Ondo State Governor, Rotimi Akeredolu Aketi , SAN, CON, has warned petroleum marketers and owners of fuel stations in the State against hoarding the Premium Motor Spirit (PMS).
The warning became necessary after long queues surfaced at filling stations across the state, notably in Akure, the state capital since Monday.
The Governor said all petrol stations in the state should dispense fuel in their tanks to ease the people of the long hours spent at fuel stations.
Consequently, Governor Akeredolu has directed the Governor’s Task Force to move around the State and deal decisively with any fuel station found hoarding the product.
Three persons were on Tuesday crushed to death by a reckless driver at Agbeloba area of Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital.
The Public Relations Officer of the Ogun State Traffic Compliance and Enforcement (TRACE) Corps, Babatunde Akinbiyi said the driver of the Ford Mondeo car, coming from Quarry Road, lost control, ran over the roundabout at the Agbeloba junction and rammed into two motorcycle riders discharging passengers.
He added that the car, later rammed into a container shop used for betting.
Akinbiyi said, “Okada riders and a female passenger were killed instantly, due to the impact of the collision.
He noted that “the driver escaped among the crowd who came as sympathisers to the scene.”
Akinbiyi said the victims’ bodies were taken away by family members, who identified them.
While commiserating with the families of the victims, Akinbiyi warned motorists to avoid excessive speed, particularly while driving within or around major towns.
The organised labour has kicked against President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s policy statement on the fuel subsidy removal, saying it has grave implications for the polity.
The president while delivering his inaugural speech yesterday in Abuja, informed Nigerians that the era of fuel subsidy is gone.
According to the president, funds for subsidies will be diverted to other things like public infrastructure, education, health care and jobs.
However, the development hasn’t gone down well with organised labour which has repeatedly rejected several moves to remove fuel subsidy in the past.
Reacting to the development, head information department of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Comrade Benson Upah said the organised labour was not aware of the president’s consultation with critical stakeholders before embarking on the decision.
Benson, who described the move as having grave implications on national polity, said the labour centre is waiting keenly for when the policy will translate into figures before responding.
He said, “Our response and indeed, the response of Nigerians is contingent on when this policy statement translates into figures.
“I am not aware the new president held consultations with the critical stakeholders like organised labour before making this policy statement with grave implications for the polity, we are waiting, Nigerians are waiting,” he said.
Nollywood actress, Bukola Awoyemi, has announced her separation from the father of her children and industry colleague, Damola Olatunji.
The actress shared a screenshot of a letter written by her lawyers on her Instagram account on Tuesday.
According to the letter, they have never been married to each other but are blessed with twins; a girl and a boy.
The letter read, “We are solicitors to Ms. Bukola Awoyemi, also known as Arugba, hereinafter referred to as our client and on whose instruction we give this notice.
“Please take NOTE that our client, Bukola Awoyemi and Mr. Damola Olatunji are no longer an item. They have gone their separate ways and this is without any hard feelings or ill will. They have never been married to each other but are blessed with two lovely children (twins).
“They have both agreed to jointly ensure that the wellbeing and welfare of their two children is guaranteed.
The Ogun State governor, Dapo Abiodun, on Tuesday, reiterated his administration’s commitment to the welfare of workers in the service of the state, declaring the welfare would be part of the major priorities in the next of four years
Abiodun made this known during an interaction with workers at his Oke-Mosan, Abeokuta office, where he also commended the state work force for its unalloyed support.
He added that his administration in the second term would also look for ways to continue to improve the lot of the public servants so that they can continue to be more efficient and professional in the discharge of their duties.
“I want to pledge to you that I will continue to look for ways and means to improve you so that you will continue to be more intellectually and professionally built, so that you can hold your own anywhere you go in the world.
“I also want to pledge that this next four years, your welfare will be one of my priorities, the things that I have been working on over the past few months by the grace of God will come to fruition in the next few weeks; they are some of the things we’ve been discussing. To the promises I have made to you, you will see changes very soon,” he said.
Abiodun, while thanking the public servants in the state for their support towards the successful implementation of the ISEYA Agenda of his administration in the first term, noted that the success recorded was as a result of the cordial relationship between the public service and the political office holders.
“I want to thank you for your support and collaboration, it is me and you, this is our government, the success recorded in the last term was because of you. More successes we are going to record this time and it is going to be because of you and I together,” Abiodun added.
The state helmsman while charging the Permanent Secretaries in the state public service who are Accounting Officers in their various ministries that would hold the fort until the appointment of new Special Advisers and Commissioners, said that he has no doubt in their ability to do a perfect job.
