President Bola Ahmed Tinubu yesterday met with the Governor of Oyo State, Seyi Makinde, and the immediate past governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, as well as former governor of Delta, James Ibori.
The visitors had walked into the Villa about 4:25pm, moments after the Chief Executive Officer of Access Holding Plc, Mr. Herbert Wigwe, who had been to the President’s office, walked out.
The agenda for the meeting was not made known. But speaking with newsmen later, Makinde and Wike, in their separate remarks, expressed support to the Federal Government’s decision on fuel subsidy.
Makinde said: “It’s something that is on top of public discuss right now. We know it’s a tough decision for the people and he needs the support of everybody to see this through.”
On his part, Wike said: “We came to give him (President) support.
We are in support all the decisions he is taking. It shows that he is prepared for the job and there is nothing bad about that. It requires tough decisions for a country to move forward.”
The deposed Chairman of the Disciplinary Committee of the Park Management System, PMS, in Oyo State, Mukaila Lamidi popularly known as Auxiliary has said the Police cannot declare him wanted.
Auxiliar who was yesterday declared wanted by the Nigerian Police for alleged gun-running, said ‘Seyi Makinde, governor of Oyo State, is his destiny helper.
Adding that he is committed to peace, he said he would abide by whatever decision the governor take on transport unions.
He spoke via telephone conversations on Fresh FM’s Political Circuit, anchored by Isaac Brown
President Bola Tinubu says there’s need to review the present N30,000 minimum wage for civil servants in the country.
Speaking in Abuja on Friday, June 2, the president said the federal and state governments need to take a look at the minimum wage together and also strengthen the source and application of the country’s revenue.
He assured that improved livelihood for Nigerians remains a top priority of his administration, with more people-focused economic policies.
According to him, “We need to do some arithmetic and soul searching on the minimum wage. We will have to take a look at that together, and the revenue. We must strengthen the source and application of our revenue.”
There has been viral death rumour of Ondo State Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu as the Governor reported yesterday to have been bedridden in an undisclosed hospital.
Meanwhile, some tweeps have been making tweets about his rumoured death. A tweep, @Kans said, “I don’t want to believer Akeredolu’s death is true and I pray God grant him full recovery.
@Olujimi in his tweet said, “the game plan of the Akeredolu’s family is to remove the Speaker and install their own stooge having known that Akeredolu is no more”.
Another tweep, @Dans said Akeredolu must not die because he is a very rugged man and I pray what I am hearing is untrue”.
“The governor of Ondo State, Rotimi Akeredolu has leukemia, he is really down,” one of the sources in the Alagbaka Government House had revealed at that time.
The Nigeria Labour Congess (NLC) has declared a nationwide strike from next Wednesday.
This comes amid fuel shortages across the country occasioned by President Bola Tinubu’s inaugural speech in which he declared that “fuel subsidy is gone”.
The union announced the industrial action on Friday, following a meeting of its National Executive Council (NEC) in Abuja over the fuel subsidy removal and subsequent hike in the pump price of petrol.
The NEC comprises all Presidents, General Secretaries, Treasurers of all NLC’s affiliate unions; State Chairpersons and Secretaries of the NLC State Councils, Chairperson of the NLC Youth Committee and members of the National Administrative Council (NAC).
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu Friday in Abuja announced the appointment of Speaker of House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila as Chief of Staff, and Sen. Ibrahim Hassan Hadejia, a former Deputy Governor of Jigawa State, as Deputy Chief of Staff.
This was contained in a statement made available via the Director of Information, Abiodun Oladunjoye and made available to newsmen.
In a meeting with Progressives Governors Forum (PGF), the President also named former Governor of Benue State and immediate past Minister of Special Duties, George Akume, Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF).
The Oyo State Police Command has declared the sacked Chairman of Park Management System (PMS), Mukaila Lamidi aka Auxiliary, wanted, the authorities revealed during a briefing on Friday.
The move follows another raid of his hotel where more dangerous weapons were recovered yesterday.
Channels Television reports that policemen had stormed Auxiliary’s Ibadan residence recovering weapons and ammunition.
