Popular Yoruba nation activist, Sunday Adeyemo popularly known as Sunday Igboho has urged traditional rulers in a video trending online, to keep the Yoruba tradition sacred and respect it, while seeking out those to be conferred with chieftaincy titles.
While congratulating the Olugbon of Orile-Igbon, His Imperial Majesty, Oba Francis Olushola Alao on Sunday for his 59th birthday, Igboho bemoaned how some traditional rulers in Yoruba land are conferring titles on those, according to him, who do not deserve it.
Recall, the Olubadan of Ibadanland, Oba Mohood Olalekan Ishola (Alli Okunmade ll) on Saturday at Mapo Hall, Ibadan, conferred the titles of Aare Fiwajoye of Ibadanland and Yeye Aare Fiwajoye Of Ibadanland on Kano State Governor, Dr. Abdullahi Umar Ganduje and his wife, Prof. Hafsat Abdullahi Ganduje, respectively.
Igboho in the video pleaded with the Olugbon to advise such traditional rulers against continuation of such trend.
On Yoruba nation, Igboho insists there’s no going back on his agitation, adding that the Yoruba land has all that it needs to flourish as a nation.
The Social Democratic Party (SDP) and Action Democratic Party (ADP) have described the results of the just-concluded Ekiti governorship election as “unacceptable”.
Biodun Oyebanji, the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), was announced winner of the election on Sunday.
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Oyebanji secured 187,057 votes, defeating his two closest challengers — Segun Oni of the SDP who polled 82,211 votes, and Bisi Kolawole of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) who got 67,457 votes.
Speaking on Sunday in Ado-Ekiti Owoseni Ajayi, collation agent of the SDP, said the outcome of the results was rejected by the party.
He added that the outcome will be challenged at the tribunal.
He also said the SDP candidate dismissed the results announced by the electoral body, adding that it did not reflect the true decision of the people.
“We are rejecting the results because the election was characterised by violence and intimidation of voters,” Ajayi said.
“As a result, we will definitely challenge the outcome of this result in the court of law for posterity and generations coming to know that when conducting elections, you must follow the rules and procedures.”
According to NAN, efforts to speak with Segun Oni proved abortive as he was not allowed to see or speak with anyone.
Meanwhile, in a statement signed by Femi Eponlolaye, state chairman of ADP in Ado-Ekiti, Kemi Elebute-Halle, the party’s governorship candidate, alleged that the election was characterised by vote-buying and harassment of her party members.
“The victory of Mr Biodun Oyebanji in the just concluded governorship election ordinarily would have been accepted by me, if the election had not been fraught by electoral malpractices,” she said.
“In spite of various sensitisation programmes and media publicity against vote buying, the APC, PDP and SDP actually promoted and encouraged corruption, both at the grassroots and the state levels.
“Though the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has pronounced Oyebanji as the winner of this election, I, Kemi Elebute-Halle, hereby reject the result of this election.
“It was not credible, neither was it free nor fair. His APC thugs destabilised my strongholds across the state, attacked our members, snatched and destroyed our ballot boxes.
“All those votes, including those obtained by PDP, will be cancelled at the tribunal.
“I want to use this medium to urge my followers not to be discouraged about the outcome of the election. We shall continue to promote our great party, the ADP.”
World Bank and the Economist Intelligence Unit, EIU, have spoken out about Nigeria’s growing money supply. They are concerned that the CBN creating money to pay the federal government deficit in the face of declining income will hurt the economy.
Their warning comes at a time when the amount of money in circulation in the economy continues to increase.
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The Central Bank of Nigeria has been urged to stop the printing of money as the currency supply in the economy reached a record high.
The advice is coming from the Economist Intelligence Unit, EIU and economists at the World Bank. The EIU in particular said the central bank might have been breaking the law which stipulates a limit beyond which it shall lend to the government.
The EIU noted that the ability of the CBN to tame Nigeria’s inflation through raising rates is being undermined by its continued direct financing of the budget deficit.
“Building credibility in the target rate (of inflation) has not been a priority in recent years. The continued printing of money at the same time as tightening policy would prevent effective control of the price level”
Nigeria has rules that limit how much lending the central bank should offer the government and there are statutes that forbid the government from reckless borrowing, but the EIU inferred that these rules have been contravened repeatedly. EIU added: “All prudential rules on the government borrowing through the (CBN’s) overdraft facility have long been broken”
The World Bank on its part says the Central Bank of Nigeria’s development finance intervention is fuelling inflation in the short term and weakening the ability of the apex bank to control inflation. In a new report titled the ‘Nigeria Development Update (June 2022): The Continuing Urgency of Business Unusual, the World Bank said, there is huge money in supply in Nigerian economy.
Currency in circulation has been on the increase in 2022, and when the current data is compared to N3.29 trillion at the start of the year over 0.62 per cent or N20.5billion have been added to the economy. Meanwhile, NNPC remittances to FG continue to decline.
The Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN), Ibadan Depot covering Oyo and Osun States, has called on members to reopen their fuel stations across Oyo State.
