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  Respite is on the way for commuters plying the Lagos-Ota-Abeokuta Expressway as the Federal Government on Thursday proposed to jointly rehabilitate the road with the Ogun State government. The proposal was made by the Minister of Works, Engr. Dave Umahi, during a courtesy call on Governor Dapo Abiodun in his office at Oke-Mosan, Abeokuta. The minister was on a tour of federal roads in the Gateway State, along with officials of the ministry. Umahi, while replying to Governor Abiodun on the frustration experienced by Ogun and Lagos states during the President Muhammadu Buhari administration to get the road done, disclosed that the period of bureaucracy in road construction in the country was over. Umahi noted that if the Federal Government is looking for corporate organisations to get involved in road construction and management, state governments should not be denied the same opportunity. He said: “Let me say something about the frustration you ...

Councilors in Ijebu East Local Government Area of Ogun State have suspended the Chairman of the Local Government, Mr. Wale Adedayo for three months on allegations of maladministration and financial mismanagement. Seven Councilors, on Thursday  said the Legislative Council received various allegations that need to be investigated and directed Mr. Adedayo to appear at its next sitting on Thursday, September 14, 2023. Fifteen allegations were levelled against the suspended chairman. They include: * Withdrawal of N4million from LG account for empowerment in 2022, which never took place. * Wastage of N2million on Isese day on August 20, 2022. *Duty tour allowance for the chairman and other top functionarie N260,000 in June 2023. *Another duty tour allowance for the chairman and other top officials engagement in Ab eokuta to the tune of N250,000, also ratified  in June 2023. * N426,000 purportedly spent on the production of report on 2020 Jigbo festival ijebu...

The state executive council of Articulate Motorcycle Owners and Riders Association of Nigeria, Ogun chapter, has congratulated the Chairman, OGHA committee on Transportation, Hon. Daisi Elemide, on the occasion of his birthday celebration.  This was contained in a birthday message by the executive Chairman of the union, Otunba Nurudeen Aina Alowonle and on behalf of other members of the executive council. The Amoran boss, described Hon. Elemide as a distinguished lawmaker, who has brought his wealth of experience and capacity to the legislative representation in the state. He also extolled the special contributions and disposition of Hon. Elemide towards the growth and development of Ogun Amoran. Part of the birthday wishes states, "Hearty congratulations and happy birthday to a distinguished lawmaker and valuable leader, Hon. Daisi Elemide (Chairman OGHA committee on Transportation). Wishing you longlife, sound health and many happy returns sir" Otunba Alowonle, ...

Nigeria’s President Bola Tinubu will address the 78th Session of the high-level General Debate of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) at the UN headquarters in New York on Tuesday, September 19. The UN correspondent of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Tinubu, in his first outing to the Assembly, will be addressing world leaders in the evening of that day. The Nigerian President would be the fifth African leader to speak on day one of the gathering, according to the speakers list from the Office of the General Assembly President, According to the list, Tinubu will be the 14th speaker out of 20 leaders slated to speak on the first day. The South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, the 10th speaker, will be the first African leader to speak in the morning session of the Assembly. In the Afternoon session, five African leaders are expected to address the gathering. The Nigerian president would deliver his statement around 6pm (11pm Nigerian time) to the world...

Ogun State Governor, Prince Dapo Abiodun has said that his administration is deploying drones, helicopters and other technological innovations  to address security challenges in the State. The governor stated this when he received the new General Officer Commanding (GOC), 81 Division, comprising Ogun and Lagos states, Major General Mohammad Usman, who paid him a courtesy call in his office at Oke-Mosan, Abeokuta on Wednesday. The governor said constant movement of people to the state due to its strategic location as the industrial, religious and educational capital of the country, has put a lot of pressure on the security architecture of the State, hence the need to involve technology in tackling the menace. He said: "We have of recent acquired some drones and these drones are meant to help us in aerial surveillance knowing fully well that it will be impossible for us to have enough boots to cover all the dark spots in he State. "Because of that, we ha...

  Wale Adedayo Lied On Zero Allocation-Ogun Council Chairmen ...apologise to Governor Dapo Abiodun Local government chairmen in Ogun State on Tuesday denied the allegation that the state government had been diverting their funds, resulting in zero allocation to them. This is even as Governor Dapo Abiodun said he was disturbed by the baseless allegation against him. The council chairmen visited the governor on Tuesday night with Mr Wale Adedayo, the Chairman of Ijebu East Local Government, who made the allegation, to tender an unreserved apology, as they accepted that mistakes had been made.   Speaking at the meeting in his office at Oke-Mosan, Abeokuta, attended by 18 out of the 20 chairmen, Governor Abiodun expressed surprise at the allegation, noting that rather than starving the local governments, he has made several interventions on their behalf to lessen their burden. Prince Abiodun said he has always been supportive of the councils because they ar...

