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Oyo Speaker Urges Women to Embrace Family Planning and Fewer Children

Let’s Embrace Family Planning, Fewer Children

In a statement released today by the Speaker of Oyo State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Debo Ogundoyin via his Twitter handle read as thus:

The economic reality and inevitable need for healthy families in Nigeria as the most populous country in Africa makes family planning an essential health concept.

The heavy stigmatization and misunderstanding of Family planning and contraception among couples deserve aggressive reorientation considering the Hundreds of thousands of women die in childbirth every year, child malnutrition and other family based social responsibilities.

Today’s Nigerian Urban Reproductive Health Initiative, NURHI 2 END OF PROJECT DISSEMINATION MEETING in Ibadan pointed clearly at the need for increase use of modern contraceptive methods and similar increase in the desire of women to have fewer children.

The Oyo State House of Assembly shall continually collaborate with NURHI and other local and international bodies towards improving both the supply of and demand for modern contraception. Policies shall be made to make working with health care workers and community clinics, religious leaders, government officials flexible to improve health care quality and access to contraception, ensuring there is adequate supply of these services.

Thank you for supporting our dream and lab our for healthy and safe families in Oyo State. I equally appreciate the recognition bestowed on me in acknowledgement my efforts in the public service.

Thank you.

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Oyo State Cancels Third Term of 2019/2020 Academic Calendar

The Oyo State Executive Council at its meeting today 21st of July 2020 has approved the academic calendar to guide resumption of schools and other associated educational activities in the State.

According to the approved calendar, Third Term 2019/2020 session has been cancelled and promotion of students, for all affected classes, will now be determined by First and Second Term Continuous Assessment.

Pry 6, JSS 3 and SSS 3 will proceed on holiday from 30th of July and resume for their Examination as follows; Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE)- 10th to 18th August 2020. Competitive Entrance Examination into the Schools of Science- 19th August 2020.

Placement/Screening Test to JSS1- 20th August 2020. Placement Test into Technical Colleges- 28th August 2020.

The SSS 3 will resume for their Examination as soon as WAEC announce the date. The 2020/21 academic session, according to the calendar approved by the State Council is as follows;

First Term- 21th September to 18th December 2020. Second Term- 11th January to 9th April 2021. Third Term- 3rd May to 30th July 2021

In a statement released by the Commissioner, Barr. Olasunkanmi Olaleye, the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology enjoins all stakeholders and members of the public to take note of the details of the academic calendar.

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Amotekun Corps in Oyo State will carry guns – Rtd. Gen. Togun

The Commandant General of Amotekun Corps in Oyo State, Rtd. Gen. Kunle Togun in a statement released today has made it known that the prospective corps of Amotekun will carry guns while discharging their duties.

He disclosed further that the corps will be empowered to investigate, arrest and handover the offenders to the police for further prosecution.

He however warns the prospective applicants to be wary of some group of syndicates who are going about in parading themselves as agents of the government by selling forms to defraud unsuspecting applicants. He disclosed further that the form can only be gotten on jobportal.oyostate.gov.ng being the only accredited website of Oyo State Government.

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Ondo Election: Akeredolu Wins APC Ticket

The Governor of Ondo State, Mr Rotimi Akeredolu, has emerged the candidate of the All Progressives Congress for the October 10 governorship election in the state.

The result was declared around 12.25am, Akeredolu won in all the local government areas of the state, defeating other seven contestants.

The primary of the APC was conducted with over 2,500 delegates from the 18 local government areas of the state who converged on the International Event Centre, Alagbaka, Akure, the state capital, to cast their votes.

Scores of armed security men from the police, the Department of State Services, the National Security and Civil Defence Corps and men of the Federal Road Safety Corps, were deployed in the venue of the exercise.

No fewer than eight aspirants finally contested for the ticket of the party after three aspirants stepped down for Governor Rotimi Akeredolu.

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Federal University of Oke-Ogun Bill: Aseyin and others speak at the Public Hearing

Today, Aseyin of Iseyin land, Oba Ganiyu Jimoh, Barr. Hammed Raji SAN, Okere of Saki among other stakeholders in Oke-Ogun made it to the Nigerian Senate Public Hearing on the establishment of Federal University of Agriculture, Oke-Ogun.

