Exactly 18 days to the Osun governorship election, no fewer than 10,000 members of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the State, on Tuesday, dumped the party for the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC. The ex-PDP members ascribed their defection to the APC to what they described as outstanding...
The Ogun State Governor, Prince Dapo Abiodun will tomorrow, Wednesday December 2, 2020, at 10 am, present the state's 2021 Budget to the State House of Assembly. The Appropriation Bill tagged, "Budget of Recovery and Sustainability”, will highlight the key sectors and budgetary allocations for rapid development of the State. The...
Cause of fire unknown—Victim Oyo State governor, Engineer Seyi Makinde, on Thursday, visited the scene of the fire incident that razed some shops in Dugbe market, Ibadan, on Wednesday. Governor Makinde, who was accompanied by a number of government officials, told the victims and a crowd of sympathisers, who had...
‘Jakande Served Outstandingly, Died A Great Man’ – Gov Three days after the passing of Alhaji Lateef Kayode Jakande, the late first Civilian Governor of Lagos State literally came back alive, as his widow and other family members shared memories of his last moments and his unfulfilled goals with...
As State Launches Distribution of Rice Palliatives In his drive to boost local economy and alleviate hardship among the citizenry, Governor Ademola Adeleke today disburses cash backed cheques running into several millions of Naira to cooperatives societies at Ife and Obokun/Oriade federal constituencies. Addressing a mammoth crowd of cooperative members...
Governor ‘Seyi Makinde of Oyo State, on Thursday, inaugurated the state Steering Committee on COVID-19 Action Recovery and Economic Stimulus Programme (State CARES), an initiative targeted at mitigating the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the state. The governor, while inaugurating members of the nine-man steering committee at the Executive...
A Chinese power generation firm, CCETC, has expressed its readiness to establish a power generation plant as well as an industrial park in Ogun State. Chairman of the company, Mr Guo Xianda, disclosed this at the weekend during an extensive meeting between his team and the Ogun State Governor, at...
Ondo State Governor, Arakunrin Oluwarotimi Akeredolu,SAN, has assured that he will not leave unpaid salaries for his successor after his eight years in office. Governor Akeredolu said he had vowed not to owe workers’ salary since the inception of his administration, adding that the Covid-19 pandemic affected the finance of...
The Governor of Osun, Adegboyega Oyetola, on Tuesday disclosed that the Administration has released and paid about N31billion as pensions to all categories of pensioners in the State since 2018. He said his administration had equally kept faith with his promises to ensure prompt and adequate payment of salaries and...
The Ondo State Government has spent N3,128,901,067.50billion to offset outstanding allowances of workers in the state. This payment was made during the last Sallah festival. Also cleared were the hazard bonuses for health and medical workers. The agreement for the payment was the outcome of last month's (July) meeting between the...