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Moral depravity is when our leaders oversee groups collaborate to put up programmes like “ the daily strangulation of the masses through economic after been transferred Bond FM 30th anniversary held in 2017. At hardship, watching our economy shrink, watching our the occasion, the three ethnic community were from Ibadan National people die like mosquitoes in the hands of terrorists well represented and performed to the delight Station of FRCN to Lagos and bandits with propaganda machinery to defend the of the people. So as a GM of such station it ugly trend. Moral depravity is a selective fight against behoves me to have a large heart to Operations of FRCN, I corruption when those who have despoiled this country accommodate all not minding who and where boarded a bus "one to stupor walk the streets as free men while petty from. thieves languish in jail. People prefer to air their products on Bond chance”. From Alapere, Me: Please, kindly answer my questions… FM because as they always say Bond FM is She: (Cuts in) Sir, it is the same moral depravities "Ile Ise alalubarilka" that is a blessed station Ketu, very early in the that will cause the deployment of soldiers to unleash that gives advertisers utmost value. Bond FM morning in 2003, I mayhem on innocent protesters and consign youths to is the toast of all. The most listened to station. their early graves. Moral depravity is the tacit support Independent presenters and advertisers wish to boarded the bus and it for herdsmen who are killing people all over the air their programmes and place adverts on our turned out to be “one country without a voice raised by the government, yet station. The challenge however is that time is these murderers are not terrorists. Moral depravity is not elastic and cannot be overstretched. We are chance”. The thieves when we take loans from China, abandon our refineries Particular about improving on our Star drained every body's but go to the Niger Republic to refine petroleum programmes, such as KOKO INU IWE products which are in turn imported back to us. IROYIN among others and enhancing other purse and pockets and Suddenly the landlocked Niger Republic has become existing programmes and lifting them into star an oil-producing country. It is more than moral programme level. dropped us off at Ifako depravity, it is a shame. Mr Lecturer, please research and asked us to squat till the relationship between Nigeria and Niger Republic. I am aware some politicians from Niger Republic came TAKE ON PHONE-IN PROGRAMMES they drove off. It was here to campaign for Mr Buhari during the last Definitely for me, most producers who rely on horrendous. election. There must be something about Mr Buhari phone- in are truly lazy. Mind the word “most and Nigeria Republic. Moral depravity is when a of them” and not all. Don't forget when we country finances terrorism by stage-managing a kidnap started in the early 90s, what we learnt and incident and paying the terrorists a whopping $4 imbibed was that as a broadcaster you must million. Sir, how come none of the schoolboys could By Promise Adiele pen down whatever you would say on air. This her and stopped. Three other ladies rushed to my car but speak simple English, not even the head boy? Moral means you would have the idea of your topic that bring up “morality”, “due process” and all depravity is when a president addresses the so-called n response to a notice inviting academic papers I already identified my prey. As if she knew I was and well researched. With that, you as the of that. Such announcements informed us about hooked on her, she stood aside and waited patiently for kidnapped schoolboys in Hausa instead of English, our presenter cannot be caught running out of what to do and how to do them and what not to for publication in a foreign journal with the title lingua franca. It is either because the president cannot “Vice or Virtue: Humanity and Professions”, I me to dismiss the others, then she slowly cat-walked to ideas. Don't also forget that the listeners do among other things. Vividly in my memory I my car. “Hi”, I blurted. “Good evening sir”, she replied, speak English or he knows the boys don't understand sometimes have more knowledge about now was the one that talked about dignity in submitted an abstract. Five weeks later, my abstract English. Moral depravity is when the university system was accepted with instructions to proceed with the her sonorous voice making an instant impression on me. certain topics than the presenters, and labour..." Ma tiju ise re, o baa sagbe, o ba a She: Where are we going to and what can you offer? is shut down for a whole year while government most of them are good listeners too. Therefore sakowe, bo je Onaja bo je oniworobo. Ise eni ni paper. As a scholar interested in the dialectic, I was officials have their children abroad in the best fascinated by the title of the notice due to the Me: Well, my mission is different. I want to have a you should not give them less than the best. ise eni" That is whatever legal job you found discussion with you for 30 minutes. I will pay you. universities. Moral depravity is…. Don't ever find yourself at a loss of idea or yourself in, do it with every sense of dignity. juxtaposition of the two words - Vice and Virtue. Me: Look, you must not…. The diametric but complementary alignment of the She: This is new. Are you a secret police agent? they use their question to sweep you off the These are my favourites on radio because of the Me: No, I am not. I am a lecturer, researching She: (Cuts in) Wait sir let me finish. You asked about chair and you are caught napping. It is so rhythm and the moral lessons that over forty two words bestirred my critical faculties. I decided moral depravity and I am explaining it to you. Moral to use Barnard Shaw's play “Mrs. Warren's prostitution. I want to hear from the horse's mouth, I have unfortunate that most presenters today just years still challenge me now. As at now I can a recorder. I will ask you some questions. depravity is when lawmakers earn colossal amounts of look out still recite them word for word. None of my Profession” as a template to interrogate the tensions money and are crippled by surplus while many people of vice and virtue as opposites inextricably She: I hope your recorder does not have a camera. for topics and put it on air for listeners to family members was in the media before me Me: No, it doesn't, you can examine it. wallow in deprivations and are devastated by need. contribute. They but in addition to my participation on intertwined with each other. For those who may not Me: Look…you see…are you sure… know, “Mrs. Warren's Profession” is a play that give listeners the job of running the Television at young age, I give credit to my Five minutes later, we found a table and two empty She: (Cuts in) You think because I stand on the road Princess Adenike Wuraola programme for them. My charge to presenters Dad who will not allow a weekend to pass recounts the story of Mrs. Kitty Warren, a one-time at night I don't know what is happening in this country? prostitute who, through the proceeds of her Her legs stood out chairs beside a posh hotel. Instantly, I set out to work. is to be up and doing and be on top of their without buying us all, his children, books for Me: What is your name? Don't forget I was once a journalist and I had a good rincess Adenike Wuraola Adegoke is a surpass the tempo. As the GM, I had to ask game, by reading wide so as to be well the week. He also imposed the reading of his profession, could send her daughter Vivie to like a“ well polished education. Moral depravity is when some government She: My name is Cynthia. (The cynical smile that Deputy Director of News and Current myself what exactly I am up to in the Station University. informed and be able to contribute to issues of own “Readers Digest” on all of us. Never a day graced her face betrayed her efforts at honesty. After all officials Lai morbidly even in the face of glaring truth Affairs with the Federal Radio after studying everything on assumption of the times. To be able to do passed, that my Dad would not send us to buy My interrogation of the issues raised in the and chiselled piece P did Mrs. Warren not disguise her true identity by adding just to defend a bad government and keep their jobs. I Corporation of Nigeria and the current office. I had a five point agenda boldly written play heightened my interest in prostitution and a well researched script. When you do your newspaper and God help you if you do not look a Mrs. to her name even though she wasn't married? am not more morally depraved than the politicians, General Manager of the award winning Bond on a flex banner at the reception. There posed some questions to me. Do the proceeds of furniture. Her research you do not only improve yourself, at the headlines before you get home, because Disguise is an inexorable mark of prostitution) lawyers, engineers, pastors, and businessmen who 92.9 FM, Lagos. For her secondary education, everybody sees it, reads it every now and then from prostitution aid the enablement of what we you would also be helping your listeners. he would always ask for the headlines, which skin glittered under Me: Let me admit that you are a beautiful young lady. troop here every night to patronize prostitutes. she attended Queens of Apostle Secondary and ticks the one that had been met in their see as a virtue in society? Can a prostitute ever you must recite off hand, after you might have I am wondering whether you are not thinking of getting Me: It's enough please, it's... School, Ibadan. She later had her Bachelors minds. We regularly have our Staff forum to do change seeing that even when Mrs. Warren FAVOURITE RADIO PROGRAMME handed him the papers. All of these the semi-darkness married and having a family. I think any man will fall She: (Cuts in) no, it's not enough. Our people must in Linguistics at the University of Ilorin and a review of our actions and activities with a retired, she established a brothel to employ young My favourite programme is not a programme contributed in no small measure to my in love with you under normal circumstances. rise to engage the politicians, the elected her Masters in the same discipline from the view to making things move faster and better. girls, thereby advancing the debasing culture of of the night like the per se. They were series of Public Service fluency both in reading and writing as a She: I will marry when I want. First, I want to make officeholders, public and private service providers, to University of Ibadan. She joined FRCN in The three major language nature of the Station sexual immorality? Do prostitutes pay tithes and announcements/ Corporate Responsibilities journalist. smoothness of the money before starting a family. hold them accountable, to rise against the daily 1993 and has attended numerous courses on creates room for love among the three major offerings to churches for prosperity in their Me: Do you think you will find a husband here? criminality that goes on in government circles, courts, broadcast journalism. Her favourite colour profession? Are there married men who defile the CHALLENGES sea. The beauty of She: No, not here. If I dress up properly and meet a banks, police, military, and other public agencies. used to be blue and pink but she is now in love sanctity of their conjugal union by patronizing My first experience was traumatic. A few man in a shopping mall, church or banking hall, will he Me: Our time is up. I shall visit you again and we with green and orange. She relishes eba and prostitutes? Are there married women who her physiognomy days I was transferred from Ibadan National know this side of me? The answer is no. Many of my will conclude this interview. vegetables. Adenike, who was just four of the desecrate the spiritual altar of their marriage by Station of FRCN to Lagos Operations of could disarm a colleagues here on the streets got married to highly She: Hold on Mr. Lecturer, let me remind you that women in the News section of FRCN, Ibadan exchanging their bodies for money and positions? FRCN, I boarded a "one chance” bus. From placed people in the society. Some of you celebrate moral depravity includes all those who are quick to when she joined the station wants Finally, what group of people constitutes the Alapere, Ketu, very early in the morning in whole satanic army. them. So I will marry when I want. (smiles) condemn prostitutes but are very slow to condemn an broadcasters to practise more investigative clientele of prostitution? 2003, I boarded the bus and it turned out to Me: So tell me, why and how did you become a incompetent government. Anyone who looks away journalism. She said life has taught her to love For answers to these questions, I decided to She was like the be “one chance”. The thieves drained every prostitute? while our country is gradually being submerged by an everybody but to trust a few. In this chat, the interview a prostitute. Opebi in Ikeja was the body's purse and pockets and dropped us off mythical mermaid She: (Smiles.) Well, after my NCE, I proceeded to unconscionable leadership is morally depraved. do-gooder shares insights garnered in her venue. Time was midnight, date 20th December at Ifako and asked us to squat till they drove University to study Mass Communication. Then my Anyone who fails to speak out against bad close to three decades in broadcasting. off. It was horrendous. When I eventually 2020. Entering Opebi, I saw her. Standing on six from the depth of governance is morally depraved. Oga, our people inches heels, her clothes clung tightly to her body father died. After my youth service, I got a job as a got to the office, I recounted the story which reporter with a national newspaper. For seven months, I must soro soke. The sophistry and hypocrisy in our EXPERIENCE AS GM accentuating the seductive outlines of her the ocean. was included in the news, with my account was not paid any salary. With a widowed mother and country must stop. Nobody has any moral Bond FM has won Radio Station of the Year provocative, sumptuous endowments. Her legs as voice insert. At the start of my career, I three younger ones to take care of, life became justification to condemn prostitution or armed Award given by the Nigeria Media Nite Out stood out like a well polished and chiselled piece drew inspirations from my very senior difficult. One day, I was sent to the city to interview a robbery while supporting a more heinous and morally twice. The Station also won the Radio Station of furniture. Her skin glittered under the semi- colleagues and Editors at FRCN Ibadan politician. He liked me and for the first time, I slept in a depraved government. of the year award by the City People darkness of the night like the smoothness of the National Station. They are Alhaji Kola five star hotel. He gave me good money and promised Me: (Completely dazed) I must leave now, thanks Magazine, and so many other awards of sea. The beauty of her physiognomy could disarm Animasaun; a journalist per excellence, who me lots of things. Well, he didn't fulfil any of the for your time. (With trembling fingers, I fidgeted into invaluable contribution to grassroots a whole satanic army. She was like the mythical was the Controller Editorial that time, Mr Yinka promises and never picked my calls again. That taught my pocket and paid her the agreed sum) I whispered developments .So being the GM of such a mermaid from the depth of the ocean. As she Fabusoye; a consummate journalist, who was me a lesson, politicians are established in deceit and to myself - into what dangers will research lead me? Station is a big deal. One needs to measure up walked, one would think she had no bones in her the first Editor I worked with in Ibadan. failed promises. Then I hit the streets. and even surpass the existing level.You need waist. Parts of her body shook as if they will Similarly was Mr Tajudeen Alade;a very Me: (Nonplussed.) Don't you think it is sheer moral · Dr Adiele, Convener, Third Force to put up your thinking cap and the disintegrate into multiple fragments, yet they brilliant journalist and Mrs Bose Oyewole; one depravity for you to pull your clothes for a stranger just Movement, teaches in the Department of English, professionalism in you to study what you met were sewn and held together by an unseen hand. time President of NAWOJ, who was the most because of money? Mountain Top University. He can be reached by on ground and put up measures to uplift and God is indeed the ultimate sculptor. I pulled over to Princess Adenike Wuraola in a warm handshake with Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo senior of the three ladies I met in FRCN, She: (Draws a long breath and sighs.) Well, everyone email: [email protected] Ibadan then. February 28, 2021 |6 February 28, 2021 |21 MediaWorld Life To succeed, you have to be ‘My encounter with a prostitute’ is guilty of moral depravity in this country. Me: No, you can't generalize in that way… She: (Cuts in) Sir, what it takes me to pull my excellent ---Bond FM GM clothes for a stranger is what it takes any government My first experience was or employer of labour to owe workers for several ethnic groups in the Starion. At certain months without salaries. Moral depravity has no occasions the staff not minding the ethnic traumatic. A few days gradation. Moral depravity is when our leaders oversee groups collaborate to put up programmes like “ the daily strangulation of the masses through economic after been transferred Bond FM 30th anniversary held in 2017. At hardship, watching our economy shrink, watching our the occasion, the three ethnic community were from Ibadan National people die like mosquitoes in the hands of terrorists well represented and performed to the delight Station of FRCN to Lagos and bandits with propaganda machinery to defend the of the people. So as a GM of such station it ugly trend. Moral depravity is a selective fight against behoves me to have a large heart to Operations of FRCN, I corruption when those who have despoiled this country accommodate all not minding who and where boarded a bus "one to stupor walk the streets as free men while petty from. thieves languish in jail. People prefer to air their products on Bond chance”. From Alapere, Me: Please, kindly answer my questions… FM because as they always say Bond FM is She: (Cuts in) Sir, it is the same moral depravities "Ile Ise alalubarilka" that is a blessed station Ketu, very early in the that will cause the deployment of soldiers to unleash that gives advertisers utmost value. Bond FM morning in 2003, I mayhem on innocent protesters and consign youths to is the toast of all. The most listened to station. their early graves. Moral depravity is the tacit support Independent presenters and advertisers wish to boarded the bus and it for herdsmen who are killing people all over the air their programmes and place adverts on our turned out to be “one country without a voice raised by the government, yet station. The challenge however is that time is these murderers are not terrorists. Moral depravity is not elastic and cannot be overstretched. We are chance”. The thieves when we take loans from China, abandon our refineries Particular about improving on our Star drained every body's but go to the Niger Republic to refine petroleum programmes, such as KOKO INU IWE products which are in turn imported back to us. IROYIN among others and enhancing other purse and pockets and Suddenly the landlocked Niger Republic has become existing programmes and lifting them into star an oil-producing country. It is more than moral programme level. dropped us off at Ifako depravity, it is a shame. Mr Lecturer, please research and asked us to squat till the relationship between Nigeria and Niger Republic. I am aware some politicians from Niger Republic came TAKE ON PHONE-IN PROGRAMMES they drove off. It was here to campaign for Mr Buhari during the last Definitely for me, most producers who rely on horrendous. election. There must be something about Mr Buhari phone- in are truly lazy. Mind the word “most and Nigeria Republic. Moral depravity is when a of them” and not all. Don't forget when we country finances terrorism by stage-managing a kidnap started in the early 90s, what we learnt and incident and paying the terrorists a whopping $4 imbibed was that as a broadcaster you must million. Sir, how come none of the schoolboys could By Promise Adiele pen down whatever you would say on air. This her and stopped. Three other ladies rushed to my car but speak simple English, not even the head boy? Moral means you would have the idea of your topic that bring up “morality”, “due process” and all depravity is when a president addresses the so-called n response to a notice inviting academic papers I already identified my prey. As if she knew I was and well researched. With that, you as the of that. Such announcements informed us about hooked on her, she stood aside and waited patiently for kidnapped schoolboys in Hausa instead of English, our presenter cannot be caught running out of what to do and how to do them and what not to for publication in a foreign journal with the title lingua franca. It is either because the president cannot “Vice or Virtue: Humanity and Professions”, I me to dismiss the others, then she slowly cat-walked to ideas. Don't also forget that the listeners do among other things. Vividly in my memory I my car. “Hi”, I blurted. “Good evening sir”, she replied, speak English or he knows the boys don't understand sometimes have more knowledge about now was the one that talked about dignity in submitted an abstract. Five weeks later, my abstract English. Moral depravity is when the university system was accepted with instructions to proceed with the her sonorous voice making an instant impression on me. certain topics than the presenters, and labour..." Ma tiju ise re, o baa sagbe, o ba a She: Where are we going to and what can you offer? is shut down for a whole year while government most of them are good listeners too. Therefore sakowe, bo je Onaja bo je oniworobo. Ise eni ni paper. As a scholar interested in the dialectic, I was officials have their children abroad in the best fascinated by the title of the notice due to the Me: Well, my mission is different. I want to have a you should not give them less than the best. ise eni" That is whatever legal job you found discussion with you for 30 minutes. I will pay you. universities. Moral depravity is…. Don't ever find yourself at a loss of idea or yourself in, do it with every sense of dignity. juxtaposition of the two words - Vice and Virtue. Me: Look, you must not…. The diametric but complementary alignment of the She: This is new. Are you a secret police agent? they use their question to sweep you off the These are my favourites on radio because of the Me: No, I am not. I am a lecturer, researching She: (Cuts in) Wait sir let me finish. You asked about chair and you are caught napping. It is so rhythm and the moral lessons that over forty two words bestirred my critical faculties. I decided moral depravity and I am explaining it to you. Moral to use Barnard Shaw's play “Mrs. Warren's prostitution. I want to hear from the horse's mouth, I have unfortunate that most presenters today just years still challenge me now. As at now I can a recorder. I will ask you some questions. depravity is when lawmakers earn colossal amounts of look out still recite them word for word. None of my Profession” as a template to interrogate the tensions money and are crippled by surplus while many people of vice and virtue as opposites inextricably She: I hope your recorder does not have a camera. for topics and put it on air for listeners to family members was in the media before me Me: No, it doesn't, you can examine it. wallow in deprivations and are devastated by need. contribute. They but in addition to my participation on intertwined with each other. For those who may not Me: Look…you see…are you sure… know, “Mrs. Warren's Profession” is a play that give listeners the job of running the Television at young age, I give credit to my Five minutes later, we found a table and two empty She: (Cuts in) You think because I stand on the road Princess Adenike Wuraola programme for them. My charge to presenters Dad who will not allow a weekend to pass recounts the story of Mrs. Kitty Warren, a one-time at night I don't know what is happening in this country? prostitute who, through the proceeds of her Her legs stood out chairs beside a posh hotel. Instantly, I set out to work. is to be up and doing and be on top of their without buying us all, his children, books for Me: What is your name? Don't forget I was once a journalist and I had a good rincess Adenike Wuraola Adegoke is a surpass the tempo. As the GM, I had to ask game, by reading wide so as to be well the week. He also imposed the reading of his profession, could send her daughter Vivie to like a“ well polished education. Moral depravity is when some government She: My name is Cynthia. (The cynical smile that Deputy Director of News and Current myself what exactly I am up to in the Station University. informed and be able to contribute to issues of own “Readers Digest” on all of us. Never a day graced her face betrayed her efforts at honesty. After all officials Lai morbidly even in the face of glaring truth Affairs with the Federal Radio after studying everything on assumption of the times. To be able to do passed, that my Dad would not send us to buy My interrogation of the issues raised in the and chiselled piece P did Mrs. Warren not disguise her true identity by adding just to defend a bad government and keep their jobs. I Corporation of Nigeria and the current office. I had a five point agenda boldly written play heightened my interest in prostitution and a well researched script. When you do your newspaper and God help you if you do not look a Mrs. to her name even though she wasn't married? am not more morally depraved than the politicians, General Manager of the award winning Bond on a flex banner at the reception. There posed some questions to me. Do the proceeds of furniture. Her research you do not only improve yourself, at the headlines before you get home, because Disguise is an inexorable mark of prostitution) lawyers, engineers, pastors, and businessmen who 92.9 FM, Lagos. For her secondary education, everybody sees it, reads it every now and then from prostitution aid the enablement of what we you would also be helping your listeners. he would always ask for the headlines, which skin glittered under Me: Let me admit that you are a beautiful young lady. troop here every night to patronize prostitutes. she attended Queens of Apostle Secondary and ticks the one that had been met in their see as a virtue in society? Can a prostitute ever you must recite off hand, after you might have I am wondering whether you are not thinking of getting Me: It's enough please, it's... School, Ibadan. She later had her Bachelors minds. We regularly have our Staff forum to do change seeing that even when Mrs. Warren FAVOURITE RADIO PROGRAMME handed him the papers. All of these the semi-darkness married and having a family. I think any man will fall She: (Cuts in) no, it's not enough. Our people must in Linguistics at the University of Ilorin and a review of our actions and activities with a retired, she established a brothel to employ young My favourite programme is not a programme contributed in no small measure to my in love with you under normal circumstances. rise to engage the politicians, the elected her Masters in the same discipline from the view to making things move faster and better. girls, thereby advancing the debasing culture of of the night like the per se. They were series of Public Service fluency both in reading and writing as a She: I will marry when I want. First, I want to make officeholders, public and private service providers, to University of Ibadan. She joined FRCN in The three major language nature of the Station sexual immorality? Do prostitutes pay tithes and announcements/ Corporate Responsibilities journalist. smoothness of the money before starting a family. hold them accountable, to rise against the daily 1993 and has attended numerous courses on creates room for love among the three major offerings to churches for prosperity in their Me: Do you think you will find a husband here? criminality that goes on in government circles, courts, broadcast journalism. Her favourite colour profession? Are there married men who defile the CHALLENGES sea. The beauty of She: No, not here. If I dress up properly and meet a banks, police, military, and other public agencies. used to be blue and pink but she is now in love sanctity of their conjugal union by patronizing My first experience was traumatic. A few man in a shopping mall, church or banking hall, will he Me: Our time is up. I shall visit you again and we with green and orange. She relishes eba and prostitutes? Are there married women who her physiognomy days I was transferred from Ibadan National know this side of me? The answer is no. Many of my will conclude this interview. vegetables. Adenike, who was just four of the desecrate the spiritual altar of their marriage by Station of FRCN to Lagos Operations of could disarm a colleagues here on the streets got married to highly She: Hold on Mr. Lecturer, let me remind you that women in the News section of FRCN, Ibadan exchanging their bodies for money and positions? FRCN, I boarded a "one chance” bus. From placed people in the society. Some of you celebrate moral depravity includes all those who are quick to when she joined the station wants Finally, what group of people constitutes the Alapere, Ketu, very early in the morning in whole satanic army. them. So I will marry when I want. (smiles) condemn prostitutes but are very slow to condemn an broadcasters to practise more investigative clientele of prostitution? 2003, I boarded the bus and it turned out to Me: So tell me, why and how did you become a incompetent government. Anyone who looks away journalism. She said life has taught her to love For answers to these questions, I decided to She was like the be “one chance”. The thieves drained every prostitute? while our country is gradually being submerged by an everybody but to trust a few. In this chat, the interview a prostitute. Opebi in Ikeja was the body's purse and pockets and dropped us off mythical mermaid She: (Smiles.) Well, after my NCE, I proceeded to unconscionable leadership is morally depraved. do-gooder shares insights garnered in her venue. Time was midnight, date 20th December at Ifako and asked us to squat till they drove University to study Mass Communication. Then my Anyone who fails to speak out against bad close to three decades in broadcasting. off. It was horrendous. When I eventually 2020. Entering Opebi, I saw her. Standing on six from the depth of governance is morally depraved. Oga, our people inches heels, her clothes clung tightly to her body father died. After my youth service, I got a job as a got to the office, I recounted the story which reporter with a national newspaper. For seven months, I must soro soke. The sophistry and hypocrisy in our EXPERIENCE AS GM accentuating the seductive outlines of her the ocean. was included in the news, with my account was not paid any salary. With a widowed mother and country must stop. Nobody has any moral Bond FM has won Radio Station of the Year provocative, sumptuous endowments. Her legs as voice insert. At the start of my career, I three younger ones to take care of, life became justification to condemn prostitution or armed Award given by the Nigeria Media Nite Out stood out like a well polished and chiselled piece drew inspirations from my very senior difficult. One day, I was sent to the city to interview a robbery while supporting a more heinous and morally twice. The Station also won the Radio Station of furniture. Her skin glittered under the semi- colleagues and Editors at FRCN Ibadan politician. He liked me and for the first time, I slept in a depraved government. of the year award by the City People darkness of the night like the smoothness of the National Station. They are Alhaji Kola five star hotel. He gave me good money and promised Me: (Completely dazed) I must leave now, thanks Magazine, and so many other awards of sea. The beauty of her physiognomy could disarm Animasaun; a journalist per excellence, who me lots of things. Well, he didn't fulfil any of the for your time. (With trembling fingers, I fidgeted into invaluable contribution to grassroots a whole satanic army. She was like the mythical was the Controller Editorial that time, Mr Yinka promises and never picked my calls again. That taught my pocket and paid her the agreed sum) I whispered developments .So being the GM of such a mermaid from the depth of the ocean. As she Fabusoye; a consummate journalist, who was me a lesson, politicians are established in deceit and to myself - into what dangers will research lead me? Station is a big deal. One needs to measure up walked, one would think she had no bones in her the first Editor I worked with in Ibadan. failed promises. Then I hit the streets. and even surpass the existing level.You need waist. Parts of her body shook as if they will Similarly was Mr Tajudeen Alade;a very Me: (Nonplussed.) Don't you think it is sheer moral · Dr Adiele, Convener, Third Force to put up your thinking cap and the disintegrate into multiple fragments, yet they brilliant journalist and Mrs Bose Oyewole; one depravity for you to pull your clothes for a stranger just Movement, teaches in the Department of English, professionalism in you to study what you met were sewn and held together by an unseen hand. time President of NAWOJ, who was the most because of money? Mountain Top University. He can be reached by on ground and put up measures to uplift and God is indeed the ultimate sculptor. I pulled over to Princess Adenike Wuraola in a warm handshake with Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo senior of the three ladies I met in FRCN, She: (Draws a long breath and sighs.) Well, everyone email: [email protected] Ibadan then. February 28, 2021 |20 February 28, 2021 |4 Viewpoint News

Public service sector critical to budget implementation — Olabimtan 2023: Tinubu best man to succeed Buhari -Senator Adeyeye he National Leader of the By Kofoworola Idowu Secretary in the Ministry who A l l P r o g r e s s i v e s doubles as the Vice Chairman, Congress (APC) Asiwaju gun State Commissioner T State Technical Working Bola Tinubu, has been described for Bu d g e t a n d Committee on Monitoring and as the best candidate to succeed OPlanning, Mr. Olaolu Evaluation, Mrs. Olufunmilayo President Muhammadu Buhari, Olabimtan has described the Dada, called on members whom in 2003. Public Service sector as crucial she described as ambassadors of The former Minister of State and the foundation on which the state government, to put in for Works and Chairman of 'ISEYA', the State's mantra their best and work as a team to Southwest Agenda 23 (SWAGA stands, for the successful achieve success. 23) Senator Dayo Adeyeye, stated implementation of the 2021 In his remarks, the this on Sunday, when the group budget and 2021-2023 Medium Permanent Secretary, Ministry paid a courtesy visit to the Palace Term Expenditure Framework. of Finance and the Chairman of of the Akarigbo and Paramount Olabimtan made this the Public Service Sector, Ruler of Remoland, Oba remark in Abeokuta at the Babatunde Ajayi. Hassan Adekunle said the The group paid similar visit to inauguration of the Monitoring success of the Medium-term the Asoludero Court, Sagamu and Evaluation Committee of Expenditure Framework, residence of the former governor the Public Service Sector. He depends largely on the sector, in Ogun state, Gbenga Daniel. emphasised that without the urging MDAs to make positive Adeyeye, who said the Budget Enablers, comprising impact in the public service, political support group was in the Public Service, Judiciary and e n s u r e p a r t i c i p a t o r y Akarigbo's Palace to seek his Ogun State Governor, Prince Dapo Abiodun, flanked by the Olu and paramount ruler of Yewaland, Oba Kehinde Olugbenle (right) and the Commander of 35 Artillery Brigade, Abeokuta, Brig. Gen EJ Legislature, the policies, representation, cooperate and royal blessing towards the official Amadasun during a consultative meeting with the affected victims of herders/farmer clash at Oja projects and programmes of support one another at all times. inauguration of the group in Odan in Yewa North local government areas of the state...recently Dangote refinery, Lagos Lekki Deep sea port government could not be Highlighting some of the Ogun, noted that Tinubu effectively implemented. committee's terms of reference, remained the best shot from the Akinlade and host of other APC forward and supported by the earlier been inaugurated in Oyo By FEMI ADESINA According to him, Director on Monitoring and south for presidency come 2023. stalwarts across the southwest southeast and south-south. and Osun states, will be launched et me give due credit for the idea of this monitoring and evaluation must Supervision, Ministry of Budget Accompanied on the visit by states, Adeyeye explained the "Tinubu is a good product that in Ogun on Tuesday, adding " piece. President Muhammadu Buhari be given priority from the outset and Planning, Mr. David Senators Gbenga Obadara, Soji group was formed to garner doesn't need any advertisement SWAGA 23 will also be This is where Buhari and he has contributed greatly to Lhad said recently that elites in the to ensure the state gets value for Onigbinde disclosed that Akanbi, former Commissioner support for Tinubu's presidential inuagurated in Kogi and Akwa country were not giving due accolades to his President Buhari: would leave his largest for Information in Oyo State, ambition, not only in the southwest the growth and development of the Ibom states soon". money and expected outcomes being the repository of administration in terms of where it met the Bosun Oladele, secretary of the but throughout the country. nation. He is consummate footprints. Roads. in budget implementation, monitoring and evaluation of Responding, Oba Ajayi country, what it grapples with, and where it has “ group, the immediate past According to him, if the ruling democrat and progressive. pledged his support for the group urging relevant Ministries, data for the relevant MDAs, been able to take the nation to, thus far. Bridges. Rail. Airports. Speaker of the Ogun State House All Progressives Congress (APC) "We have three geo-political and offered prayers for the success Departments and Agencies The position of Mr President was widely AKK gas pipeline. All to be it is expected to provide of Assembly, Suraj Adekunbi, would follow agreement and zone zones in the South, and all of them of Tinubu's presidential aspiration published by the traditional and digital media, delivered before the (MDAs), to give maximum periodic framework, give former House of Reps member presidency to the south in 2023, the have the right to contest for the in 2023. and it became an object of debate. The unheralded commitment and sacrifice to technical coordination and from Ogun state, Ishiaq Abiodun APC national leader should be put presidency. South West is According to him, the entire In the middle of it all, I received a phone call administration exits in ensure success of the Public guidance on activities interested to contest for the Remoland will key into the project from Prince Nduka Obaigbena, Chairman of 2023...Lagos-Ibadan Service sector. undertaken in the sector, presidency in 2023. The person of ensuring a true and patriotic Arise Television and Publisher of Thisday Expressway racing Also speaking, Permanent among others. who can help us win this ticket is Nigerian in the calibre of Tinubu to Newspapers. NAPTIP, OGSG partner Asiwaju Bola Tinubu. succeed Buhari in 2023. “Mr President says the elite have not given towards completion. "He has done a lot for Nigerians On his part, former governor due credit to the administration. That means Abuja-Kaduna-Kano Demoted police Sergeant promoted to stop human trafficking irrespective of religion and tribe. Daniel, noted that for the there are achievements that are not reported, achievements He has built bridges across the southwest to move forward as one, underreported, or not celebrated at all. Come to despondency was the order of the day. billion dollars, owed by previous Expressway being Inspector two years after By Opeyemi Oladele aggravated physical and country. there should be unity of purpose. Arise Television, and talk about it.” But it was also the year Nigeria had resolved administrations. Uncelebrated, unheralded. reconstructed. Apapa- psychological injury, production "We gathered together to start He advised SWAGA 23 not to It was a good opportunity. What else was my to return its budget cycle to January to We have always talked about the need to have Oshodi-Oworonshoki By: Femi Osipitan who came fourth in the 69kg gun State Government and presentation of false identity campaigning for him. If we can lose focus and mobilise support duty, if not to inform and educate the country December. It was achieved, and despite the fact modular refineries in the country, to ensure that category and came fourth is collaborating with or travel documents, money hold our house together, we will beyond the southwest, urging Expressway being he Ogun State Judicial laundering, among others should (and beyond) on the work my principal was that fallen oil prices compelled a review, the glitches in the supply of petroleum products were while representing Nigeria in Othe National Agency have the presidency back in the them to Tinubu, who according to doing for the country? So, to Arise Television I budget at the end of the day achieved 97.7% eliminated. For years, licenses were given, but reconstructed for the Panel of Investigation India in the year 2008 said, "I for Prohibition of Trafficking in be looked into with a view to southwest, Adeyeye stated. him has the capacity to lead went, on The Morning Show, anchored by performance. Holy Moses! It never happened there was only one such refinery working in the first time in 40 years. Ton Police Brutality, went to a bank in Abeokuta, Persons (NAPTIP), to eradicate curbing them. He said the group which had Nigeria. cerebral journalist and my immediate before. In normal years, without a gripping country. Till Buhari came, and recalibrated the Human Rights Violations and to withdraw money in t h e m e n a c e o f h u m a n predecessor in the office I currently occupy, Dr pandemic, and the need to balance between lives oil industry. Today, many modular refineries are Extra Judicial Killings has preparation for my trip to trafficking, child molestation, and livelihoods, our budgets never attained such rape, threats to life and other Reuben Abati. in the works, almost completed. Late last year, In areas where we had opacities, there is now learnt that a Police Sergeant, Cuba to participate in the Free health scheme: Residents urged to patronise centres The sparring session (that's the way I see it) records. You often talk of 50 or 60% the Waltersmith refinery was commissioned by Gbenga Olajide who was related offences. transparency. The first audited financial report of Weight Lifting Festival of By Femi Onasanya to treatment for headache, went well. Abati and his co-hosts came from performance, at the best. There were years in the the President himself, and has gone into The State Attorney- effect and would be a disservice the NNPC is now done in more than 40 years. demoted to the rank of 2017. malaria, blood pressure, diabetes, different angles, trying to take me out with that past, when we even had 30% performance. But operation. But not a whimper from the traditional General and Commissioner for to efforts at making living more The Open Treasury Portal now publishes Federal C o r p o r a l f o l l o w i n g a “There were cars and esidents of Ogun State tuberculosis and other basic sucker punch that would send me kissing the under Buhari, in a year of collapsed oil prices, and social media. Why? No herdsman was Justice, Mr. Akingbolahan comfortable for residents. Government expenditure online. Corruption is misconduct was promoted an motorcycles packed in front need to patronise the medical conditions. canvass. I floated like a butterfly and stung like and income at about a quarter of what we used involved. No interest. Adeniran, who is also the The State Government had being robustly fought. There is public sector Inspector of Police two years of the bank and for me to Primary Health Centers The Commissioner said a bee (apologies Muhammed Ali). At the end to earn, here was 97.7% performance. Jumping Infrastructure. Ah, infrastructure. This is Chairman of the Committee on R i n t h e l a s t f e w w e e k s reform in many areas. Our waist beads are being after. Jehoshaphat! There must be more fiscal pass, I jumped over a Child and Human Trafficking in spread across the 20 Local commenced the registration of investment of the present of it all, I believe we had a good show, with no where Buhari would leave his largest footprints. touched, but we are pretending not to know. discipline in this government than Nigerians are The Nigeria Police Force motorcycle and a police the State, said this during the Government Areas, so that 1,000 vulnerable persons in each administration in upgrading the side worsted. Roads. Bridges. Rail. Airports. AKK gas Wetin? crediting it for. in year 2017 through the office officer accosted me asking if I inauguration of Coordinators government's desire to provide of the