Members and leaders of Temidire Estate, Jakan Agbowo Extension in Akinyele Local Council Development Area (LCDA) have thanked the council Chairman, Hon Ahmed Kazeem Adekunle for inaugurating a 500KV transformer the LCDA donated to them. Aside the donation of 500KV transformer, Hon Kazeem also graded about 4km road in the community which had been in a deplorable condition as a result of it neglect by the immediate-past administration. GOALPOACHER NEWS learnt that the community hasn’t being enjoying regular power supply because of their obsolete transformers.
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Oyo State Government on Thursday completed the process of relocating displaced road side traders at the popular Ojoo roundabout to a new venue at Abataka, beside total filling station, old Moniya road, Ojoo, Ibadan. The process, which commenced on Thursday saw the Oyo State Government providing the traders with about 300 hectares of land at the new venue. At the handing over of the new market space to Akinyele South LCDA authority, Commissioner for Works, Infrastructure and Transport, Prof Raphael Afonjas explained that Governor Makinde had repeatedly advised traders not to display their wares at the roadside, hence…
The Caretaker Chairman, Akinyele Local Government, Hon Taoreed Jimoh Adedigba on Thursday made a cash donation to the Christian Association of Nigeria, Akinyele chapter, when the leadership of the religious body paid a courtesy visit to the chairman’s office at Moniya. Hon Adedigba said the gesture was done to assist CAN with the ongoing developmental project in the council area. The LG Boss said, “I am not a bigot, I don’t discriminate against any religion, people that know me very well will tell you that I have always preached religious tolerance and peaceful co-existence anywhere I am.” “I assure…
*Beyond the intuition that says “I know one when I see one,” how do you go about measuring the effectiveness of any given legislature?* Of course we want our legislatures to be effective, to be good. But we also know that federal legislatures will be heavily influenced by forces over which they have little control-technology in particular. The challenge is to remain true to the fundamental purposes of representative democracy and the legislative system, which in no doubt our own *Hon TOLU AKANDE SADIPE KAFAYAT has been staying true to the Fundamental purposes of Representative democracy and the legislative…
The election of June 12th 1993 changed Nigeria profoundly. That it would have this deep and positive effect was not always certain. Many people laboured, struggled and sacrificed for Democracy. They fought not that we would have democracy day but that Nigeria might exist as a democracy every day. When I say democracy, I mean more than that we conduct periodic elections. Democracy means that we adhere to and live by the enlightened premise that all human beings are of essential value and are possessed of fundamental rights and liberties, which cannot be arbitrarily taken away or denied. In…
ADEDIBU 12 years Remembrance: The Political Encyclopaedia of Nigeria politics Amb Taofeeq Oladejo Arapaja High chief Lamidi Adedibu’s death wasn’t for the best at the time he died, to some of us ‘His political children’ that admired his leadership dexterity , it’ll take us a long time to overcome the grief. Akanji can be gentle, can be good , he can be nice and still naughty, he can be quiet and still lousy , can be calm and still terrible. A born politician with unpredictable personality, he ran his political causes diligently because his attributes were talented. Adedibu…
To commemorate Nigeria’s Democracy Day, President Muhammadu Buhari will broadcast to the nation on Friday, June 12, 2020 at 7am. Television and radio stations as well as other electronic media outlets are enjoined to hook up to the network services of the Nigerian Television Authority and Radio Nigeria respectively for the broadcast. Femi Adesina Special Adviser to the President (Media and Publicity) June 11, 2020
The Senate on Thursday confirmed the appointment of 42 ambassadors-designate. This was just as the Upper Chamber confirmed the nomination of James Jiya John Kolo as Commissioner of the Federal Character Commission. The confirmation of the nominees was sequel to the consideration of the reports of the Senate Committees on Foreign Affairs; and Federal Character and Inter-Governmental Affairs. President, Muhammadu Buhari (Retd.), in a letter dated May 6, 2020, said the appointment of the nominees was in accordance to section 171 (1),(2)(c) and subsection (4) of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria as amended. A statement…
Justice Monica Dongban-Mensem has been confirmed as the President of the Court of Appeal. President Muhammadu Buhari, had in a letter urged the Senate to approve the nomination of Justice Dongban-Mensem as the PCA. She was confirmed after a report of the Committee on Judiciary, Human Rights and Legal Matters by Senator Opeyemi Bamidele. Bamidele said no petition was received against her nomination. “The nominee is a fit and proper person for appointment as the President of the Court of Appeal. The Committee recommends that the Senate do confirm the nomination of Hon. Justice M.B. Dongban-Mensem as Honourable President…
FOR residents of Olorunsogo, Eyin Grammar, Felele and environs, last week’s inaguration of the renovated ALGON Comprehensive Health Centre, Eyin Grammar, Ibadan, by Governor Seyi Makinde provided a soothingbalm to a long nursed ailment. Prior to the intervention by the Oyo State Health Insurance Scheme, the healthcare centre ultrasound machine, five no pharmacy, ill-equipped laboratory, had operated with a dysfunctional inadequate personnel among other deprivations. A health officer at the health centre, Dr Babatunde Arowolo described the centre as just a building, moribund and empty. CM_TO_Top Responsive – LB1 “This place was almost moribund. We just had a building…