During the operation, the suspect reportedly escaped, while some of his lieutenants were however arrested by the police.
There was palpable tension in some parts of the state after the raid, especially in major car parks and garages in Ibadan, the state capital.
The embattled Speaker of Ondo State House of Assembly, Oleyelogun Bamidele David has dispelled the rumour of his resignation.
The Speaker was quoted in a statement made available to Oduduwa News as read in part:
“This is to notify the general public that,I Rt Hon Oleyelogun Bamidele David did not resign my position as the Speaker of the House.
“The purported letter of resignation which is in circulation is the handiwork of the fifth Columists who are bent on throwing Ondo State into anarchy, particularly the House of Assembly.
“The purported resignation is no doubt the the figment of the imagination of the peddlers of such heinous act as l did not contemplate or discussed such move with any member of the Assembly or family members.Let me tell members of the public that the purported letter of resignation did not emanate from me as it was forged by purveyors of such letter.
“The Clerk of the House,Mr.Benjamin Jaiyeola (ESQ)has informed me that he did not receive any letter of resignation which has given credence to the fact that the faceless writer is not informed of the process through which such weighty exercise can take.
“I have not informed the Executive Arm of Government of such resignation and I urge my Honourable Colleagues, Staffers of the House of Assembly, Members of my Constituency to disregard the letter in its entirety and also urge the Security Agencies to investigate this false and malicious letter that has emanated from the enemies who are working against the existing peace in the State”.
Stakeholders in the Oyo State transport asked ‘Seyi Makinde, Governor of the state, to appoint a technocrat to supervise their activities.
This was one of their recommendations at the town hall meeting to address the violence that usually trails the activities of the union in the state.
The town hall became necessary following Monday’s sack of the Park Management System, PMS, as well as its leader, Lamidi Auxiliary by Makinde.
Recall, ODUDUWA NEWS had earlier reported how Police sacked the home of the deposed Park Management System Chairman, Oloye Mukaila Lamidi known as Auxiliary where some of his men were arrested with large cache of arms recovered.
The management of the College of Hygiene and Health Technology Iseyin has on Thursday matriculated 300 new students for the 2022/2023 academic session.
The College, through the Proprietor, Mr Owoseni Adewale while speaking with reporters at the event, congratulated Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State on his inauguration as a second term governor.
He said the institution which has been duly registered with the State Ministry of Education, Science and Technology as well as the National Commission For Colleges of Education (NCCE), will work with the State government to achieve its goals at eradicating poverty through stanndard and affordable education.
Owoseni opined that the free education Programme of the Makinde administration has helped propel the rate of school-going teenagers and gradually erasing the negative impacts of illiteracy and underdevelopment.
He said further that the institution has a special scholarship programme for brilliant but indigent students and would assist the students to follow their chosen career lines after their academic endeavors.
“We are happy that His Excellency, Engr. Seyi Makinde who has shown immense love for educational development in Oyo State in his first term in office has been sworn in for second term, this is a pointer to the fact that the burning fire of educational growth in the State will continue.
“For us at The College of Hygiene and Health Technology, Iseyin, it is our joy that the State’s policies on education are at par with the primary goals with which we established the two colleges, which is to give education to the children of the poor and the wealthy to achieve zero poverty and a State where peace and prosperity will engender commercial growth.”
He called on the people of Oke-Ogun and Oyo State to make good use of the opportunity that the two institutions presented to them, so as to have education that is affordable and close to their doorsteps.
The Institution which has an affiliation with the College of Health of Science, Ijero Ekiti promised to give necessary supports to the students to achieve their academic goals.
The Provost of the College of Health Science, Ijero Ekiti, Dr. (Mrs) Cecilia Adebayo who was represented by the Director Affiliate Programmes, Dr. (Mrs) Osatuberu Modupe assured the students that the institution has come to stay as all needed official requirements have been done.
“Be assured of our support, we are here to give you the moral shoulders to rest on, it is well with you,” she told the matriculating students.
Among the programmes at the event was entertainment whereby students of the institution showcased their talents in poetry chants and choreography.