This is coming barely 24 hours after it directed members to close their outlets, following the sealing of some fuel stations at Iseyin and Ibadan by officers of the Inspector General of Police Monitoring Squad.
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According to the Nigerian Tribune Newspaper, the chairman of the association, Alhaji Bukola Mutiu, said: “Following intervention from well-meaning Nigerians, we had a meeting late on Friday with the Deputy Director (Operations), Department of State Services (DSS), representatives of Nigerian Mainstream and Downstream Regulatory Authority (NMDRA) formerly known as Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) and other stakeholders.
“Our request was that we want to know which agency of government has the right over sealing of fuel stations. To the best of our knowledge, it is the Nigerian Mainstream and Downstream Regulatory Authority (NMDRA) is the only police of the industry, suddenly we discovered that today police claiming the right to sealing of fuel stations, tomorrow it will be the turn of Nigeria Security and Cvil Defence Corps (NSCDC), the after, you will see another set of people.
“What happened on Friday morning was that the Inspector General of Police Monitoring Squad, visited some of our stations in Iseyin, sealed of two fuel stations claiming that they were selling above the approved pump price. Everybody knows what is going on in the country.
As I speak, we are buying at N162 per litre at a private depot in Lagos excluding transportation cost. So, there is no way we can sell at N165, if you see anybody that sells at N165, you need to check the activities of the person very well.”
The IPMAN chairman stated further: “We tried to explain to the leader of the team the situation at hand, he refused and went ahead to seal off the stations. On getting to Ibadan, he went ahead to start sealing off our stations, that was when we decided to ask members to close operations if the IGP monitoring team can provide where we can get petrol at a cheaper price, …..
The the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) has lauded it’s overt and covert deployment of persos to Ekiti State for a hitch-free gubernatorial election has been applauded by the State Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC), Dr Tella Adeniran Rahmon.
The force said its operation led to the successful arrest of two people for their involvement in electoral crisis.
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This was made known when Acting Deputy Commandant General Operations (Ag.DCG Ops), Haruna Lawal Muhammed, fdc, paid a visit to the REC at INEC office in the course of election monitoring duty in Ado Ekiti, Ekiti State.
The REC, affirmed that he was impressed as NSCDC officials were deployed in real time to polling booths which opened early for accreditations and commended the Corps leadership for mobilizing large numbers of personnel to participate actively in the security training organized by INEC and identification of possible flashpoints for peculiar attention among other landmark duties.
The Ag. DCG operations, on his part assured that the Corps would continue to work closely with INEC and other sister agencies to ensure a hitch-free election process. Reiterating that the Corps is doing its best to secure INEC permanent and ad-hoc staff, electorates, election observers as well as sensitive and non sensitive election materials in the State.
“The turnout for the election is impressive in most polling units we have visited and reports received from other Local Government Areas also revealed that voting is going on smoothly simultaneously; NSCDC is fully prepared to protect the people and Critical National Assets, our reserved personnel are on standby in case of any emergency and when the poll closes, our men on the ground would be deployed throughout the night, to ensure 24 hours security coverage of the state,” he said.
The Acting DCG operations called on residents to maintain orderly conduct after exercising their franchise and refrain from violence when the votes are counted as the Corps had deployed intelligence officers to possible flash points for effective intelligence gathering and management of security situation.
In the meantime, two persons have been arrested in Ado Local Government; one in connection with vote buying while the other was arrested in connection with thuggery to disrupt voting at a polling unit.
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared Biodun Oyebanji of the All Progressives Congress winner of the 2022 Ekiti governorship election.
Mr Oyebanji of APC polled a total of 187,057 votes to defeat his two closest challengers – Segun Oni of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) and Bisi Kolawole of the People’s Democratic Party.
The SDP emerged in second place with total votes of 82,211 while the PDP was third with 67,457 votes.
Mr Oyebanji is now set to replace incumbent Kayode Fayemi in October.
“No society can grow greater than the vision and dream of its leader,” Oyebanji said during last week’s Ekiti governorship debate, one of his final public appeals to voters.
“I am offering myself to lead our people into a prosperous society.
“I am bringing to the table 11 years of experience in the public service at the state level, two years at the federal level.
“I am going to aggregate the best brains of Ekiti all over the world to help me achieve my dreams.”
The election, which was marred with reports of vote buying and violence, was largely peaceful, independent observers said.
The final results of the recently conducted Ekiti gubernatorial elections have been finally collated and announced by INEC. Below is the highlight of the results.
The All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship candidate Abiodun Oyebanji is leading in many polling units in Ado-Ekiti, the Ekiti State capital.
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He is being trailed by the Social Democratic Party (SDP) candidate Segun Oni, engineer, and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate Bisi Kolawole.
In Unit 008, Ward 02, Ado Grammar School, the APC polled 171 votes.
In Unit 031, Ward 13, APC polled 31 votes; the PDP got 16 votes, while SDP got 10.
APC scored 96 votes in Unit 003, Ward 4 in Ado Ijigbo. SDP scored 42 votes; PDP polled 23.
