Ilorin Emirate Descendants Progressive Union, IEDPU, has condemned an offensive billboard advertisement portraying the people of Ilorin as drunkards.
The union, an umbrella sociocultural organisation, expressed it concern in a statement issued on Friday in Ilorin.
The statement signed by its National Publicity Secretary, Nurudeen Ibrahim, called on relevant authorities to order those responsible for the alleged offensive advertisement to swiftly remove it.
The union said the advertisement, promoting a particular brand of alcoholic beer on a billboard along Offa Garage Road, Ilorin, deliberately portrayed the people of Ilorin as drunks.
According to Ibrahim, the message contained in the advertisement, made reference to Ilorin and its people as drunkard, “to si e gege bi Omo Ilorin”.
He said that the information was clearly offensive, stressing that the advertisement is deliberately planted to provoke the people of Ilorin emirate.
Mr Ibrahim said the advertisement was a liberty taken too far, and called for its removal “to discourage a resort to self-help from the concerned members of the community”.
He noted that advertisement of products that seemed to infringe on the culture of a given community should always be discouraged.
Mr Ibrahim said that the message on the billboard attaching alcohol to the people of Ilorin, a predominantly Muslim community, was a deliberate provocative act.
The union therefore appealed to the relevant government agencies to remove the advertisement and warned advertising agencies to be meticulous in their services.
Mr Ibrahim however appealed to the people of Ilorin emirate to remain calm and peaceful while necessary actions were being taken in resolution of the matter.
The Peoples Democratic Party has demanded resignation of Ondo State Governor, Rotimi Akeredolu SAN.
In a statement made available to newsmen by State Party as read in party:
“The handlers and managers of Mr Rotimi Akeredolu, SAN, Governor of Ondo State, have once again proved that, they are not on top of their assignments. They will rather take everybody in the state for granted.
“Since Sahara Reporters reported that the governor is bedridden and incapacitated, Akeredolu’s handlers responded by fueling public anxiety and suspicion, instead of telling the State, where exactly he is, or getting him to address Ondo State, from wherever he is on planet earth.
“When Akeredolu did not return to his duty post after his celebrated annual leave in March this year, tongues started wagging. At the inauguration of President Bola Tinubu in Abuja, Akeredolu was conspicuously absent.
“The deafening silence from government information machinery suddenly saturated social media space with old videos of Akeredolu dancing and singing praises.
“On the eve of the inauguration of 10th Ondo State House of Assembly, there were reports of an ‘Owo cabal’ led by Akeredolu’s heir apparent, Babajide mobilising Members-elect to make a legislator from Owo Speaker, as a fall back position to retain the leadership of the state in Owo, in the event of the worst happening, after impeaching the incumbent Deputy Governor.
“These speculations almost put the state on edge until this morning when the Ondo State House of Assembly retained the present power structure of Speakership of the Assembly in Ondo Central Senatorial District.
“If Akeredolu’s handlers had done the needful, the state would have been spared the unnecessary anxiety.
As mortals, any human being can fall sick. Whether in public office or private life. Rotimi Akeredolu is employed by the people of Ondo State, maintained with taxpayers’ money. So, it is criminal and a great disservice to keep mum over his health status and his whereabouts.
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Ondo State Chapter, demands that, those hiding the governor should tell the people where he is to save the state from speculation.
In 2010, when then President Umar Yar’Adua was incapacitated due to ill-health, Akeredolu was one of the most vociferous voices, calling for his resignation and allowing the then Vice-President to take over. If for whatever reason, Akeredolu can no longer discharge his official responsibilities, the most reasonable thing to do is to hand over to the Deputy Governor as required by the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (as amended).
Our party joins millions of Ondo State people to pray for Akeredolu’s quick recovery, but nobody should play politics with his ill-health. Nobody should ground the state beyond its present state. Let Akeredolu resign, if he is no longer fit to be governor”.
ODUDUWA NEWS has gathered that the sum of Thirty Million Naira ransom has been demanded from the family of kidnapped Poultry farmer in Iseyin.
According to the family of the victim who revealed to ODUDUWA NEWS, the kidnapped Poultry farmer was kidnapped at his farmland at Corner-Odoogba, along Ipapo road, Iseyin area of Oyo State.
The victim identified as Soliu Alokongbo said to have been abducted last week Wednesday and was whisked away to an unknown location.
The abductors thereafter communicated with the family of the victim, demanding the sum of Thirty Million Naira to set him free.
Iseyin has been witnessing a surge in kidnapping in recent time as no fewer than five reported cases have been recorded in the last few months.
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).
