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Breadmakers, under the aegis of Premium Breadmakers Association of Nigeria (PBAN), have begun a four-day warning strike over the rising cost of baking materials.
The duration of the strike action will be extended if the government fails to intervene, Babalola Thomas, the association’s spokesperson said in a statement sent to Journalists on Tuesday.
The association said that should the federal government fail to intervene, the duration of the strike will be extended.
The National Association of Nigerian Students NANS has vowed to join Nigeria Labour Congress NLC in the proposed nationwide protest.
This was contained in a statement made available today by the President of the association, Asefon Sunday as read in part:
“On behalf of members of NANS, I wish to commend the National Leadership of the Nigerian Labour Congress for their steadfastness and commitment to join forces with well meaning Nigerians to advocate for the end of the protracted ASUU Strike.
“While NANS has organised various protest in the past with no substantial results, also our advocacy and consultation has not yielded any desirable result. We have activated political solution and we are very hopeful that an end is in the purview.
“However, we are in total support of the planned protest by NLC as we believe this will stem up the advocacy and assist in no mean measure to put adequate pressure on the Federal Government to do all that is required to stop the strike.
“I therefore direct all NANS structures across the country to mobilize and join NLC protest. NANS will only be involved in the mobilization of students to the protest sites and will act based on the direction provided by the NLC. NANS structures across the country shall submit to the leadership of NLC all through the protest.
“Once again, I commend NLC and it’s leadership for their thoughtfulness and solidarity at this critical time”.
Following various complaints and allegations of continuous abuse of female students in the Federal Government Girls College, Oyo, and the petition written to the Nigeria Association of Women Journalists (NAWOJ), Oyo State chapter by concerned parents, Oyo NAWOJ on Sunday, July 18, 2022, demanded that relevant authorities take immediate action to halt such alleged abuses.
NAWOJ also called for the suspension of the principal of the school, to allow thorough investigation in the matter.
NAWOJ, speaking through its chairperson, Comrade Jadesola Ajibola, at a Press Conference held at the NUJ Press Centre, Iyaganku, Ibadan, called on the Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, to immediately set up an investigation panel to look into the alleged molestation of the girls, sexual harassment and all forms of abuse against students of FGGC, Oyo.
NAWOJ also called on the Registrar of the Teachers Registration Council of Nigeria (TRCN), Professor Segun Ajiboye, who it described as an outstanding indigenous son of Oyo state, to investigate the attitude of these registered teachers without delay and take appropriate action.
“We demand the immediate suspension of the principal to allow for thorough investigation on the matter and the PTA Chairman also should resign with immediate effect as the Concerned Parents claim they no longer have confidence in your leaderships as it portends more danger to the lives of the girls in the school.
“And as the alleged perpetrators are undoubtedly members of the Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT), we call on Comrade Raji Oladimeji to look into this issue further.
“As an association, we will not relent on our oars until we get justice for the survivor of the recent abuse, a minor who was regularly sexually abused and violated and other victims in that school.
“Also, we ask that the Federal Government who owns the school to set up a committee and make Oyo NAWOJ one of the members to investigate the alleged sexual abuse perpetrated against these students and bring any erring staff to justice,” NAWOJ demanded.
While condemning what is now called the sexual siege on FGGC Oyo and any form of violation against the rights of any child in the state in its totality, Oyo NAWOJ stated that it believed that by now, the leadership of the school ought to have set up a panel to investigate the dangerous trend reported by concerned parents of the school.
The association commended the Oyo state Police Command under the leadership of the new Commissioner of Police, CP Adebowale Williams, for taking up the recent incident involving a 14 year-old girl who was sexually molested and abused by her teacher and urged the CP to speed up investigations and start prosecution of the accused teacher before a court of competent jurisdiction within the state without delay.
NAWOJ also called on Governor Seyi Makinde and his wife to support in ensuring justice for the victims and provide more protection for pupils and students in the state, while warning others who are constantly engaging in the inhuman acts to stop it immediately as the law would surely catch up with them shortly.
Oyo NAWOJ also dvised parents to do more in ensuring the protection of their children at all times, adding that NAWOJ remains the voice for the voiceless in the country and would continue to respond to calls of this nature from other schools where some violators were still perpetrating such an act.