APC led with 58 votes in Unit 11, Ward 2 in Ado Idofin, where the PDP trailed with 51 votes and the SDP got 44.
In Unit 009, Ward 1 in Ado Idofin, the APC got 89 votes; the PDP polled 46 while the SDP scored 41.
APC garnered 97 votes in Unit 016, Ward 5 in Okeyinmi.
The SDP got 36 votes; while the PDP polled 33.
Meanwhile, there has been allegation of Vote-Buying and incduement of voters with money. It was gathered this money that EFCC have arrested some of the vote buyers found with cash at the polling units and have been taken to the State Headquarters of the graft agency for questioning.
The All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate Bola Tinubu has named Kabiru Masari as his running mate for the 2023 elections.
A chieftain of the party Kabiru Faskari said this during an interview on Channels Television’s Politics Today.
“Ibrahim Kabiru Masari is our vice presidential nominee. He was the Welfare Secretary of the APC under Oshiomhole (former national chairman of the party),” he said during the show on Friday. “He is a well-known politician in Kaduna State and his name has been submitted.”
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Faskari explained that picking Kabiru, who hails from Katsina State, does not violate the country’s laws as against the clamour for a Muslim/Christian APC ticket.
According to him, Kabiru is experienced, close to Tinubu, and will not have a problem working with the former Lagos State governor.
“He is young; he represents the youths and is grounded in politics and was even a national official of the APC. He is quite close to the presidential candidate and has been with him for a very long time,” he explained. “It is a very informed decision to put out his name.”
He said the decision followed wide consultations and that the party needs a person from a region with a large voting population.
“I think what it is is that it was the decision of the presidential candidate after due diligence,” the APC chieftain added.
The APC, it is believed is putting Kabiru as a placeholder to beat the deadline given by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) for presidential candidates to submit the names of their running mates.
INEC had given a Friday, June 17th, deadline for the submission of the names.
The Oyo State Government on Friday presented Nine thousand, two hundred and twenty-seven letters of promotion to primary school Teachers on Grade level 13-15 in the State.
This was revealed today by the Executive Chairman, Oyo State Universal Basic Education Board, Dr. Nureni Aderemi Adeniran during the symbolic presentation of 2017-2020 letters to Seven Thousand, Four-Hundred and Sixty Teachers.
He said the pending promotion letters are in fulfillment of Governor Seyi Makinde’s promises to teachers in the State.
Dr. Adeniran noted that the category of teachers who received their letters of promotion were placed on a six years waiting period by the previous administrations, adding that this policy had affected the morale of teachers in Public Primary Schools, because their counterparts in the Secondary Schools were not affected by the policy.
“I am pleased to be here this morning at the official presentation of Promotion letters to our teachers from the grade level 13 to 15. You are all aware that a similar programme was held in October, 2021 for teachers and non-teaching staff”, he said.
Adeniran appreciated the Executive Governor of the State, Engineer Seyi Makinde for his love for teachers, which was demonstrated by the approval granted, that six years waiting period be reverted with immediate effect.
“This by implication means that all teachers affected are going to enjoy their promotions with a month’s arrears and this takes financial effect from the month of June, 2022”, he said.
Dr. Adeniran added that teachers that have retired from service, in the course of processing the approval for the lifting of the six year waiting period will also enjoy the promotion due to them, simply by applying for the re-computation of their gratuity and pension in line with the Pension Act.
Adeniran said, “The present administration has positively impacted the lives of both public and Civil Servants because of its people oriented policies. In view of this, I want to admonish all our teachers to ensure that, to whom much is given, much is expected”.
He therefore called for the support of teachers, adding that the State Government, under Governor Seyi Makinde’s leadership has left no stone unturned to better the lot of teachers in the State.
“This administration will request your support to enjoy continuity of prompt payment of salaries and promotion as and when due, as well as, a conducive working milieu”, he said.
Dr. Nureni Aderemi Adeniran acknowledged the support of the Nigerian Union of Teachers, (NUT) and Association of Primary School Head-teachers of Nigeria, (AOPSHON) Oyo State Branch to the success of this exercise.
“In all, a total number of Nine Thousand, Two Hundred and Twenty-seven (9,227) letters of promotion were produced for teachers on GL. 13-15”, he said.
“This has taken care of those that will benefit from two promotions. Once again, I wish to admonish all teachers to be patient and appreciative of the present administration’s various kind gestures, geared towards ameliorating their sufferings, improving their career progression and their well-being, all of which are unprecedented. These gestures can only be reciprocated by being more committed to their duties at all times, with a view to ensuring improved learning outcomes in our schools”, Adeniran added.
Speaking earlier, the NUT Chairman, Com. Raji Oladimeji assured the State Government that the gesture of the state governor would never be forgotten, adding that this would further encourage teachers in Primary schools to deliver good, qualitative and efficient education to the pupils across the state.
The event was attended by Principal officers of NUT, AOPSHON, Directors at OYOSUBEB, Teachers, among others.
