The former lawmaker who represented Kajola Local Government Constituency at Oyo State House of Assembly, Hon. Mustapha Akeem has received certificate of return as elected council chairman from the Oyo State Independent Electoral Commission OYSIEC.
The presentation of the certificate was held yesterday at the OYSIEC State Secretariat.
The Chairman of OYSIEC, Aare Isiaka Abiola Olagunju SAN while presenting the certificate of return advised the newly elected Council Chairmen to ensure that they fulfill their electoral promises.
The Vice Chairman-Elect of Kajola Local Government, Dr. Adeniji Charles Robert also received his certificate of return.
Hon. Mustapha Akeem in his words while speaking to Oduduwa News Correspondent, expressed his appreciation to the Executive Governor of Oyo State, Engr. Seyi Makinde for his great leadership role in ensuring hitch free council election.
He equally thanked the people of his Local Government and the PDP members for the mandate given to him to steer the affairs of the council.
The National Examinations Council (NECO) has digitised the recruitment process for examination supervisors and assistant supervisors.
The supervisors are for the Basic Educationn Certificate Examination (BECE) and the Senior School Certificate Examination (SSCE) internal and external.
This is contained in a statement made available to journalists in Abuja on Sunday by Azeez Sani, acting director, information and digital communication of the council.
Mr Sani said the digitalisation is to check sharp practices in the recruitment process and to enhance efficiency and effective service delivery.
He said the digitalisation process involved migration from the manual recruitment of supervisors and assistant supervisors to an online system.
Mr Sani said this would ensure that supervisors nomination form, appointment letters and supervisors e-photo Albums were generated on-line.
He also said the routine swapping of supervisors and assistant supervisors during the examination would be done online.
He urged interested qualified teachers with NCE, degree certificate, masters degree, PhD and professors who are eligible to apply as supervisors and assistant supervisors for BECE or SSCE internal or external to do so.
It could be recalled that before the digitalisation system, recruitment of supervisors and assistant supervisors was done manually by the council.
Grade A Customary Court, Mapo, Ibadan, Oyo State has adjourned till June 3, further hearing in the divorce suit brought before it by a man, Ige, against his wife, Sikira, whom he accused of irresponsibility and infidelity.
Ige added that Sikira was a dupe.
According to Ige, Sikira lacked the ability to take proper care of him and their children and always carried out her duties towards them in a lackadaisical manner.
The plaintiff explained further that the defendant encouraged him to employ the service of a particular plumber when he was building his house, but unknowing to him, the man was her lover.
Ige stated that Sikira was having sexual affair with the plumber on a regular basis while he was at work.
The plaintiff added that the defendant connived with the plumber to dupe him by adding extra amount to every item he bought when carrying out plumbing work at his site.
Ige said that Sikira eventually moved out of his house and went with all his property.
The plaintiff stated that he desired a fresh start and therefore wanted a clean cut from his wife, which was why he was in court.
The defendant denied all the allegations brought against her but gave in to divorce.
The defendant described the plaintiff as the pot calling the kettle black.
According to the defendant, the plaintiff was in the habit of drinking himself to stupour and beating her.
She told the court how she caught her husband having sex with a teenager in their apartment.
Sikiral further explained that he once came back home drunk and that he beat and tore her clothes to shreds.
She added that he took the nude pictures of her and sent it to his girlfriend.
The family of Olaogun in Ota, has put the general public on alert as their 11 year old daughter, Olaogun Pamilerin goes missing.
In a chat with Oduduwa News Correspondent, mother of the missing child, Mrs Oluwayemisi (Nene), said she was last seen on Tuesday, 30th of April, 2024 when she left the house for Zion Methodist School, Ota. However, her whereabouts has since remain unknown since she allegedly left school after closing hours.
She described Pamilerin as a dark complexioned, slim girl of moderate height and 11 years of age who resides at No, 13, Oriadetu street, Bayo Block, Oju-ore, Ota in Ogun state.
Mrs Oluwayemisi said the family has made several frantic efforts to find their missing daughter as they have reported the case at Onipanu Police Station, the Palace of Olota of Ota and with other relevant security agencies.
She however, urged the general public to be be on a look out for Pamilerin and that any effort made to reconcile her with her family would be well appreciated.
Mrs Oluwayemisi said that she can be reached via 07035554767, 09053655154, or 09137188577 incase there is any information regarding her whereabouts.
The federal government last night approved a pay rise of between 25 and 35 per cent for civil servants across various consolidated salary structures.
The announcement was made on the eve of May Day, or Labour Day, which is celebrated worldwide to recognise and honour the achievements and contributions of the working class.