Local Government Areas health centers should not be left So, what are the unheralded achievements of pipeline. All to be delivered before the Let's look at private investments in the country. But did the news hug the headlines? Did it of the Provost at the Ogun knew the implication of my and Sub-committees of Task free health for the vulnerable into the BHCPF, to ensure unutilised, pointing out that all the Buhari Administration? What are the administration exits in 2023. Second Bridge over Such things never thrive, unless government become the talking point of talk shows on radio State Command in care of Force on Human Trafficking in under the Basic Health Care adequate and sustainable funding efforts put in place were geared landmarks and milestones given scant attention River Niger, built with mouth for 16 years under provides the enabling environment. Now see what action? While still speaking and television? For where? No herdsmen were 16PMF released a signal with Oke-Mosan, Abeokuta. Provision Fund (BHCPF) can be to provide quality health care towards making healthcare by the elite, if even recognized at all? the administration of another political party, is we have, under Buhari: with me, another officer involved, so it was not going to be sweet to Ch6450/ OGS/PROV/VOL He stated that it was achieved. services and financial risk accessible to people at no far Nigeria has challenges today. Very severe now about 50% completed. Lagos-Ibadan *Dangote Refinery. The largest single-train crude named Gbenga Olajide discuss. It was going to make the government of 21/312 DTO 231549/02/2017 important to sensitise members The State Commissioner for protection for the people. distance. ones. Security is key in any country, if there Expressway racing towards completion. Abuja- oil refinery in the world. slapped me from the back and the day look good, so the elite was not of the public on the side effects Health, Dr. Tomi Coker, who Coker noted that the basic Appreciating the Prince would be progress and development. But here Kaduna-Kano Expressway being reconstructed. *Lekki Deep Sea Port. A brand new port to serve demobbing and reducing later stabbed me on the side of interested. That was how that budget feat went of human trafficking, noting made this call while supervising provision of the fund includes Dapo Abiodun led-administration we are, battling insurgency, banditry, Apapa-Oshodi-Oworonshoki Expressway being as alternative to Apapa port. Sergeant Olajide to the rank of the neck". uncelebrated, unheralded. Shout yourself hoarse that the committees were the registration of vulnerable in ante-natal care for pregnant for its huge investment in the kidnappings, wanton killings, armed robbery, reconstructed for the first time in 40 years. *Dangote Fertilizer and Petrochemical plant a Corporal following his trial The petitioner who announcing it, those who should run with it were constituted to fight against child Emulu Village, Orile-Itesi, women and post-natal care up to health sector, the Olu of Itesi, Oba ethnic insularity leading to murder and Bonny-Bodo Bridge and road finally underway, *Segilola Gold Project in Osun State, described on a case of attempted murder. added that the incident uninterested. They would rather talk of yet trafficking and work towards Odeda Local Government Area six weeks, with overall treatment Olayinka Adeniyi, affirmed that mayhem, and other vicious criminalities. All more than four decades after it was conceived. as “Nigeria's most advanced gold exploration and Olajide was alleged to have unfulfilled promises in the areas of security, prevented him from attending possible communication of the State, added that low for children up to the age of five, his subjects would not take these can only make a people sad and dolorous. Rail projects round the country. Abuja-Kaduna, production project.” stabbed one Mr. Oluwasola economy and anti-corruption. the competition in Cuba channels to suppress crime, as patronage will have negative while the aged would have access government efforts for granted. But is that all there is to Nigeria of today? Warri-Itakpe already in operation, Lagos-Ibadan *Nigeria's first ever gold refineries under Oladunjoye on the side of his We have always had stiff antagonism between where he could have won the State is close to some border The Buhari government is battling insecurity to be commissioned anytime soon, Ibadan to construction in Ogun State and FCT neck with no justification. states and the Federal Government. They were medals worth millions of areas of the country. with all it has at its disposal. Naturally, the Kano under works, Kano to Maradi flagged off *Olam's $150million investment in poultry feed always like Tom and Jerry, with each striving to Having been demoted, naira for himself as well as "Indeed, the victims' populace will want faster results, but some last week. Brand new airports in Abuja, Port mills, hatchery and breeder farms in Kaduna and outdo and undermine the other. Till Buhari the same officer was made the nation proud is protection and eradication of things are never by a sudden flight. You don't Harcourt, Lagos, Kano. Enugu has been Kwara states, commissioned in 2017 came. transferred to Ondo State seeking justice by way of human trafficking is our just snap your fingers, and the problems rehabilitated. *GB Foods 20 billion naira tomato paste factory At the advent of the administration in 2015, at Command three months after, priority, also the emergency disappear. And in the middle of it all, you must Headquarters of the Niger Delta Development in Kebbi prosecution against officer least 27 states could not pay salaries. President where he was alleged to have response to strengthen and still continue to work, and make the time count Commission (NDDC) completed after decades *$250 million brewery by International Breweries G b e n g a O l a j i d e , w h o Buhari did not ask them to stew in their juice, reported as a Sergeant and not enhance effective legal means for country and the people. of lack of will, the local content skyscraper dots Plc, commissioned 2018 in Sagamu, Ogun State, attempted to take his life but rather made deft footworks, which bailed the a Corporal. Two years after, to prevent the root causes of the So, despite it all, what are some of the the Bayelsa State skyline, the Nnamdi Azikiwe said to be the biggest in West Africa while also requesting for states out of their predicament. Succor came for menace must be addressed'', the unreported or underreported achievements? mausoleum completed in Anambra State after 22 *Indorama Fertilizer Plant Train 2, nearing Olajide got promoted to the appropriate compensation for the people. Did it hug the headlines? No. Commisioner said. Annual budgets and how they perform have years, all by Buhari. No plaudits. No accolades. completion in Port Harcourt rank of Inspector of Police. his medical bills, already Because herdsmen were not involved. In her remarks, the always been issues in the country. How All they talk about are things not done. No *NLNG Train 7, which will expand the These were revealed to purchased flight ticket to It used to be that Federal Government never Regional Director of NAPTIP, timeously has the financial projections been thanksgiving to God for small mercies, which are company's production capacity by more than 30% t h e P a n e l w h e n o n e Cuba amongst other losses. gave states their dues in terms of refunds for who also doubles as Vice delivered, and what has been the level of the real mercies. It all reminds me of the line *Agric investment hits 6-year high petitioner, Mr. Oluwasola projects executed. But not under Buhari. At the According to the Panel Chairman of the Committee, performance? These are germane to any from China Achebe, in Things Fall Apart, about a And many more... Oladunjoye, was addressing last count, about 700 billion naira had been paid Chairman, Justice Solomon Mrs. Kehinde Akomolafe, said economy. man and his consort: “If I hold her hands, she President Buhari is surely touching the waist Panel members during a to states as refund for road projects. The largest Olugbemi, while reacting proper collaboration among law The year 2020 was a remarkable one in the says; don't touch. If I hold her foot, she says; beads of Nigerians. We should no longer pretend sitting at the Magistrate Court chunk of N78 billion went to Rivers, a state said, "the officer has been enforcement agencies remained annals of mankind. A novel virus came, which don't touch. But when I hold her waist beads, she not to know. 1, Isabo, Abeokuta. you can't see, smell or touch, but it succeeded governed by the opposition party, and who's pretends not to know.” invited to come and give his the panacea for effecting crime governor rarely has good things to say about Narrating his experience own side of the story before prevention in the country. in sending the world into a tailspin. There were Why is President Buhari touching our waist *Adesina is Special Adviser to President Buhari government at the centre. Also approved and with Officer Olajide, Mr. we would conclude our own Akomolafe noted that national lockdowns round the globe, lives were beads, and some Nigerians, particularly the elite, on Media and Publicity lost in their numbers, economies suffered, and paid were Paris Club refunds in excess of five are pretending not to know? Oladunjoye, a Weight Lifter investigation".. offences like rape, threats to life, Dr. Tomi Coker speaking during the free health scheme at Emulu Village, Orile-Itesi, Odeda Local Government Area of the State...recently February 28, 2021 |20 February 28, 2021 |4 Viewpoint News

Public service sector critical to budget implementation — Olabimtan 2023: Tinubu best man to succeed Buhari -Senator Adeyeye he National Leader of the By Kofoworola Idowu Secretary in the Ministry who A l l P r o g r e s s i v e s doubles as the Vice Chairman, Congress (APC) Asiwaju gun State Commissioner T State Technical Working Bola Tinubu, has been described for Bu d g e t a n d Committee on Monitoring and as the best candidate to succeed OPlanning, Mr. Olaolu Evaluation, Mrs. Olufunmilayo President Muhammadu Buhari, Olabimtan has described the Dada, called on members whom in 2003. Public Service sector as crucial she described as ambassadors of The former Minister of State and the foundation on which the state government, to put in for Works and Chairman of 'ISEYA', the State's mantra their best and work as a team to Southwest Agenda 23 (SWAGA stands, for the successful achieve success. 23) Senator Dayo Adeyeye, stated implementation of the 2021 In his remarks, the this on Sunday, when the group budget and 2021-2023 Medium Permanent Secretary, Ministry paid a courtesy visit to the Palace Term Expenditure Framework. of Finance and the Chairman of of the Akarigbo and Paramount Olabimtan made this the Public Service Sector, Ruler of Remoland, Oba remark in Abeokuta at the Babatunde Ajayi. Hassan Adekunle said the The group paid similar visit to inauguration of the Monitoring success of the Medium-term the Asoludero Court, Sagamu and Evaluation Committee of Expenditure Framework, residence of the former governor the Public Service Sector. He depends largely on the sector, in Ogun state, Gbenga Daniel. emphasised that without the urging MDAs to make positive Adeyeye, who said the Budget Enablers, comprising impact in the public service, political support group was in the Public Service, Judiciary and e n s u r e p a r t i c i p a t o r y Akarigbo's Palace to seek his Ogun State Governor, Prince Dapo Abiodun, flanked by the Olu and paramount ruler of Yewaland, Oba Kehinde Olugbenle (right) and the Commander of 35 Artillery Brigade, Abeokuta, Brig. Gen EJ Legislature, the policies, representation, cooperate and royal blessing towards the official Amadasun during a consultative meeting with the affected victims of herders/farmer clash at Oja projects and programmes of support one another at all times. inauguration of the group in Odan in Yewa North local government areas of the state...recently Dangote refinery, Lagos Lekki Deep sea port government could not be Highlighting some of the Ogun, noted that Tinubu effectively implemented. committee's terms of reference, remained the best shot from the Akinlade and host of other APC forward and supported by the earlier been inaugurated in Oyo By FEMI ADESINA According to him, Director on Monitoring and south for presidency come 2023. stalwarts across the southwest southeast and south-south. and Osun states, will be launched et me give due credit for the idea of this monitoring and evaluation must Supervision, Ministry of Budget Accompanied on the visit by states, Adeyeye explained the "Tinubu is a good product that in Ogun on Tuesday, adding " piece. President Muhammadu Buhari be given priority from the outset and Planning, Mr. David Senators Gbenga Obadara, Soji group was formed to garner doesn't need any advertisement SWAGA 23 will also be This is where Buhari and he has contributed greatly to Lhad said recently that elites in the to ensure the state gets value for Onigbinde disclosed that Akanbi, former Commissioner support for Tinubu's presidential inuagurated in Kogi and Akwa country were not giving due accolades to his President Buhari: would leave his largest for Information in Oyo State, ambition, not only in the southwest the growth and development of the Ibom states soon". money and expected outcomes being the repository of administration in terms of where it met the Bosun Oladele, secretary of the but throughout the country. nation. He is consummate footprints. Roads. in budget implementation, monitoring and evaluation of Responding, Oba Ajayi country, what it grapples with, and where it has “ group, the immediate past According to him, if the ruling democrat and progressive. pledged his support for the group urging relevant Ministries, data for the relevant MDAs, been able to take the nation to, thus far. Bridges. Rail. Airports. Speaker of the Ogun State House All Progressives Congress (APC) "We have three geo-political and offered prayers for the success Departments and Agencies The position of Mr President was widely AKK gas pipeline. All to be it is expected to provide of Assembly, Suraj Adekunbi, would follow agreement and zone zones in the South, and all of them of Tinubu's presidential aspiration published by the traditional and digital media, delivered before the (MDAs), to give maximum periodic framework, give former House of Reps member presidency to the south in 2023, the have the right to contest for the in 2023. and it became an object of debate. The unheralded commitment and sacrifice to technical coordination and from Ogun state, Ishiaq Abiodun APC national leader should be put presidency. South West is According to him, the entire In the middle of it all, I received a phone call administration exits in ensure success of the Public guidance on activities interested to contest for the Remoland will key into the project from Prince Nduka Obaigbena, Chairman of 2023...Lagos-Ibadan Service sector. undertaken in the sector, presidency in 2023. The person of ensuring a true and patriotic Arise Television and Publisher of Thisday Expressway racing Also speaking, Permanent among others. who can help us win this ticket is Nigerian in the calibre of Tinubu to Newspapers. NAPTIP, OGSG partner Asiwaju Bola Tinubu. succeed Buhari in 2023. “Mr President says the elite have not given towards completion. "He has done a lot for Nigerians On his part, former governor due credit to the administration. That means Abuja-Kaduna-Kano Demoted police Sergeant promoted to stop human trafficking irrespective of religion and tribe. Daniel, noted that for the there are achievements that are not reported, achievements He has built bridges across the southwest to move forward as one, underreported, or not celebrated at all. Come to despondency was the order of the day. billion dollars, owed by previous Expressway being Inspector two years after By Opeyemi Oladele aggravated physical and country. there should be unity of purpose. Arise Television, and talk about it.” But it was also the year Nigeria had resolved administrations. Uncelebrated, unheralded. reconstructed. Apapa- psychological injury, production "We gathered together to start He advised SWAGA 23 not to It was a good opportunity. What else was my to return its budget cycle to January to We have always talked about the need to have Oshodi-Oworonshoki By: Femi Osipitan who came fourth in the 69kg gun State Government and presentation of false identity campaigning for him. If we can lose focus and mobilise support duty, if not to inform and educate the country December. It was achieved, and despite the fact modular refineries in the country, to ensure that category and came fourth is collaborating with or travel documents, money hold our house together, we will beyond the southwest, urging Expressway being he Ogun State Judicial laundering, among others should (and beyond) on the work my principal was that fallen oil prices compelled a review, the glitches in the supply of petroleum products were while representing Nigeria in Othe National Agency have the presidency back in the them to Tinubu, who according to doing for the country? So, to Arise Television I budget at the end of the day achieved 97.7% eliminated. For years, licenses were given, but reconstructed for the Panel of Investigation India in the year 2008 said, "I for Prohibition of Trafficking in be looked into with a view to southwest, Adeyeye stated. him has the capacity to lead went, on The Morning Show, anchored by performance. Holy Moses! It never happened there was only one such refinery working in the first time in 40 years. Ton Police Brutality, went to a bank in Abeokuta, Persons (NAPTIP), to eradicate curbing them. He said the group which had Nigeria. cerebral journalist and my immediate before. In normal years, without a gripping country. Till Buhari came, and recalibrated the Human Rights Violations and to withdraw money in t h e m e n a c e o f h u m a n predecessor in the office I currently occupy, Dr pandemic, and the need to balance between lives oil industry. Today, many modular refineries are Extra Judicial Killings has preparation for my trip to trafficking, child molestation, and livelihoods, our budgets never attained such rape, threats to life and other Reuben Abati. in the works, almost completed. Late last year, In areas where we had opacities, there is now learnt that a Police Sergeant, Cuba to participate in the Free health scheme: Residents urged to patronise centres The sparring session (that's the way I see it) records. You often talk of 50 or 60% the Waltersmith refinery was commissioned by Gbenga Olajide who was related offences. transparency. The first audited financial report of Weight Lifting Festival of By Femi Onasanya to treatment for headache, went well. Abati and his co-hosts came from performance, at the best. There were years in the the President himself, and has gone into The State Attorney- effect and would be a disservice the NNPC is now done in more than 40 years. demoted to the rank of 2017. malaria, blood pressure, diabetes, different angles, trying to take me out with that past, when we even had 30% performance. But operation. But not a whimper from the traditional General and Commissioner for to efforts at making living more The Open Treasury Portal now publishes Federal C o r p o r a l f o l l o w i n g a “There were cars and esidents of Ogun State tuberculosis and other basic sucker punch that would send me kissing the under Buhari, in a year of collapsed oil prices, and social media. Why? No herdsman was Justice, Mr. Akingbolahan comfortable for residents. Government expenditure online. Corruption is misconduct was promoted an motorcycles packed in front need to patronise the medical conditions. canvass. I floated like a butterfly and stung like and income at about a quarter of what we used involved. No interest. Adeniran, who is also the The State Government had being robustly fought. There is public sector Inspector of Police two years of the bank and for me to Primary Health Centers The Commissioner said a bee (apologies Muhammed Ali). At the end to earn, here was 97.7% performance. Jumping Infrastructure. Ah, infrastructure. This is Chairman of the Committee on R i n t h e l a s t f e w w e e k s reform in many areas. Our waist beads are being after. Jehoshaphat! There must be more fiscal pass, I jumped over a Child and Human Trafficking in spread across the 20 Local commenced the registration of investment of the present of it all, I believe we had a good show, with no where Buhari would leave his largest footprints. touched, but we are pretending not to know. discipline in this government than Nigerians are The Nigeria Police Force motorcycle and a police the State, said this during the Government Areas, so that 1,000 vulnerable persons in each administration in upgrading the side worsted. Roads. Bridges. Rail. Airports. AKK gas Wetin? crediting it for. in year 2017 through the office officer accosted me asking if I inauguration of Coordinators government's desire to provide of the Local Government Areas health centers should not be left So, what are the unheralded achievements of pipeline. All to be delivered before the Let's look at private investments in the country. But did the news hug the headlines? Did it of the Provost at the Ogun knew the implication of my and Sub-committees of Task free health for the vulnerable into the BHCPF, to ensure unutilised, pointing out that all the Buhari Administration? What are the administration exits in 2023. Second Bridge over Such things never thrive, unless government become the talking point of talk shows on radio State Command in care of Force on Human Trafficking in under the Basic Health Care adequate and sustainable funding efforts put in place were geared landmarks and milestones given scant attention River Niger, built with mouth for 16 years under provides the enabling environment. Now see what action? While still speaking and television? For where? No herdsmen were 16PMF released a signal with Oke-Mosan, Abeokuta. Provision Fund (BHCPF) can be to provide quality health care towards making healthcare by the elite, if even recognized at all? the administration of another political party, is we have, under Buhari: with me, another officer involved, so it was not going to be sweet to Ch6450/ OGS/PROV/VOL He stated that it was achieved. services and financial risk accessible to people at no far Nigeria has challenges today. Very severe now about 50% completed. Lagos-Ibadan *Dangote Refinery. The largest single-train crude named Gbenga Olajide discuss. It was going to make the government of 21/312 DTO 231549/02/2017 important to sensitise members The State Commissioner for protection for the people. distance. ones. Security is key in any country, if there Expressway racing towards completion. Abuja- oil refinery in the world. slapped me from the back and the day look good, so the elite was not of the public on the side effects Health, Dr. Tomi Coker, who Coker noted that the basic Appreciating the Prince would be progress and development. But here Kaduna-Kano Expressway being reconstructed. *Lekki Deep Sea Port. A brand new port to serve demobbing and reducing later stabbed me on the side of interested. That was how that budget feat went of human trafficking, noting made this call while supervising provision of the fund includes Dapo Abiodun led-administration we are, battling insurgency, banditry, Apapa-Oshodi-Oworonshoki Expressway being as alternative to Apapa port. Sergeant Olajide to the rank of the neck". uncelebrated, unheralded. Shout yourself hoarse that the committees were the registration of vulnerable in ante-natal care for pregnant for its huge investment in the kidnappings, wanton killings, armed robbery, reconstructed for the first time in 40 years. *Dangote Fertilizer and Petrochemical plant a Corporal following his trial The petitioner who announcing it, those who should run with it were constituted to fight against child Emulu Village, Orile-Itesi, women and post-natal care up to health sector, the Olu of Itesi, Oba ethnic insularity leading to murder and Bonny-Bodo Bridge and road finally underway, *Segilola Gold Project in Osun State, described on a case of attempted murder. added that the incident uninterested. They would rather talk of yet trafficking and work towards Odeda Local Government Area six weeks, with overall treatment Olayinka Adeniyi, affirmed that mayhem, and other vicious criminalities. All more than four decades after it was conceived. as “Nigeria's most advanced gold exploration and Olajide was alleged to have unfulfilled promises in the areas of security, prevented him from attending possible communication of the State, added that low for children up to the age of five, his subjects would not take these can only make a people sad and dolorous. Rail projects round the country. Abuja-Kaduna, production project.” stabbed one Mr. Oluwasola economy and anti-corruption. the competition in Cuba channels to suppress crime, as patronage will have negative while the aged would have access government efforts for granted. But is that all there is to Nigeria of today? Warri-Itakpe already in operation, Lagos-Ibadan *Nigeria's first ever gold refineries under Oladunjoye on the side of his We have always had stiff antagonism between where he could have won the State is close to some border The Buhari government is battling insecurity to be commissioned anytime soon, Ibadan to construction in Ogun State and FCT neck with no justification. states and the Federal Government. They were medals worth millions of areas of the country. with all it has at its disposal. Naturally, the Kano under works, Kano to Maradi flagged off *Olam's $150million investment in poultry feed always like Tom and Jerry, with each striving to Having been demoted, naira for himself as well as "Indeed, the victims' populace will want faster results, but some last week. Brand new airports in Abuja, Port mills, hatchery and breeder farms in Kaduna and outdo and undermine the other. Till Buhari the same officer was made the nation proud is protection and eradication of things are never by a sudden flight. You don't Harcourt, Lagos, Kano. Enugu has been Kwara states, commissioned in 2017 came. transferred to Ondo State seeking justice by way of human trafficking is our just snap your fingers, and the problems rehabilitated. *GB Foods 20 billion naira tomato paste factory At the advent of the administration in 2015, at Command three months after, priority, also the emergency disappear. And in the middle of it all, you must Headquarters of the Niger Delta Development in Kebbi prosecution against officer least 27 states could not pay salaries. President where he was alleged to have response to strengthen and still continue to work, and make the time count Commission (NDDC) completed after decades *$250 million brewery by International Breweries G b e n g a O l a j i d e , w h o Buhari did not ask them to stew in their juice, reported as a Sergeant and not enhance effective legal means for country and the people. of lack of will, the local content skyscraper dots Plc, commissioned 2018 in Sagamu, Ogun State, attempted to take his life but rather made deft footworks, which bailed the a Corporal. Two years after, to prevent the root causes of the So, despite it all, what are some of the the Bayelsa State skyline, the Nnamdi Azikiwe said to be the biggest in West Africa while also requesting for states out of their predicament. Succor came for menace must be addressed'', the unreported or underreported achievements? mausoleum completed in Anambra State after 22 *Indorama Fertilizer Plant Train 2, nearing Olajide got promoted to the appropriate compensation for the people. Did it hug the headlines? No. Commisioner said. Annual budgets and how they perform have years, all by Buhari. No plaudits. No accolades. completion in Port Harcourt rank of Inspector of Police. his medical bills, already Because herdsmen were not involved. In her remarks, the always been issues in the country. How All they talk about are things not done. No *NLNG Train 7, which will expand the These were revealed to purchased flight ticket to It used to be that Federal Government never Regional Director of NAPTIP, timeously has the financial projections been thanksgiving to God for small mercies, which are company's production capacity by more than 30% t h e P a n e l w h e n o n e Cuba amongst other losses. gave states their dues in terms of refunds for who also doubles as Vice delivered, and what has been the level of the real mercies. It all reminds me of the line *Agric investment hits 6-year high petitioner, Mr. Oluwasola projects executed. But not under Buhari. At the According to the Panel Chairman of the Committee, performance? These are germane to any from China Achebe, in Things Fall Apart, about a And many more... Oladunjoye, was addressing last count, about 700 billion naira had been paid Chairman, Justice Solomon Mrs. Kehinde Akomolafe, said economy. man and his consort: “If I hold her hands, she President Buhari is surely touching the waist Panel members during a to states as refund for road projects. The largest Olugbemi, while reacting proper collaboration among law The year 2020 was a remarkable one in the says; don't touch. If I hold her foot, she says; beads of Nigerians. We should no longer pretend sitting at the Magistrate Court chunk of N78 billion went to Rivers, a state said, "the officer has been enforcement agencies remained annals of mankind. A novel virus came, which don't touch. But when I hold her waist beads, she not to know. 1, Isabo, Abeokuta. you can't see, smell or touch, but it succeeded governed by the opposition party, and who's pretends not to know.” invited to come and give his the panacea for effecting crime governor rarely has good things to say about Narrating his experience own side of the story before prevention in the country. in sending the world into a tailspin. There were Why is President Buhari touching our waist *Adesina is Special Adviser to President Buhari government at the centre. Also approved and with Officer Olajide, Mr. we would conclude our own Akomolafe noted that national lockdowns round the globe, lives were beads, and some Nigerians, particularly the elite, on Media and Publicity lost in their numbers, economies suffered, and paid were Paris Club refunds in excess of five are pretending not to know? Oladunjoye, a Weight Lifter investigation".. offences like rape, threats to life, Dr. Tomi Coker speaking during the free health scheme at Emulu Village, Orile-Itesi, Odeda Local Government Area of the State...recently February 28, 2021 |19 February 28, 2021 |9 Royalty Opinion John Awe young Fulani cattle herder who was arrested while his gang was attempting to kidnap a f we did not know our president better, motorist somewhere in Auchi. He claimed he we would think he actually enjoys ...So that this house does not fall was invited from his village by his 'brother' to Iseeing Nigerians suffer. But the truth 'follow cows' (herd cattle) but got to the is, he just doesn't care! forest of Auchi to discover they were into There is a difference, and perhaps it kidnapping. By that time, it was too late for bears being pointed out. President him to go back. Muhammadu Buhari would not go out of So either we like it or not, there is an his way to make life hard for his people. army of erstwhile herders who have gone But if what he is doing or not doing rogue all over our forests. Their brand of happens to make life hard for you, so be it. kidnapping is different from Evans'. They do He does not care. not have the luxury of keeping their victims To the adherents of the religion in a room in town, and there is no practised in the innermost recess of our More sophistication beyond their arms and rocky state fortress, this view is worrisome is ammunition. No flashy cars to draw blasphemy, deserving of prime-time insult “ suspicion, no girlfriend in town you can track and creative name-calling. the fact that them through. However, creative name-calling many of the This brand of outlaws are ascetic. Their should be the least of anyone's worries operation is more ruthless. They are when the corporate existence of Nigeria is herders who especially more difficult to track down 196 passengers and crew on board. threatened. Everyone with a modicum of around for years and sometimes because of their wide knowledge of the have had to get Over 20 years ago, herders drew love for his motherland should speak up centuries. forests. From years of migratory herding, daggers on me because I almost ran my now. firearms to The reason is not difficult to they know the forests more than many Volkswagen Beetle into their flock The south-east and south-west are comprehend. When Nigerians gather at indigenes. They are always on the move protect smack in the middle of the Apapa- erupting in a rash of self-help efforts, the the table ostensibly to find solutions to a forcing their victims to trek for miles, Oshodi Expressway. sort that manifests in the absence of problem, there are always options that sleeping in open camps, drinking from the themselves I had picked up my sister-in-law government; the sort that can tip the are not even up for discussion at all, same water sources as cattle and feeding on whose flight was delayed past midnight country over in a paroxysm of violence. and their because bringing them up will offend what they harvest from people's farms. and we were returning to Festac when In the face of relentless assault on the the sensibilities of an ethnic group, a This brand of criminality needs to be cattle against we saw two people flashing torch lights people of Oke Ogun in Oyo State by religion, vested interest, power bloc, understood in order to combat it, which is beside the road around Ijesha Bus Stop. bandits mainly from the north who rape, rustlers are governor or president. why it is not a good idea to stick to political At that ungodly hour, my thought was kill and kidnap for ransom, a certain However, the solution being correctness and shy away from correctly discovering that they were robbers and I moved Sunday Igboho has stepped up, trumpeting excluded from discussion for prebendal identifying the crime with renegade herders. towards the fast lane and decided to a mandate to protect the defenceless. That that it is far reasons may be the only antidote to the There are genuine herdsmen who are carrying make a dash for it. actually is the job description of a malaise being discussed. out their business lawfully. But we must more lucrative I was only metres away when I saw government. Take this latest cattle-herding related recognise also that there are now renegade that it was a herd of cattle blocking the In the south-east, tired of being killed, crisis, for instance, is it not obvious that herdsmen who have taken to a life of crime. to use those entire expressway. I slammed the brakes raped and robbed in the forests by these migratory cattle-herding is outdated? Their activities will make life more and was able to stop at the nick of time. selfsame bandits, the youths have formed weapons to Which other progressive country still difficult for their law-abiding kinsmen. But The herders were not impressed. They an alternative armed force not provided allows cows to roam its cities and more importantly, their activities are capable he Osile of Oke-Ona perpetrate came towards us menacingly with drawn for in the constitution. destroy farm harvests? None. of pitting ethnic groups against each other. Egba, Oba Dr. daggers telling us they would have The ingredients are all there for a criminality Is it not obvious to everyone that It is already happening. Figures such as Adedapo Adewale slaughtered us if we had killed any of T complete breakdown of law and order. stopping pastoralism and assisting cattle Sunday Igboho and Nnamdi Kanu are all we Tejuoso clocked 83 years on than to fend their cows. Many compatriots have been This should alarm the president and those herders to migrate to modern ways of need to enthrone the government of mobs. A so killed for cows. Friday, 19th February, 2021. Osile of Oke-Ona: charged with the duty of securing Nigeria. off rustlers. doing their business is a sure-fire wise man once said that the IQ of a mob can More worrisome is the fact that As usual, the evangelist It has taken long years of inactivity by solution to the current crisis? Yet, that is be determined by taking the IQ of the many of the herders who have had to get the elected leaders to get to this point; the option not on the table as people on dumbest member and dividing it by the monarch marked the day with firearms to protect themselves and their years of continuously passing over great the corridors of power try to outdo each number of members. In the end, more harm praises to the King of kings cattle against rustlers are discovering opportunities to turn things around for the other to impress the president. will be done than good. with his fellow kings, friends that it is far more lucrative to use those country. Migratory herding and open grazing This is why the president needs to stop and well wishers. The weapons to perpetrate criminality than to Nigeria has a knack for missing the of cattle ought to have been stopped playing Emperor Nero now and take this Olusegun Obasanjo fend off rustlers. bus when the world is finding solutions to decades ago if we had shame. To the raging bull by the horns in the urgent interest Presidential Library venue of And if we were to study it, the rate at Flourishing @ 83 life's challenges. Perhaps, it is not so embarrassment of the nation, an Air of this country. the event had the cream of the much of missing the bus as deliberately France plane ran into a herd of cows on which honest herders are converting to society in attendance in strict He admonished Nigerians, renegades must be geometric in the last who is married to three wives ignoring it, opting for trekking instead! touchdown at our so called international John Awe, a PR professional writes in observance of Covid-19 regardless of their tribal, one or two years. and father of 24 children Consequently, we battle with problems airport runway in Port Harcourt some from Lagos. protocols. religious and political hosted kings, clergy men and for which effective solutions have been years ago, compromising the lives of There is a video online showing a The theme of the King's affiliations, to come together well wishers to the event. to seek the face of God Day of Praise session this year Speaking in an interview, was "Praise Unlimited". The through praise and prayer, so that peace can be restored. Oba Tejuoso explained that king has had the programme he takes off his crown and Why corporate communication is still on the back burner without fail in the last ten He urged Nigerians to leaves his head bare in the years. embrace righteousness and do public in defiance of the By Babatunde Aribido external communications. Internal Communications to run things? To mark the event, Oba away with unrighteous rituals he performed at the will most likely be handled by HR and IT (HR will Who's this individual? What's his pedigree? What's his Tejuoso, in his goodwill lifestyles quoting Proverbs 14 time he was ascending the ome weeks ago, a professional colleague- whom I draft a message, IT will design it and put it up on the personality? What's his experience? What's his intranet and send it as a mail to all employees) and if message enjoined Nigerians to verse 34. throne, saying, it is to emulate have come to respect and admire a lot and I were background? Is this individual influential and experienced the CEO or some members of the senior leadership seek the face of the Lord He observed that Jesus Christ who, according Stalking, and our conversation veered into Corporate When a Corporate enough to get the attention of the CEO and get him to team have some friends in the media, that'll be great, through praise and prayer for Nigerians should pray for the to him, was not known to Communications; we spoke about some companies and commit? Does he have the clout to make “things the people that oversee this function. because with ad placements in the media comes the lasting solution to the myriad peace of the country and obey have worn a cap in his Communications happen”? There are a handful of senior people that We realized that quite a number of organizations still additional benefits of getting occasional interviews and of challenges confronting the lifetime. oversee Corporate Communications in some companies constituted authority. do not place any premium on Corporate Communications press releases on the pages of the newspapers. I salute department country. “ and from their personality and the quality of things they The colourful monarch Written by Lekan Ige until they get bad press coverage or when some Social GE because from the days (or even before) of Jack doesn't have a do in their organizations from time to time, you can tell Media Influencers decide to 'drag' them on Twitter, that's Welch, Corporate Communications have been an that the CEO listens to them. So, I think the person that when the CEO will stroll in and tell the Corporate integral part of the business operations and quite a budget to adjudicate over Communications is very fundamental to Communications Manager to go and 'talk' to “your number of business and PR books have attested to this. implement its not just his success but, in the way the function is being people” (meaning the Journalists and Social Media Once Corporate Communications is not built into perceived internally and by its external stakeholders. Influencers). How sad and interesting! the foundation of the organization, it may be somewhat plan, you have Years ago, as a PR Account Manager, the budgets of Let's not forget that basic communications require that challenging to introduce it when it is fully formed and stripped them of two of the clients I worked with used to sit within the we should be proactive and simulate all possible scenarios functional. Marketing team. I was told that the only budget that that may go wrong and possibly affect the reputation of How a CEO perceives communication will the influence and Corporate Affairs have is to buy newspapers, beverage for the organization. So, if the Head of Corporate determine his investments in it, and this is also a power required the departmental head and entertainment for Journalists. Communication had been invited into the room when key function of the CEO's orientation. If the CEO is passive As ridiculous as this may sound, it tells the importance decisions are being taken, chances are that this individual or dismissive about Communications and Reputation to make strategic those companies attach to the Corporate Communications will be able to give advice on the possible implications of Management, chances are the Corporate function. such decisions and would have put in place a plan to Communications Manager will struggle a bit. But, if decisions for the When a Corporate Communications department mitigate its impact. he's open, enthusiastic and committed to Reputation company. doesn't have a budget to implement its plan, you have But what we see more often than not, is that strategic Management he'll throw his weight fully behind it, and stripped them of the influence and power required to business decisions are taken without any meaningful input the Communications Manager will have an exciting Needless to say, make strategic decisions for the company. Needless to say, from the Corporate Communications team. time. I need to add that the orientation and focus of the you have also you have also stripped them of the respect, honour and I may be wrong, but below are some of the reasons I organization itself will also determine if they'll do dignity, of that function. think Corporate Communications is still occupying a Corporate Communications or not. I know about three stripped them of On a final note, Can we have another look at who the backseat in some organizations. companies in Nigeria at the moment that do not have an the respect, Head of Corporate Communications reports to? I've seen When some organizations started their operations, existing Communications department; they're simply them report to Company Secretaries/Legal Adviser, HR they had some or all of these departments in place: IT, here to manufacture and sell their products, so every honour and Directors and in other cases Divisional Heads of Human Resources, Sales and Marketing, Finance, Risk aspect of Corporate Communications is being done dignity, of that Corporate Services. More telling is the fact that, on a lot Management, Legal and Procurement, without a from their HQ. Side note: is it a smart business decision of websites that I have seen, the Head of Corporate communications department in place, because they really to run Communications from the Home Office or have function. Communications is not on the management team. Any do not see the significance of communication, especially a local team here that understands the business terrain genuine reasons for this? PICTURES BY MICHAEL FOLARIN February 28, 2021 |19 February 28, 2021 |9 Royalty Opinion John Awe young Fulani cattle herder who was arrested while his gang was attempting to kidnap a f we did not know our president better, motorist somewhere in Auchi. He claimed he we would think he actually enjoys ...So that this house does not fall was invited from his village by his 'brother' to Iseeing Nigerians suffer. But the truth 'follow cows' (herd cattle) but got to the is, he just doesn't care! forest of Auchi to discover they were