In her contribution, a representative of the Concerned Parents, Faniyan Nancy, stated that the molestation and defilement of girls in FGGC, Oyo has been on for over a decade within the school but became worse under the current principal, adding that parents could not continue to watch while the school sweeps cases under the carpet without considering the effect of the sexual abuses on the children.
Also speaking, another parent, Honourable Adewale Adebayo, said the parents had to shout out as rather than diminish, cases of teachers in the school abusing students sexually continue to rise and many students have been destroyed psychologically.
“We cannot close our eyes to this menace that can truncate the future of our children. Perpetrators must be made to face the law especially since the management of the school has been covering up such incidents in the past for months and refusing to take disciplinary actions against the perpetrators when such cases are reported,” he added.
The Ajafeto Youth Forum held official launching of its socio-cultural group yesterday at Award Hall, Akinyele Local Government Council of Oyo State.
According to ODUDUWA NEWS correspondent at the event, the Convener of the group, Okesanmi Taiwo, while speaking used the ocassion to highlight aims and objectives of the group and affirmed that the forum is not affiliated to any political party.
The theme of the programme: “A Developing Nigeria, Youths As A Driving Force” was discussed by the former Oyo State Commissioner for Works and Transport, Prof. AbdulRahman Afonja who spoke on the need for Nigerian youths to position themselves for the task of leadership.
He averred that the youths should also ensure that they discharge their responsibilities well whenever they are tested with leadership role.
“When I was serving I always ensured that I attended to any file that came to my table without any delay and that aided productivity. I thank Gov. Makinde for the privilege given to me and I use this medium to solicit for his re-election because he has performed creditably well”, said Afonja.
The second speaker, Barrister Wuraola Ayodele-George while speaking said, Nigerians are blessed with alot of innovative youths that can turn the economy around. She further stated that youths need to get involved in leadership role to tackle the challenges of economy, power and security confronting the nation.
Among the guests at the programme were the State PDP Youth Leader, General Manager of Amuludun FM, and several others.
Nollywood actor, Olanrewaju James alias Baba ijesha has been sentenced to five years imprisonment after he was found guilty of indecent treatment and sexual assault of a minor which occurred between 2013-2014.
Justice Oluwatoyin Taiwo of the Lagos state sexual offenses court sitting in Ikeja found that the prosecution successfully proved counts 2 and 3, that he indecently placed the then seven year old child on his laps and rubbed her private part.
He was also found guilty of counts 4 and 5, where he was accused of again indecently touching the same minor and sexually assaulting her seven years later at her home by rubbing her body and sucking her fingers.
The minor is a foster child of comedienne, Damilola Adekoya aka princess. But justice Taiwo found him not guilty of count 1 which deals with allegedly sexually assaulting the minor by penetration with his car key seven years ago.
The court also found him not guilty of count 6, where he was accused of attempted sexual assault by penetration during another encounter with the minor in April 2021.
Congratulatory messages have been sent to Alao-Akala family as the first son of the late ex-governor, Hon. Olamiju Alao-Akala, welcomed twins on Wednesday.
This information was released six months after Chief Alao Akala, his father and the former governor of Oyo, passed away at the age of 71.
On Easter Sunday, April 20, 2014, Olamiju, a 37-year-old former leader of Ogbomoo North Local Government in Oyo State, wed Hadiza Okoya, the daughter of tycoon Chief Rasaq Okoya.
Olamiju, on the other hand, is the first son of Chief Adebayo Alao-Akala, and Hadiza is the sole offspring of a relationship between Chief Okoya and his former Liberian wife.
Remember that Olamijuwonlo Alao-Akala won the All Progressives Congress APC House Reps primary election to represent Ogbomosho South, North and Oriire Federal Constituency.
A 54-year-old man, Dauda Bello was on July 7th arrested by operatives of Ogun state police command for allegedly k!lling one Mrs Mesesi Adisa, a 71 years old woman after which he cut off the victim’s wrists and ankles.
