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Hon. Afolabi Afuape, 17 others Make Ogun Commissioners List

The immediate past Commissioner for Youths and Sports, Hon. Moruf Afolabi Afuape and seventeen others has made the commissioners list in Ogun State.

The list was made available at the house of assembly session for approval today during plenary session.
The nominees was said to have been carefully selected from the twenty local governments in Ogun State.

Below is the full list of the commissioners according to the house of assembly.

Ogun Commissioners Full List

Afolabi Afuape

Oludotun Taiwo

Ganiyu Hamzat

Mrs Funmi Efuape

Dr Kehinde Oluwadare

Bar Femi Ogunbanwo

Jagunmolu Jamiu Akande Omoniyi

Tunji Akinosi

Ade Adesanya

Dr Adeola Odedina

Prof Sidi Osho

Dapo Okubadejo

Dr Yomi Coker

Hon Abiodun Abudu Balogun

Gbolahan Adediwura

Tunji Odunlami

Laolu Olabintan.

Yoruba Youths Congratulates Ooni of Ife on 4th Year Coronation Anniversary

The apex Yoruba youth umbrella organization: Yoruba Council of Youths Worldwide heartily Congratulates His Imperial Majesty, Ooni Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi, Ojaja 11, The Ooni of Ife on the 4th Year Coronation Anniversary.

Indeed it has been a four years of monumental blessings beyond lips and bounds to the entire Yoruba race ever since the ascension of His Majesty to the highest spiritual throne in Yoruba Land, His Majesty has indeed resonate light and peace in Ile Ife, Yoruba Land, Nigeria and the entire global community at large, while promoting the aesthetic Yoruba cultural heritage and traditions. We are indeed grateful to God Almighty for given us a true born king whose time as brought unprecedented growth and development to the Ile Ife and entire Yoruba Land.

We are full of appreciation to His Imperial Majesty for giving all Nigerian Youths a voice and empowering the have-nots and downtrodden.

May God Almighty continue to enrich His Majesty with long life on good health, divine wisdom and supernatural grace.

Happy 4th Coronation Anniversary. E-Signed: Aare Barr Oladotun Hassan, President.

AKESAN DAY 2019 : ADEBUTU FELICTATES WITH ALAPERU OF IPERU

The Okanlomo of Akesan- Iperu Remo, Hon. Oladipupo Adebutu has sent his heartwarming greeting to the entire sons and daughters of Iperu, particularly, the Alaperu of Iperu, Oba Idowu Bosibo on the occasion of the 34th anniversary of AKESAN DAY which holds today, Saturday, 30th of November, 2019.

Adebutu, in a felicitation message released by his Media Consultant, Afolabi Orekoya, described the annual ‘AKESAN DAY’ as the pride of Iperu Kingdom, expressing optimism that the prayers that come with the festival this year will bring more progress and development to the town.

The message partly reads, “Let me humbly felicitate with our highly revered Monarch in Iperu, Oba Adeleke Bosibo and all the good people of Iperu on the occasion of the 34th annual AKESAN DAY celebration. It is my prayer that this year’s edition brings forth good tidings to our town.

I wish His Royal Highness a glorious celebration, excellent health and the divine wisdom to continue to lead us to greatness”.

He commended everyone participating in the festival for choosing to sustain the rich cultural heritage bequeathed on this generation by the forefathers. Adebutu further urged the good people of Iperu to use the celebration to forge closer ties with friends and neighbours.

Season Of Words Locks Down Benin Today

Season of words, SOW, another inspirational and innovative concept from African’s most consistent filmmaker, Sir Lancelot Oduwa Imasuen is set to lock down Benin City the capital of Edo State today Saturday November 30, 2019.

SOW, is a spoken word and poetry concert that will feature dance, music, comedy and lots more.

The concert will hold at National orientation agency hall, boundary road, GRA, Benin City with a red carpet starting at 3pm.

In recent years, Lancelot has been in the forefront of good Nigerians striving to eradicate joblessness among youths with establishment of various platforms to teach and empower youths via film making, poems, music and spoken words.