A nonagenarian who designed Nigeria’s flag, Pa. Michael Taiwo Akinkunmi (OFR), is dead. Pa. Akinkunmi, aged 93, died in the early hours of Tuesday after a brief illness. His demise was announced via the Facebook account of one of his children. He wrote, “Life is indeed transient; I can say boldly that you live a life with a landmark. Continue to rest, my father! Pa Michael Taiwo Akinkunmi (O.F.R.): Great Man has gone.” Pa Akinwumi, a native of Abeokuta, Ogun State, was born on May 10, 1936, but lived in Ibadan until his demise. He attended Baptist Day Secondary School, Ibadan, for his Primary education and Ibadan Grammar School, Ibadan, for his Secondary education. He started his career as a Civil Servant at the Secretariat of Ibadan and later travelled overseas to study Agricultural Engineering at Norway Technical College. In 1958, during his stay abroad, Akinkunmi stumbled upon an advertisement in a national daily calling for the submission of designs for the Nigerian nat...

August 30, 2023. Press Statement:  Alleged Illegal Deduction : Ijebu East Local  Government Political Appointees distance selfs from the allegations by the Chairman, demand probe of N100 million revenue  The Supervisory Councilors in Ijebu East Local Government Council of Ogun State have disassociated themselves  from the false allegations made by the Council Chairman, Mr. Wale Chairman, Mr. Wale Adedayo. In a statement issued on Wednesday and jointly signed by Supervisor for Community Development, Hon Folake Adetayo, Supervisor for Agriculture, Hon. Kunle Adesanya, Supervisor for Finance, Hon Jesse Osibanjo and Supervisor for Water and Environment Services, Hon. Fowora Abayomi, the local government functionaries said “we are not in tandem with his actions and wouldn't have been in support of any actions that will stall progress and development of the Local Government under any guise whatsoever.” The statement reads: “The Association of Supervisory Counci...

By James Ogunnaike All the 20 Local Government Chairmen in Ogun State on Tuesday night besiege the Office of the State Governor, Dapo Abiodun to ask for his forgiveness on behalf of one of them, Chairman, Ijebu East Local Government, Wale Adedayo, who accused the governor of withholding LGs’ allocations. In a dramatic turn of event, the Council prostrated and begged the governor for forgiveness. The Chairmen led by the ALGON Chairman, Babatunde Emilola-Gazal, stormed the governor’s office in Abeokuta, and begged for forgiveness. A short clip of the meeting which has gone viral showed the ALGON begging for forgiveness on behalf of his colleagues including Wale Adedayo, who wrote the petition. Gazal said, “Your Excellency, we have come here to beg you as a father that you are, as a father of all in the state, we want you to forgive us. “Your Excellency, if you don’t forgive us, who do we run to? So, on behalf of all of us, I am tendering this apology and in particular, on beh...

A dozen Gabonese soldiers appeared on television Wednesday announcing they were “putting an end to the current regime” and the cancellation of an election that, according to official results, President Ali Bongo Ondimba won. During the announcement, AFP journalists heard gunfire ring out in the Gabonese capital, Libreville. While announcing the cancellation of the results one of the soldiers said “all the institutions of the republic” had been dissolved. We have decided to defend peace by putting an end to the current regime”, one of the soldiers said on TV channel Gabon 24, adding that he was speaking on behalf of the “Committee for the Transition and Restoration of Institutions”. “To this end, the general elections of 26 August 2023 and the truncated results are cancelled,” he added. “All the institutions of the republic are dissolved: the government, the Senate, the National Assembly and the Constitutional Court,” he added, announcing the closure of the country’s borders...

A 29-member Central Working Committee (CWC), headed by the Deputy Governor of Ogun State, Engr. (Mrs) Noimot Salako-Oyedele, saddled with the mandate for the distribution of palliatives in the state has been empanelled by Governor Dapo Abiodun. The composition of the Committee is aimed at ensuring that the palliatives reached every strata of the society, in line with the promise made to the people of the state by Governor Abiodun. A statement issued on Tuesday by the Chief Press Secretary (CPS) to the governor, Mr Lekan Adeniran, noted that there will be a similar Committee at the local governments to ensure the seamless distribution of the palliatives. According to the statement, the Committee has the mandate to implement the various palliatives put in place by the state government for the citizens. Members of the CWC were drawn from the 20 local government areas. They include Alhaja Salmot Badru, a former deputy governor in the state; Senator Shuaib Afolabi; Hon. Dewunmi ...