into There is a difference, and perhaps it kidnapping. By that time, it was too late for bears being pointed out. President him to go back. Muhammadu Buhari would not go out of So either we like it or not, there is an his way to make life hard for his people. army of erstwhile herders who have gone But if what he is doing or not doing rogue all over our forests. Their brand of happens to make life hard for you, so be it. kidnapping is different from Evans'. They do He does not care. not have the luxury of keeping their victims To the adherents of the religion in a room in town, and there is no practised in the innermost recess of our More sophistication beyond their arms and rocky state fortress, this view is worrisome is ammunition. No flashy cars to draw blasphemy, deserving of prime-time insult “ suspicion, no girlfriend in town you can track and creative name-calling. the fact that them through. However, creative name-calling many of the This brand of outlaws are ascetic. Their should be the least of anyone's worries operation is more ruthless. They are when the corporate existence of Nigeria is herders who especially more difficult to track down 196 passengers and crew on board. threatened. Everyone with a modicum of around for years and sometimes because of their wide knowledge of the have had to get Over 20 years ago, herders drew love for his motherland should speak up centuries. forests. From years of migratory herding, daggers on me because I almost ran my now. firearms to The reason is not difficult to they know the forests more than many Volkswagen Beetle into their flock The south-east and south-west are comprehend. When Nigerians gather at indigenes. They are always on the move protect smack in the middle of the Apapa- erupting in a rash of self-help efforts, the the table ostensibly to find solutions to a forcing their victims to trek for miles, Oshodi Expressway. sort that manifests in the absence of problem, there are always options that sleeping in open camps, drinking from the themselves I had picked up my sister-in-law government; the sort that can tip the are not even up for discussion at all, same water sources as cattle and feeding on whose flight was delayed past midnight country over in a paroxysm of violence. and their because bringing them up will offend what they harvest from people's farms. and we were returning to Festac when In the face of relentless assault on the the sensibilities of an ethnic group, a This brand of criminality needs to be cattle against we saw two people flashing torch lights people of Oke Ogun in Oyo State by religion, vested interest, power bloc, understood in order to combat it, which is beside the road around Ijesha Bus Stop. bandits mainly from the north who rape, rustlers are governor or president. why it is not a good idea to stick to political At that ungodly hour, my thought was kill and kidnap for ransom, a certain However, the solution being correctness and shy away from correctly discovering that they were robbers and I moved Sunday Igboho has stepped up, trumpeting excluded from discussion for prebendal identifying the crime with renegade herders. towards the fast lane and decided to a mandate to protect the defenceless. That that it is far reasons may be the only antidote to the There are genuine herdsmen who are carrying make a dash for it. actually is the job description of a malaise being discussed. out their business lawfully. But we must more lucrative I was only metres away when I saw government. Take this latest cattle-herding related recognise also that there are now renegade that it was a herd of cattle blocking the In the south-east, tired of being killed, crisis, for instance, is it not obvious that herdsmen who have taken to a life of crime. to use those entire expressway. I slammed the brakes raped and robbed in the forests by these migratory cattle-herding is outdated? Their activities will make life more and was able to stop at the nick of time. selfsame bandits, the youths have formed weapons to Which other progressive country still difficult for their law-abiding kinsmen. But The herders were not impressed. They an alternative armed force not provided allows cows to roam its cities and more importantly, their activities are capable he Osile of Oke-Ona perpetrate came towards us menacingly with drawn for in the constitution. destroy farm harvests? None. of pitting ethnic groups against each other. Egba, Oba Dr. daggers telling us they would have The ingredients are all there for a criminality Is it not obvious to everyone that It is already happening. Figures such as Adedapo Adewale slaughtered us if we had killed any of T complete breakdown of law and order. stopping pastoralism and assisting cattle Sunday Igboho and Nnamdi Kanu are all we Tejuoso clocked 83 years on than to fend their cows. Many compatriots have been This should alarm the president and those herders to migrate to modern ways of need to enthrone the government of mobs. A so killed for cows. Friday, 19th February, 2021. Osile of Oke-Ona: charged with the duty of securing Nigeria. off rustlers. doing their business is a sure-fire wise man once said that the IQ of a mob can More worrisome is the fact that As usual, the evangelist It has taken long years of inactivity by solution to the current crisis? Yet, that is be determined by taking the IQ of the many of the herders who have had to get the elected leaders to get to this point; the option not on the table as people on dumbest member and dividing it by the monarch marked the day with firearms to protect themselves and their years of continuously passing over great the corridors of power try to outdo each number of members. In the end, more harm praises to the King of kings cattle against rustlers are discovering opportunities to turn things around for the other to impress the president. will be done than good. with his fellow kings, friends that it is far more lucrative to use those country. Migratory herding and open grazing This is why the president needs to stop and well wishers. The weapons to perpetrate criminality than to Nigeria has a knack for missing the of cattle ought to have been stopped playing Emperor Nero now and take this Olusegun Obasanjo fend off rustlers. bus when the world is finding solutions to decades ago if we had shame. To the raging bull by the horns in the urgent interest Presidential Library venue of And if we were to study it, the rate at Flourishing @ 83 life's challenges. Perhaps, it is not so embarrassment of the nation, an Air of this country. the event had the cream of the much of missing the bus as deliberately France plane ran into a herd of cows on which honest herders are converting to society in attendance in strict He admonished Nigerians, renegades must be geometric in the last who is married to three wives ignoring it, opting for trekking instead! touchdown at our so called international John Awe, a PR professional writes in observance of Covid-19 regardless of their tribal, one or two years. and father of 24 children Consequently, we battle with problems airport runway in Port Harcourt some from Lagos. protocols. religious and political hosted kings, clergy men and for which effective solutions have been years ago, compromising the lives of There is a video online showing a The theme of the King's affiliations, to come together well wishers to the event. to seek the face of God Day of Praise session this year Speaking in an interview, was "Praise Unlimited". The through praise and prayer, so that peace can be restored. Oba Tejuoso explained that king has had the programme he takes off his crown and Why corporate communication is still on the back burner without fail in the last ten He urged Nigerians to leaves his head bare in the years. embrace righteousness and do public in defiance of the By Babatunde Aribido external communications. Internal Communications to run things? To mark the event, Oba away with unrighteous rituals he performed at the will most likely be handled by HR and IT (HR will Who's this individual? What's his pedigree? What's his Tejuoso, in his goodwill lifestyles quoting Proverbs 14 time he was ascending the ome weeks ago, a professional colleague- whom I draft a message, IT will design it and put it up on the personality? What's his experience? What's his intranet and send it as a mail to all employees) and if message enjoined Nigerians to verse 34. throne, saying, it is to emulate have come to respect and admire a lot and I were background? Is this individual influential and experienced the CEO or some members of the senior leadership seek the face of the Lord He observed that Jesus Christ who, according Stalking, and our conversation veered into Corporate When a Corporate enough to get the attention of the CEO and get him to team have some friends in the media, that'll be great, through praise and prayer for Nigerians should pray for the to him, was not known to Communications; we spoke about some companies and commit? Does he have the clout to make “things the people that oversee this function. because with ad placements in the media comes the lasting solution to the myriad peace of the country and obey have worn a cap in his Communications happen”? There are a handful of senior people that We realized that quite a number of organizations still additional benefits of getting occasional interviews and of challenges confronting the lifetime. oversee Corporate Communications in some companies constituted authority. do not place any premium on Corporate Communications press releases on the pages of the newspapers. I salute department country. “ and from their personality and the quality of things they The colourful monarch Written by Lekan Ige until they get bad press coverage or when some Social GE because from the days (or even before) of Jack doesn't have a do in their organizations from time to time, you can tell Media Influencers decide to 'drag' them on Twitter, that's Welch, Corporate Communications have been an that the CEO listens to them. So, I think the person that when the CEO will stroll in and tell the Corporate integral part of the business operations and quite a budget to adjudicate over Communications is very fundamental to Communications Manager to go and 'talk' to “your number of business and PR books have attested to this. implement its not just his success but, in the way the function is being people” (meaning the Journalists and Social Media Once Corporate Communications is not built into perceived internally and by its external stakeholders. Influencers). How sad and interesting! the foundation of the organization, it may be somewhat plan, you have Years ago, as a PR Account Manager, the budgets of Let's not forget that basic communications require that challenging to introduce it when it is fully formed and stripped them of two of the clients I worked with used to sit within the we should be proactive and simulate all possible scenarios functional. Marketing team. I was told that the only budget that that may go wrong and possibly affect the reputation of How a CEO perceives communication will the influence and Corporate Affairs have is to buy newspapers, beverage for the organization. So, if the Head of Corporate determine his investments in it, and this is also a power required the departmental head and entertainment for Journalists. Communication had been invited into the room when key function of the CEO's orientation. If the CEO is passive As ridiculous as this may sound, it tells the importance decisions are being taken, chances are that this individual or dismissive about Communications and Reputation to make strategic those companies attach to the Corporate Communications will be able to give advice on the possible implications of Management, chances are the Corporate function. such decisions and would have put in place a plan to Communications Manager will struggle a bit. But, if decisions for the When a Corporate Communications department mitigate its impact. he's open, enthusiastic and committed to Reputation company. doesn't have a budget to implement its plan, you have But what we see more often than not, is that strategic Management he'll throw his weight fully behind it, and stripped them of the influence and power required to business decisions are taken without any meaningful input the Communications Manager will have an exciting Needless to say, make strategic decisions for the company. Needless to say, from the Corporate Communications team. time. I need to add that the orientation and focus of the you have also you have also stripped them of the respect, honour and I may be wrong, but below are some of the reasons I organization itself will also determine if they'll do dignity, of that function. think Corporate Communications is still occupying a Corporate Communications or not. I know about three stripped them of On a final note, Can we have another look at who the backseat in some organizations. companies in Nigeria at the moment that do not have an the respect, Head of Corporate Communications reports to? I've seen When some organizations started their operations, existing Communications department; they're simply them report to Company Secretaries/Legal Adviser, HR they had some or all of these departments in place: IT, here to manufacture and sell their products, so every honour and Directors and in other cases Divisional Heads of Human Resources, Sales and Marketing, Finance, Risk aspect of Corporate Communications is being done dignity, of that Corporate Services. More telling is the fact that, on a lot Management, Legal and Procurement, without a from their HQ. Side note: is it a smart business decision of websites that I have seen, the Head of Corporate communications department in place, because they really to run Communications from the Home Office or have function. Communications is not on the management team. Any do not see the significance of communication, especially a local team here that understands the business terrain genuine reasons for this? PICTURES BY MICHAEL FOLARIN February 28, 2021 |8 February 28, 2021 |7 Tech&Gadgets News ...with John Awe Editorial Sanwo-Olu inaugurates SIM/NIN integration: Subscribers We'll achieve Net-Zero Time to review the ECOWAS protocol 4.3km Lagos-Ogun Emissions by 2040 – MTN e a d i n g t e l e c o m efficiencies, low carbon boundary road bemoan loss of business company on the African emissions, risk reduction and ne widely accepted reason for neighbouring Ogun State, continent, MTN has ways should be devised to change agos State Governor, elecommunications L cost control. while providing multiple travel restated its belief in the benefits the incessant clash of farmers the practice of open grazing by Mr Babajide Sanwo- consumers across the T h e p r o g r a m m e Olu at the weekend options within the Local of a healthy planet and has prioritises renewable solutions, L country are bemoaning pledged its commitment to and herders in the country is cattle breeders. Some of the ideas Government,” she said. T e f f i c i e n t e m e r g i n g said that his administration O t h e c e s s a t i o n o f S I M achieving net-zero emissions the unfettered access given to herders being bandied, according to the would continue to pursue the She said that the scope of registration for about two technologies and energy mass infrastructure delivery by 2040. storage. “We believe ICT the project included a dual- months now by telecom In a statement, MTN said to move their cattle freely across the C h a i r m a n o f S o u t h We s t vision of late Alhaji Lateef companies and mobile carriageway with reinforced operators acting on the orders with global warming on the rise J a k a n d e t o e n h a n c e operators have the potential to West African sub region. This has Governors Forum, Arakunrin concrete drains, cover slab and of the federal government. and impacting countries, connectivity in the state. significantly contribute to walkway, on both sides of the T h e M i n i s t r y o f communities and people exacerbated the clashes as the Sanwo-Olu said that global decarbonisation R o t i m i A k e r e d o l u i s t h e Old Otta Road, which also has a Communications and Digital everywhere, it has set science- although Jakande had been reinforced concrete bridge Economy stopped telecom efforts,” says MTN Group militarised foreign nationals have establishment of designated based targets to achieve a 47% Chief Technology and laid to rest, his vision for the component. operators from registering new average reduction in absolute infected fhe locals with their grazing areas serviced by feed state was a pathway which his SIMs or swapping old SIMs for Information Systems Officer She added that single emissions (tCO_2e) for scope a d m i n i s t r a t i o n w o u l d their subscribers following a Charles Molapisi. “We are aggressive pastoralism enforced by carriageways, inner roads with 1, 2 and 3 by 2030. mills. preserve to open up roads in policy to use the National pleased that Project Zero is in reinforced concrete drains, “As we build and operate gun totting. In addition, banditry, In view of the foregoing and the vulnerable communities for Identity Number (NIN) issued full swing, actively driving cover slab and walkway were the telecommunications energy efficiency and carbon armed robbery and kidnapping progress. by the National Identity infrastructure to drive greater quantum of casualties recorded as a The governor made the on both sides of Adekoya, Management Commission emission sustainability.” Makinde and Suberu Oje digital and financial inclusion, The GSMA supports the have also been injected into the fray. result of the avoidable clashes and r e m a r k s d u r i n g t h e (NIMC) as the only standard we believe that our growth and streets in addition to cross been able to reach me. I wish I science position on climate inauguration of the Lagos- for identifying phone users in how I have been losing money. I down economic activities for success should not come at the The Kano state Governor, Abubakar banditry, Nigerian Gateway hereby culverts and outfall drains had two phones. I use only one change realities and emissions Ogun State Boundary Roads the country. used to organise when months by banning the sale of expense of the future of our among others. line and that line is not reachable limits set by the Paris Gandunje, a Fulani, said this much Phase II, in Agbado Oke-Odo The ministry directed customers can come in for their new SIM cards for voice and planet,” says MTN Group calls for an urgent review of the She said the project would now. I only rely on my friend's Agreement. MTN is a member Local Council Development operators to connect every turn, but not anymore.” data because of a mere NIN President and Chief Executive recently when he gave two drastic reduce travel time between phone at work and my wife's of the GSMA's Climate Action ECOWAS Protocol to allow for Area in Alimosho Local subscriber's SIM with his or her Former presidential candidate, r e g i s t r a t i o n ! ! ” M o m o d u Officer Ralph Mupita. “Lagos and Ogun States by phone at home”, he lamented. Taskforce driving the mobile suggestions as panacea to the vexed Government Area of Lagos. NIN and gave a deadline of the Dele Momodu, also felt the tweeted. “We must keep addressing monitoring and registration of providing alternative route to Titilayo Arowolo, a industry-wide plan to back the He said that Jakande was a end of the year, 2020 to cut off pinch of the new policy recently “ W h y a r e w e s o the needs and challenges of issue. He called for the registration the ever busy Sango Otta / hairdresser at Arepo, Obafemi Race to Net-Zero. herders and nationals. lover of the poor and subscribers who failed to and he openly criticised the unreasonably cruel in a country society, which include playing Lagos –Abeokuta Expressway Owode Local Government The aim is to ensure a of cattles before bringing them into vulnerable and built and integrate their NIN with their Nigerian government for with an army of unemployed our part in mitigating the effects To reflect modern realities, ranching route to link Ayobo/Ipaja, lamented that she had been resilient, zero-carbon future renewed infrastructure which SIM. frustrating citizens. y o u t h s … W e n e e d of climate change.” rendered incommunicado for that leaves no one behind. the country or preventing them of cattles should be embraced by all included roads, schools, Command axis and other major The deadline has been Momodu said the decision deliverance…” GHG emission-reduction over a month since someone “We are excited about this health facilities among others parts of the metropolis,” she e x t e n d e d a f e w t i m e s had rendered no fewer than two Many other telecom users target-setting, like that adopted totally from coming into the country. pastoralists for peace to reign in the stole her phone from her shop. next chapter in the MTN story said. considering the stampede that million Nigerian youth jobless. have since been responding to by MTN, is in line with an ICT to enhance their lives. “It has been hellish, and we recognise that we need He said herdsmen from Mali, p o l i t y. F u r t h e r m o r e , t h e However, the Community ensued as millions of phone The former presidential his tweet narrating their ordeals sectoral target-setting approach “What Alhaji Lateef Customers that will usually to run and operate our business Development Areas and users struggled to comply candidate described the since the policy took effect. recently developed through Burkina Faso, Uganda and other conversion of ungoverned places Jakande stood for is what we book before coming to my shop with sustainability at the core. Community Development within the narrow windows decision as unreasonable and It remains to be seen if the NIN- collaboration between the are doing here today,” he said. can no longer do so. Some days I “We have a role to play in pastoralists are allowed under the Centres (CDCs) who requested allowed. The new deadline is cruel, wondering how a country SIM integration of all telecom Global Enabling Sustainability like forests to habitats of criminals He said that the network will be idle all day and suddenly Africa and the Middle East to of roads located in Abule for construction of about 2,700 April 6. could shut down its economy subscribers in the country will Initiative (GeSI), the GSM 1998 ECOWAS Transhumance and kidnappers is totally Those without NINs have by evening, five customers will contribute meaningfully on Egba, Meiran and Agbado ran inner streets thanked the because of mere national be concluded before the new Association (GSMA), the been besieging the NIN come at the same time and some much-needed actions to Protocol to move freely across reprehensible and unacceptabe. parallel to the Lagos- government for the project identity registration. deadline of April 6. I n t e r n a t i o n a l enrolment centres across the will not want to wait. That is mitigate the impact of climate Abeokuta Expressway and promising to protect the “How can a country shut Telecommunication Union borders in search of pasture upon We welcome the peace moves that are infrastructure. country to get the number. change, that's why we are would address gridlock, boost (ITU) and the Science-Based committed to achieving net- An octagenarian in the Some smart Nigerians fulfilling the conditions laid down in dousing the heigthened tension in connectivity and address Targets Initiative (SBTi). zero emissions by no later than area, Mrs Felicia Bamgbade have been cashing in on the perennial flooding on the NCC investigates illegal deductions, These targets support the the end of 2040,” concludes the protocol. Governor Ganduje said t h e l a n d a n d p l e a d w i t h said that the project was first situation by collecting money axis. Paris Agreement's central aim Mupita. the herders were initially using the started by late Alhaji Lateef from intending NIN registrants of strengthening the global stakeholders to give peace a chance He said that the project to speed up the usually tedious MTN said it believes that d e m o n s t r a t e d h i s Jakande, but was later data depletion by operators response to the threat of climate transparency and disclosure are arms to protect themselves but are as no meaningful development can abandoned leading to decades process of acquiring the change. administration's “unflinching number. As this report is being critical in MTN's response, now using it to commit crime. A of suffering for residents. elecom industry regulator, mobile operators consumer- (FAQs) on data depletion to To realise its targets, MTN take place in an atmosphere of commitment to completing filed, it is still impossible for explaining its participation in “I live at Aduke Longos t h e N i g e r i a n centric. inform consumers on activities has launched its Project Zero all outstanding roads to bring many subscribers who have lost the Carbon Disclosure Project meeting of South West Governors chaos and violence. Mutual respect, Estate, it has been in a very C o m m u n i c a t i o n s Danbatta said the audit that might result in faster depletion programme to leverage the succor” to residents. their SIMs to get a replacement T in alignment with the Taskforce terrible situation for us since Commis s ion (N CC) has would enable the NCC “to get to of their data, as well as enlighten latest technologies and service and traditional rulers on the issue diplomacy, tact, temperance and Sanwo-Olu added that the because the operators are yet to Recommendations on Climate- 2001 that I moved here, commenced a forensic audit of the bottom of why consumers them on measures to mitigate partners to enable business project was borne out of the resume SIM registration. This related Financial Disclosures. also held recently in Ibadan with love are needed in these testy times. because no vehicle can pass networks in the country to are experiencing data depletion such. The FAQs are accessible on sustainability via greater energy c o m m i t m e n t o f t h e has left many people without here, we have to walk through determine if there are untoward and the possibility of the commission's website. unanimous acclamation that new government to enhance functional phone lines. Change, please! the water with our legs but practices that lead to data depletion compensating them for wrong The regulator has also connectivity and reduce Timothy Adeyemi, a today I am happy that this and illegal deductions of deductions, which may arise intensified its compliance Glo launches app to book travel time. Public Relations professional bridge was constructed in my s u b s c r i b e r s ' c r e d i t . from short message service monitoring with acquisition of “I am happy that we have told MSN he had not been able appointment for NIN registration lifetime. NCC's Executive Vice Chairman (SMS).” “We have instituted and efficient tools and skills to bring been able to provide this to retrieve a line his wife lost in “Now we have opportunity (EVC), Prof. Umar Danbatta, insisted that despite the fall in sanity into the industry for model for our people,” the December till date. he hassles encountered the date icon to select available to go everywhere with ease, we made the disclosure recently in data price, the forensic audit improved consumer experience. governor said. “I got the SIM for my wife b y N i g e r i a n s i n dates for the month, followed can go to Meiran, Ilepo, Abule Abuja. must be concluded, with the Among several initiatives, over two years ago and duly Tregistering for the by selection of desired state Sanwo-Olu added that he In a statement, the Director, outcome communicated to the Danbatta said introduction of the Egba, Oshodi without fear of registered it. Then, sometime in National Identity Number and shop. Next is the selection had earlier inaugurated the Public Affairs, Dr. Ikechukwu CEOs of telecoms companies,” Do-Not-Disturb (DND) had water or flood, my children will D e c e m b e r s h e t o o k a (NIN) were further reduced on of the desired time to be construction/remodeling of Adinde, quoted the EVC as noting he added. helped over 30 million consumers find it easy to come and visit commercial motorcycle Tu e s d a y a s G l o b a c o m followed by entrance of the Abesan Youth Centre after that while consumer protection Danbatta said necessary to block unsolicited text messages now,” she said. (okada) on her way to church launched an app that makes it number provided by the app to attending the 8th Day prayer remained a focal area of the directives would be given once on their phones, while stern FG, please fix Lagos-Abeokuta road The road is expected to and couldn't find the phone possible for people to choose a ensure the customer is indeed a for late Jakande. commission's regulatory the audit was over and the regulatory actions were constantly serve as alternative route to the when she disembarked. I have day, time and location human being, after which he or activities, it had accomplished operators would be made to taken by the regulator against ear editor, permit me c o m m e r c i a l v e h i c l e s election, the Federal with which the authorities Also, the Special Adviser ever busy Sango-Ota and the visited Gloworld up to five convenient for them to she will click on Submit.” significant improvements in this comply with them. He said the operators that prevented t o u s e y o u r compete with articulated Government made an pursued the project has to the Governor On Works and Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway times to retrieve the SIM undergo the process. The company added that, direction through various commission had framed consumers from subscribing to the reputable medium to vehicles and heavy-duty attempt to fix the road. somewhat waned. Infrastructure, Mrs. Aramide route to link Ayobo Ipaja, without luck. According to Globacom, “Customers will then receive D initiatives geared at making frequently asked questions service. the app, tagged Appointment draw the attention of the trucks in the ever constant Julius Berger Construction I a m , t h e r e f o r e , Adeyoye said the project was Command axis and other parts “The first two times was an SMS notification with an Federal Government to the traffic congestion on the Company was reportedly appealing to the Federal in line with the vision of the of the state. before the NCC gave the NIN Manager, was “unveiled to ID, Scheduled date and shop to help our numerous subscribers urgent need to fix the Lagos- "expressway." mobilised as the contractor Government to come to the government to stimulate Other residents and road order, but the operator's server visit which he will present at 9mobile begins NIN registration and Nigerians in general to the shop”. Globacom which Ota-Abeokuta Road which It is an understatement rescue of commuters and growth of satellite settlements users also commended the at their Adeola Odeku outlet t o h a n d l e t h e reduce the stress involved in urged its subscribers to make has been in a very deplorable to say the poor condition of reconstruction. Many motorists by mobilising and border communities. project. was down on both occasions The construction arose at customer centres the NIN registration process”. utmost use of the app for the condition. the road has adversely N i g e r i a n s , i n c l u d i n g resources to fix the Lagos- She said Sanwo-Olu had and I had to return to my office. from the need to complement Then the NIN order came and I junction, Festac Town, The company added that, registration, also advised those In recent months, my affected businesses and myself, were extremely Ota-Abeokuta expressway during inauguration of a enrollment to reduce the large the network of 21 roads and two have been checking with the Lagos. Others are 9mobile through the utilization of the who are yet to link their NIN experience as a regular i n v e s t m e n t s w h i l e happy that succour has which is of strategic network of 31 Strategic Road crowd turnout at the various bridges constructed in phase operator ever since. Each time I Regional Office, No 8 Kikuyi app, customers will go through with their mobile numbers to commuter on the highway transportation costs have economic importance to in Ifako Ijaye in December enrollment centers of the finally come. But two years one of the project to curb visit they tell me NCC has not Close, off Aminu Kano, the process hassle-free, which text their NIN to 109, adding Nigeria. If the Federal 2019 directed that the Ministry Nigeria Identity Management saves them time and also has been unpalatable, to say also soared excruciatingly. after the election, nothing perennial flooding on the axis. allowed them to do SIM Wuse 2, Abuja and Plot 1774, that they can also dial G o v e r n m e n t c a n n o t of Works and Infrastructure o b i l e n e t w o r k Commission. ensures the registration is done *109*NIN# to submit their the least. For a journey that Many productive hours are concrete seem to be The project awarded in registration up till today.” A d e t o k u n b o A d e m o l a immediately carry out m u s t e n s u r e s p e e d y provider, 9mobile, S p e a k i n g o n t h e in a safe and Covid-19- NIN or call 109 to update should ordinarily take less often lost to the terrible happening on the road May 2018 was handled by Another telecom user, Crescent, Wuse 2, Abuja. action on the road, let the completion of the Lagos-Ogun has commenced the development in a statement, compliant environment, with their NIN via voice call. than two hours from traffic snarl. The rains are again. At some of the Visible Construction Ltd. Ibrahim Tahir, a businessman M He urged customers and Ogun State Government be State Boundary Roads Phase National Identification the Chief Commercial fewer people in attendance. For further enquiries, the Abeokuta end to Lagos State, gradually approaching and portions, concrete and earth The project included 4.7 with offices in Abeokuta and intending enrollees to II. Number registration exercise Officer, 9mobile, Stjepan To use the app, Glo said company urged members of one may end up spending six for many Nigerians who ply works were partially carried allowed to take it over and K m s O l d O t a R o a d Magboro, said he had been observe all recommended in select customer centres in Udovicic, said the experience the customer will “Enter the the public to contact its hours or more traversing the the Lagos-Ota-Abeokuta out. At other areas, nothing put an end to the woes of “The 2nd phase of the construction with bridge, 455 virtually thrown out of business guidelines for limiting the Lagos and Abuja. centres include 43, Adeola U R L h t t p s : / / n i n a p p t . customer contact channels, road now filled with Road daily, the failed significant showed the travellers. Lagos-Ogun Boundary metres Adekoya Road, 684 since he lost his SIM in spread of COVID-19, The development follows Odeku, Victoria Island, gloworld.com/ on any browser 121 for prepaid and 200 for numerous terrifying potholes portions on the road would government was still network of roads involves the metres Makinde Road, 465 December. s t r e s s i n g t h a t s t r i c t “I had the misfortune of the Federal Government's Lagos; 31, Marina Road, and enter phone number in this post paid, or to visit and craters. In an attempt to definitely pose serious committed to fixing the Oladapo Folorunso construction of four roads with meters Suberu Oje Road and observance would be fully losing my phones to thieves. approval granting telecom Marina, Lagos and Royal format: 08050000000. This https://www.gloworld.com/n navigate through, private and threat to their livelihoods. decaying road. The zeal Abeokuta a b r i d g e t o i m p r o v e dredging of 23.3 kms Ilo enforced at the customer will be followed by clicking on Since then, customers have not operators the licence for NIN Plaza, 23 Road by 402 g/nin Prior to the last general c o n n e c t i v i t y w i t h River. service centres. February 28, 2021 |8 February 28, 2021 |7 Tech&Gadgets News ...with John Awe Editorial Sanwo-Olu inaugurates SIM/NIN integration: Subscribers We'll achieve Net-Zero Time to review the ECOWAS protocol 4.3km Lagos-Ogun Emissions by 2040 – MTN e a d i n g t e l e c o m efficiencies, low carbon boundary road bemoan loss of business company on the African emissions, risk reduction and ne widely accepted reason for neighbouring Ogun State, continent, MTN has ways should be devised to change agos State Governor, elecommunications L cost control. while providing multiple travel restated its belief in the benefits the incessant clash of farmers the practice of open grazing by Mr Babajide Sanwo- consumers across the T h e p r o g r a m m e Olu at the weekend options within the Local of a healthy planet and has prioritises renewable solutions, L country are bemoaning pledged its commitment to and herders in the country is cattle breeders. Some of the ideas Government,” she said. T e f f i c i e n t e m e r g i n g said that his administration O t h e c e s s a t i o n o f S I M achieving net-zero emissions the unfettered access given to herders being bandied, according to the would continue to pursue the She said that the scope of registration for about two technologies and energy mass infrastructure delivery by 2040. storage. “We believe ICT the project included a dual- months now by telecom In a statement, MTN said to move their cattle freely across the C h a i r m a n o f S o u t h We s t vision of late Alhaji Lateef companies and mobile carriageway with reinforced operators acting on the orders with global warming on the rise J a k a n d e t o e n h a n c e operators have the potential to West African sub region. This has Governors Forum, Arakunrin concrete drains, cover slab and of the federal government. and impacting countries, connectivity in the state. significantly contribute to walkway, on both sides of the T h e M i n i s t r y o f communities and people exacerbated the clashes as the Sanwo-Olu said that global decarbonisation R o t i m i A k e r e d o l u i s t h e Old Otta Road, which also has a Communications and Digital everywhere, it has set science- although Jakande had been reinforced concrete bridge Economy stopped telecom efforts,” says MTN Group militarised foreign nationals have establishment of designated based targets to achieve a 47% Chief Technology and laid to rest, his vision for the component. operators from registering new average reduction in absolute infected fhe locals with their grazing areas serviced by feed state was a pathway which his SIMs or swapping old SIMs for Information Systems Officer She added that single emissions (tCO_2e) for scope a d m i n i s t r a t i o n w o u l d their subscribers following a Charles Molapisi. “We are aggressive pastoralism enforced by carriageways, inner roads with 1, 2 and 3 by 2030. mills. preserve to open up roads in policy to use the National pleased that Project Zero is in reinforced concrete drains, “As we build and operate gun totting. In addition, banditry, In view of the foregoing and the vulnerable communities for Identity Number (NIN) issued full swing, actively driving cover slab and walkway were the telecommunications energy efficiency and carbon armed robbery and kidnapping progress. by the National Identity infrastructure to drive greater quantum of casualties recorded as a The governor made the on both sides of Adekoya, Management Commission emission sustainability.” Makinde and Suberu Oje digital and financial inclusion, The GSMA supports the have also been injected into the fray. result of the avoidable clashes and r e m a r k s d u r i n g t h e (NIMC) as the only standard we believe that our growth and streets in addition to cross been able to reach me. I wish I science position on climate inauguration of the Lagos- for identifying phone users in how I have been losing money. I down economic activities for success should not come at the The Kano state Governor, Abubakar banditry, Nigerian Gateway hereby culverts and outfall drains had two phones. I use only one change realities and emissions Ogun State Boundary Roads the country. used to organise when months by banning the sale of expense of the future of our among others. line and that line is not reachable limits set by the Paris Gandunje, a Fulani, said this much Phase II, in Agbado Oke-Odo The ministry directed customers can come in for their new SIM cards for voice and planet,” says MTN Group calls for an urgent review of the She said the project would now. I only rely on my friend's Agreement. MTN is a member Local Council Development operators to connect every turn, but not anymore.” data because of a mere NIN President and Chief Executive recently when he gave two drastic reduce travel time between phone at work and my wife's of the GSMA's Climate Action ECOWAS Protocol to allow for Area in Alimosho Local subscriber's SIM with his or her Former presidential candidate, r e g i s t r a t i o n ! ! ” M o m o d u Officer Ralph Mupita. “Lagos and Ogun States by phone at home”, he lamented. Taskforce driving the mobile suggestions as panacea to the vexed Government Area of Lagos. NIN and gave a deadline of the Dele Momodu, also felt the tweeted. “We must keep addressing monitoring and registration of providing alternative route to Titilayo Arowolo, a industry-wide plan to back the He said that Jakande was a end of the year, 2020 to cut off pinch of the new policy recently “ W h y a r e w e s o the needs and challenges of issue. He called for the registration the ever busy Sango Otta / hairdresser at Arepo, Obafemi Race to Net-Zero. herders and nationals. lover of the poor and subscribers who failed to and he openly criticised the unreasonably cruel in a country society, which include playing Lagos –Abeokuta Expressway Owode Local Government The aim is to ensure a of cattles before bringing them into vulnerable and built and integrate their NIN with their Nigerian government for with an army of unemployed our part in mitigating the effects To reflect modern realities, ranching route to link Ayobo/Ipaja, lamented that she had been resilient, zero-carbon future renewed infrastructure which SIM. frustrating citizens. y o u t h s … W e n e e d of climate change.” rendered incommunicado for that leaves no one behind. the country or preventing them of cattles should be embraced by all included roads, schools, Command axis and other major The deadline has been Momodu said the decision deliverance…” GHG emission-reduction over a month since someone “We are excited about this health facilities among others parts of the metropolis,” she e x t e n d e d a f e w t i m e s had rendered no fewer than two Many other telecom users target-setting, like that adopted totally from coming into the country. pastoralists for peace to reign in the stole her phone from her shop. next chapter in the MTN story said. considering the stampede that million Nigerian youth jobless. have since been responding to by MTN, is in line with an ICT to enhance their lives. “It has been hellish, and we recognise that we need He said herdsmen from Mali, p o l i t y. F u r t h e r m o r e , t h e However, the Community ensued as millions of phone The former presidential his tweet narrating their ordeals sectoral target-setting approach “What Alhaji Lateef Customers that will usually to run and operate our business Development Areas and users struggled to comply candidate described the since the policy took effect. recently developed through Burkina Faso, Uganda and other conversion of ungoverned places Jakande stood for is what we book before coming to my shop with sustainability at the core. Community Development within the narrow windows decision as unreasonable and It remains to be seen if the NIN- collaboration between the are doing here today,” he said. can no longer do so. Some days I “We have a role to play in pastoralists are allowed under the Centres (CDCs) who requested allowed. The new deadline is cruel, wondering how a country SIM integration of all telecom Global Enabling Sustainability like forests to habitats of criminals He said that the network will be idle all day and suddenly Africa and the Middle East to of roads located in Abule for construction of about 2,700 April 6. could shut down its economy subscribers in the country will Initiative (GeSI), the GSM 1998 ECOWAS Transhumance and kidnappers is totally Those without NINs have by evening, five customers will contribute meaningfully on Egba, Meiran and Agbado ran inner streets thanked the because of mere national be concluded before the new Association (GSMA), the been besieging the NIN come at the same time and some much-needed actions to Protocol to move freely across reprehensible and unacceptabe. parallel to the Lagos- government for the project identity registration. deadline of April 6. I n t e r n a t i o n a l enrolment centres across the will not want to wait. That is mitigate the impact of climate Abeokuta Expressway and promising to protect the “How can a country shut Telecommunication Union borders in search of pasture upon We welcome the peace moves that are infrastructure. country to get the number. change, that's why we are would address gridlock, boost (ITU) and the Science-Based committed to achieving net- An octagenarian in the Some smart Nigerians fulfilling the conditions laid down in dousing the heigthened tension in connectivity and address Targets Initiative (SBTi). zero emissions by no later than area, Mrs Felicia Bamgbade have been cashing in on the perennial flooding on the NCC investigates illegal deductions, These targets support the the end of 2040,” concludes the protocol. Governor Ganduje said t h e l a n d a n d p l e a d w i t h said that the project was first situation by collecting money axis. Paris