The Ogun State Police Command has got a new Police Public Relations Officer, Omolola Odutola.
Odutola’s appointment followed the redeployment of the erstwhile spokesman of the command, Abimbola Oyeyemi, to Oyo State.
Announcing his redeployment on Thursday, Oyeyemi appreciated newsmen for their support throughout his stay in office as the PPRO in Ogun State.
“You people made my job easier as i enjoyed the best of reportage from your various platforms. You people made me to be very popular beyond my own expectations,” he said.
Oyeyemi noted that there is time for everything, adding that, “it’s time for me to leave, as my service is needed elsewhere. Kindly extend the same cooperation to my successor.”
VOA News reports that the new Ogun PPRO, SP Odutola, a trained lawyer and a criminologist, enlisted into the Nigeria Police Force as a Cadet Assistant Superintendent of Police as a member of ASP Course 25, 2012.
Odutola has served at the Ondo State Police Command and was the first Public Relations Officer of the Maritime Command, Force Headquarters Annex, Kam Salem House, Obalende, Lagos.
An alumnus of Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ago Iwoye, Ogun State, Odutola is a member of several professional bodies which include the Nigeria Bar Association (NBA) and the Nigeria Institute of Public Relations (NIPR).
It was learnt that the residents of Ibadan area flee for safety as sporadic gunshots rented the air along Iwo road axis Wednesday evening.
In a report gathered from an anymonous source, members of the recently sacked PMS Chair’ fondly called Auxiliary on Wednesday evening resurfaced and stormed Iwo road to take back their parks after being sacked by Governor Seyi Makinde.
Reports have it that Auxiliary boys reportedly attack car drivers and residents around Wema, Iwo Road Ibadan.
The details of this incident is still sketchy as at the pressing time.
Governor Seyi Makinde, on Wednesday, approved the appointment of Miss Ololade Ajibola as the Senior Special Assistant (Special Duties); Alhaji Akeem Azeez as Personal Assistant (1); Mr. Samson Adejumo as Personal Assistant (2) and Mr. Isah Kabir as Principal Secretary to the Executive Governor.
This was contained in a statement signed by the Chief of Staff to the Governor, Otunba Segun Ogunwuyi.
According to the statement, the appointment is with immediate effect.
The governor, while congratulating the new appointees, asked them to see their appointments as a further call to service and urged them to discharge their duties with absolute loyalty, dedication and diligence.
The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited on Wednesday said it has adjusted pump prices of Premium Motor Spirit, popularly known as fuel or petrol, across their retail outlets, in line with current market realities.
The corporation made this known in a press statement signed by the Chief Corporate Communications Officer, Garba Deen Muhammad, and shared on its Twitter page.
The statement said, “NNPC Limited wishes to inform our esteemed customers that we have adjusted our pump prices of PMS across our retail outlets in line with current market realities.
“As we strive to provide you with the quality service for which we are known, it is pertinent to note that prices will continue to fluctuate to reflect market dynamics. We assure you that NNPC Limited is committed to ensuring a ceaseless supply of products.
“The company sincerely regrets any inconvenience this development may have caused. We greatly appreciate your continued patronage, support, and understanding during this time of change and growth.
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.