The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja, Nyesom Wike, says the FCT Administration has concluded plans to reintroduce monthly sanitation as part of strategies to keep the city clean. Mr Wike stated this in Abuja on Monday after a closed-door meeting with contractors handling different projects in the FCT. He said that he had already briefed President Bola Tinubu on the idea that at least two Saturdays in a month would be declared for sanitation from 7 a.m. to 10 a.m. He explained that the move would enable companies supporting the FCT with logistics to go to market and other public places to evacuate refuse. According to him, for Abuja to be clean, everybody has to cooperate. We must all make sacrifices. There is nothing like we are going to suffer. You also contribute to refuse. “So, if you spare three hours on a Saturday at home to clear the refuse and bring them out for us to evacuate and dispose, then that is the little way you can help. “We are appeal...

In a bid to mitigate the effect of the current economic quagmire on struggling families, a non-governmental organisation, Eleyun Charitable Organisation, has announced its readiness to offer scholarship to public primary and secondary school students in Ijebu Igbo, ahead of the 2023/2024 academic session. The founder of the organisation, Hon. Tayo Adenaike described this as his interest in contributing to the sector that shapens nation building. “We can build our immediate community through education and my interest is not in building mansions but in building legacies in the lives of children who are the future of our great nation”. “By investing in the educational development of the younger generation, the future of our communities is secured and assured. So, I decided to come up with this initiative because of the overdriving passion of my Foundation to reach everywhere possible”, Adenaike said. The scholarship will cover each student’s school fees paid in full. The organ...

          More roads have now been enlisted for rehabilitation across the State, Ogun State Public Works Agency (OGPWA) has commenced rehabilitation of major roads among which is the Brewery outbound route to Olomore, which was usually water-logged during the peak of the rainy season.            A statement by the agency stated that the rehabilitation works would include the construction of a 140-meter drainage system designed to control water overflow on the right-hand side of the road and a cross culvert to redirect water into the existing culvert on the left-hand side of the road.            The statement further indicated that the existing culvert and drainage (open and covered) LHS would undergo desilting to ensure efficient water flow to the discharge outlet.                          It reads," There are...

Men of the Department of Security Services stormed Lafia, Nasarawa State, on Wednesday night to stop men of the National Union of Road Transport Workers( NURTW) from holding its delegate conference, describing it as illegal. The police had last week in Abuja arrested the president of the union, Alhaj Tajudeen Ibikunle Baruwa, for allegedly importing thugs and armed men into the Federal Capital Territory. The union’s National Secretariat was equally sealed off by security police to prevent a breakdown of law and order. They were barred from using the Secretariat for the election. In an attempt to take it away from the attention of the security agencies, the union members on Wednesday converged in Lafia, Nasarawa State, to conduct the election, but security agencies disrupted the proceedings and everybody including the leaders of the union, ran to avoid being apprehended. A faction of the union had secured a court order which directed the union to maintain the status quo ante...

By James Ogunnaike, Abeokuta The Chairman Senate Committee on Appropriations, Senator Solomon Adeola (APC, Ogun West) has adopted the three children of his murdered aide, Mr. Adeniyi Oluwatosin Sanni. Sanni was killed on August 5, 2023, after an encounter with security agents at a check point in Ojodu Berger area of Ikeja and his body was dumped in the Oshodi area. Speaking through the Director General of his campaign organization in Lagos at the funeral in RCCG RHEMA CHAPEL, Redemption Camp in Mowe, Barrister Babatunde Raji-Label said Senator Adeola has adopted Moraraoluwa, Oluwashindara and Oluwafeyidara Sanni as his children henceforth. He added that the welfare of his aged mother and immediate family will be catered for on a monthly basis “It impossible for me to find a replacement for Niyi. He is my blood and a dedicated aide of almost two decades. I am greatly grieved by his unwarranted death. As a father figure to him, I had to stay away from his funeral as tradition...

by Ifedayo Ogunyemi The Ogun State government has called for more support from the private sector, individuals, and non-governmental organisations to boost the level of healthcare delivery in the state. Permanent Secretary Ministry of Health, Dr Kayode Oladehinde, disclosed that the huge investment by the state government in the sector is not enough to bring the desired change, adding that the government cannot do it alone. The permanent secretary stated this at a free medical outreach organised for 5,000 patients by Collectives Club Remo in the Sagamu area of the state, which he said will have a positive impact on the health system of the state. Oladeinde said, “Of course, the government has invested immensely in the past few years on all levels of our health sector; tertiary, secondary, especially primary health centers. No matter what the state government does, we will still need good people of Ogun State, like Collectives Club members, to assist the government. “In the ...