Agreement's central aim Mupita. the herders were initially using the started by late Alhaji Lateef from intending NIN registrants of strengthening the global stakeholders to give peace a chance He said that the project to speed up the usually tedious MTN said it believes that d e m o n s t r a t e d h i s Jakande, but was later data depletion by operators response to the threat of climate transparency and disclosure are arms to protect themselves but are as no meaningful development can abandoned leading to decades process of acquiring the change. administration's “unflinching number. As this report is being critical in MTN's response, now using it to commit crime. A of suffering for residents. elecom industry regulator, mobile operators consumer- (FAQs) on data depletion to To realise its targets, MTN take place in an atmosphere of commitment to completing filed, it is still impossible for explaining its participation in “I live at Aduke Longos t h e N i g e r i a n centric. inform consumers on activities has launched its Project Zero all outstanding roads to bring many subscribers who have lost the Carbon Disclosure Project meeting of South West Governors chaos and violence. Mutual respect, Estate, it has been in a very C o m m u n i c a t i o n s Danbatta said the audit that might result in faster depletion programme to leverage the succor” to residents. their SIMs to get a replacement T in alignment with the Taskforce terrible situation for us since Commis s ion (N CC) has would enable the NCC “to get to of their data, as well as enlighten latest technologies and service and traditional rulers on the issue diplomacy, tact, temperance and Sanwo-Olu added that the because the operators are yet to Recommendations on Climate- 2001 that I moved here, commenced a forensic audit of the bottom of why consumers them on measures to mitigate partners to enable business project was borne out of the resume SIM registration. This related Financial Disclosures. also held recently in Ibadan with love are needed in these testy times. because no vehicle can pass networks in the country to are experiencing data depletion such. The FAQs are accessible on sustainability via greater energy c o m m i t m e n t o f t h e has left many people without here, we have to walk through determine if there are untoward and the possibility of the commission's website. unanimous acclamation that new government to enhance functional phone lines. Change, please! the water with our legs but practices that lead to data depletion compensating them for wrong The regulator has also connectivity and reduce Timothy Adeyemi, a today I am happy that this and illegal deductions of deductions, which may arise intensified its compliance Glo launches app to book travel time. Public Relations professional bridge was constructed in my s u b s c r i b e r s ' c r e d i t . from short message service monitoring with acquisition of “I am happy that we have told MSN he had not been able appointment for NIN registration lifetime. NCC's Executive Vice Chairman (SMS).” “We have instituted and efficient tools and skills to bring been able to provide this to retrieve a line his wife lost in “Now we have opportunity (EVC), Prof. Umar Danbatta, insisted that despite the fall in sanity into the industry for model for our people,” the December till date. he hassles encountered the date icon to select available to go everywhere with ease, we made the disclosure recently in data price, the forensic audit improved consumer experience. governor said. “I got the SIM for my wife b y N i g e r i a n s i n dates for the month, followed can go to Meiran, Ilepo, Abule Abuja. must be concluded, with the Among several initiatives, over two years ago and duly Tregistering for the by selection of desired state Sanwo-Olu added that he In a statement, the Director, outcome communicated to the Danbatta said introduction of the Egba, Oshodi without fear of registered it. Then, sometime in National Identity Number and shop. Next is the selection had earlier inaugurated the Public Affairs, Dr. Ikechukwu CEOs of telecoms companies,” Do-Not-Disturb (DND) had water or flood, my children will D e c e m b e r s h e t o o k a (NIN) were further reduced on of the desired time to be construction/remodeling of Adinde, quoted the EVC as noting he added. helped over 30 million consumers find it easy to come and visit commercial motorcycle Tu e s d a y a s G l o b a c o m followed by entrance of the Abesan Youth Centre after that while consumer protection Danbatta said necessary to block unsolicited text messages now,” she said. (okada) on her way to church launched an app that makes it number provided by the app to attending the 8th Day prayer remained a focal area of the directives would be given once on their phones, while stern FG, please fix Lagos-Abeokuta road The road is expected to and couldn't find the phone possible for people to choose a ensure the customer is indeed a for late Jakande. commission's regulatory the audit was over and the regulatory actions were constantly serve as alternative route to the when she disembarked. I have day, time and location human being, after which he or activities, it had accomplished operators would be made to taken by the regulator against ear editor, permit me c o m m e r c i a l v e h i c l e s election, the Federal with which the authorities Also, the Special Adviser ever busy Sango-Ota and the visited Gloworld up to five convenient for them to she will click on Submit.” significant improvements in this comply with them. He said the operators that prevented t o u s e y o u r compete with articulated Government made an pursued the project has to the Governor On Works and Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway times to retrieve the SIM undergo the process. The company added that, direction through various commission had framed consumers from subscribing to the reputable medium to vehicles and heavy-duty attempt to fix the road. somewhat waned. Infrastructure, Mrs. Aramide route to link Ayobo Ipaja, without luck. According to Globacom, “Customers will then receive D initiatives geared at making frequently asked questions service. the app, tagged Appointment draw the attention of the trucks in the ever constant Julius Berger Construction I a m , t h e r e f o r e , Adeyoye said the project was Command axis and other parts “The first two times was an SMS notification with an Federal Government to the traffic congestion on the Company was reportedly appealing to the Federal in line with the vision of the of the state. before the NCC gave the NIN Manager, was “unveiled to ID, Scheduled date and shop to help our numerous subscribers urgent need to fix the Lagos- "expressway." mobilised as the contractor Government to come to the government to stimulate Other residents and road order, but the operator's server visit which he will present at 9mobile begins NIN registration and Nigerians in general to the shop”. Globacom which Ota-Abeokuta Road which It is an understatement rescue of commuters and growth of satellite settlements users also commended the at their Adeola Odeku outlet t o h a n d l e t h e reduce the stress involved in urged its subscribers to make has been in a very deplorable to say the poor condition of reconstruction. Many motorists by mobilising and border communities. project. was down on both occasions The construction arose at customer centres the NIN registration process”. utmost use of the app for the condition. the road has adversely N i g e r i a n s , i n c l u d i n g resources to fix the Lagos- She said Sanwo-Olu had and I had to return to my office. from the need to complement Then the NIN order came and I junction, Festac Town, The company added that, registration, also advised those In recent months, my affected businesses and myself, were extremely Ota-Abeokuta expressway during inauguration of a enrollment to reduce the large the network of 21 roads and two have been checking with the Lagos. Others are 9mobile through the utilization of the who are yet to link their NIN experience as a regular i n v e s t m e n t s w h i l e happy that succour has which is of strategic network of 31 Strategic Road crowd turnout at the various bridges constructed in phase operator ever since. Each time I Regional Office, No 8 Kikuyi app, customers will go through with their mobile numbers to commuter on the highway transportation costs have economic importance to in Ifako Ijaye in December enrollment centers of the finally come. But two years one of the project to curb visit they tell me NCC has not Close, off Aminu Kano, the process hassle-free, which text their NIN to 109, adding Nigeria. If the Federal 2019 directed that the Ministry Nigeria Identity Management saves them time and also has been unpalatable, to say also soared excruciatingly. after the election, nothing perennial flooding on the axis. allowed them to do SIM Wuse 2, Abuja and Plot 1774, that they can also dial G o v e r n m e n t c a n n o t of Works and Infrastructure o b i l e n e t w o r k Commission. ensures the registration is done *109*NIN# to submit their the least. For a journey that Many productive hours are concrete seem to be The project awarded in registration up till today.” A d e t o k u n b o A d e m o l a immediately carry out m u s t e n s u r e s p e e d y provider, 9mobile, S p e a k i n g o n t h e in a safe and Covid-19- NIN or call 109 to update should ordinarily take less often lost to the terrible happening on the road May 2018 was handled by Another telecom user, Crescent, Wuse 2, Abuja. action on the road, let the completion of the Lagos-Ogun has commenced the development in a statement, compliant environment, with their NIN via voice call. than two hours from traffic snarl. The rains are again. At some of the Visible Construction Ltd. Ibrahim Tahir, a businessman M He urged customers and Ogun State Government be State Boundary Roads Phase National Identification the Chief Commercial fewer people in attendance. For further enquiries, the Abeokuta end to Lagos State, gradually approaching and portions, concrete and earth The project included 4.7 with offices in Abeokuta and intending enrollees to II. Number registration exercise Officer, 9mobile, Stjepan To use the app, Glo said company urged members of one may end up spending six for many Nigerians who ply works were partially carried allowed to take it over and K m s O l d O t a R o a d Magboro, said he had been observe all recommended in select customer centres in Udovicic, said the experience the customer will “Enter the the public to contact its hours or more traversing the the Lagos-Ota-Abeokuta out. At other areas, nothing put an end to the woes of “The 2nd phase of the construction with bridge, 455 virtually thrown out of business guidelines for limiting the Lagos and Abuja. centres include 43, Adeola U R L h t t p s : / / n i n a p p t . customer contact channels, road now filled with Road daily, the failed significant showed the travellers. Lagos-Ogun Boundary metres Adekoya Road, 684 since he lost his SIM in spread of COVID-19, The development follows Odeku, Victoria Island, gloworld.com/ on any browser 121 for prepaid and 200 for numerous terrifying potholes portions on the road would government was still network of roads involves the metres Makinde Road, 465 December. s t r e s s i n g t h a t s t r i c t “I had the misfortune of the Federal Government's Lagos; 31, Marina Road, and enter phone number in this post paid, or to visit and craters. In an attempt to definitely pose serious committed to fixing the Oladapo Folorunso construction of four roads with meters Suberu Oje Road and observance would be fully losing my phones to thieves. approval granting telecom Marina, Lagos and Royal format: 08050000000. This https://www.gloworld.com/n navigate through, private and threat to their livelihoods. decaying road. The zeal Abeokuta a b r i d g e t o i m p r o v e dredging of 23.3 kms Ilo enforced at the customer will be followed by clicking on Since then, customers have not operators the licence for NIN Plaza, 23 Road by 402 g/nin Prior to the last general c o n n e c t i v i t y w i t h River. service centres. February 28, 2021 |22 February 28, 2021 |18 CAMPUSTAKES News Woman Join any political party of your Trendy MAPOLY honours Ifeoluwa for choice ---Primate Ndukuba to Christians By: Austin Mbanafo hristians have been winning Presidential NYSC Award urged to come out in encouraging numbers or the first time ever, C ...First alumnus to be so honoured to register in any of the the Moshood Abiola political parties for the 2023 FPolytechnic, Abeokuta and she mobilised people and general elections. has presented a merit award resources to provide Making the call is the to one of its products, Miss motorised deep well, Archbishop Metropolitan and Ifeoluwa Adetutu Seriki, for perimeter fencing to beef up Primate of all Nigeria Church Handbags: winning the President's security, provision of uniform o f N i g e r i a A n g l i c a n 2018/2019 NYSC merit and sandals for 30 indigent Communion, The Most Rev award. pupils, and provision of Henry Ndukuba while Ifeoluwa, a Computer school gate. delivering his Opening Fashion statement for all! Science graduate of She said she also got address to the Standing MAPOLY, was one of the support to donate food items Committee Meeting of the By: Oluwaseun Boye 110 2018/ 2019 corpers and toiletries to inmates of Church at All Saints Cathedral Most Rev. Henry Ndukuba Onitsha recently. honoured by President Jesus Children Orphanage He said this was an he history of bags dated as Muhammadu Buhari who Home, Bodija, Ibadan, Oyo Politics, he went on, " is offered them automatic opportune time for Christians God given process in the far back as ancient Egypt. State. to register in any party of their The ancient Egyptian and employment in the Federal Receiving the award, the ordering of His World and T choice " and be involved in the society ". certain other writing systems depict Civil Service and scholarship Rector of MAPOLY, Dr. activities of the party from the The Primate admonished males with bags tied around their for the pursuit of post- Adeoye Odedeji. commended ward level to the National". waist. The Bible mentions pouches, graduate studies up to the the participants at the meeting Ifeoluwa for her exemplary " We need a birth of a new to go out and encourage all especially with regard to Judas doctoral level in any role in adding value to Nigeria where no citizen is citizens to be involved in the university in Nigeria. Iscariot carrying one around, peoples' lives while serving oppressed rather everyone activities of the " Party of holding his personal items. The awardees were her fatherland. has right to strive for good their choice and be involved According to Wikipedia, adjudged to have excelled in He noted that Miss Seriki life .A New Nigeria for all in the political process of our Women also wore more ornate the four cardinal had brought honour to citizens ". states and Nation". drawstring bags, typically called programmes of the NYSC MAPOLY at the time when Primate Ndukuba further F o r 2 0 2 3 , P r i m a t e hamondeys or tasques, to display scheme namely: orientation the institution was just emphasized that with what Ndukuba said: "The Anglican their social status. The14th-century course, primary assignment, recuperating from internal was going on in the country, Church must be focused and handbags evolved into wedding gifts community development crisis. Christians should no longer sit fully mobilized in the from groom to bride. These service and winding- The Rector added “When I on the fence but seize the p o l i t i c a l p r o c e s s e s medieval pouches were up/passing-out, which read through all the projects Ifeoluwa displaying her award opportunity to exercise their throughout this country". rights to choose "our leaders". embroidered, often with depictions formed the basis of you did, I have no doubt that " All groups and organs of of love stories or songs. Eventually, assessment for the honours "Our present system breeds the Church must be mobilized you deserved the award. You greed, corruption, anarchy these pouches evolved into what is award. The awardees also demonstrated your kindness. for political engagement. Our known as a chaneries, which were received cash rewards for and corruption" he said. seminar shall be on the role of Whatever God gives you, you Politics, Primate Ndukuba used for gaming or food for falcons. their efforts. don't have the urge to the Church in the Democratic said: " is not dirty as it has process in Nigeria. The Bags are parts of women's Commenting on the monopolise it for yourself. been perceived by some Political Mobilization Group dressing.There are so many types of award, Ifeoluwa, who You identified with them, people in the past, even handbags to choose from. They all dedicated the award to for the Church of Nigeria will demonstrated your past, though some people have h a v e t o g u i d e u s o n vary in design, colour, and size; MAPOLY narrated how her remembered that you were hijacked the political process even the price is something to I don't mind constructive engagement", he curiosity and goodwill while like them as a young pupil. for their personal agenda". added. consider as well. Some bags are investing my observing her compulsory You operated from the really affordable, while others are “ service in Ibadan, Oyo State mentality of care and money in good damn expensive. Of course, there is unknowingly earned her the aspiration to better their lots." a particular handbag for every quality bags, presidential award as 2018 “Education won't be EBOLA: FG asks they really come handy. occasion, for instance, the handbag Batch B corps member. relevant if it will not add ranging for While selecting a perfect MAPOLY Rector, Dr. Adeoye Odedeji presenting the merit that you carry around to the office is She said during the course value to members of the handbag, durability, fitness, award to Ifeoluwa Nigerians to be vigilant differnt from the one you carry to a clutches, of her service, she society. You applied the affordability and usability are the night party with your girlfriends or participated in the 2019 intellect in addition to co- purses, major factors that must be The highlight of the event Oladipupo Adeleye; Bursar, to a date with your man. A church General Elections as Polling curricula of the institution. considered. Personality and taste, as was the presentation of Abdul-Fatai Adisa Yekini; bag also differs from the one for a handbags to Officer, which opened her We are very happy with you well as your budget equally matters. Award of Recognition by Director of School of Science wedding party or to a market place, mention a few, eyes to the plight of pupils of to have represented us well. At the end of the day, it is the owner the institution to Ifeoluwa, and Technology, Dr. Oluwole as well as to schools. If the bag is IMG Primary School, Others should emulate you. in fact right who will be seen with the bag. making her the first student Babajide; Head of for every day use, you must Alakia, Oke Elewa. Our labour was not in vain. Likewise, the choices for the colours in the history of the Department, Computer definitely think about durability and from She said she noticed the May this award bring more and designs to go for also comes to polytechnic to be given such Science, Mrs. Misturah not just the style. After all, you do dilapidated condition of the honour for you and your not want to replace it after only a secondary play while deciding on which to get. award. Alaran; lecturers and many school during the elections family," Dr. Odedeji prayed. month of using it. Another thing to school days, I Kudos to the creative producers The Registrar, Emmanuel others were in attendance. keep in mind for everyday handbags and designers, who make use of is the colour. It is always best to go have had great different materials in bag making, with a neutral color that would go passion for just as we order for the exotic UNN Lecturer suspended for impregnating 4 students well with any outfit that you are imported designer bags, we cannot wearing. Black, gray, beige, brown beautiful bags, leave behind the locally made beaded lecturer with the In the suspension letter University of and nude are definitely good colour my school bags, "ankara", "adire", jute, bags obtained, the embattled choices. The size must be big principal then sewn into beautiful designs for ANigeria, Nsukka, enough to carry everything that you different purposes. Mr. Chigozie Odum, has lecturer was asked to stay need on a daily basis but not too big always Expert says that when you invest been suspended after he away from his duties that you look like you are going on a emphasized your money in the perfect designer allegedly impregnated four until the conclusion of handbag, it is an investment made students of the Institution weekend vacation. investigation and verdict By: Ayomide Olatunji Secondly, most ladies are that bags are once and for all. As long as you find within his four years of 19, Boss Mustapha. willing to sacrifice style for comfort parts of ladies the right one or two, it will definitely being employed. is issued by management h e F e d e r a l Speaking at a recent but it is always fantastic when you dressing, don't update everything from semi casual His suspension was signed on the matter. He has Government has b r i e f i n g , M u s t a p h a marry both options. The only thing to more formal attire, and will been equally placed on alerted Nigerians indicated that the PTF was quickly become the most frequently by the Deputy Registrar of T that you have to remember is to a l s o e n h a n c i n g allow anyone half salary within the on the possible outbreak of make sure that it is long enough but to carry your used accessory in your daily the institution, Mrs F. C. Ebola in the country. surveillance at points of not too long or else that would not wardrobe rotation. Achiuwa for the Registrar. period of investigation. entry to respond to the only look funny but it will also be bags for you, Speaking with a lover of bags, This comes after some recent outbreak of Ebola in uncomfortable. bags make Mrs. Modupe Idowu, who has an fresh cases of the dreaded neighbouring countries. Thirdly, many women do not array of beautiful pieces in her diseases were recorded in consider this important point when your dressing collections, she said her love for s o m e n e i g h b o u r i n g “We shall keep a keen eye on it to avoid having to choosing handbags but the thing is, complete as a good bags is second to none. carry your bags for you, bags make your African nations. The alert it is always best to get one with " I don't mind investing my handbags are considered as a fashion w a s g i v e n b y t h e combat the two deadly dressing complete as a lady. statement that can either make or mar compartments and small pockets, lady. money in good quality bags, ranging S e c r e t a r y t o t h e diseases at the same time. I love designer bags like Michael style. Women can easily keep in the bag, especially if the bag is big. Ladies for clutches, purses, handbags to Kors, Gucci, Tommy Hilfiger, Louis G o v e r n m e n t o f t h e This is not a task for the carry many important things in their mention a few, infact right from their medicines, wallets, cosmetics and government alone but for Vuitton,Gucci, Prada, Dior, Channel, many other valuables which they need on Federation, who also bags and you really do not want to secondary school days, I have had Balenciaga and others", she said. doubles as the Chairman all Nigerians and indeed all great passion for beautiful bags, my a daily basis. be searching through just to find a In all, as the saying goes, the way you of the Presidential Task members of the public have particular item. It is best when you school principal then always Oluwaseun Boye is an Information are dressed will determine the way you are Officer with the Ogun State Ministry of Force (PTF) on COVID- a role to play," he choose a bag having compartments, emphasized that bags are parts of Dr. Chigozie Odum addressed, bags are good companions that Information and Strategy. submitted. ladies dressing, don't allow anyone to complement a women's dressing. Women February 28, 2021 |22 February 28, 2021 |18 CAMPUSTAKES News Woman Join any political party of your Trendy MAPOLY honours Ifeoluwa for choice ---Primate Ndukuba to Christians By: Austin Mbanafo hristians have been winning Presidential NYSC Award urged to come out in encouraging numbers or the first time ever, C ...First alumnus to be so honoured to register in any of the the Moshood Abiola political parties for the 2023 FPolytechnic, Abeokuta and she mobilised people and general elections. has presented a merit award resources to provide Making the call is the to one of its products, Miss motorised deep well, Archbishop Metropolitan and Ifeoluwa Adetutu Seriki, for perimeter fencing to beef up Primate of all Nigeria Church Handbags: winning the President's security, provision of uniform o f N i g e r i a A n g l i c a n 2018/2019 NYSC merit and sandals for 30 indigent Communion, The Most Rev award. pupils, and provision of Henry Ndukuba while Ifeoluwa, a Computer school gate. delivering his Opening Fashion statement for all! Science graduate of She said she also got address to the Standing MAPOLY, was one of the support to donate food items Committee Meeting of the By: Oluwaseun Boye 110 2018/ 2019 corpers and toiletries to inmates of Church at All Saints Cathedral Most Rev. Henry Ndukuba Onitsha recently. honoured by President Jesus Children Orphanage He said this was an he history of bags dated as Muhammadu Buhari who Home, Bodija, Ibadan, Oyo Politics, he went on, " is offered them automatic opportune time for Christians God given process in the far back as ancient Egypt. State. to register in any party of their The ancient Egyptian and employment in the Federal Receiving the award, the ordering of His World and T choice " and be involved in the society ". certain other writing systems depict Civil Service and scholarship Rector of MAPOLY, Dr. activities of the party from the The Primate admonished males with bags tied around their for the pursuit of post- Adeoye Odedeji. commended ward level to the National". waist. The Bible mentions pouches, graduate studies up to the the participants at the meeting Ifeoluwa for her exemplary " We need a birth of a new to go out and encourage all especially with regard to Judas doctoral level in any role in adding value to Nigeria where no citizen is citizens to be involved in the university in Nigeria. Iscariot carrying one around, peoples' lives while serving oppressed rather everyone activities of the " Party of holding his personal items. The awardees were her fatherland. has right to strive for good their choice and be involved According to Wikipedia, adjudged to have excelled in He noted that Miss Seriki life .A New Nigeria for all in the political process of our Women also wore more ornate the four cardinal had brought honour to citizens ". states and Nation". drawstring bags, typically called programmes of the NYSC MAPOLY at the time when Primate Ndukuba further F o r 2 0 2 3 , P r i m a t e hamondeys or tasques, to display scheme namely: orientation the institution was just emphasized that with what Ndukuba said: "The Anglican their social status. The14th-century course, primary assignment, recuperating from internal was going on in the country, Church must be focused and handbags evolved into wedding gifts community development crisis. Christians should no longer sit fully mobilized in the from groom to bride. These service and winding- The Rector added “When I on the fence but seize the p o l i t i c a l p r o c e s s e s medieval pouches were up/passing-out, which read through all the projects Ifeoluwa displaying her award opportunity to exercise their throughout this country". rights to choose "our leaders". embroidered, often with depictions formed the basis of you did, I have no doubt that " All groups and organs of of love stories or songs. Eventually, assessment for the honours "Our present system breeds the Church must be mobilized you deserved the award. You greed, corruption, anarchy these pouches evolved into what is award. The awardees also demonstrated your kindness. for political engagement. Our known as a chaneries, which were received cash rewards for and corruption" he said. seminar shall be on the role of Whatever God gives you, you Politics, Primate Ndukuba used for gaming or food for falcons. their efforts. don't have the urge to the Church in the Democratic said: " is not dirty as it has process in Nigeria. The Bags are parts of women's Commenting on the monopolise it for yourself. been perceived by some Political Mobilization Group dressing.There are so many types of award, Ifeoluwa, who You identified with them, people in the past, even handbags to choose from. They all dedicated the award to for the Church of Nigeria will demonstrated your past, though some people have h a v e t o g u i d e u s o n vary in design, colour, and size; MAPOLY narrated how her remembered that you were hijacked the political process even the price is something to I don't mind constructive engagement", he curiosity and goodwill while like them as a young pupil. for their personal agenda". added. consider as well. Some bags are investing my observing her compulsory You operated from the really affordable, while others are “ service in Ibadan, Oyo State mentality of care and money in good damn expensive. Of course, there is unknowingly earned her the aspiration to better their lots." a particular handbag for every quality bags, presidential award as 2018 “Education won't be EBOLA: FG asks they really come handy. occasion, for instance, the handbag Batch B corps member. relevant if it will not add ranging for While selecting a perfect MAPOLY Rector, Dr. Adeoye Odedeji presenting the merit that you carry around to the office is She said during the course value to members of the handbag, durability, fitness, award to Ifeoluwa Nigerians to be vigilant differnt from the one you carry to a clutches, of her service, she society. You applied the affordability and usability are the night party with your girlfriends or participated in the 2019 intellect in addition to co- purses, major factors that must be The highlight of the event Oladipupo Adeleye; Bursar, to a date with your man. A church General Elections as Polling curricula of the institution. considered. Personality and taste, as was the presentation of Abdul-Fatai Adisa Yekini; bag also differs from the one for a handbags to Officer, which opened her We are very happy with you well as your budget equally matters. Award of Recognition by Director of School of Science wedding party or to a market place, mention a few, eyes to the plight of pupils of to have represented us well. At the end of the day, it is the owner the institution to Ifeoluwa, and Technology, Dr. Oluwole as well as to schools. If the bag is IMG Primary School, Others should emulate you. in fact right who will be seen with the bag. making her the first student Babajide; Head of for every day use, you must Alakia, Oke Elewa. Our labour was not in vain. Likewise, the choices for the colours in the history of the Department, Computer definitely think about durability and from She said she noticed the May this award bring more and designs to go for also comes to polytechnic to be given such Science, Mrs. Misturah not just the style. After all, you do dilapidated condition of the honour for you and your not want to replace it after only a secondary play while deciding on which to get. award. Alaran; lecturers and many school during the elections family," Dr. Odedeji prayed. month of using it. Another thing to school days, I Kudos to the creative producers The Registrar, Emmanuel others were in attendance. keep in mind for everyday handbags and designers, who make use of is the colour. It is always best to go have had great different materials in bag making, with a neutral color that would go passion for just as we order for the exotic UNN Lecturer suspended for impregnating 4 students well with any outfit that you are imported designer bags, we cannot wearing. Black, gray, beige, brown beautiful bags, leave behind the locally made beaded lecturer with the In the suspension letter University of and nude are definitely good colour my school bags, "ankara", "adire", jute, bags obtained, the embattled choices. The size must be big principal then sewn into beautiful designs for ANigeria, Nsukka, enough to carry everything that you different purposes. Mr. Chigozie Odum, has lecturer was asked to stay need on a daily basis but not too big always Expert says that when you invest been suspended after he away from his duties that you look like you are going on a emphasized your money in the perfect designer allegedly impregnated four until the conclusion of handbag, it is an investment made students of the Institution weekend vacation. investigation and verdict By: Ayomide Olatunji Secondly, most ladies are that bags are once and for all. As long as you find within his four years of 19, Boss Mustapha. willing to sacrifice style for comfort parts of ladies the right one or two, it will definitely being employed. is issued by management h e F e d e r a l Speaking at a recent but it is always fantastic when you dressing, don't update everything from semi casual His suspension was signed on the matter. He has Government has b r i e f i n g , M u s t a p h a marry both options. The only thing to more formal attire, and will been equally placed on alerted Nigerians indicated that the PTF was quickly become the most frequently by the Deputy Registrar of T that you have to remember is to a l s o e n h a n c i n g allow anyone half salary within the on the possible outbreak of make sure that it is long enough but to carry your used accessory in your daily the institution, Mrs F. C. Ebola in the country. surveillance at points of not too long or else that would not wardrobe rotation. Achiuwa for the Registrar. period of investigation. entry to respond to the only look funny but it will also be bags for you, Speaking with a lover of bags, This comes after some recent outbreak of Ebola in uncomfortable. bags make Mrs. Modupe Idowu, who has an fresh cases of the dreaded neighbouring countries. Thirdly, many women do not array of beautiful pieces in her diseases were recorded in consider this important point when your dressing collections, she said her love for s o m e n e i g h b o u r i n g “We shall keep a keen eye on it to avoid having to choosing handbags but the thing is, complete as a good bags is second to none. carry your bags for you, bags make your African nations. The alert it is always best to get one with " I don't mind investing my handbags are considered as a fashion w a s g i v e n b y t h e combat the two deadly dressing complete as a lady. statement that can either make or mar compartments and small pockets, lady. money in good quality bags, ranging S e c r e t a r y t o t h e diseases at the same time. I love designer bags like Michael style. Women can easily keep in the bag, especially if the bag is big. Ladies for clutches, purses, handbags to Kors, Gucci, Tommy Hilfiger, Louis G o v e r n m e n t o f t h e This is not a task for the carry many important things in their mention a few, infact right from their medicines, wallets, cosmetics and government alone but for Vuitton,Gucci, Prada, Dior, Channel, many other valuables which they need on Federation, who also bags and you really do not want to secondary school days, I have had Balenciaga and others", she said. doubles as the Chairman all Nigerians and indeed all great passion for beautiful bags, my a daily basis. be searching through just to find a In all, as the saying goes, the way you of the Presidential Task members of the public have particular item. It is best when you school principal then always Oluwaseun Boye is an Information are dressed will determine the way you are Officer with the Ogun State Ministry of Force (PTF) on COVID- a role to play," he choose a bag having compartments, emphasized that bags are parts of Dr. Chigozie Odum addressed, bags are good companions that Information and Strategy. submitted. ladies dressing, don't allow anyone to complement a women's dressing. Women February 28, 2021 |2 February 28, 2021 |17 Business METRO

Nigeria's recovery from recession, Court freezes Shell accounts biggest surprise –NEPC ahead of Aiteo lawsuit Hardwork Aiteo is seeking about $4 the pipeline deal plus $1.28 c o m p a n y o p e r a t i n g i n billion in total over alleged billion for lost oil sales, the Nigeria, Africa's biggest oil problems with the Nembe court documents show. exporter. Creek Trunk Line (NCTL) A spokesman for the A British court last week pipeline it bought from the S h e l l P e t r o l e u m cleared the way for local Anglo-Dutch group in 2015 Development Company communities to sue the and over claims Shell (SPDC) said the allegations company over oil spills in the undercounted its oil exports. are “factually incorrect”. West African nation, and last h e E x e c u t i v e Thursday. Court documents seen by “SPDC is working to month Shell lost a case Director, Nigeria “Congratulations to Mr secure an expeditious brought in the Netherlands by pays! Reuters show that Aiteo is Export Promotion President! In a now less discharge of the freezing N i g e r i a n f a r m e r s a n d T federal court in Lagos seeking compensation over Council (NEPC), Segun predictable, less reliable injunction, which we believe fisherman over pollution – Newly Promoted Traffic Officer, h a s i s s u e d a n what it says was the poor Awolowo, has described the and less generous world, injunction barring condition of the pipeline and was obtained by Aiteo claims. A without any valid basis,” an Shell, meanwhile, has s w i f t w a y N i g e r i a ' s h e h a s d e f i n i t e l y I wake up by Royal Dutch Shell's Nigerian associated lost oil sales. economy recovered from demonstrated with his subsidiares from withdrawing Aiteo also accuses Shell SPDC spokesman said. i n i t i a t e d i n t e r n a t i o n a l Supol Bello Anifat Aiteo declined to comment a r b i t r a t i o n p r o c e e d i n g s r e c e s s i o n a s b i g g e s t leadership that we are able 5.30a.m, pray money at 20 local banks until it of deliberate improper surprise. t o b u i l d a r e s i l i e n t “ ringfences potential damages metering of the Nigerian on an ongoing legal case. against Nigeria over a case he was promoted as “russians”, I want to advise that Awolowo spoke in an economy that can absorb and prepare in a lawsuit brought against the company's oil exports from The lawsuit is latest in a relating to oil spills that took Assistant Superintendent of when you are approaching road interview with State House all global shocks, whatever oil major by Aiteo Eastern the Bonny Light terminal. It string of legal headaches for place during the 1967-1970 Traffic on December 30 last junctions, whether the traffic food for my the biggest international oil Biafran war. correspondents after a they may be, known and S E&P. is seeking $2.7 billion over meeting with the President unknown.” year. officer is there or not, you should children. I am Muhammadu Buhari at the Awolowo, however, said For many years now she has been always be patient before crossing Huawei turns to pig farming as smartphone sales fall Presidential Villa, Abuja at the country must increase a regular feature on roads in the road to avoid accidents”, she accustomed to the weekend. p r o d u c t i o n a n d Abeokuta especially Kuto-Ijaiye- said. He said the council productivity across the two MKO Abiola way axis. There was Asked to recount how she the work remained committed to its sectors that the zero oil a time when she was even received a hot slap from an officer because I targets to realise at least plan is postulating for the assaulted by a senior police who felt insulted for being asked $30bn in the next 10 years country. officer in mufti who took offence to stop, Supol Bello sighed “Ah! I schedule my from zero oil export. He said, “We cannot run because he was stopped. Daily thank all the people of Ogun State time. Around While admitting the an economy that 90 percent come rain, come sunshine, she for supporting me then. My IG negative impact of the of our earnings is from will be on the road smiling and and Commissioner all did what 1996 when I COVID-19 pandemic on the crude oil. directing traffic at the intersection they supposed to do then. Early in nation's economy, Awolowo “It is just not working and first worked for eight junctions (Orita-mejo) said Nigeria could still get that is what we are seeing the morning of April, 2016, I saw $30bn in terms of non-oil throughout the years when opposite the Open University, the man who was not in uniform in Abeokuta, export as projected. we went into first recession Abeokuta. Welcome to the world and not in police vehicle. He did vehicles were He said, “To say 2020 was when the world oil prices of Anifat Bello who has been in not obey my hand when I stopped a year of surprises would be stood worldwide. the Traffic Division of the Nigeria him and I tapped the vehicle that I not much like an understatement – the “We need to move again Police for 30 years.Married to an stopped you and you did not stop. world is still counting the from just raw materials, we Engineer husband the mother of 3 He packed, came down from his this. We used devastating effects such as need to look at the entire children is very, very hard car and wrote my name down. to rest but the loss of $3.7trn of value chain and that is where working. Incidentally all the Then I called the attention of economic output, 225 you create jobs and that is divisions where she served in the others and was advised to write now vehicles million jobs, and over two where you earn more money. last three decades are all Ogun the number of his car down “in are too many experienced a lot of verbal and worked in Abeokuta, vehicles million lives. “So, 10 years time frame State. “I started this work at the case of incassity”. So when I physical abuses but that is part of were not much like this. We “The biggest surprise we are looking at to get to Ilaro division and was moved to collected biro from one of the and they do the hazard of our job. We used to used to rest but now vehicles are w a s N i g e r i a ' s s w i f t $30bn, but we must be Ijebu Ode, from Ijebu Ode to attendants at Fatgbems, the man see embarrassment from all our too many and they do not have recovery from recession in consistent, we must invest Abeokuta and from Abeokuta to just slapped me and pushed me not have colleagues” patience at all”. Q4 of 2020. We woke up to more in the non oil sector than She disclosed that she used to sing Supol Bello confessed that t h e g o o d n e w s o n looking for oil.” Sango, from Sango to Ifo and away. He now quickly put on his patience at al from Ifo down to Abeokuta again. uniform for me to know that he to cope with the stress. On how she though she can recommend the manages her time, she said ”I wake Consumer complaints: Electricity, Banking, I was promoted December,30 last was a Police Officer. He said he job to her children, she will not year as Assistant Superintendent was DPO, Ikenne Division by up by 5.30am, pray and prepare food advise them to start low like for my children. I am accustomed to uawei is turning to models. But it also has its eye on a Communications Technology) Telecommunication top in 2020 of Traffic (Supol)”. then. I now asked him whether it she did.” Junior ranks are not Huawei's smartphone sales technologies to create more the work because I schedule my allowed to say anything”. She technology for pig f e w m o r e t r a d i t i o n a l h e F e d e r a l “ We a r e l o o k i n g a t She said: “Nigerians are always was because he was DPO that he plunged 42% in the last quarter value for the industries in the time. Around 1996 when I first enjoys rice and amala Hfarmers as it deals with industries. China has the Competition and expanding capacity to have in a hurry. Including me. We are was beating me. I had of 2020 as it struggled with a 5 G e r a , " t h e H u a w e i tough sanctions on its world's biggest pig farming Consumer Protection more hands handling the smartphones. limited supply of microchips industry and is home to half the spokesman added. T Commission (FCCPC) has complaints but the real game- The Chinese telecoms giant due to the sanctions. world's live hogs. Earlier this month, Huawei announced that the sectors c h a n g e r i n h a n d l i n g was stopped from accessing Huawei has also been Technology is helping to founder and chief executive vital components after the locked out of the development modernise pig farms with AI Ren Zhengfei announced a which received the most complaints better and faster is Trump administration labelled of 5G in a number of countries, being introduced to detect mining innovation lab in complaints by consumers in for companies to start doing it. it a threat to US national including the UK, amid fears diseases and track pigs. Facial northern China's Shanxi 2020 were the electricity and “The person who has the security. over national security. recognition technology can Province. banking sectors. least open complaint in our H e w a n t s t o d e v e l o p Eat right, go organic! In response to struggling Reports have suggested that identify individual pigs, while This was disclosed by the resolution team has about 800 it will reduce its manufacturing technology for coal mines that Ministry. Civil servants and smartphone sales, Huawei is other technology monitors Executive Vice Chairman of complaints across sectors and he Governor Dapo looking at other sources of of smartphones by up to 60% their weight, diet and will lead to "fewer workers, FCCPC, Mr Babatunde that is one person. If you the general public can revenue for its technology. this year, although it said it can't exercise. greater safety, and higher Irukera in an interview with multiply it by 12 to 15 Abiodun purchase food items freshly Along with Artificial confirm this figure. Huawei has already been efficiency" and enable coal NAN in Abuja on Saturday. persons, you will imagine the administration has miners to "wear suits and ties" at T procured from the farms at "The issue here is not like Intelligence (AI) tech for pig developing facial recognition Irukera added that the number of complaints,'' been walking its talk on the shop within the hours of farmers, Huawei is also there's any problems with our tech and faced criticism last work. telecoms sector followed in Irukera said. During a round-table meeting improving the health of working with the coal mining quality or experiences of the month for a system that third place after electricity He also disclosed that the 9am to 5pm. at the event, Mr Ren said the indigenes and residents of industry. Former US President Huawei products. It's not a identifies people who appear and banking. He added that complaints division aims to Items on offer include level playing field for Huawei company was also expanding Ogun State in all Donald Trump claimed Huawei to be of Uighur origin among the nature of the complaints expand for better efficient organic food needed by the can share customer data with as Huawei is caught in images of pedestrians. into consumer products such as ramifications. For people to between the geopolitical televisions, computers and has overwhelmed the operations through training aged, the diabetic and those the Chinese government, Other Chinese tech giants, complaints team and the and leveraging on technology. access quality organic allegations it has repeatedly t e n s i o n s , " a c o m p a n y tablets. nursing ailments that require i n c l u d i n g J D . c o m a n d commission plans to expand The Federal Competition foodstuff that will keep their denied. spokesman told the BBC. Alibaba, are already working "We can still survive even nutrient dense diets. Some the complaints division. and Consumer Protection As a result, the world's And so, Huawei appears to with pig farmers in China to without relying on phone sales," health at tip-top condition, of these include green Mr Ren said, adding that it is “ O u r c o m p l a i n t s Commission (FCCPC) also largest telecoms equipment be looking for other sources of bring new technologies. the administration through vegetables, jute (ewedu), maker has been limited to revenue - moving into cloud "The pig farming is yet very unlikely the US will resolution team is still a very announced that it will launch a the Ministry of Agriculture remove Huawei from a blacklist small team of people and b i l l i n g c a p p i n g o r d e r eggs, unripe plantain flour, making 4G models as it lacks computing services, smart another example of how we has opened an “Agro Shop” US government permission to vehicles and wearable devices. try to revitalise some that bars companies from they are dealing with enforcement of the NERC to eggs,green pepper, Vitamin import components for 5G It even has plans for a smart traditional industries with ICT working with the Chinese tech thousands of complaints. protect Nigerian consumers. at the arcade in front of the A-fortified gaari and fruits. car. 