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  ...apologize to Governor Dapo Abiodun Local government chairmen in Ogun State on Tuesday denied the allegation that the state government had been diverting their funds, resulting in zero allocation to them. This is even as Governor Dapo Abiodun said he was disturbed by the baseless allegation against him. The council chairmen visited the governor on Tuesday night with Mr Wale Adedayo, the Chairman of Ijebu East Local Government, who made the allegation, to tender an unreserved apology, as they accepted that mistakes had been made.   Speaking at the meeting in his office at Oke-Mosan, Abeokuta, attended by 18 out of the 20 chairmen, Governor Abiodun expressed surprise at the allegation, noting that rather than starving the local governments, he has made several interventions on their behalf to lessen their burden. Prince Abiodun said he has always been supportive of the councils because they are an integral part in the march towards the development of the state. He said: “Whe...

The Supervisory Councilors in Ijebu East Local Government Council of Ogun State have disassociated themselves  from the false allegations made by the Council Chairman, Mr. Wale Chairman, Mr. Wale Adedayo. In a statement issued on Wednesday and jointly signed by Supervisor for Community Development, Hon Folake Adetayo, Supervisor for Agriculture, Hon. Kunle Adesanya, Supervisor for Finance, Hon Jesse Osibanjo and Supervisor for Water and Environment Services, Hon. Fowora Abayomi, the local government functionaries said “we are not in tandem with his actions and wouldn't have been in support of any actions that will stall progress and development of the Local Government under any guise whatsoever.” The statement reads: “The Association of Supervisory Councilors and other political appointees of Ijebu East Local Government has expressed our displeasure with the manner with which the Local Government Chairman is going about alleging and casting aspersions on the person of H.E Prince Da...

The. All Progressives Congress (APC) in OgunState has described as “uninformed muckracking” a call by the People’s Democratic Party (Party) and its defeated candidate in the last governorship  election over unsubstantiated allegations on LG fund.  In a statement issued in Abeokuta on Tuesday and signed, APC  said “a sinking man in the sea who will jump at anything, including a straw, the PDP Ogun State has jumped into the fray of the current discussion on  Local Government allocation in the state. The statement reads: “One would have expected a serious party to make investigation and  access credible data before commenting, but not surprisingly, the PDP and its defeated governorship candidate,  Hon. Ladi Adebutu, who is currently a fugitive in UK,  jumped into the fray with  an opportunistic agenda asking for the  “impeachment” of Governor Dapo Abiodun. “The state government has rightly made its position known on the issue and awaits due proc...

  Aliko Dangote, Africa’s richest man, is facing mounting criticism from Nigerians questioning the fairness of his business empire.   With a total of 15,200 tweets at the time of this report, Dangote Group’s leader has come under public scrutiny for the reported disparities in the prices of his cement products across Africa. According to X (formerly Twitter) discussions, there are claims that the billionaire offers cement to other African nations at a more reasonable cost.   A user on the X platform, Nefertiti, pointed out that despite Dangote Cement’s production in Nigeria, it fails to offer the product at an affordable rate, prompting contractors to resort to importing it.   “Dangote Cement is more expensive than imported cement, & you have all the raw materials in Nigeria. Contractors prefer imported cement, but cement import is banned in Nigeria. You must use Dangote by force. This is for those waiting to buy cheap petrol from the Dangote Refinery.”...

Abdulsamad Rabiu, chairman BUA Foods The award will be presented to Mr Rabiu alongside other winners of the various award categories. A business mogul and Chair of the  BUA Group , Abdulsamad Rabiu, has emerged winner of the 2023 Man of the year Leadership Excellence Awards. In a seven-day Leadership Excellence Awards voting by Nigerians via online platforms, monitored by the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), Mr Rabiu was voted ahead of three other nominees. The BUA chairperson polled a total of 568,247 votes to defeat other nominees including Allen Onyema, chair of Air Peace; Auwalu Rano, CEO A.A Rano Nigeria Limited and Aloysius Ikegwuonu, founder, Ebubechukwuzo Foundation; who polled 478,117; 286,374; and 68,352 votes respectively. The prestigious Leadership Excellence Awards (LEEX Awards), the fifth in a row, is organised annually by IgbereTV that recognises and honours the outstanding impacts of leaders across both the public and private sectors in Nigeria. LEEX Awards also promot...

   As Nigeria grapples with a foreign exchange crisis, one person stands out in the scramble to obtain hard currency: Aliko Dangote, Africa’s richest man.   Founder and Chief Executive of the Dangote Group Aliko Dangote gestures during an interview with Reuters in his office in Lagos, Nigeria, June 13, 2012. REUTERS/Akintunde Akinleye/File Photo When the government restricted the supply of dollars in June 2015 to prop up the value of the Nigerian naira, firms owned by Dangote landed a healthy share of dollars available at the cheap official rate, a study by Reuters shows. Reuters examined foreign currency transactions made during an 11-week period in March to May this year. Over that time, Dangote businesses were able to buy at least $161 million in hard currency from the central bank. That was around nine percent of all the hard currency the bank sold over the period. In a single week in March, one dollar in every eight went to Dangote companies. There is not enough data...