The announcement came ahead of the submission of the report of the 37-member tripartite committee on national minimum wage, led by Bukar Goni Aji, a former Head of Civil Service of the Federation (HoCS), which was inaugurated in January this year.
A statement signed by the Head of Press, National Salaries, Incomes, and Wages Commission (NSIWC), Emmanuel Njoku, said the increases took effect from January 1, 2024. But the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) said the announcement was “a waste of time.”
In an interview with Daily Trust last night, the NLC Assistant General Secretary, Chris Onyeka, said the commission does not have power
The Federal Government has approved an increase of between 25% and 35% in salary Increase for Civil Servants on the remaining six Consolidated Salary Structures
The Salary Structure is the Consolidated Public Service Salary Structure (CONPSS), Consolidated Research and Allied Institutions Salary Structure (CONRAISS), Consolidated Police Salary Structure (CONPOSS), Consolidated Para-military Salary Structure (CONPASS), Consolidated Intelligence Community Salary Structure (CONICCS) and Consolidated Armed Forces Salary Structure (CONAFSS).
It will be recalled that those in the Tertiary Education and Health Sectors had already received their increases which involved Consolidated University Academic Salary Structure (CONUASS) and Consolidated Tertiary Institutions Salary Structure (CONTISS) for Universities.
For Polytechnics and Colleges of Education, it involved the Consolidated Polytechnics and Colleges of Education Academic Staff Salary Structure (CONPCASS) and Consolidated Tertiary Educational Institutions Salary Structure (CONTEDISS).
The Health Sector also benefitted through the Consolidated Medical Salary Structure (CONMESS) and Consolidated Health Sector Salary Structure (CONHESS).
A statement signed by the Head of Press, National Salaries, Incomes and Wages Commission (NSIWC), Emmanuel Njoku said the increases take effect from 1st January 2024.
The Federal Government has also approved increases In pension of between 20% and 28% for pensioners on the Defined Benefits Scheme in respect to the above-mentioned six consolidated salary structures with effect from 1st January 2024.
Independent Petrol Marketers Association of Nigeria IPMAN has stated yesterday that the ongoing petrol shortage, which is affecting an increasing number of states in the country, is expected to take around two weeks to resolve.
Although the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited, NPCL, affirmed yesterday that it possesses sufficient supply of the product.
The Public Relations Officer of IPMAN, Chinedu Ukadike, mentioned that the product is currently unavailable in the country due to challenges in sourcing caused by ongoing maintenance at refineries in Europe.
“The situation is that there is no product. Once there is a lack of supply or inadequate supply, what you will see is scarcity and queues will emerge at filling stations.
“On the part of NNPCL, which is the sole supplier of petroleum products in Nigeria, they have attributed the challenge to logistics and vessel problems.
“Once there is a breach in the international supply chain, it will have an impact on domestic supply because we depend on imports. I also have it on good authority that most of the refineries in Europe are undergoing turnaround maintenance, so sourcing petroleum products has become a bit difficult.
“NNPC Group CEO has assured us that there will be improvement in the supply chain because their vessels are arriving. Once that is done, normalcy will return. This is because once the 30-day supply sufficiency is disrupted, it takes two to three months to restore it.
“We expect that by next week or so, NNPC should be able to restore supply and with another week, normalcy should return”.
“NNPC has said the marketers who have not been able to renew their licences will not be allowed to remain on their portal which has been shut for some time now. Because of this, we have not been able to request new products.
“At this nascent period of deregulation, you will discover that this leads to scarcity, even when the product arrives. As it is now, even by their data, out of 15,000 marketers that are on the portal with licences, only 1,050 renewed their licences.
“The requirement for renewal by NMDPRA is so much. Marketers are facing a hostile environment. NNPC placed a deadline of April 15, 2024, for marketers to renew their licences.
“We are, therefore, appealing to NNPC to extend this deadline and also to NMDPRA to hasten the release of licences of marketers who have completed their processes, and also reduce bottlenecks around licence renewals”.
Stakeholders in the laboratory profession have called on the Nigerian government as well as State Governors to put more funds into laboratory research works to stem the capital flight crisis the country is facing due to foreign testing by Nigerians.
The call was made on Tuesday at the celebration of the 2024 World Laboratory Day by Independent Laboratory Owners in Nigeria, which held at Lagos.
The gathering which was aimed at calling attention to the need for people to undergo laboratory testing, included stakeholders in the laboratory profession among whom were industrialists, laboratory workers and owners as well as students.