His school, Benin Film academy partnered with the Igbinedion university, Okada to award certificates to her students.

Lancelot Oduwa Imasuen is one of African’s greatest export in movie industry.

Ijagun Community honours Adebutu – Newsjaunts

Long before now, Ijagun, a community within Odogbolu Local Government area of Ogun State has been in total darkness. The need for electricity supply became so pressing that they (People in the community) had to contribute their personal funds to buy a transformer and also energize it.

On Thursday, 21st of November, 2019, the leaders and entire members of the community, called on Hon. Oladipupo Adebutu to commission the transformer. While this seems to have amazed a lot of people, a topnotch leader in the community, Chief M O Taiwo explained that it was the decision of the entire community to invite Hon. Adebutu for the commissioning due to his unquantifiable input in lightening up a huge number of communities which has prompted him to donate over two hundred transformers with his personal fund, a feat that has not been achieved by any individual in the State.

“What is happening here today is like giving honour to whom honour is due. We should not be surprised. Hon. Adebutu’s legacy will still earn him more of this. We are strongly convinced that if we had called on him for transformer, he would have donated it without delay. It was just our wish to get the transformer and invite him for commissioning.

What he has done across Ogun State in the past three years in terms of electrifying communities can’t be quantified. We are even more pleased that he yielded to our call, this is a reflection of his gentlemanliness and humility”, Chief Taiwo said.

In his remark, Hon. Adebutu thanked the leaders and entire community members for the honour. In his bid to reciprocate the honour, Hon. Adebutu promised to refund money for the transformer to the community leaders. The whole community was thrown into wild jubilation on hearing this gesture which was appreciated by the Community Leaders and will be committed to building the Community town hall.

LGA meeting: Abeokuta South APC Holds General Meeting

The members, leaders and stakeholders of APC Abeokuta South Local Government earlier today Wednesday 20th November, 2019 held the local government meeting.

The local Government meeting was held at the APC Abeokuta South Local Government Secretariat along Oke-Ejigbo road, Ijaiye, Abeokuta.

The local government was a carnival-like – aspirants vying for Local Government Chairmanship and Councillorship were seen with their supporters dancing-joyfully to register their intentions.

The Local Government meeting had a very large turnout, party Chieftains present include:

Chief Dr. Femi Majekodunmi, Hon. Afolabi Afuape, Hon. Femi Ilori, Alh. Chief Farouq, Balogun Nurudeen Olaleye, Chief Bisiriyu, Hon. Afees Balogun, SSA Tobi DOREGOS, Akogun Lati AILERU, Biodun Ajayi, among others.

Amosun meets AK Vanguard Stakeholders, makes next step known

For the first time since the 2019 General elections, Hon. Akeem Akintayo Amosun, (FCIB, FCS, MBA) has met with stakeholders under the auspices of AK Vanguard. This is coming after a similar meeting was held between Hon. Amosun and his political caucus about a week ago.

The meeting was held yesterday Sunday November 17th, 2019 at AkCity, Kemta Idi Aba Housing Estate, Abeokuta.

Hon. Amosun in his address appreciated the contributions of the gathering for their sacrifices and belief in his political career, pledging to continue to work for the interest of common man.

He added that he was determined to actualize his dreams come 2023 under a prominent political party, while appealing for understanding of all members of the platform.

Hon. Amosun noted if he had used a prominent party during the last elections, he could have been declared winner, adding that elections in the country, in view of the current happenings in the polity, can only be won by the two leading political parties.

He declared that arrangement had been concluded to join the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) ably led by Hon. Ladi Adebutu Kessington (LADO).

Speaking on the reason for the choice, Hon. Amosun noted that the current government led by the All Progressives Congress (APC) has not been able to put its house in order and would not be able to deliver its electoral promises to the Nigerian people.

He cited economic hardship, insecurity, internal infightings, corruption, disregard for rule of law and mindless rigging of elections as some of the challenges that could hamper the survival and relevance of the party against the next general elections.

Hon. Amosun assured the meeting that his decision to join the PDP would not derail him from championing the need for good governance across all levels starting from Abeokuta South Federal Constituency.