” I am going to need all the support and cooperation I can get from you Permanent Secretaries, you are the Accounting Officers of your various ministries, pending the time that we appoint advisers and commissioners, I want to enjoin you to please hold unto your ministries and be very accountable. I do not have a doubt that I will not find anyone of you wanting in your various responsibilities, you are all very experienced and you are the best of the civil service,” he said.
Abiodun, however, assured the people of the state that his administration in the second term would ensure the commencement of dry port in Kajola, Ogun Central Senatorial District of the state, adding that the commencement of the port which would have all the facilities needed, would not only make the state a place to be for investors, but would have an impact on the ease of doing business in the state.
The Governor who also assured that his administration would continue to build more affordable housing units for the use of public servants, submitted that “We will continue to build until we ensure that every desirous civil servant that wants a house will have a roof over his head as a landlord, not as a tenant”.
Earlier in his remark, the Head of Service; Kola Fagbohun, who congratulated the governor on his successful inauguration for a second term, assured him that public servants in the state would continue to add more value towards the actualization of the ISEYA Agenda of his administration.
Dele Alake, a former Lagos commissioner of information and strategy, says he has not been appointed as the spokesperson of President Bola Tinubu.
Hours after the inauguration on Monday, Femi Fani-Kayode, former minister of aviation, announced on his Twitter handle that Alake has been appointed as the president’s spokesperson.
But speaking on the issue with TheCable, the former director of strategic communication of the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential campaign, said the news of his appointment was fake.
“It was fake news. I’m always surprised when news people failed to recognise fake unsigned stories,” Alake said.
Alake was the commissioner for information and strategy in Lagos between 1999 and 2007 when Tinubu was the governor of the state.
In 2014, he was appointed as the director of media and communication of the Buhari campaign organisation – his return to national politics after a brief hiatus from public roles.
As a journalist, Akale worked with Concord Press publishers as a writer and editor. After a year, he became a columnist in the National Concord and served in that capacity until 1989.
He was appointed editor of Sunday Concord in the same year and held the position till 1995 before becoming the editor of the National Concord.
The federal government through the Civil Defense, Correctional, Fire and Immigration Services Board has appointed Deputy Comptroller General of Immigration, Adepoju Carol Wura-Ola as the acting Comptroller General of Immigration.
A letter dated May 26, 2023, signed by the Secretary of the board, Ja’afaru Ahmed, a copy obtained by Daily Trust on Monday in Abuja, said the appointment takes effect from Tuesday 30th May 2023.
The statement reads: “I write to convey the approval of the Chairman of the Board for you to cover duties of the Office of the Comptroller General, Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) as the most senior Deputy Comptroller General (DCG).
“You are enjoined to bring to bear your wealth of experience on the job as well as Consolidate on the ongoing transformation of the Service.”
The former Comptroller-General Isah Jere’s extended tenure expired on the 29th of May, 2023.
President Bola Tinubu has directed the Department of State Security Service to immediately vacate the office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission in Ikoyi, Lagos.
The President gave the directive when reports that DSS officials stormed the EFCC office located on Awolowo Road, Ikoyi, Lagos on Tuesday, preventing officials of the anti-graft agency from accessing their work place, was brought to his attention.
The President said if there were issues between the two important agencies of government, they would be resolved amicably.
Oyo State Police Command has said that it raided the residence of the Sacked Disciplinary Committee Chairman of the Oyo state Park Management System (PMS), Alhaji Mukaila Lamidi known as Auxiliary because the command gathered from intelligence that his boys had perfected plans to unleash mayhem at major parts of Ibadan following their dissolution.
The state Police Commissioner of Police, Adebowale Williams, made this known while parading 78 persons believed to be members of the dissolved PMS for unlawful possession of fire arms, ammunition and others.
Williams, while addressing Journalists at the state Command Headquaters, Eleyele Ibadan on Tuesday, said the command in its proactive nature while acting on intelligence driven surveillance were able to foil the attempt.
He added that a member of the group was neutralized in a gun duel while Alhaji Mukaila Lamidi Auxiliary escaped with some of his boys.
The operatives of the Lagos Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, arrived at their office on No. 15 Awolowo Road, Ikoyi, this morning, May 30, 2023, to be denied entry by agents of the Department of State Services, DSS, who had barricaded the entrance with armoured personnel carriers.
This development is strange to the Commission given that we have cohabited with the DSS in that facility for 20 years without incident.
By denying operatives access to their offices, the Commission’s operations at its largest hub with over 500 personnel, hundreds of exhibits, and many suspects in detention have been disrupted.
Cases scheduled for court hearing today have been aborted, while many suspects who had been invited for questioning are left unattended.
Even more alarming is that suspects in detention are left without care with grave implications for their rights as inmates.
All of these have wilder implications for the nation’s fight against economic and financial crimes.
The siege is inconsistent with the synergy expected of agencies working for the same government and nation, especially when there are ongoing discussions on the matter.