The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) FCT Commandant, Olusola Odumosu, has charged officers and men of the FCT command to work assiduously in ensuring the protection of all critical infrastructure in the territory. The new Head of the Command addressed all personnel, including Area Commanders and Divisional Officers (DOs) across the Area councils in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).  Odumosu said that his tenure of leadership under the NSCDC Commandant-General (CG), Dr Abubakar Ahmed Audi, mni, OFR, is dedicated to ensuring results while actively carrying out the mandates of the Corps. He said that the FCT Minister, Mr Nyesom Wike, had tasked the Corps alongside sister agencies in the territory to provide proper security and cleanse the city of crimes. The Commandant frowned at the high rate of vandalism of street lights, theft of manhole covers, railings, railway sleepers amongst others, in the FCT. “It is high time we work together to put an end to these nefario...

  Ogun State Governor, Prince Dapo Abiodun, has implored the newly sworn-in ministers from the State to be good representatives of their people and leverage on the experience they have gathered over the years to achieve the 'Renewed Hope Agenda' of President Bola Tinubu's led-administration. Abiodun, who spoke at a reception organised in honour of the new ministers, Mr Wale Edun, Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy; Dr Ishak Kunle Salako, Minister of State for the Environment and Dr Bosun Tijani,  Minister of Communication, Innovation and Digital Economy, held at the SilverBird Galleria, Zone 4, Abuja, also charged them to use their offices to support and compliment the implementation of his administration's 'Building Our Future Together Agenda'. He noted that the State has produced people who have served the nation meritoriously and therefore much is expected of them. He said: "We are the gateway to Nigeria’s prosperity, the nation...

  Ogun State Governor, Prince Dapo Abiodun has approved the appointment of Mr. Lekan Adeniran as his Chief Press Secretary (CPS). The appointment was announced in a statement signed by the Secretary to the State Government (SSG), Mr. Tokunbo Talabi on Tuesday. According to Mr. Talabi, the appointment takes immediate effect. Adeniran, a graduate of Mass Communication has over three decades experience as a journalist. He started his journalism career at The Guardian in 1992, where he covered the Social Democratic Party (SDP), Lagos State House of Assembly and Governor's Office, Alausa, Ikeja. He left The Guardian in 2001 to join the newly established Daily Independent. The new CPS also worked with the Compass, Next and National Mirror newspapers. Before the appointment, he was the editor of WesternPost, an online newspaper publication.

  By  Coalition of Civil Society, Lagos State Chapter It is about 3 months now that Asiwaju Bola Ahmed assumed the highest political office in Nigeria, and since his resumption as the President, he has taken some steps, in terms of policy initiatives, towards reforming the economic situation and re-positioning the country for greater prosperity.  By virtue of being citizens, it is inherent that we consider ourselves as stakeholders, especially on what will become the effect of the removal of petroleum subsidy, which is already hitting hard on Nigerian masses. We therefore deemed it a duty on ourselves to examine some of those policies which Asiwaju’s administration has proposed to reel out, juxtapose those policies with the current plight of the Nigerian people, and enumerate their prospects, if any at all.  In a matter of few months away, Nigerian masses would be able to take a position on whether to commend or condemn these policies. Having critically examine some ...

   In bid to bequeathe excellent service, the Plateau State Government has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with  ValueJet airline. The signed agreement is intended to make the carrier gain strong foothold on the Jos-Abuja route. ValueJet had on October 10, 2022, launched its inaugural flight and in February 2023 began flight services to Jos, Plateau State. Ever since it launched flight operations to Jos, the carrier has continued to not only expand but consolidate its Jos route, making it a first choice among travelers After painstaking research, the Plateau State saw the need to enter into an MoU with the carrier to ensure it sustains its operations on the route and to save passengers the huge risk of travelling by road from Plateau State to Abuja and beyond. At the signing of the MoU which took place at ValueJet’s head office in Lagos, Managing Director of ValueJet, Capt. Omololu Majekodunmi, signed for the airline, while Plateau's Commissioner of Transportat...

  As part of its efforts to relieve its staff of the current economic stress in the country, the Place, a popular hospitality and restaurant outfit, has rolled out palliative for its workers. The Chief Operating Officer of the company, Ms. Chinelo Umeugochukwu told our correspondent in an exclusive interview on Thursday that it was imperative to provide palliative for the workers now. According to her, inflation has risen more than five times this year alone and businesses are feeling the pain both on how to respond to rising costs of supply, the exchange rate turbulence and the cries of the workforce.  She explained that the removal of oil subsidy and its attendant hike in the price of Premium Motor Spirit and cost of transportation also affected her staff. To ameliorate the suffering, Umeugochukwu said that the company had increased the transport allowance of the workers across all levels. She noted that the rising inflation has diminished customer's financial capabilities a...