The governors of the states in southwest – Lagos, Oyo, Ogun and Osun – last week declared August 20 as holiday to commemorate ‘Isèse’ to give the traditional religionists in the states a sense of belonging like it’s usually done to their counterparts in other two popular religions. The governors, in the circulars released through their spokespersons, made it known that they did this to create and maintain harmony and tolerance among people of different religious faiths as the governors believe that a society without cooperation among people of diverse religions sits on a keg of gunpowder. In schools, both elementary and secondary levels, students are taught and are made to believe that unless a society allows religious tolerance to thrive, peace and tranquillity may elude that particular society. Of course the only way to demonstrate this tolerance is by practice and experience, the one the governors have publicly given a practical exhibition. The young ones ought to be sho...

The General Overseer of Deeper Life Church, Pastor Williams Kumuyi has charged Nigerians to be hopeful that God will rebuild the country through President Bola Tinubu. Kumuyi said God has not forsaken the country and Nigerians will witness a new country through the President. While speaking ahead of his church’s monthly Global Crusade scheduled for Osogbo on Thursday, he expressed optimism about the new administration Kumuyi said Tinubu’s new cabinet was carefully chosen, made of people with antecedents, advising Nigerians to cooperate with the new administration God will make the country work through them He said: “Let’s forget the past. This is a new day and I believe; we all believe that we’re going to see new things for our country through our President and through the members of the cabinet. Good things will happen. “If you look at the new ministers one by one, you’ll see the good things they’ve done either as state governors of the past or as former ministers and I wo...

Ogun State Governor, Prince Dapo Abiodun, has implored the newly sworn-in ministers from the State to be good representatives of their people and leverage on the experience they have gathered over the years to achieve the 'Renewed Hope Agenda' of President Bola Tinubu's led-administration. Abiodun, who spoke at a reception organised in honour of the new ministers, Mr Wale Edun, Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy; Dr Ishak Kunle Salako, Minister of State for the Environment and Dr Bosun Tijani,  Minister of Communication, Innovation and Digital Economy, held at the SilverBird Galleria, Zone 4, Abuja, also charged them to use their offices to support and compliment the implementation of his administration's 'Building Our Future Together Agenda'. He noted that the State has produced people who have served the nation meritoriously and therefore much is expected of them. He said: "We are the gateway to Nigeria’s prosperity, ...

The Ogun state leadership of the Articulate Motorcycle Owners & Riders Association of Nigeria (AMORAN) has felicitated with the Treasurer of the Union, Mr. Lekan Oguntayo who turns another year today, 22nd of August, 2023.  In a congratulatory message issued by the mouthpiece of the union; Otunba Taofeek Sokoya (a.k.a Danku), the celebrant was described as agile, dedicated, visionary and hardworking who has brought his potentials to bare, in ensuring the progress of the Union.  The message partly reads, "On behalf of the entire executive members of our great Union, I congratulate our very amiable treasurer, Mr Lekan Oguntayo on the occasion of his birthday".  "As another chapter of your life begins, I wish you a memorable year with tremendous exploits".

Nigeria’s Minister of Power, Adebayo Adelabu, has assured that the Federal Government will empower Nigerians through stable and accessible electricity. The minister, who gave the assurance when he assumed office on Monday in Abuja, stressed that every home, industry, school, and business would benefit from the government’s efforts. To achieve the feat, Mr Adelabu said the ministry would leverage the Nigerian Electricity Act 2023 to boost power supply in the country. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the Nigerian Electricity Act 2023 provides a comprehensive legal and institutional framework for the operation of a fully privatised, cost and service-reflective tariff. The act also provides a rule-based competitive electricity market in Nigeria According to Mr Adelabu, the ministry will diligently provide optimal solutions for Nigeria’s power needs nationwide. He said that the task was not merely a requirement but an expectation from both the president and the Nige...