You will recall that the Sponsor of the Bill, Senator Fatai Buhari who represents Oyo North Senatorial District at the National Assembly made it known in the past that the Bill he started sponsoring from the 8th Assembly only scaled through the 1st reading but unable to be finally passed before the last Assembly came to an end. This neccessitated his unrelenting effort to pick the bill again in order to ensure speedy passage at the current 9th Assembly.

Currently, the Bill for the Establishment of Federal University of agriculture, Oke-Ogun is now at the Public Hearing stage where stakeholders in Oke-Ogun are making their contributions and inputs to aide the smooth passage of the Bill.

The Senate Committee on Tertiary Institutions and Tetfund earlier today held public hearing in respect of 3 number of bills targeted to improve Nigeria education sector. Among which is Distinguished Senator Buhari’s bill that seeks to establish Federal University of Agriculture and Technology, Oke Ogun.

Public Hearing is an important part of legislative process which affords the concerned public and the stakeholders the opportunity to make input that will shapen the decision of the parliament in legislative process and the gathering witnessed a large turn-out of the representatives from Oke-Ogun ranging from the Traditional Rulers, Professionals, colleagues from House of Representatives, educationists and others who have come to convince the committee on why it is not negotiable to establish the university of learning.

Senator Fatai Buhari in his remark, calls the attention of all stakeholders to ensure that the Bill is finally passed to law because Oke-Ogun blessed with both natural and human resources does not have any federal presence and a region that contributes immensely to the agricultural revolution we have been clamouring for cannot be left out in having its own University of Agriculture for rapid economic development.

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You will be arrested if you fail to use nose mask – Fayemi

Ekiti State Governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi, on Sunday expressed worry over violation of the COVID-19 regulations in the state, especially the failure my many residents to wear face mask.

The governor, who spoke through the state Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Mr Olawale Fapohunda, in Ado Ekiti, said special offences court where the violators would be prosecuted had been set up in the state, adding that in addition to fines, convicted offenders would be made to undergo community service.

Fapohunda said, “Mr Governor is very concerned about what appears to us to be widespread lack of compliance with the COVID-19 regulations in Ekiti State, particularly with the wearing of face mask.

“We are concerned that a large and an unacceptable number of our people continue to believe that the COVID-19 pandemic is not real. The state government is keen to correct that wrong impression. From Monday, the state government will begin the enforcement of these regulations.

Violators will be arrested and prosecuted in our special offences court. We are adopting various sanctions in addition to fines. Persons who are convicted may also be required to undertake community service. That is without prejudice to other punitive measures that the presiding magistrate may decide to impose.”

While reminding transport operators the need to reject passengers without face masks, Fapohunda said, “If somebody is not wearing mask, no okada rider should carry such person. We have told the road transportation union members that before they carry passengers, they must be sure that such passengers are wearing mask. They have the right to reject passengers that are not wearing mask. This is not about them; it is about all of us.” Fapohunda said.

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Three Fulani highway robbers arrested in Ogun – Police

The Ogun State Police Command have made it known yesterday that they have arrested three Fulani teenagers for highway robbery in the Alapako area on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway.

The suspects, Uzefa Idris, 19; Adamu Yakubu, 18; and Ayuba Buhari, 17, were arrested following a distress call received by the Divisional Police Officer, Owode Egba Division, SP Matthew Ediae.

The Force Public Relations Officer in the state, Abimbola Oyeyemi, stated this in a statement on Sunday.

Oyeyemi said the DPO was informed that a Mazda bus was forcefully stopped on the highway by a gang of armed robbers and the occupants were being dispossessed of their belongings.

The PPRO stated, “Upon the receipt of the distress call, the DPO, Owode Egba, SP Matthew Ediae, quickly led his anti-robbery team to the scene.

“On sighting the policemen, the hoodlums took to their heels but were chased into the bush, where three of them were apprehended.”

Oyeyemi explained that the driver of the bus, Zacheaus Olaniyi, and a passenger was rescued from the robbers.

He said the police were able to recover N545,000 and one itel phone belonging to a passenger, Oluwakemi Oyegade, from the hoodlums.

Oyeyemi stated, “The two victims narrated that the hoodlums jumped on the road from the bush and forcefully stopped the vehicle, consequent upon which they started beating them with machetes before dispossessing them of their valuables.