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Nigeria's recovery from recession, Court freezes Shell accounts biggest surprise –NEPC ahead of Aiteo lawsuit Hardwork Aiteo is seeking about $4 the pipeline deal plus $1.28 c o m p a n y o p e r a t i n g i n billion in total over alleged billion for lost oil sales, the Nigeria, Africa's biggest oil problems with the Nembe court documents show. exporter. Creek Trunk Line (NCTL) A spokesman for the A British court last week pipeline it bought from the S h e l l P e t r o l e u m cleared the way for local Anglo-Dutch group in 2015 Development Company communities to sue the and over claims Shell (SPDC) said the allegations company over oil spills in the undercounted its oil exports. are “factually incorrect”. West African nation, and last h e E x e c u t i v e Thursday. Court documents seen by “SPDC is working to month Shell lost a case Director, Nigeria “Congratulations to Mr secure an expeditious brought in the Netherlands by pays! Reuters show that Aiteo is Export Promotion President! In a now less discharge of the freezing N i g e r i a n f a r m e r s a n d T federal court in Lagos seeking compensation over Council (NEPC), Segun predictable, less reliable injunction, which we believe fisherman over pollution – Newly Promoted Traffic Officer, h a s i s s u e d a n what it says was the poor Awolowo, has described the and less generous world, injunction barring condition of the pipeline and was obtained by Aiteo claims. A without any valid basis,” an Shell, meanwhile, has s w i f t w a y N i g e r i a ' s h e h a s d e f i n i t e l y I wake up by Royal Dutch Shell's Nigerian associated lost oil sales. economy recovered from demonstrated with his subsidiares from withdrawing Aiteo also accuses Shell SPDC spokesman said. i n i t i a t e d i n t e r n a t i o n a l Supol Bello Anifat Aiteo declined to comment a r b i t r a t i o n p r o c e e d i n g s r e c e s s i o n a s b i g g e s t leadership that we are able 5.30a.m, pray money at 20 local banks until it of deliberate improper surprise. t o b u i l d a r e s i l i e n t “ ringfences potential damages metering of the Nigerian on an ongoing legal case. against Nigeria over a case he was promoted as “russians”, I want to advise that Awolowo spoke in an economy that can absorb and prepare in a lawsuit brought against the company's oil exports from The lawsuit is latest in a relating to oil spills that took Assistant Superintendent of when you are approaching road interview with State House all global shocks, whatever oil major by Aiteo Eastern the Bonny Light terminal. It string of legal headaches for place during the 1967-1970 Traffic on December 30 last junctions, whether the traffic food for my the biggest international oil Biafran war. correspondents after a they may be, known and S E&P. is seeking $2.7 billion over meeting with the President unknown.” year. officer is there or not, you should children. I am Muhammadu Buhari at the Awolowo, however, said For many years now she has been always be patient before crossing Huawei turns to pig farming as smartphone sales fall Presidential Villa, Abuja at the country must increase a regular feature on roads in the road to avoid accidents”, she accustomed to the weekend. p r o d u c t i o n a n d Abeokuta especially Kuto-Ijaiye- said. He said the council productivity across the two MKO Abiola way axis. There was Asked to recount how she the work remained committed to its sectors that the zero oil a time when she was even received a hot slap from an officer because I targets to realise at least plan is postulating for the assaulted by a senior police who felt insulted for being asked $30bn in the next 10 years country. officer in mufti who took offence to stop, Supol Bello sighed “Ah! I schedule my from zero oil export. He said, “We cannot run because he was stopped. Daily thank all the people of Ogun State time. Around While admitting the an economy that 90 percent come rain, come sunshine, she for supporting me then. My IG negative impact of the of our earnings is from will be on the road smiling and and Commissioner all did what 1996 when I COVID-19 pandemic on the crude oil. directing traffic at the intersection they supposed to do then. Early in nation's economy, Awolowo “It is just not working and first worked for eight junctions (Orita-mejo) said Nigeria could still get that is what we are seeing the morning of April, 2016, I saw $30bn in terms of non-oil throughout the years when opposite the Open University, the man who was not in uniform in Abeokuta, export as projected. we went into first recession Abeokuta. Welcome to the world and not in police vehicle. He did vehicles were He said, “To say 2020 was when the world oil prices of Anifat Bello who has been in not obey my hand when I stopped a year of surprises would be stood worldwide. the Traffic Division of the Nigeria him and I tapped the vehicle that I not much like an understatement – the “We need to move again Police for 30 years.Married to an stopped you and you did not stop. world is still counting the from just raw materials, we Engineer husband the mother of 3 He packed, came down from his this. We used devastating effects such as need to look at the entire children is very, very hard car and wrote my name down. to rest but the loss of $3.7trn of value chain and that is where working. Incidentally all the Then I called the attention of economic output, 225 you create jobs and that is divisions where she served in the others and was advised to write now vehicles million jobs, and over two where you earn more money. last three decades are all Ogun the number of his car down “in are too many experienced a lot of verbal and worked in Abeokuta, vehicles million lives. “So, 10 years time frame State. “I started this work at the case of incassity”. So when I physical abuses but that is part of were not much like this. We “The biggest surprise we are looking at to get to Ilaro division and was moved to collected biro from one of the and they do the hazard of our job. We used to used to rest but now vehicles are w a s N i g e r i a ' s s w i f t $30bn, but we must be Ijebu Ode, from Ijebu Ode to attendants at Fatgbems, the man see embarrassment from all our too many and they do not have recovery from recession in consistent, we must invest Abeokuta and from Abeokuta to just slapped me and pushed me not have colleagues” patience at all”. Q4 of 2020. We woke up to more in the non oil sector than She disclosed that she used to sing Supol Bello confessed that t h e g o o d n e w s o n looking for oil.” Sango, from Sango to Ifo and away. He now quickly put on his patience at al from Ifo down to Abeokuta again. uniform for me to know that he to cope with the stress. On how she though she can recommend the manages her time, she said ”I wake Consumer complaints: Electricity, Banking, I was promoted December,30 last was a Police Officer. He said he job to her children, she will not year as Assistant Superintendent was DPO, Ikenne Division by up by 5.30am, pray and prepare food advise them to start low like for my children. I am accustomed to uawei is turning to models. But it also has its eye on a Communications Technology) Telecommunication top in 2020 of Traffic (Supol)”. then. I now asked him whether it she did.” Junior ranks are not Huawei's smartphone sales technologies to create more the work because I schedule my allowed to say anything”. She technology for pig f e w m o r e t r a d i t i o n a l h e F e d e r a l “ We a r e l o o k i n g a t She said: “Nigerians are always was because he was DPO that he plunged 42% in the last quarter value for the industries in the time. Around 1996 when I first enjoys rice and amala Hfarmers as it deals with industries. China has the Competition and expanding capacity to have in a hurry. Including me. We are was beating me. I had of 2020 as it struggled with a 5 G e r a , " t h e H u a w e i tough sanctions on its world's biggest pig farming Consumer Protection more hands handling the smartphones. limited supply of microchips industry and is home to half the spokesman added. T Commission (FCCPC) has complaints but the real game- The Chinese telecoms giant due to the sanctions. world's live hogs. Earlier this month, Huawei announced that the sectors c h a n g e r i n h a n d l i n g was stopped from accessing Huawei has also been Technology is helping to founder and chief executive vital components after the locked out of the development modernise pig farms with AI Ren Zhengfei announced a which received the most complaints better and faster is Trump administration labelled of 5G in a number of countries, being introduced to detect mining innovation lab in complaints by consumers in for companies to start doing it. it a threat to US national including the UK, amid fears diseases and track pigs. Facial northern China's Shanxi 2020 were the electricity and “The person who has the security. over national security. recognition technology can Province. banking sectors. least open complaint in our H e w a n t s t o d e v e l o p Eat right, go organic! In response to struggling Reports have suggested that identify individual pigs, while This was disclosed by the resolution team has about 800 it will reduce its manufacturing technology for coal mines that Ministry. Civil servants and smartphone sales, Huawei is other technology monitors Executive Vice Chairman of complaints across sectors and he Governor Dapo looking at other sources of of smartphones by up to 60% their weight, diet and will lead to "fewer workers, FCCPC, Mr Babatunde that is one person. If you the general public can revenue for its technology. this year, although it said it can't exercise. greater safety, and higher Irukera in an interview with multiply it by 12 to 15 Abiodun purchase food items freshly Along with Artificial confirm this figure. Huawei has already been efficiency" and enable coal NAN in Abuja on Saturday. persons, you will imagine the administration has miners to "wear suits and ties" at T procured from the farms at "The issue here is not like Intelligence (AI) tech for pig developing facial recognition Irukera added that the number of complaints,'' been walking its talk on the shop within the hours of farmers, Huawei is also there's any problems with our tech and faced criticism last work. telecoms sector followed in Irukera said. During a round-table meeting improving the health of working with the coal mining quality or experiences of the month for a system that third place after electricity He also disclosed that the 9am to 5pm. at the event, Mr Ren said the indigenes and residents of industry. Former US President Huawei products. It's not a identifies people who appear and banking. He added that complaints division aims to Items on offer include level playing field for Huawei company was also expanding Ogun State in all Donald Trump claimed Huawei to be of Uighur origin among the nature of the complaints expand for better efficient organic food needed by the can share customer data with as Huawei is caught in images of pedestrians. into consumer products such as ramifications. For people to between the geopolitical televisions, computers and has overwhelmed the operations through training aged, the diabetic and those the Chinese government, Other Chinese tech giants, complaints team and the and leveraging on technology. access quality organic allegations it has repeatedly t e n s i o n s , " a c o m p a n y tablets. nursing ailments that require i n c l u d i n g J D . c o m a n d commission plans to expand The Federal Competition foodstuff that will keep their denied. spokesman told the BBC. Alibaba, are already working "We can still survive even nutrient dense diets. Some the complaints division. and Consumer Protection As a result, the world's And so, Huawei appears to with pig farmers in China to without relying on phone sales," health at tip-top condition, of these include green Mr Ren said, adding that it is “ O u r c o m p l a i n t s Commission (FCCPC) also largest telecoms equipment be looking for other sources of bring new technologies. the administration through vegetables, jute (ewedu), maker has been limited to revenue - moving into cloud "The pig farming is yet very unlikely the US will resolution team is still a very announced that it will launch a the Ministry of Agriculture remove Huawei from a blacklist small team of people and b i l l i n g c a p p i n g o r d e r eggs, unripe plantain flour, making 4G models as it lacks computing services, smart another example of how we has opened an “Agro Shop” US government permission to vehicles and wearable devices. try to revitalise some that bars companies from they are dealing with enforcement of the NERC to eggs,green pepper, Vitamin import components for 5G It even has plans for a smart traditional industries with ICT working with the Chinese tech thousands of complaints. protect Nigerian consumers. at the arcade in front of the A-fortified gaari and fruits. car. 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Babalola Olatunji Jacob Adekomi, described the of the NEC- in Session. "We shall continue to reports as malicious and "Therefore, the reports appreciate all the good workers he Osun State Chapter misleading, stressing that there should be discarded and thrown in the State for their support, OGD: Return of the Nigeria Labour was no time at the meeting Osun into the dustbin because it does perseverance and commitment Congress, NLC, has was mentioned among states not emanated from the National during the time past," he added. T It will be recalled that dismissed media report that that were yet to implement the Headquarters of the Nigeria To all our people listed Osun among states in the minimum wage. L a b o u r C o n g r e s s , " t h e Governor Oyetola in October, country that were yet to According to the NLC statement reads in part. 2020 approved the payment of in Ogun State, I implement the new national Chairman, it is glaring that Osun Adekomi said workers in minimum wage to civil servants “ minimum wage. State is among the few states in Osun appreciate Governor in the state beginning from can assure you A n e w s p a p e r h a d the Federation that have Adegboyega Oyetola for November 1, 2020. erroneously reported that implemented the new minimum approving the implementation He also lifted the embargo on that my decision during the last Central Working wage of the new minimum wage and annual salary increment, to join the APC is promotion and conversion, of the Committee and National "The media report is not annual salary increment for ‘ ’ By Demola Atobaba his account has been totally Lion Executive Council meeting of only malicious but misleading them. which he said, was in fulfillment a well considered, of his administration's pledge to f r o z e n b y t h e F e d e r a l the NLC held in Abuja between because the State Council of "The State has moved middle age man, Mr give the welfare of workers the Government. 17 and 18 of February, 2020, NLC duly represented in the beyond the issue of Minimum Adesina Abayomi well thought out deserved attention. Adeosun who disclosed that Osun was mentioned among Meeting and there was no time Wage for now and we are Adeosun has called on he was one of the EndSARS awaiting other largesses A decision. More states in the country that are yet that States that had not started the Nigeria government and protests financier in Ekiti State to implement the new implementing Minimum Wage promised the workers via the Gov Abiodun other well-meaning Nigerians during the protest, got his account than any time in minimum wage was mentioned. This is agreements signed between the to please come to his aid by frozen by the Nigeria government However, a statement by v e r i f i a b l e t h r o u g h t h e Government and Joint Labour approves conduct lifting the ban placed on his as a result of his involvement like the history of the State Chairman of the NLC, Comminique released at the end Force in the State. Bank account which has been that of other youths in other part of promotion frozen for months now. of the country such as Lagos, Edo, this country, exercises S p e a k i n g w i t h o u r Delta, Oyo, Ogun, Osun, Ondo what we need to Correspondent through a and Kwara states respectively. gun State Governor, telephone conversation, while He said as a result of this, he is do is to speak Prince Dapo Abiodun sending his 'Save My Soul' been on the run to evade the Oh a s a p p r o v e d t h e messages, Mr Adeosun who is unlawful arrest by the Nigerian together with one conduct of the promotion an indigene of Ekiti State Police and manhandling, adding exercises for year 2018, 2019 described the development as a that he has his life to protect. voice. Our people and 2020 for Public/Civil wrong step which could According to him, "They are Servants in the State. jeopardize the progress of the after my life because I was one of have challenges; This was revealed in a country if urgent action is not the co-sponsored of the there is circular signed by the Permanent taken by well meaning leaders. EndSARS protests staged by the Secretary, Civil Service His words: "This kind of Nigerian youths kicking against despondency in Commission, Mr. Kolawole dastardly act could cause Police brutality and killing of Ogunlana, requesting Ministries, another mayhem because our innocent citizens the so-called the land because Departments and Agencies uncountable numbers of the SARS when they don't have (MDAs), to reconfirm the list of youths are jobless over the money to settle the Police. of security eligible officers, earlier years. It can also cause a big "I am appealing to our challenges and if submitted to the Commission. setback to our economy if government to please stop Ogunlana said due to the proper care is not taken on time." hunting for me to be incarcerated anybody is prevailing circumstance of the He lamented that it was a in a commando style and release COVID-19 pandemic, the rude shock to him when he got to my account for me so that I can patriotic, this is Governor has waived the the Bank to make some make some transactions." .L-R: Oba Benjamin Olanite, Onimeko of Imeko; Alhaji Kabir Labar, South West Coordinator, promotion written examination transactions and discovered that Adeosun stated. the time for us to Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association; Ogun State Governor, Dapo Abiodun; his deputy, across all cadres and grade levels Noimot Salako-Oyedele; Hon Jamilu Akingbade and Eselu of Iselu, Oba Ebenezer Akinyemi at in the State Public/Civil Service. join hands the inauguration of the Peace keeping Committee on Farmer-Herders Relationship held at the He enjoined all MDAs to Jet crash: Air Force chief orders probe Governor's office, Abeokuta, Ogun State at the weekend. prepare promotion oral interview as agency recovers seven bodies briefs, in accordance with the Ogun State Governor, Prince Dapo Abiodun, listening to Otunba Gbenga Daniel’s defection address Maximum of 500 guests to attend usual format and submit to the he Chief of the Air manifest and they know all appropriate Agencies on or S t a f f , A i r Vi c e those on board. The plane did surprise. It was more shocking when viewed before 1st March, 2021, calling TMarshal Isiaka Amao, not crash into any building or By: Kunle Abdul-Azeez presented broom - the symbol of APC - to he is a very dynamic individual, he is on all eligible candidates to against the backdrop that he hobnobbed with Akeredolu's second term inauguration has ordered an immediate individuals on the ground, so Daniel to formally welcome him into the referred to as the Lion of the West. He will purchase Ogun State Public probe of the air crash all the people on board have head of 2023, the All Progressives governing party. He disclosed that the no doubt add a lot of value to our great party. chieftains of his former party few days before and his team of counsels have Service Regulation Hand Book involving Nigerian Air Force been accounted for.” Congress (APC) has continued to National Chairman of APC Caretaker I have the pleasure of leading my colleagues crossed to APC. But others maintained that written off the petition against the (1978) from Room A261 in the Beechcraft KingAir B350i Meanwhile, the Nigeria Air shock Nigeria's political space Committee and Yobe State Governor, Mai the move was not new as the former governor governor, saying the grounds on Civil Service commission at a A to receive you into APC," the governor aircraft. with massive defections of heavyweights Mala Buni, among other bigwigs, would had long left for his political destination. sum of Two Thousand Naira Force Director of Public stated. He added that he expected more which the petition was filed had no in opposition parties across the country. In be formally presenting Daniel to President Specifically, the PDP, which has been substance. (2000) each. This came as the Federal Relations and Information, people to join the APC before the end of the Capital Territory Emergency Air Commodore Ibikunle Ogun State, the dragnet of the ruling party Muhammadu Buhari. ongoing registration and revalidation factionalised for more than a decade in the Management Agency said it Daramola, said the Chief of finally "captured" a former governor, Speaking at the event, Bagudu, who exercise. state, reacted to the defection, saying it won't Ogun water: Contractor on has recovered seven bodies the Air Staff, Air Vice Marshal Otunba Gbenga Daniel, consequently is the Chairman, Progressive Governors' While responding, Daniel declared that miss the former governor. The party from the crash site of the I. Amao, has ordered an raising the stakes of permutations in the Forum (PGF), an umbrella body of APC his decision to join APC was well considered described the defection as good riddance. course to meet deadline Beechcraft KingAir B350i immediate probe of the politics of the state. In Osun State, Senator elected governors in the country, described and thought out. According to him, Nigeria The Publicity Secretary of one of the aircraft some minutes after accident. Iyiola Omisore also joined the the APC. Daniel as a political colossus with PDP factions in Ogun State, Akinloye By Ayo Awakan its parts heavily corroded prior needs leaders to come together and speak Akeredolu the incident occurred near the Daniel, a two-term governor on the outstanding records and invaluable assets. Bankole, told reporters that the departure of to the commencement of the Daramola said, “This is to with one voice in order to tackle insecurity N n a m d i A z i k i w e confirm that a Nigerian Air platform of Peoples Democratic Party He noted that the APC has grown bigger and other challenges confronting the country. Daniel would ensure peace and stability in h e s e c o n d t e r m h e o n g o i n g rehabilitation project. International Airport in the PDP. He argued that the former governor governor of the state on October 10, rehabilitation of the Force Beechcraft KingAir (PDP) and the Director-General of the and better with the former governor's He said, "To all our people in Ogun inauguration ceremony This led to a significant loss Abuja. Alhaji Abass Idriss, had left the PDP two years ago when he 2020, on the platform of All Ogun State Water of resources, especially as it fed B350i aircraft crashed while Atiku Abubakar Presidential Campaign entry, adding that the party was happy to State, I can assure you that my decision to of Rotimi Akeredolu as Progressives Congress, defeating T said the remains of the returning to the Abuja Airport Organisation in the 2019 presidential receive him. directed his loyalists to work for Abiodun's T Corporation dam at its join the APC is a well considered, well governor of Ondo State will be two existing water treatment aircraft passengers had been Peoples Democratic Party candidate, Iberekodo, Abeokuta Water after reporting engine failure election, formally joined the APC on On his part, Akeredolu, who is the thought out decision. More than any time in election in 2019. attended by only 500 persons due plants - in Arakanga and deposited at the Nigeria Air Eyitayo Jegede, and current Deputy Scheme is in top gear as the en route Minna. First Tuesday. He subsequently registered at his Chairman of South West Governors' "The defection of former Governor to the prevailing Covid-19, the Iberekodo, respectively. Force morgue. The jet en the history of this country, what we need to Governor, Agboola Ajayi, who contractor handling the Mr. Alex, an assistant responders are at the scene. Ward 12 Isote in Sagamu Local Forum, said the defection was only a do is to speak together with one voice. Our Daniel is not new to us," Bankole was inauguration committee has said. contested on the platform of Zenith route Minna in Niger State project is working day and project manager for the Sadly, all seven personnel on Government Area of Ogun State on homecoming for Daniel. The governor reported as saying. "It was not unexpected. The venue of the event, Labour Party. Akeredolu will take crashed close to the runway people have challenges; there is night in order to complete the contractor on site affirmed that board died in the crash. Thursday. also urged APC members in the state to Two years ago, shortly before the scheduled for Wednesday, the oath of office next week, despite of the Abuja airport after despondency in the land because of security project before the stipulated the rehabilitation works which He was received into APC at his come together to build and make the party gubernatorial election, it was in his Asoludero February 24, is the International his re-election being challenged by reporting engine failure. “The Chief of the Air Staff, challenges and if anybody is patriotic, this is date. is geared towards upgrading Asoludero Court residence in Sagamu by stronger and more formidable. house that he ordered his followers to be led Culture and Event Center, Igbatoro Jegede. Idriss also denied reports Air Vice Marshal IO Amao, the time for us to join hands." This was disclosed during the facility to a fully automated by former Deputy Governor, Alhaja Salmot Road, Akure, which ordinarily sits that some persons were killed has ordered an immediate five state governors. The governors In his remarks, Governor Abiodun, "In Ogun State, there is no better time to J e g e d e i s a s k i n g t h e a visit to the site by the Special system, will be completed as Badru, to APC. 1,800 persons. Chairperson of the on the ground by the aircraft, investigation into the incident. include Prince Dapo Abiodun (Ogun), who is the APC leader in the state, join this party because we have a working governorship election tribunal to Adviser to the Governor on scheduled. He added: "They've been in APC for inauguration committee and noting that only the seven “While urging the general Arakunrin Rotimi Akeredolu (Ondo), described Daniel's defection as historic. governor and he needs the support of all," declare him winner and nullify the Water Resources, Engr. Kunle The project duration is 18 deputy governor -elect, Lucky passengers on the plane died. public to remain calm and Alhaji Atiku Bagudu (Kebbi), Dr He recalled how Daniel supported his the former governor further remarked. over two years and some of them have been election of Akeredolu on the grounds Otun and the General months and with the spate of Aiyedatiwa, told journalists in He said, “We recovered await the outcome of Abdullahi Ganduje (Kano) and Alhaji emergence as governor in 2019 and Coming barely two years after quitting given political appointments in Governor that the latter was not validly Manager of the Corporation, work currently going on at the investigation, the CAS, on Abiodun's government. So, before now, they Akure on Friday that the nominated. He is also asking the seven bodies from the crash Abubakar Sani Bello (Niger). expressed confidence that the ex-governor the PDP and announcing his retirement from inauguration and all the ancillary Engr. Oluseye Maku. site, Abeokuta and its environs behalf of all NAF personnel, At a colorful ceremony, Bello, who is will add a lot of value to the party. have defected. It is just a confirmation of tribunal to consider the pockets of The dam, which was site and the remains have active partisan politics, Daniel's cross- activities would be low-key, due to w i l l s t a r t e n j o y i n g commiserates with the the Chairman of APC Membership "Otunba Gbenga Daniel will come what we have always known. violence that marred the election in commissioned in 1962 was been taken to the NAF carpeting to APC took many observers by prevailing economic situation in uninterrupted water supply by families of the deceased.” Registration and Revalidation Committee, with a lot of experience, a lot of wisdom, "For us as a party, we feel excited about several local governments in earlier manually operated, had July this year. morgue. The NAF has the the state. Akeredolu was re-elected reaching its decision. But Akeredolu February 28, 2021 |11 February 28, 2021 |5 News Politics ...with Folaranmi Akorede EndSARS: Adeosun sends SOS to Govt, Minimum wage: Osun already others over unlawful account freezing paying -NLC Chairman

Babalola Olatunji Jacob Adekomi, described the of the NEC- in Session. "We shall continue to reports as malicious and "Therefore, the reports appreciate all the good workers he Osun State Chapter misleading, stressing that there should be discarded and thrown in the State for their support, OGD: Return of the Nigeria Labour was no time at the meeting Osun into the dustbin because it does perseverance and commitment Congress, NLC, has was mentioned among states not emanated from the National during the time past," he added. T It will be recalled that dismissed media report that that were yet to implement the Headquarters of the Nigeria To all our people listed Osun among states in the minimum wage. L a b o u r C o n g r e s s , " t h e Governor Oyetola in October, country that were yet to According to the NLC statement reads in part. 2020 approved the payment of in Ogun State, I implement the new national Chairman, it is glaring that Osun Adekomi said workers in minimum wage to civil servants “ minimum wage. State is among the few states in Osun appreciate Governor in the state beginning from can assure you A n e w s p a p e r h a d the Federation that have Adegboyega Oyetola for November 1, 2020. erroneously reported that implemented the new minimum approving the implementation He also lifted the embargo on that my decision during the last Central Working wage of the new minimum wage and annual salary increment, to join the APC is promotion and conversion, of the Committee and National "The media report is not annual salary increment for ‘ ’ By Demola Atobaba his account has been totally Lion Executive Council meeting of only malicious but misleading them. which he said, was in fulfillment a well considered, of his administration's pledge to f r o z e n b y t h e F e d e r a l the NLC held in Abuja between because the State Council of "The State has moved middle age man, Mr give the welfare of workers the Government. 17 and 18 of February, 2020, NLC duly represented in the beyond the issue of Minimum Adesina Abayomi well thought out deserved attention. Adeosun who disclosed that Osun was mentioned among Meeting and there was no time Wage for now and we are Adeosun has called on he was one of the EndSARS awaiting other largesses A decision. More states in the country that are yet that States that had not started the Nigeria government and protests financier in Ekiti State to implement the new implementing Minimum Wage promised the workers via the Gov Abiodun other well-meaning Nigerians during the protest, got his account than any time in minimum wage was mentioned. This is agreements signed between the to please come to his aid by frozen by the Nigeria government However, a statement by v e r i f i a b l e t h r o u g h t h e Government and Joint Labour approves conduct lifting the ban placed on his as a result of his involvement like the history of the State Chairman of the NLC, Comminique released at the end Force in the State. Bank account which has been that of other youths in other part of promotion frozen for months now. of the country such as Lagos, Edo, this country, exercises S p e a k i n g w i t h o u r Delta, Oyo, Ogun, Osun, Ondo what we need to Correspondent through a and Kwara states respectively. gun State Governor, telephone conversation, while He said as a result of this, he is do is to speak Prince Dapo Abiodun sending his 'Save My Soul' been on the run to evade the Oh a s a p p r o v e d t h e messages, Mr Adeosun who is unlawful arrest by the Nigerian together with one conduct of the promotion an indigene of Ekiti State Police and manhandling, adding exercises for year 2018, 2019 described the development as a that he has his life to protect. voice. Our people and 2020 for Public/Civil wrong step which could According to him, "They are Servants in the State. jeopardize the progress of the after my life because I was one of have challenges; This was revealed in a country if urgent action is not the co-sponsored of the there is circular signed by the Permanent taken by well meaning leaders. EndSARS protests staged by the Secretary, Civil Service His words: "This kind of Nigerian youths kicking against despondency in Commission, Mr. Kolawole dastardly act could cause Police brutality and killing of Ogunlana, requesting Ministries, another mayhem because our innocent citizens the so-called the land because Departments and Agencies uncountable numbers of the SARS when they don't have (MDAs), to reconfirm the list of youths are jobless over the money to settle the Police. of security eligible officers, earlier years. It can also cause a big "I am appealing to our challenges and if submitted to the Commission. setback to our economy if government to please stop Ogunlana said due to the proper care is not taken on time." hunting for me to be incarcerated anybody is prevailing circumstance of the He lamented that it was a in a commando style and release COVID-19 pandemic, the rude shock to him when he got to my account for me so that I can patriotic, this is Governor has waived the the Bank to make some make some transactions." .L-R: Oba Benjamin Olanite, Onimeko of Imeko; Alhaji Kabir Labar, South West Coordinator, promotion written examination transactions and discovered that Adeosun stated. the time for us to Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association; Ogun State Governor, Dapo Abiodun; his deputy, across all cadres and grade levels Noimot Salako-Oyedele; Hon Jamilu Akingbade and Eselu of Iselu, Oba Ebenezer Akinyemi at in the State Public/Civil Service. join hands the inauguration of the Peace keeping Committee on Farmer-Herders Relationship held at the He enjoined all MDAs to Jet crash: Air Force chief orders probe Governor's office, Abeokuta, Ogun State at the weekend. prepare promotion oral interview as agency recovers seven bodies briefs, in accordance with the Ogun State Governor, Prince Dapo Abiodun, listening to Otunba Gbenga Daniel’s defection address Maximum of 500 guests to attend usual format and submit to the he Chief of the Air manifest and they know all appropriate Agencies on or S t a f f , A i r Vi c e those on board. The plane did surprise. It was more shocking when viewed before 1st March, 2021, calling TMarshal Isiaka Amao, not crash into any building or By: Kunle Abdul-Azeez presented broom - the symbol of APC - to he is a very dynamic individual, he is on all eligible candidates to against the backdrop that he hobnobbed with Akeredolu's second term inauguration has ordered an immediate individuals on the ground, so Daniel to formally welcome him into the referred to as the Lion of the West. He will purchase Ogun State Public probe of the air crash all the people on board have head of 2023, the All Progressives governing party. He disclosed that the no doubt add a lot of value to our great party. chieftains of his former party few days before and his team of counsels have Service Regulation Hand Book involving Nigerian Air Force been accounted for.” Congress (APC) has continued to National Chairman of APC Caretaker I have the pleasure of leading my colleagues crossed to APC. But others maintained that written off the petition against the (1978) from Room A261 in the Beechcraft KingAir B350i Meanwhile, the Nigeria Air shock Nigeria's political space Committee and Yobe State Governor, Mai the move was not new as the former governor governor, saying the grounds on Civil Service commission at a A to receive you into APC," the governor aircraft. with massive defections of heavyweights Mala Buni, among other bigwigs, would had long left for his political destination. sum of Two Thousand Naira Force Director of Public stated. He added that he expected more which the petition was filed had no in opposition parties across the country. In be formally presenting Daniel to President Specifically, the PDP, which has been substance. (2000) each. This came as the Federal Relations and Information, people to join the APC before the end of the Capital Territory Emergency Air Commodore Ibikunle Ogun State, the dragnet of the ruling party Muhammadu Buhari. ongoing registration and revalidation factionalised for more than a decade in the Management Agency said it Daramola, said the Chief of finally "captured" a former governor, Speaking at the event, Bagudu, who exercise. state, reacted to the defection, saying it won't Ogun water: Contractor on has recovered seven bodies the Air Staff, Air Vice Marshal Otunba Gbenga Daniel, consequently is the Chairman, Progressive Governors' While responding, Daniel declared that miss the former governor. The party from the crash site of the I. Amao, has ordered an raising the stakes of permutations in the Forum (PGF), an umbrella body of APC his decision to join APC was well considered described the defection as good riddance. course to meet deadline Beechcraft KingAir B350i immediate probe of the politics of the state. In Osun State, Senator elected governors in the country, described and thought out. According to him, Nigeria The Publicity Secretary of one of the aircraft some minutes after accident. Iyiola Omisore also joined the the APC. Daniel as a political colossus with PDP factions in Ogun State, Akinloye By Ayo Awakan its parts heavily corroded prior needs leaders to come together and speak Akeredolu the incident occurred near the Daniel, a two-term governor on the outstanding records and invaluable assets. Bankole, told reporters that the departure of to the commencement of the Daramola said, “This is to with one voice in order to tackle insecurity N n a m d i A z i k i w e confirm that a Nigerian Air platform of Peoples Democratic Party He noted that the APC has grown bigger and other challenges confronting the country. Daniel would ensure peace and stability in h e s e c o n d t e r m h e o n g o i n g rehabilitation project. International Airport in the PDP. He argued that the former governor governor of the state on October 10, rehabilitation of the Force Beechcraft KingAir (PDP) and the Director-General of the and better with the former governor's He said, "To all our people in Ogun inauguration ceremony This led to a significant loss Abuja. Alhaji Abass Idriss, had left the PDP two years ago when he 2020, on the platform of All Ogun State Water of resources, especially as it fed B350i aircraft crashed while Atiku Abubakar Presidential Campaign entry, adding that the party was happy to State, I can assure you that my decision to of Rotimi Akeredolu as Progressives Congress, defeating T said the remains of the returning to the Abuja Airport Organisation in the 2019 presidential receive him. directed his loyalists to work for Abiodun's T Corporation dam at its join the APC is a well considered, well governor of Ondo State will be two existing water treatment aircraft passengers had been Peoples Democratic Party candidate, Iberekodo, Abeokuta Water after reporting engine failure election, formally joined the APC on On his part, Akeredolu, who is the thought out decision. More than any time in election in 2019. attended by only 500 persons due plants - in Arakanga and deposited at the Nigeria Air Eyitayo Jegede, and current Deputy Scheme is in top gear as the en route Minna. First Tuesday. He subsequently registered at his Chairman of South West Governors' "The defection of former Governor to the prevailing Covid-19, the Iberekodo, respectively. Force morgue. The jet en the history of this country, what we need to Governor, Agboola Ajayi, who contractor handling the Mr. Alex, an assistant responders are at the scene. Ward 12 Isote in Sagamu Local Forum, said the defection was only a do is to speak together with one voice. Our Daniel is not new to us," Bankole was inauguration committee has said. contested on the platform of Zenith route Minna in Niger State project is working day and project manager for the Sadly, all seven personnel on Government Area of Ogun State on homecoming for Daniel. The governor reported as saying. "It was not unexpected. The venue of the event, Labour Party. Akeredolu will take crashed close to the runway people have challenges; there is night in order to complete the contractor on site affirmed that board died in the crash. Thursday. also urged APC members in the state to Two years ago, shortly before the scheduled for Wednesday, the oath of office next week, despite of the Abuja airport after despondency in the land because of security project before the stipulated the rehabilitation works which He was received into APC at his come together to build and make the party gubernatorial election, it was in his Asoludero February 24, is the International his re-election being challenged by reporting engine failure. “The Chief of the Air Staff, challenges and if anybody is patriotic, this is date. is geared towards upgrading Asoludero Court residence in Sagamu by stronger and more formidable. house that he ordered his followers to be led Culture and Event Center, Igbatoro Jegede. Idriss also denied reports Air Vice Marshal IO Amao, the time for us to join hands." This was disclosed during the facility to a fully automated by former Deputy Governor, Alhaja Salmot Road, Akure, which ordinarily sits that some persons were killed has ordered an immediate five state governors. The governors In his remarks, Governor Abiodun, "In Ogun State, there is no better time to J e g e d e i s a s k i n g t h e a visit to the site by the Special system, will be completed as Badru, to APC. 1,800 persons. Chairperson of the on the ground by the aircraft, investigation into the incident. include Prince Dapo Abiodun (Ogun), who is the APC leader in the state, join this party because we have a working governorship election tribunal to Adviser to the Governor on scheduled. He added: "They've been in APC for inauguration committee and noting that only the seven “While urging the general Arakunrin Rotimi Akeredolu (Ondo), described Daniel's defection as historic. governor and he needs the support of all," declare him winner and nullify the Water Resources, Engr. Kunle The project duration is 18 deputy governor -elect, Lucky passengers on the plane died. public to remain calm and Alhaji Atiku Bagudu (Kebbi), Dr He recalled how Daniel supported his the former governor further remarked. over two years and some of them have been election of Akeredolu on the grounds Otun and the General months and with the spate of Aiyedatiwa, told journalists in He said, “We recovered await the outcome of Abdullahi Ganduje (Kano) and Alhaji emergence as governor in 2019 and Coming barely two years after quitting given political appointments in Governor that the latter was not validly Manager of the Corporation, work currently going on at the investigation, the CAS, on Abiodun's government. So, before now, they Akure on Friday that the nominated. He is also asking the seven bodies from the crash Abubakar Sani Bello (Niger). expressed confidence that the ex-governor the PDP and announcing his retirement from inauguration and all the ancillary Engr. Oluseye Maku. site, Abeokuta and its environs behalf of all NAF personnel, At a colorful ceremony, Bello, who is will add a lot of value to the party. have defected. It is just a confirmation of tribunal to consider the pockets of The dam, which was site and the remains have active partisan politics, Daniel's cross- activities would be low-key, due to w i l l s t a r t e n j o y i n g commiserates with the the Chairman of APC Membership "Otunba Gbenga Daniel will come what we have always known. violence that marred the election in commissioned in 1962 was been taken to the NAF carpeting to APC took many observers by prevailing economic situation in uninterrupted water supply by families of the deceased.” Registration and Revalidation Committee, with a lot of experience, a lot of wisdom, "For us as a party, we feel excited about several local governments in earlier manually operated, had July this year. morgue. The NAF has the the state. Akeredolu was re-elected reaching its decision. 