Part of the advocacy effort include a live Television interview programme named ‘Kutuhai’ on the Broadcasting Corporation of Oyo State (BCOS), where the immediate past President of Society of Testing Laboratory Analysts of Nigeria, Dr. Femi Oyediran discussed the essence of the day in relation to public health.
In his address at the event with the theme “The Future Is Lab,” which held at LCCI Conference Center in Lagos, the Chairman of the occasion, Mr. Ademilola Adebayo, congratulated the practitioners on the annual celebration, saying the future of public health depended on laboratory of now and years to come, as there was no limit to innovation, scientific and technological breakthroughs. He went further to say “frontiers of knowledge must be expanded for meaningful growth and development.
In Nigeria however, the theme “Building The Culture of Testing For Healthy Living and Development” was chosen to address the peculiarity of our sovereign State. Culture of testing means continuously engaging in the conduct and observation of experiments and drawing valid conclusions, developing and sustaining this culture will lead to the production of good, safe and quality products that will meet national standard.
As testing laboratory professional of over five decades, the Chairman said there is need to build the culture of testing now than ever before, in order for people to live a healthy life and develop the nation.”
The body called for the urgent review of the practice by some regulatory agencies in the interest of Nigerians and the trade by curbing the unwholesome practice of allowing untested products or materials to be registered or circulated in the market. This is currently common in the country.
The President of SoTLAN, Prof. Olugbenga Ogunmoyela who was represented at the occasion by the first Vice President, Mr. Bolawa Gbolahan also advocated for the need to build a testing culture by Nigerians, adding that the laboratories play a vital role in ensuring the quality and safety of products, safeguarding public health and fostering economic development. He asked the federal and State governments to fund laboratory to broaden the frontiers of public health and reduce capital flight in the sector.
The Registrar and Secretary to the Council, Mr. Aliyu A. Angara, who was represented by Dr. Wole Opeoluwa congratulated all participants and called for reaffirmation of the commitment of the stakeholders to excellence, innovation, and collaboration. According to him, “together, let us strive to overcome challenges, embrace opportunities, and continue driving progress in the field of analysis for public health and of laboratory science in general.
A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief Ayirimi Emami, has urged Ondo State governor and winner of the party’s ticket for the forthcoming governorship election, Lucky Aiyedatiwa, to seek genuine reconciliation with all the aggrieved aspirants who contested with him ahead November off-season election in the state.
In the primary conducted by a team led by Kogi State Governor, Usman Ododo, Governor Aiyedatiwa was declared winner having polled 48, 569 in the Direct Primary exercise to defeat all the other 15 aspirants.
Some of the aspirants have since kicked against the outcome of the election, alleging that the Governor Ododo team did not follow the party guidelines.
Lauding Aiyedatiwa, the APC chieftain described his victory at the primary as testament of his impactful governance for the few months he has taken over as governor of Ondo state.
He urged him to broker peace with the aggrieved aspirants and accommodate them in the course of his campaigns for the overall interest of the party and development of the oil producing state.
Emami maintained that Governor Aiyedatiwa’s stance should be a no victor, no vanquished towards the other aspirants on the outcome of the primary, saying the cooperation of other aspirants would make the party’s victory seamless and accelerate the developmental strides being witnessed in the state.
He also appealed to other aspirants that contested the APC governorship primary to sheathe their sword and support the candidacy of Governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa.
Some of the contenders for the ticket included the senator representing Ondo South Senatorial District, Jimoh Ibrahim; Olusola Oke (SAN); former president of the Nigerian Medical Association, Prof. Francis Faduyile; a mechanical engineer, Dr Funmilayo Waheed-Adekojo and the national vice chairman of the APC (South APC (South West), Isaac Kekemeke.
Others are Dr Soji Ehinlanwo, Akinfolarin Samuel, Okunjimi Odimayo, Adewale Akinterinwa, Olugbenga Edema, Brig. Gen. Ohunyeye Olamide (retd), Morayo Lebi, Oladiran Iyatan and Engnr. Ifeoluwa Oyedele.
Pandemonium broke out at the Ladoke Akintola University Of Technology, LAUTECH, in the Ogbomoso area of Oyo State on Monday as a police officer allegedly gunned down a student and injured two others.
It was gathered that the unfortunate incident occurred when the police officer, who is yet to be identified, was invited to settle a misunderstanding between two people in the school.
While attempting to settle the matter, the officer reportedly shot sporadically into the air and, in the process, gunned down one student and injured two others.
The incident triggered a riot in the school as students locked the school gates in protest, demanding justice for the deceased.
When contacted, SP Adewale Osifeso, the Oyo State Police Public Relations Officer, told FBS-NEWS that he was busy but promised to revert.
