who was on Ryan Seacrest's  radio show,On Air With Ryan Seacrest , said about his breakup

Kaduna state governor, Nasir El Rufai has reduced the number of ministries in the state from 19 to 13. The downsizing in the number of ministries was contained in a statement released by his media aide, Samaila Aruwan today June 9th According to the statement, the reduction is being carried out to cut the cost of running the various ministries.

When the leaders of the Group of Seven developed nations met for a two-day summit in Bavaria, Germany, their agenda included global terrorism, Ukraine and climate change. With terrorism one of the talking points, it was not strange that the group invited President Muhammadu Buhari and several heads of governments from countries battling jihadists. After the summit, the group released a statement on its resolution on each of the major topics discussed.

Two weeks or there about to the memorable transfer of power from the PDP to the APC at the center, Nigeria witnessed a major fuel scarcity in the country. Eye witness said: “Yesterday (4th of June), I was driving through Aguiyi Ironsi Street, Maitama, Abuja when I came across two police officers fighting at the Forte (former AP) filling station by NUC.