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Farmers-Herders crisis: Farmers/herders clash: Ogun delivers first batch of palliatives arely 24 hours after the palliatives will be given to the Abiodun inaugurates 20-man Peace Ogun State Governor, people affected by the conflict BPrince Dapo Abiodun, and here we are on behalf of the a n n o u n c e d t h a t h i s Governor to deliver the first Otunba Gbenga Daniel Committee, expects report in four weeks administration would provide consignment of this relief will come with a lot of palliatives to the victims of the materials. of cause you can be “ Folaranmi Akorede determine how do we ensure this equally recommended "the Saturday afternoon in Ibadan and recent conflict between herders sure that it is a sign of better things experience, a lot of does not happen again. After the model" to other states in the that meeting is meant to share with and farmers in the Ogun West to come, like I said, this is the first gun State governor, submission of report which must resolution of farmers and the rest of us, how we should or Senatorial District of the state, consignment, a lot more will still wisdom, he is a very Dapo Abiodun, has be within four weeks, I am herders clashes. how we resolve this type of dispute the state government has be coming. dynamic individual, he Oinaugurated a 20-man hoping that this committee can "Yesterday (Friday) I had between herders and farmers so fulfilled its promise by " Also, there will be the issue of Peace Keeping Committee on even finish the assignment into a meeting with Mr. President that we will continue to enjoy the delivering the first batch of ascertaining the cost, what have is referred to as the the farmers and herders clashes two weeks. to brief him on details of what peaceful coexistence that has foodstuffs for the affected been lost and how much is the in the state. "Then, the committee will happened in Ogun State characterised our states from time victims in the area. value of what we have been lost, Lion of the West. He I n a u g u r a t i n g t h e now proceed to be a standing because he wanted to know immemorial". He added. T h e C h a i r m a n , with a view of giving further will no doubt add a lot Committee headed by a former committee that will ensure that exactly what happened. Responding, a committee Subcommittee on Palliatives relief, because what has been lost House of Representatives peace and harmony continue to "I am pleased to say that Mr. m e m b e r a n d l a w m a k e r who is also the State is not only source of livelihood, of value to our great member, Kayode Oladele, on reign withing all of us." President was very impressed representing Imeko/Afon State Commissioner for Budget and people have lost their homes and Saturday, at the Obas' Governor Abiodun stated. with the way we managed and Constituency in the Ogun State Planning, Hon. Olaolu businesses," he said. party. I have the C o m p l e x , O k e M o s a n , Speaking on his meeting handled the situation, to the House of Assembly, Jemili Olabimtan, disclosed that the In his remarks, the Transition pleasure of leading my Abeokuta, Abiodun mandated with President Muhammadu p o i n t w h e r e h e h a s Akingbade, applauded the Committee was in the area to Committee Chairman, Yewa members of the panel to Buhari on Friday at the State recommended our model to be governor for quick action and deliver the palliatives as North Local Government, colleagues to receive determine the cause of the House, Abuja, Abiodun adopted in the resolution of responses. He promised that the promised by the governor, Bankole Babatunde David while ethnic clashes in Yewaland, the explained that the president was such crisis in other parts of the members would carry out its adding that the gesture was a appreciating the State Governor you into APC L-R: Governors Ganduje (Kano), Bagudu (Kebbi), Bello (Niger), former governor Gbenga Daniel, Abiodun (Ogun) and Akeredolu (Ondo) losses and recommend how to impressed with the approach country. assignment diligently. sign of better things to come. for fulfilling the promise he made forestall recurrence. adopted in tackling the crisis in "To that extent, he "Your Excellency, I want to Olabimtan who also noted barely twenty four hours ago, Abiodun in the last governorship election. He gave the committee the state. instructed his Chief of Staff to assure you that the committee will that a lot would still be done to promised that the palliatives At his Sagamu residence few days to comprising state security chiefs, The governor said Buhari hold another meeting with us on perform beyond expectation," bring succour to people in the will get to both the farmers and his movement from the party. For now, we herders who suffered loss the poll, Daniel openly endorsed Abiodun traditional rulers, lawmakers, Akingbade assured. area, added that the committee will know who and who belongs to a g o v e r n m e n t o f f i c i a l s , would also look at ascertaining during the clash me. particular party. His defection is a big relief and asked his associates, followers and representatives of Fulani the cost of things that have been T h e t e a m h a d t h e and we are not in any way disappointed, it supporters to vote for the APC governorship herdsmen and farmers, four lost in the conflict, as well as the Commissioner for Special is what we have always known. We wish candidate. The rest is now history. weeks to submit its report. value, as government was D u t i e s ; B a r r . F e m i him well." Even after the PDP lost the 2019 The governor equally noted taking an holistic approach at Ogunbanwo, Commissioner But to watchers of the political events election, the infighting within the party t h a t w h i l e c o m m i t t e e m a k i n g t h e p e o p l e for Housing; Jagunmolu unfolding in the state, Daniel's flight to the never abated. Two major factions loyal to assignment takes immediate comfortable. Omoniyi and the Permanent ruling party was inevitable as it had been late Senator Buruji Kashamu and Hon. effect, his government would "The Governor did make a Secretary, Ministry of Special shaped and precipitated by certain remote Oladipupo Adebutu continued to battle for roll out palliatives to the victims promise that relief materials by Duties; Kehinde Onasanya. and immediate causes. The protracted the soul of the party. In the midst of the of the clashes to cushion the way of food items and effect of their losses. leadership crisis in Ogun PDP and probable logjam, some concerned members felt a lasting solution must be found to the crisis in He added that some victims future political aspiration of the former displaced due to the crisis would Bandits strike again, kidnap governor, among other factors, may have the state chapter of the party. Some leaders of the party also believed be provided with shelter. influenced his decision to jump ship. "The first assignment will be Katsina monarch, 13 others Between 2003 and 2011, the man popularly that for Ogun PDP to bounce back, Daniel to determine what really known as OGD was in the saddle in Ogun must return to lead the party in the state out happened. What happened? andits struck again in reported to the Police. State. A professional engineer and of its intractable crisis. In fact, a delegation What happened that disrupted Katsina State at the The nonagenarian was said to be having health challenges. successful businessman, Daniel came into of the party in the South West zone the peace we enjoyed in this state Bweekend, abducting a interfaced with the former governor with the and in that particular area for so monarch and 13 others in two At press time, the abductors political limelight when he emerged as the had not made any contact with PDP governorship candidate. intent to woo him back to the party. long. Because it is in separate attacks. OGD and PDA exchanging pleasantries In January, this year, the PDP determining what happened that The gunmen were said to the family. Though a contestant without visible Spokesman for the Katsina delegation, led by Governor Seyi Makinde we will ensure such will not have kidnapped the 91-year- political background, his campaign through old traditional ruler of State Police Command, Gambo the Gateway Front Foundation (GFF) was a of Oyo State, who was accompanied by the repeat itself again. "After that, we now look at, Kunduru community on Isah, said he was not aware of revolution of sort and he set a record by Chairman of the party's South West L-R: Governor of Ogun State, Prince Dapo Abiodun; Director of State Services, Mr David the incident. Reconciliation Committee, Prince what has it cost us? What have Friday night. being the first politician in the state to we lost? So, this committee must Tuska and Brigade Commander, 35th Artillery Division, Abeokuta at the inauguration of the The victim who is the “I am not aware of that defeat a sitting governor. In the 2003 Olagunsoye Oyinlola, and Zonal Caretaker Peace keeping Task Force set up by the Government on Farmer-Herders skirmishes in the Galadiman Kunduru is the incident,” he told newsmen. Chairman of the party, Hon. Dayo determine what it has cost us. State at the weekend governorship election, Daniel scored "The Committee will father of the Secretary to the Also, gunmen kidnapped 13 449,335 votes against the then Governor Ogungbenro, held a closed-door meeting Katsina State Government, travellers in Faskari Local Olusegun Osoba of the Alliance for with Daniel, with a resolution that he should Alhaji Kasimu Ibrahim. Government Area of the state. Democracy (AD), who scored 231,982 return to the fold. Sources at the meeting Why Sanwo-Olu didn’t attend S/West Govs' parley The monarch was whisked Isah also confirmed the incident, saying the bandits votes. said Makinde extolled the capacity of Daniel away by the gunmen who By Lekan Osiade ethnic or religious war. We need struck at 10: am on February On getting the grasp of governance, as a politician, saying the ex-governor because of dominance of Divine Service (IDDS) held by s t o r m e d t h e t o w n o n to guide against utterances that 17, 2021. Daniel, with his business background, played a crucial role in reorganising PDP in Fulanis and Hausas in some Christian Association of motorcycles. agos State Governor, may stereotype anyone or their One of his children who He explained that the victims helped to open up the state for investments. Oyo State before the 2019 elections to return parts of the state. "Don't Nigeria (CAN) at The Mr. Babajide Sanwo- tribe. We have duty to isolate pleaded for anonymity, were travelling to Funtua from Until his advent, the state was reputed as the party to winning ways in the state. forget that places like Agege Apostolic Church in Ketu. O l u w a s criminals in our communities, confirmed the incident Mai Gora to collect loans from merely a civil service state. But Daniel Also at the parley, Oyinlola, who is a L and Obalende have a large Sanwo-Olu noted that the a bank provided through a conspicuously absent in rather than introducing tribal yesterday, adding that the brought in revolutionary ideas and made former governor of Osun State, was reported population of Hausa and nation had faced difficulty family support programme. Ibadan, the Oyo State capital spin into every crime. incident had already been spirited moves to awaken the sleeping to have said that he had met with three Fulani settlements. And there period in the past year, on Saturday, when South West “Nigeria is the largest country giant. He developed education, health, groups in Ogun State and the resolution was: are reports of an impending following economic downturn governors met on the in Africa. Where we will go to? agriculture, infrastructure, commerce, "If we have to solidify our stand in Ogun, clash with Yorubas in occasioned by the spread of Rochas Okorocha, aides arrested, released insecurity ravaging the region. That's why I said we need a transportation and sports, among other Daniel has to take charge." He assured that thosareas. Coronavirus (COVID-19) and ormer Governor of Imo Former Ogun State governor, Gbenga Daniel being given his APC membership card, shortly The governors had met to new beginning and there is no allegedly followed Okorocha for sectors. His fame soon spread across the once the leaders in the South West presented "So, the Governor had to paralysing nationwide youth State, Senator Rochas after he validated his membership of the party. channel a way forward for the other people that can help us the operation were also arrested. country and the PDP bestrode the state's a common front, the national leadership of move in quickly to nip the protests. Lagos, he said, Okorocha, was arrested on Some government vehicles were zone over the recent killings lower the temperature and F political landscape like a colossus. the party would comply. crisis in the bud", he said. became the epicentre of the Sunday after he dared Governor vandalised in the fracas. and abductions in the region. calm the frayed nerves than In 2007, Daniel was re-elected for a and won the election to represent Ogun East But Daniel was said to have argued that Apparently reacting based crises, which kept the Hope Uzodimma to reopen the It was gathered that one candidates respectively. However, Sanwo-Olu, was our religious leaders whose second term in office. But shortly after his Senatorial District. the crisis in Ogun PDP was very easy to on the security reports, the Government on its toes. Royal Spring Palm Apartment person was injured when But following a court verdict, the PDP not in attendance but sources voices are well respected. As administration commenced its second term, candidature was resolved in favour of In another move to relaunch his solve if all parties were made to know their Governor has called for He said religious leaders sealed by the state government. Okorocha and his loyalists closes to the state government a nation, we have several Accompanied by his son-in- forcefully opened the apartment. he began to experience real political crises. Olurin. This forced Isiaka, who had Daniel's political career, the former governor ran for place. He added that the solution to the caution among faith leaders must use their pulpits to preach said the governor was battles to fight but we must law, Uche Nwosu, and others, Drenched in his blood, the This came to head the moment he started to the National Chairmanship of PDP but lost. problem must be all encompassing. "I have and opinion moulders peace and discourage war. The support, to defect to the Peoples Party of overwhelmed with the refrain from adding political Okorocha, who has been having a injured was later taken to carry out his succession plan which He later became the Director-General of the relationships with practically everybody. against reckless utterances Governor said it was time for Nigeria (PPN). Both Olurin and Isiaka security matters in the state as instability to the issues.” running battle with Uzodimma, hospital for urgent medical appeared to be tilting towards making a Atiku Abubakar Campaign Organisation in The PDP is still a strong brand, if everybody that may further aggravate citizens to come together and eventually lost the governorship election to he was held up in series of Sanwo-Olu said the crises broke the keys to recover the attention. gubernatorial hopeful from Ogun West the 2019 presidential election which Atiku comes together. Our administration remains the security crises facing the give Nigeria the new the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) security meetings while the b e d e v i l i n g t h e n a t i o n estate belonging to his wife, The state government, on Senatorial District to succeed him. equally lost to the incumbent President a strong reference for governance in the nation. Sanwo-Olu said the beginning it deserved in candidate, Senator Ibikunle Amosun, whose governors' parley was required collective action Nkechi. Friday, recovered the apartment Serious hostilities erupted within the Muhammadu Buhari of the ruling APC. state and you can see that almost everyone nature of the crises required s u r m o u n t i n g t h e ambition was incidentally backed by Prince ongoing. from every segment of the Also arrested were Ijeoma along Akachi road. The seizure, then ruling PDP and these soon Shortly after, Daniel announced that he who has or is in power came from PDP," he all notable leaders of men to contemporary challenges the Igboanusi and Lasbrey Okafor- according to the team led by Dapo Abiodun and other party faithful. One the sources said the country towards proffering transformed the party into an abyss of was leaving partisan politics. In a letter was quoted as saying. refrain for making incendiary n a t i o n i s f a c i n g . Anyanwu. Igboanusi was the Commissioner for Lands, After the efforts to have his preferred Governor and his team had solution. factionalisation. Daniel backed one faction addressed to the PDP National Chairman, However, with his latest action, Daniel comments that could stoke He said: “It is time for sobre deputy chief of staff (Domestics) Enyinnaya Onuegbu, was in successor failed, Daniel's political fortune been having consultation with Despite the COVID-19 while other forces supported another Uche Secondus, he said he was resigning has obviously put the issue of PDP behind divisions and violence, reflection that must bring a while Okafor-Anyanwu was the compliance with a directive of the dimmed. As a result of the instability in the leadership of security crisis and destruction that faction. In the build-up to the 2011 Ogun PDP, he defected to the Labour Party "from active and partisan politics with effect and moved on to another chapter in his stressing that a crisis in new beginning for our nation. Commissioner for Transportation Imo State gazette on the report of apparatus to forestall an trailed the EndSARS protest in Okorocha's administration. elections, the two factions conducted (LP). But he made a dramatic return to the from the 14th day of March, 2019." But that political trajectory. His movement to APC Nigeria would be catastrophic We have all witnessed the the Judicial Commission of explosion of crisis in the state. last year, Sanwo-Olu said They are being detained at the Enquiry on recovery of Lands and parallel primaries which produced Prince PDP in 2014 where he aspired for Senate pronouncement did not come until after he certainly comes with some calculations but for Africa. challenges of our country, but "There were intelligence Lagos had weathered the crisis Criminal Investigation Department other related matters. They were Gboyega Isiaka and General Adetunji had made some smart decisions that what lies ahead for him can only be revealed The Governor made the we need to be careful not to but was not successful. The late Buruji reports that there could be a with strong determination to (CID) of the State Police Command later released by the police last Olurin (retd) as their governorship Kashamu "snatched" the senatorial ticket contributed to the success of Governor with time. admonition at the 2021 Lagos turn the observed crises into an spillover of the Ibadan crisis State Interdenominational sustain progress it recorded. in Owerri. Some thugs who night. February 28, 2021 |12 February 28, 2021 |3 Politics News

Farmers-Herders crisis: Farmers/herders clash: Ogun delivers first batch of palliatives arely 24 hours after the palliatives will be given to the Abiodun inaugurates 20-man Peace Ogun State Governor, people affected by the conflict BPrince Dapo Abiodun, and here we are on behalf of the a n n o u n c e d t h a t h i s Governor to deliver the first Otunba Gbenga Daniel Committee, expects report in four weeks administration would provide consignment of this relief will come with a lot of palliatives to the victims of the materials. of cause you can be “ Folaranmi Akorede determine how do we ensure this equally recommended "the Saturday afternoon in Ibadan and recent conflict between herders sure that it is a sign of better things experience, a lot of does not happen again. After the model" to other states in the that meeting is meant to share with and farmers in the Ogun West to come, like I said, this is the first gun State governor, submission of report which must resolution of farmers and the rest of us, how we should or Senatorial District of the state, consignment, a lot more will still wisdom, he is a very Dapo Abiodun, has be within four weeks, I am herders clashes. how we resolve this type of dispute the state government has be coming. dynamic individual, he Oinaugurated a 20-man hoping that this committee can "Yesterday (Friday) I had between herders and farmers so fulfilled its promise by " Also, there will be the issue of Peace Keeping Committee on even finish the assignment into a meeting with Mr. President that we will continue to enjoy the delivering the first batch of ascertaining the cost, what have is referred to as the the farmers and herders clashes two weeks. to brief him on details of what peaceful coexistence that has foodstuffs for the affected been lost and how much is the in the state. "Then, the committee will happened in Ogun State characterised our states from time victims in the area. value of what we have been lost, Lion of the West. He I n a u g u r a t i n g t h e now proceed to be a standing because he wanted to know immemorial". He added. T h e C h a i r m a n , with a view of giving further will no doubt add a lot Committee headed by a former committee that will ensure that exactly what happened. Responding, a committee Subcommittee on Palliatives relief, because what has been lost House of Representatives peace and harmony continue to "I am pleased to say that Mr. m e m b e r a n d l a w m a k e r who is also the State is not only source of livelihood, of value to our great member, Kayode Oladele, on reign withing all of us." President was very impressed representing Imeko/Afon State Commissioner for Budget and people have lost their homes and Saturday, at the Obas' Governor Abiodun stated. with the way we managed and Constituency in the Ogun State Planning, Hon. Olaolu businesses," he said. party. I have the C o m p l e x , O k e M o s a n , Speaking on his meeting handled the situation, to the House of Assembly, Jemili Olabimtan, disclosed that the In his remarks, the Transition pleasure of leading my Abeokuta, Abiodun mandated with President Muhammadu p o i n t w h e r e h e h a s Akingbade, applauded the Committee was in the area to Committee Chairman, Yewa members of the panel to Buhari on Friday at the State recommended our model to be governor for quick action and deliver the palliatives as North Local Government, colleagues to receive determine the cause of the House, Abuja, Abiodun adopted in the resolution of responses. He promised that the promised by the governor, Bankole Babatunde David while ethnic clashes in Yewaland, the explained that the president was such crisis in other parts of the members would carry out its adding that the gesture was a appreciating the State Governor you into APC L-R: Governors Ganduje (Kano), Bagudu (Kebbi), Bello (Niger), former governor Gbenga Daniel, Abiodun (Ogun) and Akeredolu (Ondo) losses and recommend how to impressed with the approach country. assignment diligently. sign of better things to come. for fulfilling the promise he made forestall recurrence. adopted in tackling the crisis in "To that extent, he "Your Excellency, I want to Olabimtan who also noted barely twenty four hours ago, Abiodun in the last governorship election. He gave the committee the state. instructed his Chief of Staff to assure you that the committee will that a lot would still be done to promised that the palliatives At his Sagamu residence few days to comprising state security chiefs, The governor said Buhari hold another meeting with us on perform beyond expectation," bring succour to people in the will get to both the farmers and his movement from the party. For now, we herders who suffered loss the poll, Daniel openly endorsed Abiodun traditional rulers, lawmakers, Akingbade assured. area, added that the committee will know who and who belongs to a g o v e r n m e n t o f f i c i a l s , would also look at ascertaining during the clash me. particular party. His defection is a big relief and asked his associates, followers and representatives of Fulani the cost of things that have been T h e t e a m h a d t h e and we are not in any way disappointed, it supporters to vote for the APC governorship herdsmen and farmers, four lost in the conflict, as well as the Commissioner for Special is what we have always known. We wish candidate. The rest is now history. weeks to submit its report. value, as government was D u t i e s ; B a r r . F e m i him well." Even after the PDP lost the 2019 The governor equally noted taking an holistic approach at Ogunbanwo, Commissioner But to watchers of the political events election, the infighting within the party t h a t w h i l e c o m m i t t e e m a k i n g t h e p e o p l e for Housing; Jagunmolu unfolding in the state, Daniel's flight to the never abated. Two major factions loyal to assignment takes immediate comfortable. Omoniyi and the Permanent ruling party was inevitable as it had been late Senator Buruji Kashamu and Hon. effect, his government would "The Governor did make a Secretary, Ministry of Special shaped and precipitated by certain remote Oladipupo Adebutu continued to battle for roll out palliatives to the victims promise that relief materials by Duties; Kehinde Onasanya. and immediate causes. The protracted the soul of the party. In the midst of the of the clashes to cushion the way of food items and effect of their losses. leadership crisis in Ogun PDP and probable logjam, some concerned members felt a lasting solution must be found to the crisis in He added that some victims future political aspiration of the former displaced due to the crisis would Bandits strike again, kidnap governor, among other factors, may have the state chapter of the party. Some leaders of the party also believed be provided with shelter. influenced his decision to jump ship. "The first assignment will be Katsina monarch, 13 others Between 2003 and 2011, the man popularly that for Ogun PDP to bounce back, Daniel to determine what really known as OGD was in the saddle in Ogun must return to lead the party in the state out happened. What happened? andits struck again in reported to the Police. State. A professional engineer and of its intractable crisis. In fact, a delegation What happened that disrupted Katsina State at the The nonagenarian was said to be having health challenges. successful businessman, Daniel came into of the party in the South West zone the peace we enjoyed in this state Bweekend, abducting a interfaced with the former governor with the and in that particular area for so monarch and 13 others in two At press time, the abductors political limelight when he emerged as the had not made any contact with PDP governorship candidate. intent to woo him back to the party. long. Because it is in separate attacks. OGD and PDA exchanging pleasantries In January, this year, the PDP determining what happened that The gunmen were said to the family. Though a contestant without visible Spokesman for the Katsina delegation, led by Governor Seyi Makinde we will ensure such will not have kidnapped the 91-year- political background, his campaign through old traditional ruler of State Police Command, Gambo the Gateway Front Foundation (GFF) was a of Oyo State, who was accompanied by the repeat itself again. "After that, we now look at, Kunduru community on Isah, said he was not aware of revolution of sort and he set a record by Chairman of the party's South West L-R: Governor of Ogun State, Prince Dapo Abiodun; Director of State Services, Mr David the incident. Reconciliation Committee, Prince what has it cost us? What have Friday night. being the first politician in the state to we lost? So, this committee must Tuska and Brigade Commander, 35th Artillery Division, Abeokuta at the inauguration of the The victim who is the “I am not aware of that defeat a sitting governor. In the 2003 Olagunsoye Oyinlola, and Zonal Caretaker Peace keeping Task Force set up by the Government on Farmer-Herders skirmishes in the Galadiman Kunduru is the incident,” he told newsmen. Chairman of the party, Hon. Dayo determine what it has cost us. State at the weekend governorship election, Daniel scored "The Committee will father of the Secretary to the Also, gunmen kidnapped 13 449,335 votes against the then Governor Ogungbenro, held a closed-door meeting Katsina State Government, travellers in Faskari Local Olusegun Osoba of the Alliance for with Daniel, with a resolution that he should Alhaji Kasimu Ibrahim. Government Area of the state. Democracy (AD), who scored 231,982 return to the fold. Sources at the meeting Why Sanwo-Olu didn’t attend S/West Govs' parley The monarch was whisked Isah also confirmed the incident, saying the bandits votes. said Makinde extolled the capacity of Daniel away by the gunmen who By Lekan Osiade ethnic or religious war. We need struck at 10: am on February On getting the grasp of governance, as a politician, saying the ex-governor because of dominance of Divine Service (IDDS) held by s t o r m e d t h e t o w n o n to guide against utterances that 17, 2021. Daniel, with his business background, played a crucial role in reorganising PDP in Fulanis and Hausas in some Christian Association of motorcycles. agos State Governor, may stereotype anyone or their One of his children who He explained that the victims helped to open up the state for investments. Oyo State before the 2019 elections to return parts of the state. "Don't Nigeria (CAN) at The Mr. Babajide Sanwo- tribe. We have duty to isolate pleaded for anonymity, were travelling to Funtua from Until his advent, the state was reputed as the party to winning ways in the state. forget that places like Agege Apostolic Church in Ketu. O l u w a s criminals in our communities, confirmed the incident Mai Gora to collect loans from merely a civil service state. But Daniel Also at the parley, Oyinlola, who is a L and Obalende have a large Sanwo-Olu noted that the a bank provided through a conspicuously absent in rather than introducing tribal yesterday, adding that the brought in revolutionary ideas and made former governor of Osun State, was reported population of Hausa and nation had faced difficulty family support programme. Ibadan, the Oyo State capital spin into every crime. incident had already been spirited moves to awaken the sleeping to have said that he had met with three Fulani settlements. And there period in the past year, on Saturday, when South West “Nigeria is the largest country giant. He developed education, health, groups in Ogun State and the resolution was: are reports of an impending following economic downturn governors met on the in Africa. Where we will go to? agriculture, infrastructure, commerce, "If we have to solidify our stand in Ogun, clash with Yorubas in occasioned by the spread of Rochas Okorocha, aides arrested, released insecurity ravaging the region. That's why I said we need a transportation and sports, among other Daniel has to take charge." He assured that thosareas. Coronavirus (COVID-19) and ormer Governor of Imo Former Ogun State governor, Gbenga Daniel being given his APC membership card, shortly The governors had met to new beginning and there is no allegedly followed Okorocha for sectors. His fame soon spread across the once the leaders in the South West presented "So, the Governor had to paralysing nationwide youth State, Senator Rochas after he validated his membership of the party. channel a way forward for the other people that can help us the operation were also arrested. country and the PDP bestrode the state's a common front, the national leadership of move in quickly to nip the protests. Lagos, he said, Okorocha, was arrested on Some government vehicles were zone over the recent killings lower the temperature and F political landscape like a colossus. the party would comply. crisis in the bud", he said. became the epicentre of the Sunday after he dared Governor vandalised in the fracas. and abductions in the region. calm the frayed nerves than In 2007, Daniel was re-elected for a and won the election to represent Ogun East But Daniel was said to have argued that Apparently reacting based crises, which kept the Hope Uzodimma to reopen the It was gathered that one candidates respectively. However, Sanwo-Olu, was our religious leaders whose second term in office. But shortly after his Senatorial District. the crisis in Ogun PDP was very easy to on the security reports, the Government on its toes. Royal Spring Palm Apartment person was injured when But following a court verdict, the PDP not in attendance but sources voices are well respected. As administration commenced its second term, candidature was resolved in favour of In another move to relaunch his solve if all parties were made to know their Governor has called for He said religious leaders sealed by the state government. Okorocha and his loyalists closes to the state government a nation, we have several Accompanied by his son-in- forcefully opened the apartment. he began to experience real political crises. Olurin. This forced Isiaka, who had Daniel's political career, the former governor ran for place. He added that the solution to the caution among faith leaders must use their pulpits to preach said the governor was battles to fight but we must law, Uche Nwosu, and others, Drenched in his blood, the This came to head the moment he started to the National Chairmanship of PDP but lost. problem must be all encompassing. "I have and opinion moulders peace and discourage war. The support, to defect to the Peoples Party of overwhelmed with the refrain from adding political Okorocha, who has been having a injured was later taken to carry out his succession plan which He later became the Director-General of the relationships with practically everybody. against reckless utterances Governor said it was time for Nigeria (PPN). Both Olurin and Isiaka security matters in the state as instability to the issues.” running battle with Uzodimma, hospital for urgent medical appeared to be tilting towards making a Atiku Abubakar Campaign Organisation in The PDP is still a strong brand, if everybody that may further aggravate citizens to come together and eventually lost the governorship election to he was held up in series of Sanwo-Olu said the crises broke the keys to recover the attention. gubernatorial hopeful from Ogun West the 2019 presidential election which Atiku comes together. Our administration remains the security crises facing the give Nigeria the new the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) security meetings while the b e d e v i l i n g t h e n a t i o n estate belonging to his wife, The state government, on Senatorial District to succeed him. equally lost to the incumbent President a strong reference for governance in the nation. Sanwo-Olu said the beginning it deserved in candidate, Senator Ibikunle Amosun, whose governors' parley was required collective action Nkechi. Friday, recovered the apartment Serious hostilities erupted within the Muhammadu Buhari of the ruling APC. state and you can see that almost everyone nature of the crises required s u r m o u n t i n g t h e ambition was incidentally backed by Prince ongoing. from every segment of the Also arrested were Ijeoma along Akachi road. The seizure, then ruling PDP and these soon Shortly after, Daniel announced that he who has or is in power came from PDP," he all notable leaders of men to contemporary challenges the Igboanusi and Lasbrey Okafor- according to the team led by Dapo Abiodun and other party faithful. One the sources said the country towards proffering transformed the party into an abyss of was leaving partisan politics. In a letter was quoted as saying. refrain for making incendiary n a t i o n i s f a c i n g . Anyanwu. Igboanusi was the Commissioner for Lands, After the efforts to have his preferred Governor and his team had solution. factionalisation. Daniel backed one faction addressed to the PDP National Chairman, However, with his latest action, Daniel comments that could stoke He said: “It is time for sobre deputy chief of staff (Domestics) Enyinnaya Onuegbu, was in successor failed, Daniel's political fortune been having consultation with Despite the COVID-19 while other forces supported another Uche Secondus, he said he was resigning has obviously put the issue of PDP behind divisions and violence, reflection that must bring a while Okafor-Anyanwu was the compliance with a directive of the dimmed. As a result of the instability in the leadership of security crisis and destruction that faction. In the build-up to the 2011 Ogun PDP, he defected to the Labour Party "from active and partisan politics with effect and moved on to another chapter in his stressing that a crisis in new beginning for our nation. Commissioner for Transportation Imo State gazette on the report of apparatus to forestall an trailed the EndSARS protest in Okorocha's administration. elections, the two factions conducted (LP). But he made a dramatic return to the from the 14th day of March, 2019." But that political trajectory. His movement to APC Nigeria would be catastrophic We have all witnessed the the Judicial Commission of explosion of crisis in the state. last year, Sanwo-Olu said They are being detained at the Enquiry on recovery of Lands and parallel primaries which produced Prince PDP in 2014 where he aspired for Senate pronouncement did not come until after he certainly comes with some calculations but for Africa. challenges of our country, but "There were intelligence Lagos had weathered the crisis Criminal Investigation Department other related matters. They were Gboyega Isiaka and General Adetunji had made some smart decisions that what lies ahead for him can only be revealed The Governor made the we need to be careful not to but was not successful. The late Buruji reports that there could be a with strong determination to (CID) of the State Police Command later released by the police last Olurin (retd) as their governorship Kashamu "snatched" the senatorial ticket contributed to the success of Governor with time. admonition at the 2021 Lagos turn the observed crises into an spillover of the Ibadan crisis State Interdenominational sustain progress it recorded. in Owerri. Some thugs who night. February 28, 2021 |13 February 28, 2021 |14 Cover