A few members of the platforms who spoke during the meeting commended the leadership style of the Convener, and charged him to work more in ensuring the success of the team at the new party level and during the coming general elections.

They promised total commitment to the actualization to *#AK4REPS2023*.

National Assembly okays autonomy for local governments, INEC to be in charge of Local Government elections!!!

The National Assembly on Tuesday, granted full financial and administrative autonomy to all the 774 local council authorities across Nigeria by amending section 124 of the nation’s constitution.

The section provides a consequential provision for the making of the local councils, a full third tier government without undue interference from the state governments.

The ammendment was one of the 22 others approved by the House of Representatives last week and ratified by the Senate on Tuesday.

Both chambers had through a conference committee harmonised versions of the ammendments into the constitution carried out by each of them last month.

By the development, the National Assembly had ratified all the 23 clauses and sections that had been ammended by both chambers.

The newly ammended document which would be sent to States Houses of Assembly, for approval, also approved the creation of the Office of Auditor – General of the Local Government as

well as the State Local Government Service Commission.

The section equally deleted the State

Independent Electoral Commission from the constitution thereby vesting the powers to conduct council elections on the Independent National Electoral Commission.

It however, retained the immunity clause in the constitution for the President and Governors by adopting the Senate version of the ammendments on the issue and rejected the House of Representatives version which removed the immunity clause.

The National Assembly also made provisions for Independent candidacy in future elections in Nigeria by ammending sections 65 and 106 of

the 1999 constitution!!!

Ogun: 2 die, 17 vehicles burnt in petrol tanker accident

Two persons were confirmed dead and six others injured in a fire accident involving a petroleum tanker at Bible College Bus-stop along the Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway on Thursday night.

The Assistant Corps Commander, Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Otta, Ganiyu Akeem, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that 17 vehicles were also burnt in the accident that happened around 11.55 p.m. on Thursday night.
He said the incident happened when the lone tanker fell and spilt its inflammable content into the drainage channel.

He said the tanker ignited the fire that burnt many vehicles.
Akeem said 17 vehicles were affected, which include one tanker trailer, 10 articulated vehicles three cars and three commercial buses.

Correspondents of NAN, who visited the scene of the accident in the early hours of Friday report that parts of the premises of the FRSC at the Sango Toll Gate, were also affected.

Also, Mr Adekunle Ajibade, the Sango-Ota Area Divisional Commander of the Ogun State Traffic Compliance and Enforcement Corps (TRACE), told the NAN that the fuel-laden truck was heading to Lagos from Sango-Ota when it developed a gear fault and overturned in the process.
“The driver was trying to change the gear of the vehicle and lost control.
“The truck overturns and caught fire immediately,’’ Ajibade said.
FRSC commander, Akeem said that on receiving a call from his men, “I called the Chief Fire Officer at Ado-Odo, Ota and he responded promptly.

“Seven fire-fighting trucks were on the ground, three from Ogun and four from Lagos.
“Thank God, we were able to stop the vehicles coming from Lagos at the Toll-gate on Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway in good time.
“We rescued one person and took him to Ota General Hospital.
“We also evacuated two corpses that were burnt beyond recognition and we took them in our ambulance to Ifo General Mortuary.

Political Inclination: TMnews Magazine honours Alh Farouk Akintunde Adeniyi with "Political Gladiator of the year"

Alh. Chief Farouk Adeniyi Akintunde was among the dignitaries honoured by TMnews Magazine during her 7th annual summit and confirment of honour awards 2019 held yesterday Sunday November 10th, 2019.

TMnews honoured Alh Farouk Adeniyi Akintunde with “Political Gladiator of the year” because of his positive contributions politically.

Alh. Farouk Adeniyi Akintunde was accompanied by APC Party Chieftains in Abeokuta South Local Government, ward leaders, friends other well wishers.

While speaking with Journalists, the awardee dedicated the award to God Almighty and the good people of Abeokuta South “Without God and my people, I won’t be nominated for this award talkless of giving me this award”.