Worker’s Day: We’ll continue to give priority to wellbeing of workforce, common man—Makinde …slashes senior political appointees’ pay by 50 per cent …says schools may reopen July 15th …as labour leaders present most worker-friendly award to gov Oyo State governor, Engineer Seyi Makinde, on Friday, declared that the economic safety and wellbeing of the state’s workforce and the common man would continue to take precedence under his watch. The governor, who was speaking at the Secretariat of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Oyo State branch, located at Labour House, American Quarters, Agodi, Ibadan, during a special programme to mark…
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ABIA DISCHARGED Governor OKEZIE IKPEAZU of Abia State has said the Federal Medical Centre, Umuahia, will be discharging one out of the two index cases of Coronavirus in the state. Abia registered two Covid-19 cases at the Federal Medical Centre, Umuahia, on April 20. The Governor who spoke in the Government House Umuahia today could not conceal his joy over the recovery of the seventy-two- year- old patient. According to an elated IKPEAZU, the 72-year-old patient who responded to treatment will be the oldest person to recover from coronavirus in the South-East. He said the samples collected from people who…
ALL Progressives Congress, APC, presidential aspirant in the 2019 election, Dr. SKC Ogbonnia has taken a swipe on the former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Prof Chukwuma Soludo for suggesting that African nations should withdraw the Covid-19 lockdown measure because of the pervasive poverty index in the continent. Ogbonnia in his critique of Solodu theory wondered if the renowned economist, was suddenly cast with a voodoo spell in the thesis that was widely circulated, noting that Soludo succeeded in doing nothing but used delusive ideas to create more problems than solutions. He admitted that the former CBN…
coronavirus reared its ugly head in China, it has expanded to nearly every corner of the world. Nigeria has not been spared of this scourge. From our incident case in February, the plague has spread to 33 states and the FCT with 1,728 confirmed cases and 51 deaths, according to information from NCDC as at April 29. The good news however is that thanks to our heroic healthcare workers, 307 persons were successfully treated and discharged. One of those is my son, Mohammed. I remain eternally grateful to the medical personnel for their services. Sadly while we had to embark…
The United Nations and the World Health Organisation have deployed 3 , 000 of their personnel in Kano State to respond to the pandemic in the state . The Chairman of the Presidential Task Force on COVID- 19 , Boss Mustapha , made this known during a briefing in Abuja on Friday evening. Mustapha , who is also the Secretary to the Government of the Federation , said the Federal Government’ s response in Kano has begun yielding some results . He said , “ I wish to inform you that our response to the situation in Kano State is…
Police have arrested Lawal Abdullahi Izala, ‘m’, aged 70yrs, Bahajaje Abu, ‘m’, aged 30yrs and Hamza Abubakar, ‘m’, aged 27yrs all of Gafai Quarters, Katsina, Katsina state for insulting President Muhammadu Buhari and the executive governor of Katsina state, Aminu Bello Masari, CFR.” The trio were said to have insulted Buhari in a viral video on the social media. Disclosing this in a statement, Gambo Isah, spokesman of the Katsina police command said: “The attention of the Katsina state police command has been drawn to a viral video on social media showing one Lawal Abdullahi, alias “IZALA”, ‘m’, aged 70yrs…
Speech by His Excellency, Seyi Makinde, Governor of Oyo State, on National Workers’ Day (May Day) Celebration, May 01, 2020, at Labour House, Ibadan, Oyo State. When I was taking over the affairs of government on May 29, 2019, I never envisaged that our first Worker’s Day celebration would happen without the usual pomp. No one would have thought at that time, that in just about a year, the world would be thrown into confusion as they struggle to understand a new strain of the coronavirus disease. But as the saying goes, “you have to take the bad with…
Oyo State Government Women of Substance has congratulated Oyo State Civil Servants on the peaceful working atmosphere currently being witnessed in the state. The group stated this in a statement issued through its coordinator, Hon. Helen Taiwo Adebakin, and made available to newsmen in Ibadan this Friday, also commended Governor Seyi Makinde for prompt payment of workers salaries and retirees pension as at when due. According to the group,the prompt payment of salaries and pensions by the governor is in tandem with the biblical injunction that labourers should be paid their wages as at when due. “we want to…
Oyo State Governor, Engineer Seyi Makinde, has directed that salaries of all senior political appointees in the state be slashed by 50 per cent with immediate effect. He said this while addressing participants at the 2020 International Workers’ Day, an event held at the Nigeria Labour Congress Secretariat on Friday The Governor equally added that the civil servants in the state would not be affected by the pay cut, saying that “nothing will affect the welfare and payment of the workers salary despite the dwindling economy.” He added that the pay cut would be channelled into the execution and…
Oyo PDP Felicitates With Workers, Says Makinde Has Restored Pride Of Civil Servants, Committed To Improved Workers Welfare The Oyo state chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has sent words of felicitation across to workers in the state on the occasion of 2020 workers day which is celebrated globally to acknowledge the impact of workers to the development and growth of societies in all countries of the world. The ruling party made this felicitation known in a statement jointly signed by its State Chairman, Alh Kunmi Mustapha, State Secretary, Alh Wasiu Adeleke, and the State Publicity Secretary, Engr…