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ODUDUWA INTERVIEW: COVID-19 and the Agony of Private School Teachers

It is no longer new that the closure of schools has brought severe hardship to the owners and teachers of private schools having stayed at home for almost four months without financial aids from the government to ameliorate their sufferings.

Today, OduduwaNews crew interviewied some teachers and owners of private schools and stated below the accounts of their ordeal since the beginning of the pandemic.

Adekola Abosede who is a teacher in a private school said “Private school teachers are only depending on the mercy of God, the school fees the Proprietors collected in March have not been paid out as March salary, it is getting worse, parents of children doing home lessons too are also broke, some have taken their children to learn skills. May God help us in this country.

Mark Chidibere a Lagos based teacher in his account, said “four months ago till date no source of survival. We are grossly downtrodden! The proprietors have been in a state of incommunicado since and kept us in a state of penury now. Your help will go a long way.
May fragrance never leave the hands that give rose.

Azeez Ajisafe, a Proprietor while lamenting the economic hardship the COVID-19 has brought to them, said “we, the proprietors are having a rethink on diversifying. We are all in it. We are all frustrated. However, if everybody is discouraged from investing in school business or decided to leave private teaching, who will teach your children? It’s obvious all our children can’t attend Nigerian public schools. Bulk of our frustration should be directed to the government for not doing the needful to ameliorate the suffering of those who have temporarily or fully lost their jobs due to this pandemic.

Olabisi Crown while lamenting said
“Let me tell you my pain, I am a school teacher in a private school, no salaries from March till now, the okada machine I used to go to work in school has been diverted to commercial okada riding, though, I used to do it early in the morning just for few ours in Lagos. My bike was taken from me by the police saying they have banned okada, I narrated my predicament to them but they did not listen,I showed them my ID card, they refused to understand my plight, they demanded for 30k for my bike to be released. Imagine, on that day I was only having N435 with me and I needed to buy foods and drugs. Government should come to our aides as life is unbearable as I speak to you.

A school owner in Ibadan, Olamide Adebayo while talking to OduduwaNews crew lamented the current state of the economy. He said even before the pandemic some of them who are private school owners were surviving on loans with the belief that they would repay them back when they start receiving school fees but their expectation was dashed by the sudden outbreak of the pandemic. He calls on government to assist them as some of them may not be able to go back to classes again and this will affect the already crumbling education sector.

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Ondo Election: Akeredolu sues for peace in APC

Ondo State Governor, Arakunrin Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, SAN, has received the Reconciliation Committee of the All Progressives Congress (APC) for the state, led by the Governor of Niger State, Abubakar Bello.

The committee, which was set up by the APC Caretaker/Extra Convention Planning Committee, is in the state to meet with leaders and members of the party in the state.

Receiving members of the committee at his office, Alagbaka, Akure, Governor Akeredolu said the APC is in the heart of the people of the state.

He said what the people desire is for the dividend of good governance to be visible, adding that his administration has delivered in terms of the yearnings and aspirations of the people of the state.

Arakunrin Akeredolu said: “In our short time here as servant of the people, we have tried to do our best. Not because we are the best, but because God has allowed us to do it. I’m confident and I give all glory to God.

“I want to assure you that this is a safe state for APC. We will win this state, except we come with shenanigans and today, it is a thing of the past. In a free and fair primary, we will win.”

Speaking on his efforts in the development of the state, Akeredolu said: “We have an industrial hub now, we have over six industries working. Other than Ajasin in 1979, no one has added industry to this state.

“We came, there was carnage on our road in Ore and people usually die at a cross section there. We built a redemption bridge and puta permanent end to the carnage. In Akure here, we have done massive infrastructure. APC has done wonders in this state. The people of this state know. APC will win this state any day, any time.”

On the issue of reconciliation, Governor Akeredolu said the leaders and other members of the party must give room for reconciliation.

“We must allow for peace. Let us get all of us the aspirants to sign that whoever wins, others will support him. Anybody I have offended I will apologise to the person. We must allow peace,” Akeredolu said.

Earlier, the Chairman of APC Ondo Reconciliation Committee and Governor of Niger State, Abubakar Bello said the main objective of the committee in the state is to reconcile party members and all APC faithful.

The Niger State Governor, who described Akeredolu as a performer, said the success of the party in the next election is paramount, stressing that the reconciliation committee was set up for the purpose of ensuring the party success in the state.

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