The suspect was arrested following the sudden disappearance of the victim, who left home since on the 8th of June 2022 and didn’t return home. The relation of the victim then reported a case of missing person at Sabo/Ilupeju police station.
The case was later transferred to the anti-kidnapping unit of the state criminal investigation department where technical and an intelligence-based investigation was embarked upon.
In the course of an investigation, the SP Taiwo Opadiran-led team traced the last place visited by the victim to be the house of the suspect at Olodo area of Imala. The suspect was subsequently arrested and taken into custody for investigation.
On interrogation, the suspect confessed to have known the victim for quite some time now, and that they were both into the business of child trafficking. He stated further that he invited the victim on that fateful day to discuss their usual business, but on getting to his house, he discovered that the victim came with what he thought was a huge amount of money. This made him to hit the woman on the head with a heavy wooden stick, which made the woman to be unconscious after which he carried the unconscious body of the victim to the bush where he finally sniffed life out of her.
He confessed further that when he searched the woman’s body, he discovered that the victim only had the sum of#22,200 (twenty-two thousand, two hundred naira) with her which he took with disappointment.
Having realized that his aim of getting much money from the victim was in vain, he decided to cut off her two wrists and ankles, which he claimed to have been sold to somebody who is now at large.
Confirming the incident to newsmen, the spokesperson of the state police command, DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi, said the suspect had taken the Police to the bush where he buried the victim in a shallow grave, and the dismembered body.
A member of Oyo State House of Assembly, Honourable Ademola Popoola Segun Representing Ibadan Southeast constituency II has been reportedly dead.
Hon. Popoola died last night at University College Hospital ( UCH ) after suffering from Kidney related disease, report said.
Popoola was the Chairman House Committee on Local Government and Chieftaincy Matters. He died at the age of 46.
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Akinade Alamu, the chairman of the Oyo State Post-Primary Teaching Service Commission (TESCOM), has stated that the state’s current data collection on recently hired teachers is not in the least bit religiously motivated.
The Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) objected to the choice to hold the exercise on Monday and Tuesday on the basis that those two days had been set aside for the Eid-el-Kabir holiday, but the TESCOM Chairman responded by stating that the exercise had been arranged long before the holiday was announced.
Additionally, he said that the exercise is a continuous process and is not intended to punish anyone.
He continued by saying that the initiative aims to further strengthen accountability and openness in the ongoing recruitment operations.
The chairman said: “It is important to place on record that the ongoing screening exercise is not intended to deny our Muslim brothers and sisters the benefit of enjoying the Sallah break declared by the Federal Government.
“The whole exercise is aimed at strengthening the
state’s adherence to transparency in the course of the recruitments undertaken so far.
“It is part of the state’s quest to affirm compliance of the state to transparency and accountability in the recruitment of staff across the Ministries, Departments, and Agencies.
“The exercise is an ongoing process that started last week and is meant to capture the data of the State Government staff recruited in the last two years into the database of the Ministry of Finance.
“It is in fulfillment of the national transparency initiative signed into by the State Government
“We had originally designed that the exercise would hold all through the weekend but had to suspend the same on Saturday and Sunday in view of the Eid-Kabir celebrations.
“The exercise is not only for the Teaching Service Commission but for all Ministries, Departments and Agencies that conducted recruitment since the beginning of Governor ‘Seyi Makinde’s administration and a provision had been made for the rescheduling of the exercise so that all new employees would be captured.
“The rescheduling was to be arranged by the Ministry of Finance and the MDAs.
“One is, therefore, surprised to see that any group could insinuate that such an exercise, aimed at institutionalizing transparency, could be tagged as one meant to debar Muslims of the benefits of the national holiday.
“Such an insinuation is misconceived and a clear misrepresentation of the state’s clear and noble intention.”
Perennial flood which occurred in Oko-Oba, Orile Agege area of Lagos State, has reportedly swept a Lexus Jeep with four occupants on board.
The incident occurred at Oyatoki axis.
Another jeep with three occupants on board was said to be trapped in the flood but they were able to escape from the jeep.
However, the wave of the flood has prevented them from being rescued to a safer place.
It was learnt that men of Lagos State Fire and Rescue Service later arrived the scene and embarked on rescue operation.
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