of law and order. hunters had been assembled and would be As a corollary, Ogun State government deployed to the prone communities to Cover protect them. embarked on peace and confidence building mission, and toured the affected At Igbooro, where the villagers came communities. A government. delegation under heavy attack on Friday preceding the comprising top government officials and governor's visit, the Baale of the town, representatives of security agencies Tajudeen Korede, told the governor that engaged stakeholders during the visit to four members of the community lost their Ilaro, Ibeshe, Oja Odan, Eegua, Igbooro. lives to the suspected herdsmen, while nine There was a whistle-stop at Igbogila town others were hospitalised. and adjoining communities. He appealed to the governor to station Speaking at the Palace of the Olu of security operatives in Igbooro to enable the Ilaro, the State Commissioner for Local villagers who fled in the wake of the Government and Chieftaincy Affairs, invasion, to come back. Afolabi Afuape, noted that though the farmers/herders clashes was a national Stakeholders Parley problem, the state government was To further remedy the situation, the looking at ways of finding an enduring Ogun state government, on Tuesday, solution to it, declaring government was February 16, organised a stakeholders not happy with recent happenings in the parley on the farmers-herders crisis. some parts of the state. Governor Dapo Abiodun discussing with his counterpart from Kebbi State, Atiku Bagudu at the parley At the event held at the Obas' Complex, "Government is not happy with what is Oke Mosan, Abeokuta, Kano State happening in this area. Government is not governor, Abdulahi Umar Ganduje, his happy with what is going on in this part Zamfara, Niger, Kebbi and Ondo States of the State. We have come on the counterparts, Bello Muhammed Matawalle, instruction of the state governor to see Abubakar Sanni Bello, Atiku Bagudu and what can be done to address this crisis. Rotimi Akeredolu, respectively, graced the "I must stress the need for peaceful co- event. existence among all our people, The meeting was equally attended by irrespective of where you come from. traditional rulers, representatives of All Though this crisis is a national issue, Farmers Association of Nigeria (AFAN), government is putting security plans in Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association place to secure the lives of our people in of Nigeria (MACBAN) and other relevant this area", the Commissioner stated. stakeholders. Afuape stressed the need for the people In his address at the parley, the to be vigilant by reporting strange faces convener, Governor Dapo Abiodun, and movements to the security officials, declared that his administration would not as government could not afford crisis in hesitate to deal with any group of people any part of the state. fanning ember of discord in the state. On his own part, Commissioner for He explained that the stakeholders Information and Strategy, Abdul-Waheed Onimeko of Imeko, Oba Benjamin Olanite, speaking at the event parley had become imperative in finding L-R: Governors Bello Muhammad Matawalle, Rotimi Akeredolu, Atiku Bagudu, Dapo Abiodun, Abdulahi Umar Ganduje and Abubakar Sanni-Bello of Zamfara, Ondo, Kebbi, Ogun, Kano and Niger Odusile, appealed to the people not take solution to the farmers/herders clashes, States at the stakeholders parley, held in Abeokuta, Ogun State...recently laws into their hands, but to allow the adding the parley must come out with security agencies and the traditional rulers tactical recommendations to ending the to handle the situation. clashes. While calling for peaceful co-existence Abiodun, however, disclosed that his among the indigenes and people from administration had deployed a Special Task Herders-farmers crisis: other ethnic groups, Odusile disclosed Force that will be based permanently at the that an all-inclusive stakeholders meeting troubled locations. had been planned to end the perennial He thanked the governors for honouring crisis. the invitation of the state, expressing hope The Information Commissioner that the parley would help in finding appreciated the royal fathers in the lasting solution to the clashes between South-West Govs, monarchs back ranching domains for dousing the tension that farmers and herders. arose as a result of the attacks from the His words: "It has become worrisome that people who had co-existed peacefully By: Folaranmi Akorede According to Akeredolu, the meeting was herdsmen, calling for the sharing of necessary information that would lead to for years are suddenly at each other's throat held to find lasting solutions to the lingering on account of sources of livelihood. outh-West governors and traditional security issues in the zone. the end of the crisis, stressing the state rulers met in Ibadan, Oyo State capital, government was poised to finding a Ogun State Chairman of AFAN, Segun Dasaolu at the parley From time immemorial, herders and Some of the traditional rulers who took part in farmers have peacefully cohabited. And Son Saturday, to appraise the security the meeting include the Alaafin of Oyo, Oba permanent solution to the crisis in the have continued to find joint solutions to situation of the zone. Lamidi Adeyemi III; Ooni of Ife, Oba Enitan state. (rtd) disclosed that a Joint Security Task Governor Rotimi Akeredolu of Ondo State Responding, the Olu of Ilaro and peace with the herders. their mutual challenges, occasional Ogunwusi; Akarigbo of Remo, Oba Babatunde Force that would be stationed in the frictions and misunderstandings and sorted and chairman of the South-West Governors' Ajayi; Olugbo of Ugbo kingdom, Oba Paramount Ruler of Yewaland, Oba affected areas would take off right away, Forum, who spoke at the end of the meeting, Kehinde Olugbenle, acknowledged Abiodun's on-the-spot assessment these differences amicably. However, these Fredrick Akinruntan; Olubadan of Ibadan, just as he added that the Amotekun tour to affected communities misapprehensions took a violent dimension said that though the meeting was at the instance Oba Saliu Adetunji, Aje Ogungunnjso 1; and similar challenges in other parts of the Corps would commence operations of the Chief of Staff to the President, Prof. country, but added that it was becoming To ascertain the situation personally, in the last couple of weeks. Olugbon of Orile Igbon, Oba Francis Olusola soon. Governor Abiodun, immediately he "We have heard cases of arson, maiming Ibrahim Gambari, the Inspector General of Alao. pronounced in the state in recent time. Also speaking, the Commissioner for Police, Mohammed Adamu, and the Director- The monarch, however, called for finished a Security Council meeting on and killings in extreme instances. The Also in attendance was the Oyo State Police, Edward Awolowo Ajogun, noted Monday, February 15, embarked on, on- question is; what could have turned issues General of the Department of State Services, Commissioner of Police, Ngozi Onadeko, and immediate setting up of the Amotekun that policemen had been deployed to the the trio could not fly out of Abuja due to bad Corps in the state, pointing out that the-spot assessment visit to Oja Odan that hitherto had easy and workable other heads of security agencies in Oyo State. affected areas as government had given community and adjoining villages in templates for resolutions to suddenly weather. At the end of the meeting, the Chairman, raditional rulers should be involved in the security agencies the wherewithal to He said that the governors and the recruitment of its operatives. Yewa North Local Government Area of become seemingly intractable? And more South-West Governors' Forum, Akeredolu L-R: Governors Dapo Abiodun (Ogun); Rotimi Akeredolu (Ondo); Seyi Makinde (Oyo); Kayode bring peace to the areas. the state, to empathise and sympathise worrisome is that it is taking an ethnic traditional rulers, thereafter, decided to meet to briefed newsmen about the resolutions of the Fayemi (Ekiti) and Gboyega Oyetola (Osun) at the South West governors and traditional rulers His words: "The state governor has The Special Assistant to the Governor Our first appraise the security situation in the zone. parley held at Ibadan on Saturday done well by putting in place mechanism with the families of the victims of killings coloration. meeting. on Inter-ethnic Affairs, Hadi Sani, who and destruction perpetrated by armed These are some of the questions we must A statement by the Chief Press Secretary to Akeredolu told newsmen that the Chief of to address this problem. I want to plead spoke in Hausa and Yoruba languages, priority in Governor 'Seyi Makinde of Oyo State, Mr. with the governor to quickly commission herdsmen. find answers to at this parley. We must not Staff to President Muhammadu Buhari, Prof pleaded with the people to be peaceful The governor, who announced that the Ogun State is only find solutions. We must also come up Taiwo Adisa, indicated that Akeredolu read a Ibrahim Gambari; Inspector General of Police, the Amotekun Corps. When doing this, all as no meaningful development could “ three point communique agreed to after the critical stakeholders, including the hospital bills of persons who sustained with more practical recommendations Mohammed Adamu and the Director General take place in a violent-ridden injuries in the attacks would be picked up the safety of towards finding lasting solutions. meeting: of the DSS, Yusuf Bichi couldn't make the traditional rulers should be involved in environment. “That the meeting supported the decision recommending people who know the by the state government, also said lives and "As an Administration, we have not journey to Ibadan to attend the meeting due to Meanwhile, the delegation held a adequate compensation would be paid to folded our arms. Even before now, we have of the National Economic Council (NEC) on bad weather. terrains. Round pegs should be put in town hall meeting with the people of property of forest management; that the nation's borders round holes". those who lost their property to the always been methodical, inclusive, Oja Odan. It also addressed the people skirmish. responsible and responsive in our approach need to be fully secured and protected; that Ogun hosts peace parley The monarch called for the meeting of at Ibeshe and Ilaro towns, as well as the everyone in open grazing must be checked and looked at all traditional rules to discuss the issue, He further assured the affected to governance. For this particular issue, we Herders-farmers clashes, though a national Hausa Community at Dangote Cement communities of government's efforts at our dear state have taken some actions, parts of these are and that media practitioners must assist the phenomenon, have in recent time, inflamed in advocating for the inscription of owner's Factory, Ibeshe and Kara, Rounda in country to end fake news,” he said. name on each cattle, saying "this will help securing their lives and resolving the irrespective setting up of a fact finding Team Ogun State, particularly in some remote Abeokuta, where it sued for calm and farmers/herders crisis, declaring that comprising of a Special Adviser to the The meeting, which was held inside the communities in Yewa North Local in identifying the owner in event of support in finding amicable solutions to Executive Council Chambers of the Governor's destruction of any farm by cattle". Special Task Force (STF) has been of the Governor who was a Retired Assistant Government Area. The clashes, which claimed the crisis. constituted to provide security cover for Inspector-General of Police (AIG); two office, Agodi, Ibadan, had in attendance five casualties on both sides, also led to the Speaking at his Palace, the Eselu of The member, representing Yewa circumstances governors including the host, Governor Iselu Kingdom, Oba Akintunde their community and ward off any Commissioners, Heads of all the security destruction of farms, cows and other valuable North State Constituency 2, Haruna invaders. of their birth agencies in the State and local stakeholders Makinde; Governors Akeredolu of Ondo, property. Akinyemi, traced the crisis to cattle Egungbohun, who commended the Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti, Gboyega Oyetola of feeding on farmers’ produce and called Addressing the people at Oja Odan, including traditional rulers, lawmakers Worried by the skirmish, Ogun State efforts of the state governor at Abiodun who was received by the Olu of or religious from the affected areas, youth Osun and Dapo Abiodun of Ogun State. governor Dapo Abiodun, quickly set up a for the creation of special area for the combating the menace of the herdsmen, The meeting equally had in attendance the herders to graze their cattle. Ilaro and Paramount Ruler of Yewaland, leaning. Let me representatives, opinion moulders, Special Task Force (STF), comprising called on the state government to Oba Kehinde Olugbenle, the Eselu of religious leaders, amongst others Deputy Inspector General of Police in charge personnel of the military, police, NSCDC, He also called for the rehabilitation of continue to beef the axis with security restate that of South-West, David Folawiyo, and security schools in the area to attract more Iselu Kingdom, Oba Ebenezer Akinyemi, stakeholders, deployment of a special DSS, vigilante and local hunters groups, with operatives to prevent further loss of youths and community leaders, said a security task force comprising of the chiefs serving in Oyo State. the view to arrest the situation. children, saying that out of school lives and property. we will not Others included the chairmen of Council children were on the increase in the axis. Special Task Force(STF) comprising military, Nigerian Police, Department of The STF, Abiodun noted, would be Some of the people who spoke at the soldiers, police, pperatives of Department compromise. State Services (DSS), local Vigilante of Traditional Rulers in each of the South-West stationed permanently at flashpoints and prone Fielding questions from newsmen at meeting, called for the protection of states and some first class monarchs. Igbooro, the Special Adviser to the of State Security (DSS), Nigeria Security groups, representatives of farmers, communities, to forestall further break down farmers and their produce in the areas, and Civil Defence Corps(NSCDC) and representatives of other ethnic groups Cross section of traditional rulers at the parley Governor on Security, AIG Sola Subair assuring that they were ready to live in resident in our dear State. Already they are February 28, 2021 |13 February 28, 2021 |14 Cover

of law and order. hunters had been assembled and would be As a corollary, Ogun State government deployed to the prone communities to Cover protect them. embarked on peace and confidence building mission, and toured the affected At Igbooro, where the villagers came communities. A government. delegation under heavy attack on Friday preceding the comprising top government officials and governor's visit, the Baale of the town, representatives of security agencies Tajudeen Korede, told the governor that engaged stakeholders during the visit to four members of the community lost their Ilaro, Ibeshe, Oja Odan, Eegua, Igbooro. lives to the suspected herdsmen, while nine There was a whistle-stop at Igbogila town others were hospitalised. and adjoining communities. He appealed to the governor to station Speaking at the Palace of the Olu of security operatives in Igbooro to enable the Ilaro, the State Commissioner for Local villagers who fled in the wake of the Government and Chieftaincy Affairs, invasion, to come back. Afolabi Afuape, noted that though the farmers/herders clashes was a national Stakeholders Parley problem, the state government was To further remedy the situation, the looking at ways of finding an enduring Ogun state government, on Tuesday, solution to it, declaring government was February 16, organised a stakeholders not happy with recent happenings in the parley on the farmers-herders crisis. some parts of the state. Governor Dapo Abiodun discussing with his counterpart from Kebbi State, Atiku Bagudu at the parley At the event held at the Obas' Complex, "Government is not happy with what is Oke Mosan, Abeokuta, Kano State happening in this area. Government is not governor, Abdulahi Umar Ganduje, his happy with what is going on in this part Zamfara, Niger, Kebbi and Ondo States of the State. We have come on the counterparts, Bello Muhammed Matawalle, instruction of the state governor to see Abubakar Sanni Bello, Atiku Bagudu and what can be done to address this crisis. Rotimi Akeredolu, respectively, graced the "I must stress the need for peaceful co- event. existence among all our people, The meeting was equally attended by irrespective of where you come from. traditional rulers, representatives of All Though this crisis is a national issue, Farmers Association of Nigeria (AFAN), government is putting security plans in Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association place to secure the lives of our people in of Nigeria (MACBAN) and other relevant this area", the Commissioner stated. stakeholders. Afuape stressed the need for the people In his address at the parley, the to be vigilant by reporting strange faces convener, Governor Dapo Abiodun, and movements to the security officials, declared that his administration would not as government could not afford crisis in hesitate to deal with any group of people any part of the state. fanning ember of discord in the state. On his own part, Commissioner for He explained that the stakeholders Information and Strategy, Abdul-Waheed Onimeko of Imeko, Oba Benjamin Olanite, speaking at the event parley had become imperative in finding L-R: Governors Bello Muhammad Matawalle, Rotimi Akeredolu, Atiku Bagudu, Dapo Abiodun, Abdulahi Umar Ganduje and Abubakar Sanni-Bello of Zamfara, Ondo, Kebbi, Ogun, Kano and Niger Odusile, appealed to the people not take solution to the farmers/herders clashes, States at the stakeholders parley, held in Abeokuta, Ogun State...recently laws into their hands, but to allow the adding the parley must come out with security agencies and the traditional rulers tactical recommendations to ending the to handle the situation. clashes. While calling for peaceful co-existence Abiodun, however, disclosed that his among the indigenes and people from administration had deployed a Special Task Herders-farmers crisis: other ethnic groups, Odusile disclosed Force that will be based permanently at the that an all-inclusive stakeholders meeting troubled locations. had been planned to end the perennial He thanked the governors for honouring crisis. the invitation of the state, expressing hope The Information Commissioner that the parley would help in finding appreciated the royal fathers in the lasting solution to the clashes between South-West Govs, monarchs back ranching domains for dousing the tension that farmers and herders. arose as a result of the attacks from the His words: "It has become worrisome that people who had co-existed peacefully By: Folaranmi Akorede According to Akeredolu, the meeting was herdsmen, calling for the sharing of necessary information that would lead to for years are suddenly at each other's throat held to find lasting solutions to the lingering on account of sources of livelihood. outh-West governors and traditional security issues in the zone. the end of the crisis, stressing the state rulers met in Ibadan, Oyo State capital, government was poised to finding a Ogun State Chairman of AFAN, Segun Dasaolu at the parley From time immemorial, herders and Some of the traditional rulers who took part in farmers have peacefully cohabited. And Son Saturday, to appraise the security the meeting include the Alaafin of Oyo, Oba permanent solution to the crisis in the have continued to find joint solutions to situation of the zone. Lamidi Adeyemi III; Ooni of Ife, Oba Enitan state. (rtd) disclosed that a Joint Security Task Governor Rotimi Akeredolu of Ondo State Responding, the Olu of Ilaro and peace with the herders. their mutual challenges, occasional Ogunwusi; Akarigbo of Remo, Oba Babatunde Force that would be stationed in the frictions and misunderstandings and sorted and chairman of the South-West Governors' Ajayi; Olugbo of Ugbo kingdom, Oba Paramount Ruler of Yewaland, Oba affected areas would take off right away, Forum, who spoke at the end of the meeting, Kehinde Olugbenle, acknowledged Abiodun's on-the-spot assessment these differences amicably. However, these Fredrick Akinruntan; Olubadan of Ibadan, just as he added that the Amotekun tour to affected communities misapprehensions took a violent dimension said that though the meeting was at the instance Oba Saliu Adetunji, Aje Ogungunnjso 1; and similar challenges in other parts of the Corps would commence operations of the Chief of Staff to the President, Prof. country, but added that it was becoming To ascertain the situation personally, in the last couple of weeks. Olugbon of Orile Igbon, Oba Francis Olusola soon. Governor Abiodun, immediately he "We have heard cases of arson, maiming Ibrahim Gambari, the Inspector General of Alao. pronounced in the state in recent time. Also speaking, the Commissioner for Police, Mohammed Adamu, and the Director- The monarch, however, called for finished a Security Council meeting on and killings in extreme instances. The Also in attendance was the Oyo State Police, Edward Awolowo Ajogun, noted Monday, February 15, embarked on, on- question is; what could have turned issues General of the Department of State Services, Commissioner of Police, Ngozi Onadeko, and immediate setting up of the Amotekun that policemen had been deployed to the the trio could not fly out of Abuja due to bad Corps in the state, pointing out that the-spot assessment visit to Oja Odan that hitherto had easy and workable other heads of security agencies in Oyo State. affected areas as government had given community and adjoining villages in templates for resolutions to suddenly weather. At the end of the meeting, the Chairman, raditional rulers should be involved in the security agencies the wherewithal to He said that the governors and the recruitment of its operatives. Yewa North Local Government Area of become seemingly intractable? And more South-West Governors' Forum, Akeredolu L-R: Governors Dapo Abiodun (Ogun); Rotimi Akeredolu (Ondo); Seyi Makinde (Oyo); Kayode bring peace to the areas. the state, to empathise and sympathise worrisome is that it is taking an ethnic traditional rulers, thereafter, decided to meet to briefed newsmen about the resolutions of the Fayemi (Ekiti) and Gboyega Oyetola (Osun) at the South West governors and traditional rulers His words: "The state governor has The Special Assistant to the Governor Our first appraise the security situation in the zone. parley held at Ibadan on Saturday done well by putting in place mechanism with the families of the victims of killings coloration. meeting. on Inter-ethnic Affairs, Hadi Sani, who and destruction perpetrated by armed These are some of the questions we must A statement by the Chief Press Secretary to Akeredolu told newsmen that the Chief of to address this problem. I want to plead spoke in Hausa and Yoruba languages, priority in Governor 'Seyi Makinde of Oyo State, Mr. with the governor to quickly commission herdsmen. find answers to at this parley. We must not Staff to President Muhammadu Buhari, Prof pleaded with the people to be peaceful The governor, who announced that the Ogun State is only find solutions. We must also come up Taiwo Adisa, indicated that Akeredolu read a Ibrahim Gambari; Inspector General of Police, the Amotekun Corps. When doing this, all as no meaningful development could “ three point communique agreed to after the critical stakeholders, including the hospital bills of persons who sustained with more practical recommendations Mohammed Adamu and the Director General take place in a violent-ridden injuries in the attacks would be picked up the safety of towards finding lasting solutions. meeting: of the DSS, Yusuf Bichi couldn't make the traditional rulers should be involved in environment. “That the meeting supported the decision recommending people who know the by the state government, also said lives and "As an Administration, we have not journey to Ibadan to attend the meeting due to Meanwhile, the delegation held a adequate compensation would be paid to folded our arms. Even before now, we have of the National Economic Council (NEC) on bad weather. terrains. Round pegs should be put in town hall meeting with the people of property of forest management; that the nation's borders round holes". those who lost their property to the always been methodical, inclusive, Oja Odan. It also addressed the people skirmish. responsible and responsive in our approach need to be fully secured and protected; that Ogun hosts peace parley The monarch called for the meeting of at Ibeshe and Ilaro towns, as well as the everyone in open grazing must be checked and looked at all traditional rules to discuss the issue, He further assured the affected to governance. For this particular issue, we Herders-farmers clashes, though a national Hausa Community at Dangote Cement communities of government's efforts at our dear state have taken some actions, parts of these are and that media practitioners must assist the phenomenon, have in recent time, inflamed in advocating for the inscription of owner's Factory, Ibeshe and Kara, Rounda in country to end fake news,” he said. name on each cattle, saying "this will help securing their lives and resolving the irrespective setting up of a fact finding Team Ogun State, particularly in some remote Abeokuta, where it sued for calm and farmers/herders crisis, declaring that comprising of a Special Adviser to the The meeting, which was held inside the communities in Yewa North Local in identifying the owner in event of support in finding amicable solutions to Executive Council Chambers of the Governor's destruction of any farm by cattle". Special Task Force (STF) has been of the Governor who was a Retired Assistant Government Area. The clashes, which claimed the crisis. constituted to provide security cover for Inspector-General of Police (AIG); two office, Agodi, Ibadan, had in attendance five casualties on both sides, also led to the Speaking at his Palace, the Eselu of The member, representing Yewa circumstances governors including the host, Governor Iselu Kingdom, Oba Akintunde their community and ward off any Commissioners, Heads of all the security destruction of farms, cows and other valuable North State Constituency 2, Haruna invaders. of their birth agencies in the State and local stakeholders Makinde; Governors Akeredolu of Ondo, property. Akinyemi, traced the crisis to cattle Egungbohun, who commended the Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti, Gboyega Oyetola of feeding on farmers’ produce and called Addressing the people at Oja Odan, including traditional rulers, lawmakers Worried by the skirmish, Ogun State efforts of the state governor at Abiodun who was received by the Olu of or religious from the affected areas, youth Osun and Dapo Abiodun of Ogun State. governor Dapo Abiodun, quickly set up a for the creation of special area for the combating the menace of the herdsmen, The meeting equally had in attendance the herders to graze their cattle. Ilaro and Paramount Ruler of Yewaland, leaning. Let me representatives, opinion moulders, Special Task Force (STF), comprising called on the state government to Oba Kehinde Olugbenle, the Eselu of religious leaders, amongst others Deputy Inspector General of Police in charge personnel of the military, police, NSCDC, He also called for the rehabilitation of continue to beef the axis with security restate that of South-West, David Folawiyo, and security schools in the area to attract more Iselu Kingdom, Oba Ebenezer Akinyemi, stakeholders, deployment of a special DSS, vigilante and local hunters groups, with operatives to prevent further loss of youths and community leaders, said a security task force comprising of the chiefs serving in Oyo State. the view to arrest the situation. children, saying that out of school lives and property. we will not Others included the chairmen of Council children were on the increase in the axis. Special Task Force(STF) comprising military, Nigerian Police, Department of The STF, Abiodun noted, would be Some of the people who spoke at the soldiers, police, pperatives of Department compromise. State Services (DSS), local Vigilante of Traditional Rulers in each of the South-West stationed permanently at flashpoints and prone Fielding questions from newsmen at meeting, called for the protection of states and some first class monarchs. Igbooro, the Special Adviser to the of State Security (DSS), Nigeria Security groups, representatives of farmers, communities, to forestall further break down farmers and their produce in the areas, and Civil Defence Corps(NSCDC) and representatives of other ethnic groups Cross section of traditional rulers at the parley Governor on Security, AIG Sola Subair assuring that they were ready to live in resident in our dear State. Already they are February 28, 2021 |15 February 28, 2021 |10 Cover News Events-In-Pix State police, resource control urgently needed to pull Nigeria from the brink ---El-Rufai

overnor of Kaduna “In five and a half years, as military services nor other State, Nasir El-Rufai, governor of Kaduna State, I have security agencies has been Ghas called on the Federal had eight commissioners of police. suitably expanded in numbers Government to immediately They are just posted; they spend and equipment for over a decade implement three specific seven or eight months (each) on since the insurgency in the recommendations of the All average. Do the mathematics. Eight North-East pushed things to a P r o g r e s s i v e s C o n g r e s s CPs that have virtually no say in new law. their posting, and so on. How can Committee on True Federalism “This country does not you have security management if to address the insecurity in the h a v e e n o u g h s o l d i e r s , you change the frontline chief of country. uniformed police, or secret security every eight months on police to project state power El-Rufai, who was one of average?” the speakers on a live broadcast across its vast swaths, The governor noted that only tagged 'The Fierce Urgency of particularly the forests. The the National Assembly could make Now: Tactics and Strategies to limited number of boots on the Ogun State commissioner for housing, Jagunmolu Akande Omoniyi, addressing the press L-R: Ogun Deputy Governor, Noimot Salako-Oyedele,Kano State Governor, Abdulahi Umar Ganduje, Ondo State Governor, Arakunrin Rotimi Akeredolu, Governor Dapo Abiodun of Ogun State, state police a reality. ground are not well-equipped while delivering palliatives to displaced persons in the herders, farmers clashes in Tata, Governor Atiku Bagudu of Kebbi State, his Niger State counterpart, Abubakar Sanni-Bello and Zamfara State Governor, Bello Muhammad Matawalle, during the stakeholders parley on Herders- Pull Nigeria from the Brink,' on and are significantly lacking in Yewa North local government on Sunday Farmers crisis, held at the Obas’s Complex, Oke-Mosan, Abeokuta...recently Friday, stated that Nigeria had El-Rufai added, “There is failed “jealously and consistently nothing the governors can do. And the technology that can make to protect its prerogatives and these senators and House of their limited numbers matter a stationed in the hot spots of the conflict ourselves as the education capital of characterised farmers/herders clashes. place to do business, saying "we shall join Representatives members were lot less. Nigeria hosting the highest number of status as a leviathan, the ultimate and we are sending them technical and The governor acknowledged that hands with government to surmount the elected from states. Many of them “We should provide tertiary institutions with students from all guarantor of security, the logistic support, including vehicles and climate change has been responsible for security challenge", just as he added that got elected with our help and immediate and enhanced over the country and beyond. We have protector of rights and the communication equipment. the influx of herders into the country "perpetrators of these crimes are from the support, but when they go to Abuja, funding to acquire advanced never been known for ethnic or religious promoter of the rule of law.” "Our first priority in Ogun State is from the neighbouring countries, neighbouring countries". they can grow large heads and will equipment, armaments and tension and we would never be defined According to him, that is the safety of lives and property of maintaining that open grazing was no Labar commended Governor Abiodun, not cut their hair for two years, and ordinances for the armed forces, Ganduje, who also by those negative tendencies. Without why the Federal Government's everyone in our dear state irrespective longer sustainable and realistic, for his timely intervention which he said they start thinking something else. I police, security agencies and sounding immodest, since my brother power is being challenged in a of the circumstances of their birth or reiterated his particularly in the face of conflicts prevented the recent crisis in Yewa North had one like that; I got him out. paramilitary agencies by governors are here, we pride ourselves as “frighteningly sustained religious leaning. Let me restate that we calls on the between herders and farmers. Local Government Area of the state from drawing down from the pool of will not compromise. As part of “ the preferred investors destination of He said investigation had shown that escalating and snowballing into a manner” by a phalanx of armed “We want states to have more various rainy day federation measures to finding the lasting solution Federal choice, not only in Nigeria but the entire herders wrecking havoc are foreigners conflagration. non-state actors. responsibilities so that we can be held more accountable. The reason funds like the Excess Crude to the farmers-herder crisis, the Fact Government to West Africa; we pride ourselves for who enter the country illegally through According to him, the governor's prompt H e s a i d , “ I w o u l d I said we need state police, a Account, Natural Resources Finding Team constituted has submitted garnering the third largest Foreign Direct Niger in the north and Benin Republic in intervention in the crisis doused the tension recommend the following ban open grazing decentralised judiciary and the A c c o u n t , S t a b i l i s a t i o n an interim report to the Security Investment (FDI) into Nigeria. We must south. that had been rising on both sides and immediate decisions and actions vesting of mines, minerals and oils Account, and so on, so that our Council of the state for consideration. It and block grazing all understand that all these have been While noting that clamouring for saved lives and properties. by the federal and state in states now is because if we don't security services will have the became evident there are some routes from the made possible by the peace and eviction of Fulani herdsmen from the “Killings, no matter the circumstance, governments, with the support of do it this year, next year, everything material to face the criminals elements intent on setting our people tranquility we enjoy. We must all southern part of the country cannot solve are detestable and can never be the solution our civil society and all well- northern to the will be politicised.” In response, that menace us.“ The governor against one another by whipping up jealously guard this. the crisis, the governor called for strong to the issues at hand; we do not have to meaning Nigerians. The first is to Senate Minority Leader, added that restructuring ethnic sentiments. southern part of "Ogun State will continue to be home resolution mechanism towards ending further aggravate the already tense implement the three key Enyinnaya, who was also a speaker required an immediate national "Those fomenting the crisis are said the country, to its citizens and all those who have the conflicts. situation by pandering to ethnic devolution proposals that I on the occasion, said, “El-Rufai has consensus to collect more taxes .L-R: Oba Benjamin Olanite, Onimeko of Imeko; Alhaji Kabir Labar, South West Coordinator, to be non-residents in our state. legitimate business and have made our He also noted that ECOWAS must sentiments". He noted. mentioned: Give us state police insisted must said, 'Let us all work together.' We at federal and state levels for Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association; Ogun State Governor, Dapo Abiodun; his deputy, Unfortunately, the crisis has been dear State their home. The presence of take drastic steps in curbing foreign Labar added that various ethnic now; vest all minerals in the states Noimot Salako-Oyedele; Hon Jamilu Akingbade and Eselu of Iselu, Oba Ebenezer Akinyemi at are very ready to do that.” the governments to be viable. exacerbated by some undesirable abandon my brother governors cutting across all herders, who are always armed with nationalities had been living as one in now; and decentralise our the inauguration of the Peace keeping Committee on Farmer-Herders Relationship held at the elements within and outside the state "traditional political parties shows a joint sophisticated weapons from making Ogun State for centuries with mutual judiciary now – not later. 'We don't have enough “This also means we must Governor's office, Abeokuta, Ogun State, Saturday that whipped up ethnic sentiments. commitment to the peaceful resolution incursion into Nigeria. respect for one another, saying that things soldiers, military equipment' stop pretending that the “There are certain things They sneak in at night, wreak havoc grazing" and of this conflict, and a reflection of the Corroborating Ganduje's submission, would continue in that manner, as agreed regulated rates of lending, governors cannot do. Some of Speaking on the causes for and retreat after their evil acts. In embrace relationship and mutual goodwill I share other governors present called for ban on at the stakeholders' meeting. interest rates, exchange rates, them we have alluded to by failure in effective policing, El- whatever form, colour or ethnic group, with my brother governors across the open grazing by herders and advocating He harped on the need to be wary of prices of petrol and electricity, "merchant saying we don't control security Rufai stated that the national level a criminal is a criminal. We condemn country and across party lines. They are ranching. mischief makers trying to reap from the as well as the salaries in the agencies. So, you are chief security response to the all forms of crimes and criminality, grazing" in order also here because of their indigenes that They harped on the need to mindless cycle of bloodletting by public sector are realistic, security officer, but you can call c h a l l e n g e s h a s b e e n regardless of the ethnicity of the to find lasting have lived here for many years collectively tackle criminal herders and fabricating casualty figures and losses on sustainable and will lead us to the CP (commissioner of police) uncoordinated and ineffective in perpetrators. peacefully and have accepted to lend their sponsors, who according to them both sides. the Promised Land. These are solution to killings and if the IG (Inspector General) wiping out the threats. "There is a need for collective action their voices to enable peaceful have continued to sow discord of “I call on the people and the media to decisions for the here and now,” says, 'Don't talk to him,' that is it. between all of us, whether as native and wanton cohabitation". conflict between farmers and legal exercise restraint in what is said and He said, “None of the he said. farmers; cattle owners; herders; local destruction of Speaking, Ganduje advocated what herders in the country. reported on the crisis as the state community leaders; security agents etc. property that had it described as "commercial herding" as In their respective remarks, the Ogun government and the security services to rid our dear State of these criminals. panacea to the incessant clashes State chairman of AFAN and national have demonstrated unwavering We must use the opportunity of this characterised between herders and farmers in the president of MACBAN, Segun Dasaolu commitment to the safety of our lives and We need compassionate parley to tell ourselves the truth, not farmers/herders country. and Muhammed Kirowa, promised to property. necessarily by apportioning blame, but clashes. Ganduje, who also reiterated his calls work together and fish out criminals using “Already, we have seen the deployment definitely we must come up with more on the Federal Government to ban open the name of associations to perpetrate of patrol vehicles, armed personnel and the practical and viable recommendations grazing and block grazing routes from mayhem in the state. political will of the governor to bring the leadership – Fayemi that will further cement the peaceful the northern to the southern part of the Also speaking, Sarikin Fulani of Ogun situation under control. We thank him for Governors Abiodun, Bagudu, Ganduje and the Olu of Ilaro, Oba Kehinde Olugbenle, at the coexistence that we have always had in country, insisted must abandon state and Zonal Chairman of MACBAN, his sincerity and commitment to restore overnor of Ekiti State the person to be rational about compassionate leadership in Ogun State Government stakeholders parley on Farmers/herders conflict held in Ogun State. "traditional grazing" and embrace Muhammed Kabir Labar, disclosed that peace". The Sarkin Fulani added. and Chairman of the the ill that has befallen them order to help deal with these Abeokuta...recently "Today as government and people of "merchant grazing" in order to find since the conflict started in the state, lives Labar thanked the governors of Ondo, GNigeria Governors' and the bereavement they've issues, in addition to all the Ogun State, we pride ourselves as the lasting solution to killings and wanton and property had been lost. Kebbi, Zamfara, Kano and Niger States for Forum, Kayode Fayemi, in suffered. The truth of the substantive things we need industrial capital of Nigeria; we pride destruction of property that had He noted Ogun has remained the best their participation and contributions at the his speech, highlighted the matter is that we also need to deal with.” parley. importance of compassion among political leaders in the country. Nigeria's break-up will not He said, “For us at the level of the governors, we have solve problem – Adeyemi been dealing with immediate ead Pastor, Daystar move into the 21st century as fast issues that go beyond generic Christian Centre, Sam as possible. This whole thing is points that have been made Adeyemi, who was one about the economy. If you have eloquently by El-Rufai. When H of the panellists, argued that calls any problem in this country that you focus on the recent for restructuring were premised is not tractable, somebody is challenges, be they banditry, on the need for citizens' making money from it. insurgency or, most recently, empowerment. According to “People are making money the herder-farmer conflict that him, the brilliant people in we have experienced in the from Boko Haram. Banditry and government need to give reasons kidnappings are about making South-West, what is clear is as to why they are finding it money. Why don't we then create that, naturally, victims are difficult to push their ideas a country where people can almost always emotional through. make money legitimately? Once about issues of this nature. Adeyemi said, “Let me be you begin to discuss that idea “When you have lost honest, I have friends in with Nigerians, a vision will give somebody or you know government. We should be people hope. Presently, there is Former Governor Gbenga Daniel flanked by his wife, Yeye Olufunke Daniel, and the Chairman The Olu of Ilaro and Paramount Ruler of Yewaland, Oba Kehinde Olugbenle someone who has lost d i s c u s s i n g N i g e r i a ' s despair; people can't see any of Ogun State APC Membership Registration and Revalidation Committee, Hon. Ademorin Cross section of MACBAN Leaders at the stakeholders parley making his remarks at the parley someone, it's no use telling development; Nigeria needs to way forward. Kuye (left), when Daniel formally registered as an APC member at his Ward 12 Isote, Sagamu February 28, 2021 |15 February 28, 2021 |10 Cover News Events-In-Pix State police, resource control urgently needed to pull Nigeria from the brink ---El-Rufai

