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The Southwest Women Leader of All Progressive Congress (APC) has called on the electorates in Oyo State to cast their votes for Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu as the President of Nigeria and Senator Teslim Folarin as the Governor of Oyo State, so as to continually enjoy the dividends of democracy at the Federal and State level. Speaking in Oyo State during the rally organised by the State Chapter of APC women wing, the Southwest Coordinator, Hon. Yetunde Sikirat Adesanya said Asiwaju Tinubu is a man that is well respected and accepted by all other tribes in the Nation, hence the need for Yoruba race to give him more support and ensure that he emerge winner in 2023 General Election. The Southwest Coordinator enjoined women of different profession to stop the habits of staying at home during election but to get their Permanent Voters Cards (PVC), come out en-mass and vote for credible candidates like Senator Bola Tinubu as President and Teslim Folarin as Governor in the coming election. Hon. ...

...as governor hosts FRSC Corps Marshal The Ogun State governor, Dapo Abiodun, has called on the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) to join hands with the state-owned traffic agency in managing traffic along the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway. Abiodun made this call when he received the Acting Corps Marshal of the FRSC, Dauda Biu, in his Oke Mosan, Abeokuta office. He noted that it is important to have a good traffic management on the Long Bridge/Kara corridor at a time construction work has slowed down as a result of the inability of the contractor to complete the work. Abiodun described the pains travelers plying the almost three kilometer section of the road as painful, declaring that the action of the contractor handling the construction work around the corridor is completely unacceptable. The governor, while acknowledging President Muhammadu Buhari for championing the reconstruction of the road, which is at a 85% completion stage, disclosed that he had called the attention of the Directo...

A member of the Governing Board of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Prince Kunle Oyewumi has described the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu as a genuine and progressive statesman with passion for a prosperous Nigeria. Extolling the virtues of the former Governor , the Ogbomoso Prince lauded the giant strides of the APC presidential candidate in all facets of life, adding that Tinubu's  pedigree is unbeatable. While urging the political class to emulate the leadership qualities and good deeds of the APC presidential candidate, Oyewumi stressed that the former Governor, has consistently demonstrated human capital development in his endeavours. The businessman pointed out that Tinubu will deploy his cross- national experience in repositioning Nigeria in the comity of nations, adding that the APC presidential candidate is prepared for the task ahead. He said, " the presidential candidate of the APC, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu is a...

Following heated controversies generated by the allegation of monthly allocation deduction, the Ogun state Governor, Prince Dapo Abiodun has approved the sum of 300 million naira for the 20 local governments in the state. An online news  platform, Gateway  Times had few days back punctured the report by the state government that it was augmenting the monthly allocation of local governments in the state, rather than deducting it. Previously, sources revealed that each LG chairman only received a paltry sum of #2.5m monthly when Gov Abiodun came on board as Security Votes, but was later increased to N3m following a protest by the Council chairmen. It could be recalled that council Chairmen are to release N300,000.00 to the LG Vice-Chairmen. While a sum of N350, 000 are again deducted for ‘Abeokuta’. The salary of a Council Chairman is pegged at N306,000 in Ogun State. The disclosure on the new development was made today at the JAC meeting which held at the Governor’s office in ...

...as Ogun Central hosts 2023 budget town hall meeting The Alake and Paramount Ruler of Egbaland, Oba Adedotun Aremu Gbadebo has commended the effort of the Governor Dapo Abiodun-led administration in the area of infrastructural development Ogun State, declaring that "you cannot beat a governor who makes promises and keeps promises". Oba Gbadebo who gave this commendation during the Town Hall Meeting on the Medium Term Expenditure Framework (MTEF) and 2023 Budget for Egba Division, held at the June 12 Cultural Center, Abeokuta, also declared that the governor has done incredibly well for the Egba Division in terms of infrastructural development. The Alake, however, called on the governor not to rest on his oars, congratulating him on the public service award he recently received from President Muhammadu Buhari, saying "this is honour well deserved". "All the list that I had with me, as the governor was speaking, I started ticking them off one after the other. ...

The National Youth Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Hon. Dayo Israel, has boasted of the party’s readiness to flip Adamawa State after receiving hundreds of defectors who dumped the PDP in the state for the APC during a visit which was part of his ongoing nationwide youth mobilization and energizing tour. Dayo Israel arrived Adamawa State earlier in the week where, together with the members of the State Working Committee of the party, he led various grassroots voter mobilization efforts targeted at young people, in addition to humanitarian interventions, including the formal acceptance of new defectors from the PDP and condolence visits to areas affected by floods where he made cash and food donations. Receiving the defectors at the party’s Secretariat in Yola, the National Youth Leader said it was only the beginning of an APC ascendancy in the state which would see the party not only secure the majority number of votes during the presidential election in February 2023, b...

......releases breakdown till date The Ogun State government has countered the claims by the Ogun State Chairman of the Nigeria Union of Pensioners (NUP) Waheed Oloyede, that only N3billion had been released so far for the payment of arrears of gratuity and pensions. Oloyede during a press conference in Abeokuta, said that the incumbent administration in the state did not pay N70b for the defray of outstanding gratuities, but N3billion, which he claimed was too low. But a statement by the Chief Press Secretary to the Ogun State governor, Kunle Somorin, on Thursday, faulted the position of the NUC chairman and declared that a sum of N78b had been released between 2019 and 2022. According to him, a record of the statement of Monthly Breakdown and Analysis of the Ogun State Gratuity and Pension Payment, indicated that a total sum of N78,567,913,997.48, had been released for the purpose. Somorin added that the Governor Dapo Abiodun-led administration decided to increase the quarterly payme...