overnor of Kaduna “In five and a half years, as military services nor other State, Nasir El-Rufai, governor of Kaduna State, I have security agencies has been Ghas called on the Federal had eight commissioners of police. suitably expanded in numbers Government to immediately They are just posted; they spend and equipment for over a decade implement three specific seven or eight months (each) on since the insurgency in the recommendations of the All average. Do the mathematics. Eight North-East pushed things to a P r o g r e s s i v e s C o n g r e s s CPs that have virtually no say in new law. their posting, and so on. How can Committee on True Federalism “This country does not you have security management if to address the insecurity in the h a v e e n o u g h s o l d i e r s , you change the frontline chief of country. uniformed police, or secret security every eight months on police to project state power El-Rufai, who was one of average?” the speakers on a live broadcast across its vast swaths, The governor noted that only tagged 'The Fierce Urgency of particularly the forests. The the National Assembly could make Now: Tactics and Strategies to limited number of boots on the Ogun State commissioner for housing, Jagunmolu Akande Omoniyi, addressing the press L-R: Ogun Deputy Governor, Noimot Salako-Oyedele,Kano State Governor, Abdulahi Umar Ganduje, Ondo State Governor, Arakunrin Rotimi Akeredolu, Governor Dapo Abiodun of Ogun State, state police a reality. ground are not well-equipped while delivering palliatives to displaced persons in the herders, farmers clashes in Tata, Governor Atiku Bagudu of Kebbi State, his Niger State counterpart, Abubakar Sanni-Bello and Zamfara State Governor, Bello Muhammad Matawalle, during the stakeholders parley on Herders- Pull Nigeria from the Brink,' on and are significantly lacking in Yewa North local government on Sunday Farmers crisis, held at the Obas’s Complex, Oke-Mosan, Abeokuta...recently Friday, stated that Nigeria had El-Rufai added, “There is failed “jealously and consistently nothing the governors can do. And the technology that can make to protect its prerogatives and these senators and House of their limited numbers matter a stationed in the hot spots of the conflict ourselves as the education capital of characterised farmers/herders clashes. place to do business, saying "we shall join Representatives members were lot less. Nigeria hosting the highest number of status as a leviathan, the ultimate and we are sending them technical and The governor acknowledged that hands with government to surmount the elected from states. Many of them “We should provide tertiary institutions with students from all guarantor of security, the logistic support, including vehicles and climate change has been responsible for security challenge", just as he added that got elected with our help and immediate and enhanced over the country and beyond. We have protector of rights and the communication equipment. the influx of herders into the country "perpetrators of these crimes are from the support, but when they go to Abuja, funding to acquire advanced never been known for ethnic or religious promoter of the rule of law.” "Our first priority in Ogun State is from the neighbouring countries, neighbouring countries". they can grow large heads and will equipment, armaments and tension and we would never be defined According to him, that is the safety of lives and property of maintaining that open grazing was no Labar commended Governor Abiodun, not cut their hair for two years, and ordinances for the armed forces, Ganduje, who also by those negative tendencies. Without why the Federal Government's everyone in our dear state irrespective longer sustainable and realistic, for his timely intervention which he said they start thinking something else. I police, security agencies and sounding immodest, since my brother power is being challenged in a of the circumstances of their birth or reiterated his particularly in the face of conflicts prevented the recent crisis in Yewa North had one like that; I got him out. paramilitary agencies by governors are here, we pride ourselves as “frighteningly sustained religious leaning. Let me restate that we calls on the between herders and farmers. Local Government Area of the state from drawing down from the pool of will not compromise. As part of “ the preferred investors destination of He said investigation had shown that escalating and snowballing into a manner” by a phalanx of armed “We want states to have more various rainy day federation measures to finding the lasting solution Federal choice, not only in Nigeria but the entire herders wrecking havoc are foreigners conflagration. non-state actors. responsibilities so that we can be held more accountable. The reason funds like the Excess Crude to the farmers-herder crisis, the Fact Government to West Africa; we pride ourselves for who enter the country illegally through According to him, the governor's prompt H e s a i d , “ I w o u l d I said we need state police, a Account, Natural Resources Finding Team constituted has submitted garnering the third largest Foreign Direct Niger in the north and Benin Republic in intervention in the crisis doused the tension recommend the following ban open grazing decentralised judiciary and the A c c o u n t , S t a b i l i s a t i o n an interim report to the Security Investment (FDI) into Nigeria. We must south. that had been rising on both sides and immediate decisions and actions vesting of mines, minerals and oils Account, and so on, so that our Council of the state for consideration. It and block grazing all understand that all these have been While noting that clamouring for saved lives and properties. by the federal and state in states now is because if we don't security services will have the became evident there are some routes from the made possible by the peace and eviction of Fulani herdsmen from the “Killings, no matter the circumstance, governments, with the support of do it this year, next year, everything material to face the criminals elements intent on setting our people tranquility we enjoy. We must all southern part of the country cannot solve are detestable and can never be the solution our civil society and all well- northern to the will be politicised.” In response, that menace us.“ The governor against one another by whipping up jealously guard this. the crisis, the governor called for strong to the issues at hand; we do not have to meaning Nigerians. The first is to Senate Minority Leader, added that restructuring ethnic sentiments. southern part of "Ogun State will continue to be home resolution mechanism towards ending further aggravate the already tense implement the three key Enyinnaya, who was also a speaker required an immediate national "Those fomenting the crisis are said the country, to its citizens and all those who have the conflicts. situation by pandering to ethnic devolution proposals that I on the occasion, said, “El-Rufai has consensus to collect more taxes .L-R: Oba Benjamin Olanite, Onimeko of Imeko; Alhaji Kabir Labar, South West Coordinator, to be non-residents in our state. legitimate business and have made our He also noted that ECOWAS must sentiments". He noted. mentioned: Give us state police insisted must said, 'Let us all work together.' We at federal and state levels for Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association; Ogun State Governor, Dapo Abiodun; his deputy, Unfortunately, the crisis has been dear State their home. The presence of take drastic steps in curbing foreign Labar added that various ethnic now; vest all minerals in the states Noimot Salako-Oyedele; Hon Jamilu Akingbade and Eselu of Iselu, Oba Ebenezer Akinyemi at are very ready to do that.” the governments to be viable. exacerbated by some undesirable abandon my brother governors cutting across all herders, who are always armed with nationalities had been living as one in now; and decentralise our the inauguration of the Peace keeping Committee on Farmer-Herders Relationship held at the elements within and outside the state "traditional political parties shows a joint sophisticated weapons from making Ogun State for centuries with mutual judiciary now – not later. 'We don't have enough “This also means we must Governor's office, Abeokuta, Ogun State, Saturday that whipped up ethnic sentiments. commitment to the peaceful resolution incursion into Nigeria. respect for one another, saying that things soldiers, military equipment' stop pretending that the “There are certain things They sneak in at night, wreak havoc grazing" and of this conflict, and a reflection of the Corroborating Ganduje's submission, would continue in that manner, as agreed regulated rates of lending, governors cannot do. Some of Speaking on the causes for and retreat after their evil acts. In embrace relationship and mutual goodwill I share other governors present called for ban on at the stakeholders' meeting. interest rates, exchange rates, them we have alluded to by failure in effective policing, El- whatever form, colour or ethnic group, with my brother governors across the open grazing by herders and advocating He harped on the need to be wary of prices of petrol and electricity, "merchant saying we don't control security Rufai stated that the national level a criminal is a criminal. We condemn country and across party lines. They are ranching. mischief makers trying to reap from the as well as the salaries in the agencies. So, you are chief security response to the all forms of crimes and criminality, grazing" in order also here because of their indigenes that They harped on the need to mindless cycle of bloodletting by public sector are realistic, security officer, but you can call c h a l l e n g e s h a s b e e n regardless of the ethnicity of the to find lasting have lived here for many years collectively tackle criminal herders and fabricating casualty figures and losses on sustainable and will lead us to the CP (commissioner of police) uncoordinated and ineffective in perpetrators. peacefully and have accepted to lend their sponsors, who according to them both sides. the Promised Land. These are solution to killings and if the IG (Inspector General) wiping out the threats. "There is a need for collective action their voices to enable peaceful have continued to sow discord of “I call on the people and the media to decisions for the here and now,” says, 'Don't talk to him,' that is it. between all of us, whether as native and wanton cohabitation". conflict between farmers and legal exercise restraint in what is said and He said, “None of the he said. farmers; cattle owners; herders; local destruction of Speaking, Ganduje advocated what herders in the country. reported on the crisis as the state community leaders; security agents etc. property that had it described as "commercial herding" as In their respective remarks, the Ogun government and the security services to rid our dear State of these criminals. panacea to the incessant clashes State chairman of AFAN and national have demonstrated unwavering We must use the opportunity of this characterised between herders and farmers in the president of MACBAN, Segun Dasaolu commitment to the safety of our lives and We need compassionate parley to tell ourselves the truth, not farmers/herders country. and Muhammed Kirowa, promised to property. necessarily by apportioning blame, but clashes. Ganduje, who also reiterated his calls work together and fish out criminals using “Already, we have seen the deployment definitely we must come up with more on the Federal Government to ban open the name of associations to perpetrate of patrol vehicles, armed personnel and the practical and viable recommendations grazing and block grazing routes from mayhem in the state. political will of the governor to bring the leadership – Fayemi that will further cement the peaceful the northern to the southern part of the Also speaking, Sarikin Fulani of Ogun situation under control. We thank him for Governors Abiodun, Bagudu, Ganduje and the Olu of Ilaro, Oba Kehinde Olugbenle, at the coexistence that we have always had in country, insisted must abandon state and Zonal Chairman of MACBAN, his sincerity and commitment to restore overnor of Ekiti State the person to be rational about compassionate leadership in Ogun State Government stakeholders parley on Farmers/herders conflict held in Ogun State. "traditional grazing" and embrace Muhammed Kabir Labar, disclosed that peace". The Sarkin Fulani added. and Chairman of the the ill that has befallen them order to help deal with these Abeokuta...recently "Today as government and people of "merchant grazing" in order to find since the conflict started in the state, lives Labar thanked the governors of Ondo, GNigeria Governors' and the bereavement they've issues, in addition to all the Ogun State, we pride ourselves as the lasting solution to killings and wanton and property had been lost. Kebbi, Zamfara, Kano and Niger States for Forum, Kayode Fayemi, in suffered. The truth of the substantive things we need industrial capital of Nigeria; we pride destruction of property that had He noted Ogun has remained the best their participation and contributions at the his speech, highlighted the matter is that we also need to deal with.” parley. importance of compassion among political leaders in the country. Nigeria's break-up will not He said, “For us at the level of the governors, we have solve problem – Adeyemi been dealing with immediate ead Pastor, Daystar move into the 21st century as fast issues that go beyond generic Christian Centre, Sam as possible. This whole thing is points that have been made Adeyemi, who was one about the economy. If you have eloquently by El-Rufai. When H of the panellists, argued that calls any problem in this country that you focus on the recent for restructuring were premised is not tractable, somebody is challenges, be they banditry, on the need for citizens' making money from it. insurgency or, most recently, empowerment. According to “People are making money the herder-farmer conflict that him, the brilliant people in we have experienced in the from Boko Haram. Banditry and government need to give reasons kidnappings are about making South-West, what is clear is as to why they are finding it money. Why don't we then create that, naturally, victims are difficult to push their ideas a country where people can almost always emotional through. make money legitimately? Once about issues of this nature. Adeyemi said, “Let me be you begin to discuss that idea “When you have lost honest, I have friends in with Nigerians, a vision will give somebody or you know government. We should be people hope. Presently, there is Former Governor Gbenga Daniel flanked by his wife, Yeye Olufunke Daniel, and the Chairman The Olu of Ilaro and Paramount Ruler of Yewaland, Oba Kehinde Olugbenle someone who has lost d i s c u s s i n g N i g e r i a ' s despair; people can't see any of Ogun State APC Membership Registration and Revalidation Committee, Hon. Ademorin Cross section of MACBAN Leaders at the stakeholders parley making his remarks at the parley someone, it's no use telling development; Nigeria needs to way forward. Kuye (left), when Daniel formally registered as an APC member at his Ward 12 Isote, Sagamu February 28, 2021 |23 February 28, 2021 |16 CelebrityWatch Entertainment One-On-One Nigeria's 3 "globalteers” APC still the best option Davido's TIME gold medal for Nigerians -Oladunjoye he listing of David Adedeji Adeleke omrade Tunde Oladunjoye is indeed a man of popularly called Davido in the annual many parts and an enigma. In public service, TTime magazine "Time 100 Next" is a Che is an activist, politician, journalist and gold medal truly worth its worth in the patriot. He once served as democratically elected precious medal. The highly coveted list Chairman of Ijebu East and PDP Deputy Governorship candidate in 2011 elections. Currently, otherwise dubbed "Phenoms" list is currently Aminat, Akinwunmi and Okonjo-Iweala he is the Board Chairman of the Ogun State in its second year. It recognises outstanding Television and the Publicity Secretary of the people from across the world in different e all know the proverbial exploits of the fabled three Caretaker Committee of the APC. After a two-day sectors such as politics, entertainment, musketeers. We are also aware of the media exploits of meeting of the Board, Nigerian Gateway cornered Wthe 3 musketeers of our baba Olusegun Osoba, late Peter him for a chat. Excerpts: literature, leadership and innovation. Ajayi and Pa Felix Adenaike. Today, the trio of Dr. Akinwunmi Other Nigerians recognised in the list Adesina, Mrs Aminat Mohammed and Dr. Ngozi Okonjo Iweala are What should we expect in OGTV now that the include the trio of Damilola Odufuwa, flying loftily the flag of Nigeria in international circuit. One of the Board has met? Odunayo Eweniyi and Feyikemi Abudu who things they have in common is that they have all served our dear We thank God for OGTV and we acknowledge those made the list for their advocacy during the country as Ministers. Dr. Iweala who is the new boss at the World who have worked and passed through the system. Trade Organisation served the country as Finance Minister for OGTV will be 40 years on the 25th of December, #EndSARS protest when they raised the many years and the two-term President of the African Development 2021. Our Board of Directors which I am privileged to princely sum of 387,000 US dollars in Bank, Dr. Adesina served in 2010 as Agriculture and Rural be Chairman consider ourselves privileged to be Bitcoin after banks closed down operations. Development Minister.59 year old Mrs. Amina J. Mohammed also appointed to the Board at this point in time. OGTV is Olugbenga Agboola is another Nigerian on served as Minister of Environment before proceeding to the United 40 and cannot afford to behave like a kindergarten child. Nations as the 5th Deputy Secretary-General.The trio are wonderful It is said that a fool at forty is a fool forever. We thank the list. His Silicon Valley company testaments to the sterling human resources that abound in Nigeria. God that OGTV is not a fool. That station has been the "Flutterwave" assisted many small business This also speaks to the value that unity can bring to our dear breeding ground for different professionals in different with online transactions during the onset of country if we all downplay the schisms and pool our strength and fields, particularly in the field of journalism. People who Covid-19 pandemic. resources to bail Nigeria out of its moral and financial morass. have passed through OGTV have gone to head a lot of Apart from the Time listing, Davido is organisations, government and private. The new Board is going to pursue our goals on three pillars namely staff Comrade Tunde Oladunjoye being considered for a role in the part 2 of the Golden First Lady welfare, content development and marketing. Since our physically present. phenomenal movie, "Coming to America". inauguration on November 17, 2020, we have Other Africans on the list include Sierra igeria's First Lady, Mrs introduced a lot of incentives on staff welfare. We have What is your impression about Governor Dapo Leonean politician Yvone Aki-Sawyerr, Aishat Buhari recently hit the approved the sales' incentives and we have said that Abiodun? N instead of basic it is going to be gross for staff who are Zimbabwean-born actor Rege-Jean Page and big 5-0!It is indeed a Well, I think that question is not fair because it is like momentous occasion for the Buhari retiring. We have also said that staff who are retiring asking me my impression about myself. But I will tell Ugandan activist Vanessa Nakate and Family as the” jewel of inestimable should not only be given exit packages, we have said #EndSARS: Davido, ‘FK’ Abudu, Odunayo Eweniyi and Damilola Odufuwa Make TIME’s Next 100 List you one of the songs that our supporters sang in Ijebu Ghanaian artist, Amoaku Boato. value” who belongs to President that they should be given befitting send forth Ode recently during the Governor's inspection of new Buhari's “oza room”. The mother of irrespective of the grade level to encourage members road projects. They said “Be rise wa, be rise wa, e wo the nation is an exemplary role model of staff and their families. For content development, igbooro wo (whether you can see our work or not, look to young Nigerians. I particularly like the industry is fast and very dynamic. For those who at your surroundings). It is the public that will judge. It is her boldness and courage. It is will maintain the market share you must be on top of the public that will say this is what this man has done. gratifying that she thrives best when your game. As of today, there is no television station One thing that you cannot say about Governor Dapo the odds are stiff and daunting. She is that covers Ogun State more than OGTV. If you are a Abiodun is to accuse him of lopsided execution of the leading voice in the struggle for media space buyer you know that if you want to reach projects. The first two roads constructed by this the empowerment and inclusion of Ogun State audience your best bet is OGTV. We are administration were done in the Yewa axis. Projects are more women in political offices. re-examining and reviewing the contents. We also being evenly spread and I want to say, without any fear Through her pet project “the Future want to acquire other contents and we are looking for of contradiction, that this is the only government that has Assured Foundation”, she had empowered the internally displaced, partnerships. We will have a retreat very soon to A lot of people in less than two years touched all the 236 wards with children and women tremendously. She is also a strident voice brainstorm on the station. We will improve our have joined primary school constructions and reconstruction and against Sexual and Gender- Based Violence. marketing drive. The Finance and Marketing “ refurbishment of primary health centres. This means this Committee of the Board has visited the station's Sales our party and is a government that is focused on the grassroots. This is offices in Ota, Lagos and Ijebu Ode. They have been you have to not a government that is talking about ten or twenty 578 million of condoms used told the challenges and we will address them to better models for the people. The money that was spent on one serve the station. We are open for barter arrangements give them a model school can take care of renovation of primary he status of Nigerians as the world's happiest people is well with organisations so that we can improve on the sense of schools in two local governments at the same time. This known and acknowledged. What is not known is Nigerians revenue so that there can be a significant increase. In is a Governor that is coming with his background in T terms of sound and picture quality we are working on belonging. We prowess in sex. The news that over 578 million condoms business and he is focused. He is a noiseless Governor. were used in Nigeria speaks to the moral decadence prevalent improving the sound and picture quality. What we have former He is focused, he is determined, he is passionate and he amongst the youths. The National Agency for the Control of AIDS are telling the world is that we will give them value is kind. He is not a Governor that listens to beer parlour (NACA) appropriately cautioned youths show restraint and practice for money. We also want to go into documentaries. governorship gists. He has spoken about inclusive governance and I abstinence more. In another report, it was said that men think about OGTV is peoples telly and we will give good candidates, think he is also doing that because to whom much is sex every 20 second. We remember the ubiquitous poster contents for all. given, much is expected. We have never had in the history emblazoned with the clause “what's on a man's mind?”. Some former of elections in Ogun State whereby somebody will win and observers say this may be possible in saner climes and impossible You juggle many balls. You are the Publicity deputy all other governorship contestants with him except one will because of the stress, hassles and wahala associated with living in Secretary of the Caretaker Committee of APC in governors and visit him to congratulate him. The first Committee he set Nigeria. Ogun State. Are you satisfied with the up was headed by a non-politician, Dr. Tunde Lemo. membership drive? others who Members of other parties are in government and some of Ewart Beckford I am not just satisfied, I am pleasantly surprised have to own a them even got appointments before their formal Leah Sharibu because there have been issues around governance declaration for the party. You can bear witness with me that and administration at the national level in terms of membership political tension that we had pre- March 9, 2019 elections security. When we started that exercise, the first batch have fizzled out. For the first time in the history of Ogun empus fugit! It is already 3 years got exhausted like hot cakes. The Ogun State card and have since students of Government State we have never had any convergence of people you T Committee headed by Hon Ademorin Kuye is a stake in the can call men of political timber and caliber, juggernauts, in Farewell U-Roy! Science and Technical College, currently trying to get more forms from Abuja. People a single party. As at today, APC has all the past Damchi were abducted and later released are saying that despite the problems that we have, APC party. and 80s. except the heroine, Leah Sharibu who democratically elected Governors in its fold, all the past ne of the juggernauts of reggae is still the best option for them. I believe this democratically elected Deputy Governors, past and current His Natty Rebel album was the party refused to deny her faith. Needless to registration is for the “soro soke” generation because music, Ewart Beckford, popularly mover for many years. Even now, the say, members of her family are daily senators as well as past local government chairmen. It is known as "U-Roy", has transited to in Nigeria there is no opportunity for independent very clear that if you are a calculative politician who O rhythm of the track has people shaking feeling her absence and praying to God candidacy so you can only participate in the political believes in the mantra that majority carries the vote, you glory. heads and legs. It had syncopation. to spare her life. Spare a thought for her, process by joining one of the parties where you can please. should be in APC. I want to end this interview by placing He breathed his last on 17 February 2021 In “Badie Boo”, he asked where you aspire to vote or be voted for. A lot of people have reportedly from a heart attack. He was 78 on record the support our party and our government and gonna run? The “rebel in the morning joined our party and you have to give them a sense of me in particular, have received from men and women of years old. and rebel in the evening” proclaimed, “I belonging. We have former governorship candidates, the pen pushing profession. Our colleagues in journalism, former deputy governors and others who have to "Ewart Beckford OD (September 21, 1942 am a living man, and I got a lot of work Cancer day their support especially during the pandemic when they - February 17, 2021), known by the stage own a membership card and have a stake in the party. were on the frontline to project and report what the to do”. He worked indeed. he world celebrated the World Cancer Day on February 4 name "U-Roy", was a Jamaican vocalist The last registration was in 2014 and many young government was doing to sort and confront the Corona Some often confused him with the this year. The World Cancer Research Fund said about 18 and pioneer of toasting. U-Roy is noted for T persons have attained the age of 18 in the last six virus pandemic and that pandemic brought out the best other singer, I-Roy, who sang "London million persons are suffering from cancer cases worldwide. years. We are addressing all the hiccups as they quality of the Governor the more because the index case a melodic style of toasting applied with a Of these 9.5m are said to be men while 8.5m are women. Bridge is falling down"! come. We are saying that nobody should be barred started from Ewekoro. Similarly, Ogun state is next door highly developed sense of timing", What can be done to keep this dreaded disease at bay? A healthy U-Roy was a deejay and musician from registering as long as they present themselves neighbour to the epicenter of the pandemic which was according to Wikipedia. eating habit, preferably mediterranean diet is recommended. People who made many happy with his music. for registration. Even in the constitution of APC there Lagos. We thank God for what the Governor has been able U-Roy was the rebel who asked young are advised to eat the right amount of protein and calories and drink May he find joy in the other realm. RIP, is room for appeal. So everybody should be rest to do and we do not take for granted the support that we people to Go there, Natty Dread. That track plenty of water. Above all, we should lead an active life. U-Roy! assured as nobody will be left out. The only thing is have enjoyed and continue to enjoy from the media in the album was a monster hit in the 70s that you cannot register by proxy, you must be February 28, 2021 |23 February 28, 2021 |16 CelebrityWatch Entertainment One-On-One Nigeria's 3 "globalteers” APC still the best option Davido's TIME gold medal for Nigerians -Oladunjoye he listing of David Adedeji Adeleke omrade Tunde Oladunjoye is indeed a man of popularly called Davido in the annual many parts and an enigma. In public service, TTime magazine "Time 100 Next" is a Che is an activist, politician, journalist and gold medal truly worth its worth in the patriot. He once served as democratically elected precious medal. The highly coveted list Chairman of Ijebu East and PDP Deputy Governorship candidate in 2011 elections. Currently, otherwise dubbed "Phenoms" list is currently Aminat, Akinwunmi and Okonjo-Iweala he is the Board Chairman of the Ogun State in its second year. It recognises outstanding Television and the Publicity Secretary of the people from across the world in different e all know the proverbial exploits of the fabled three Caretaker Committee of the APC. After a two-day sectors such as politics, entertainment, musketeers. We are also aware of the media exploits of meeting of the Board, Nigerian Gateway cornered Wthe 3 musketeers of our baba Olusegun Osoba, late Peter him for a chat. Excerpts: literature, leadership and innovation. Ajayi and Pa Felix Adenaike. Today, the trio of Dr. Akinwunmi Other Nigerians recognised in the list Adesina, Mrs Aminat Mohammed and Dr. Ngozi Okonjo Iweala are What should we expect in OGTV now that the include the trio of Damilola Odufuwa, flying loftily the flag of Nigeria in international circuit. One of the Board has met? Odunayo Eweniyi and Feyikemi Abudu who things they have in common is that they have all served our dear We thank God for OGTV and we acknowledge those made the list for their advocacy during the country as Ministers. Dr. Iweala who is the new boss at the World who have worked and passed through the system. Trade Organisation served the country as Finance Minister for OGTV will be 40 years on the 25th of December, #EndSARS protest when they raised the many years and the two-term President of the African Development 2021. Our Board of Directors which I am privileged to princely sum of 387,000 US dollars in Bank, Dr. Adesina served in 2010 as Agriculture and Rural be Chairman consider ourselves privileged to be Bitcoin after banks closed down operations. Development Minister.59 year old Mrs. Amina J. Mohammed also appointed to the Board at this point in time. OGTV is Olugbenga Agboola is another Nigerian on served as Minister of Environment before proceeding to the United 40 and cannot afford to behave like a kindergarten child. Nations as the 5th Deputy Secretary-General.The trio are wonderful It is said that a fool at forty is a fool forever. We thank the list. His Silicon Valley company testaments to the sterling human resources that abound in Nigeria. God that OGTV is not a fool. That station has been the "Flutterwave" assisted many small business This also speaks to the value that unity can bring to our dear breeding ground for different professionals in different with online transactions during the onset of country if we all downplay the schisms and pool our strength and fields, particularly in the field of journalism. People who Covid-19 pandemic. resources to bail Nigeria out of its moral and financial morass. have passed through OGTV have gone to head a lot of Apart from the Time listing, Davido is organisations, government and private. The new Board is going to pursue our goals on three pillars namely staff Comrade Tunde Oladunjoye being considered for a role in the part 2 of the Golden First Lady welfare, content development and marketing. Since our physically present. phenomenal movie, "Coming to America". inauguration on November 17, 2020, we have Other Africans on the list include Sierra igeria's First Lady, Mrs introduced a lot of incentives on staff welfare. We have What is your impression about Governor Dapo Leonean politician Yvone Aki-Sawyerr, Aishat Buhari recently hit the approved the sales' incentives and we have said that Abiodun? N instead of basic it is going to be gross for staff who are Zimbabwean-born actor Rege-Jean Page and big 5-0!It is indeed a Well, I think that question is not fair because it is like momentous occasion for the Buhari retiring. We have also said that staff who are retiring asking me my impression about myself. But I will tell Ugandan activist Vanessa Nakate and Family as the” jewel of inestimable should not only be given exit packages, we have said #EndSARS: Davido, ‘FK’ Abudu, Odunayo Eweniyi and Damilola Odufuwa Make TIME’s Next 100 List you one of the songs that our supporters sang in Ijebu Ghanaian artist, Amoaku Boato. value” who belongs to President that they should be given befitting send forth Ode recently during the Governor's inspection of new Buhari's “oza room”. The mother of irrespective of the grade level to encourage members road projects. They said “Be rise wa, be rise wa, e wo the nation is an exemplary role model of staff and their families. For content development, igbooro wo (whether you can see our work or not, look to young Nigerians. I particularly like the industry is fast and very dynamic. For those who at your surroundings). It is the public that will judge. It is her boldness and courage. It is will maintain the market share you must be on top of the public that will say this is what this man has done. gratifying that she thrives best when your game. As of today, there is no television station One thing that you cannot say about Governor Dapo the odds are stiff and daunting. She is that covers Ogun State more than OGTV. If you are a Abiodun is to accuse him of lopsided execution of the leading voice in the struggle for media space buyer you know that if you want to reach projects. The first two roads constructed by this the empowerment and inclusion of Ogun State audience your best bet is OGTV. We are administration were done in the Yewa axis. Projects are more women in political offices. re-examining and reviewing the contents. We also being evenly spread and I want to say, without any fear Through her pet project “the Future want to acquire other contents and we are looking for of contradiction, that this is the only government that has Assured Foundation”, she had empowered the internally displaced, partnerships. We will have a retreat very soon to A lot of people in less than two years touched all the 236 wards with children and women tremendously. She is also a strident voice brainstorm on the station. We will improve our have joined primary school constructions and reconstruction and against Sexual and Gender- Based Violence. marketing drive. The Finance and Marketing “ refurbishment of primary health centres. This means this Committee of the Board has visited the station's Sales our party and is a government that is focused on the grassroots. This is offices in Ota, Lagos and Ijebu Ode. They have been you have to not a government that is talking about ten or twenty 578 million of condoms used told the challenges and we will address them to better models for the people. The money that was spent on one serve the station. We are open for barter arrangements give them a model school can take care of renovation of primary he status of Nigerians as the world's happiest people is well with organisations so that we can improve on the sense of schools in two local governments at the same time. This known and acknowledged. What is not known is Nigerians revenue so that there can be a significant increase. In is a Governor that is coming with his background in T terms of sound and picture quality we are working on belonging. We prowess in sex. The news that over 578 million condoms business and he is focused. He is a noiseless Governor. were used in Nigeria speaks to the moral decadence prevalent improving the sound and picture quality. What we have former He is focused, he is determined, he is passionate and he amongst the youths. The National Agency for the Control of AIDS are telling the world is that we will give them value is kind. He is not a Governor that listens to beer parlour (NACA) appropriately cautioned youths show restraint and practice for money. We also want to go into documentaries. governorship gists. He has spoken about inclusive governance and I abstinence more. In another report, it was said that men think about OGTV is peoples telly and we will give good candidates, think he is also doing that because to whom much is sex every 20 second. We remember the ubiquitous poster contents for all. given, much is expected. We have never had in the history emblazoned with the clause “what's on a man's mind?”. Some former of elections in Ogun State whereby somebody will win and observers say this may be possible in saner climes and impossible You juggle many balls. You are the Publicity deputy all other governorship contestants with him except one will because of the stress, hassles and wahala associated with living in Secretary of the Caretaker Committee of APC in governors and visit him to congratulate him. The first Committee he set Nigeria. Ogun State. Are you satisfied with the up was headed by a non-politician, Dr. Tunde Lemo. membership drive? others who Members of other parties are in government and some of Ewart Beckford I am not just satisfied, I am pleasantly surprised have to own a them even got appointments before their formal Leah Sharibu because there have been issues around governance declaration for the party. You can bear witness with me that and administration at the national level in terms of membership political tension that we had pre- March 9, 2019 elections security. When we started that exercise, the first batch have fizzled out. For the first time in the history of Ogun empus fugit! It is already 3 years got exhausted like hot cakes. The Ogun State card and have since students of Government State we have never had any convergence of people you T Committee headed by Hon Ademorin Kuye is a stake in the can call men of political timber and caliber, juggernauts, in Farewell U-Roy! Science and Technical College, currently trying to get more forms from Abuja. People a single party. As at today, APC has all the past Damchi were abducted and later released are saying that despite the problems that we have, APC party. and 80s. except the heroine, Leah Sharibu who democratically elected Governors in its fold, all the past ne of the juggernauts of reggae is still the best option for them. I believe this democratically elected Deputy Governors, past and current His Natty Rebel album was the party refused to deny her faith. Needless to registration is for the “soro soke” generation because music, Ewart Beckford, popularly mover for many years. Even now, the say, members of her family are daily senators as well as past local government chairmen. It is known as "U-Roy", has transited to in Nigeria there is no opportunity for independent very clear that if you are a calculative politician who O rhythm of the track has people shaking feeling her absence and praying to God candidacy so you can only participate in the political believes in the mantra that majority carries the vote, you glory. heads and legs. It had syncopation. to spare her life. Spare a thought for her, process by joining one of the parties where you can please. should be in APC. I want to end this interview by placing He breathed his last on 17 February 2021 In “Badie Boo”, he asked where you aspire to vote or be voted for. A lot of people have reportedly from a heart attack. He was 78 on record the support our party and our government and gonna run? The “rebel in the morning joined our party and you have to give them a sense of me in particular, have received from men and women of years old. and rebel in the evening” proclaimed, “I belonging. We have former governorship candidates, the pen pushing profession. Our colleagues in journalism, former deputy governors and others who have to "Ewart Beckford OD (September 21, 1942 am a living man, and I got a lot of work Cancer day their support especially during the pandemic when they - February 17, 2021), known by the stage own a membership card and have a stake in the party. were on the frontline to project and report what the to do”. He worked indeed. he world celebrated the World Cancer Day on February 4 name "U-Roy", was a Jamaican vocalist The last registration was in 2014 and many young government was doing to sort and confront the Corona Some often confused him with the this year. The World Cancer Research Fund said about 18 and pioneer of toasting. U-Roy is noted for T persons have attained the age of 18 in the last six virus pandemic and that pandemic brought out the best other singer, I-Roy, who sang "London million persons are suffering from cancer cases worldwide. years. We are addressing all the hiccups as they quality of the Governor the more because the index case a melodic style of toasting applied with a Of these 9.5m are said to be men while 8.5m are women. Bridge is falling down"! come. We are saying that nobody should be barred started from Ewekoro. Similarly, Ogun state is next door highly developed sense of timing", What can be done to keep this dreaded disease at bay? A healthy U-Roy was a deejay and musician from registering as long as they present themselves neighbour to the epicenter of the pandemic which was according to Wikipedia. eating habit, preferably mediterranean diet is recommended. People who made many happy with his music. for registration. Even in the constitution of APC there Lagos. We thank God for what the Governor has been able U-Roy was the rebel who asked young are advised to eat the right amount of protein and calories and drink May he find joy in the other realm. RIP, is room for appeal. So everybody should be rest to do and we do not take for granted the support that we people to Go there, Natty Dread. That track plenty of water. Above all, we should lead an active life. U-Roy! assured as nobody will be left out. The only thing is have enjoyed and continue to enjoy from the media in the album was a monster hit in the 70s that you cannot register by proxy, you must be APC still the best option for Nigerians

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Sp...with Karyodet Somosrin Bournemouth extends Quo Vadis, Messi ? Woodgate's stay year-old. only take a decision on his Sources close to both future after hearing out the new Messi and Manchester City president and his plans for have confirmed that no real moving the club moving offer has been made for the forward. Barcelona skipper in the There is a good chance that recent past including the time he will take a pay-cut if he when the Cityzens were decided to join either being heavily linked to Messi Manchester City or PSG this last summer. summer. This could mean either of Lionel Messi is arguably two things. One, Manchester the best player in the world and City have no real interest in if Manchester City can sign him landing Lionel Messi due to for free, the Sky Blues must go his extraordinary wage bill and for it. It is now known that Sofoluwe second, the Premier League Messi costs Barcelona 8% of table topper are learning from their revenue while he he future of Lionel Last summer, Manchester the mistakes made by Paris generates over 30% of it. Who Saint-Germain and are is going to be the eventual Messi's career is the City were considered to be the ournemouth's interim manager Jonathan Woodgate has hottest topic of frontrunner in the race to land playing the waiting game. winner in the race to land T Next month's presidential Messi? Is it going to be City or been rewarded with a permanent job until the end of the discussion amongst soccer the 33-year-old but Barcelona elections in Barcelona will be is it going to be PSG? Or, will Bseason after an improvement in form since his pundits though the Argentine sticking to the legalities in the the key to Messi staying or Messi decide to stay in appointment this month, the second-tier Championship club said has insisted that he will only Argentine's contract meant that on Sunday. take a decision on his future at the City would have to face an leaving Camp Nou. It is highly Barcelona? Only time will likely that the 33-year-old will tell! Woodgate replaced Jason Tindall who was sacked after only the end of the current season. uncertain wait to land the 33- seven months in charge and he has since overseen three wins, a draw and a defeat while they are also the only non-Premier League side to advance to the FA Cup quarterfinals. "The team's performances and results have improved under his stewardship, and even our defeat at Queens Park Rangers on Australian Open: Djokovic, Saturday was a display which deserved a better result," the club's chief executive Neill Blake said. "As we head into a crucial part of the season, stability and clarity is of paramount importance for everyone at the club. "With that in mind, and having concluded an extensive search Osaka triumph for a new manager, we believe Jonathan is the best candidate to lead the team for the final 15 games of the season." British media had linked former player and current Montreal manager Thierry Henry as a candidate for the permanent job while Henry's former Arsenal and France teammate Patrick Vieira was also on the shortlist. Woodgate, a former England international, cut his teeth in management at former club Middlesbrough in the Championship for just over a year before he was sacked in June. Bournemouth are looking to return to the top flight after getting relegated last season and currently sit sixth, occupying the final playoff spot after 31 matches. I will help Chelsea sign up three Bayern Munich players – Rudiger Djokovic Osaka helsea centre-back Antonio Rudiger says he is willing to hirty-three-year-old pressure applied by Djokovic. Australian Open. wide grin, raising her racquet help any way he can to secure the signings of Jerome Serb, Novak Djokovic Djokovic clinched the title Osaka won the first set when above her head, when she CBoateng, Niklas Sule and David Alaba from Bayern Thas beaten Daniil after one hour and 53 minutes Brady, in her first Grand Slam clinched the title on her first Munich Medvedev in the finals of the with a backhand overhead final, paid dearly for some match point after Brady looped a The trio have been heavily linked with a move to Stamford 2021 Australian Open played on volley, falling to the blue court glaring errors in the final return long. Bridge in the summer and Rudiger feels that, as he knows all three Sunday at Melbourne Park. on his back before lapping up game. Around 7,500 fans were players, he could offer a helping hand in getting the deals over the Top seed Djokovic won 7-5 the acclaim of the reduced The third seed seized allowed to watch the final on Rod line. “If Chelsea were to decide on the three players as a transfer 6-2 6-2 to claim his 18th Grand 7,500 crowd. control from that point, racing Laver Arena and Osaka lapped target, I would be available to answer any questions. I know Slam, leaving him two behind Djokovic roared loudly and 4-0 ahead in the second set up the acclaim after her US Open Jerome (Boateng) and Niklas (Sule) very well and I've already had Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal tapped his heart, before before sealing a deserved victory came behind closed contact with David Alaba.” in the men's record books. exchanging hugs with coach victory. doors. Rudiger has confirmed he was instrumental in helping the Blues R u s s i a n f o u r t h s e e d Goran Ivanisevic and the rest of Osaka has now won two "It feels incredible to have sign both Timo Werner and Kai Havertz at the start of the season, Medvedev, 25, had lost both of his support team. Australian Open titles after fans, I played the last Grand Slam and it seems his services could be called upon once again. his Grand Slam finals. After thinking an abdominal also triumphing at Melbourne without fans, to have this energy Boateng is a player who is on Chelsea's radar with the German After collecting the trophy, injury earlier in the tournament Park in 2019, with her other means a lot," said Osaka as she international's contract expiring in the summer. He is allowed to Djokovic told the Rod Laver might scupper his chances, the Grand Slam successes coming clutched the Daphne Akhurst sign a pre-contract agreement ahead of a free transfer. Arena: "I love you each year pride and relief of Team at the US Open in 2018 and Trophy. In Sule's case, reports in Germany suggest that the defender more and more. The love affair Djokovic was clear in their 2020. "I feel like playing a Grand could be sold by Bayern as he has only one year remaining on his keeps going." celebrations. She has not suffered a defeat Slam is a privilege." current deal at the Allianz Arena. The Russian had reached the Meanwhile, third seed since February 2020 and her Osaka is the first women's Alaba's situation is well documented. The likes of Liverpool and Melbourne final on the back of a Naomi Osaka defeated number victory over Brady was her player to win her first four Grand Manchester City are also thought to be interested in the 28-year- 20-match winning streak, but 22 seed Jennifer Brady 6-4, 6-3, 21st successive match win. Slam finals since Monica Seles old, who can leave when his contract expires in June, but Real floundered under the intense in Melbourne to win the 2021 Osaka's face lit up with a in 1991. Madrid are still believed to be favourites for his signature.

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