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The Governor of Ogun State, Prince Dapo Abiodun, has approved the appointment of six new permanent secretaries in the State Civil Service.Named as permanent secretaries are, Messrs Kehinde Onasanya, Johnson Odeyemi, Olukayode Ogunleye, Moses Adebayo; Engr. Lateef Yusuf and Mrs Olusola Osasona.Until their new appointments, these career officers were senior directors in their respective ministries, agencies and parastatals.A statement by the Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, Mr Kunle Somorin, said the appointments were made in line with the desire of the Government to fill the existing vacancies among the rank of permanent secretaries in the State Public Service.”Seniority, merit,…

The Osun Government says Sept. 21 has been tentatively fixed for the reopening of schools shut down due to coronavirus pandemic in the state.The Commissioner for Information and Civic, Mrs Funke Egbemode made this known in a statement in Osogbo on Tuesday.Egbemode said stakeholders were expected to continue to put protocols in place toward the reopening of schools.“This should be in accordance with the guidelines set by the Federal Ministry of Education,’’ she said.The commissioner also said that all schools in the state were to resume in phases with effect from Sept. 21, for an abridged third term of the…

Oil prices recover, erasing overnight losses, as investors move into risk assets and away from safe-haven U.S. dollar, which tumbled to multi-year lows.Crude oilOil prices recovered on Tuesday, erasing overnight losses, as investors moved into risk assets and away from the safe-haven U.S. dollar, which tumbled to multi-year lows.Brent crude futures climbed 49 cents or 1.1 per cent to $45.77 a barrel at 0406 GMT.The U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude futures rose 37 cents or 0.9 per cent to $42.98 a barrel.Both benchmark contracts fell around one per cent on Monday on worries about oil oversupply, with global demand…

…Abeokuta North APC graces occasion As part of his support towards the success of the Governor Dapo Abiodun-led administration in Ogun State, a leading chairmanship aspirant under the APC in the forthcoming LG elections, Lanre Oyegbola-Sodipo has presented 20,000 free facemasks to his Abeokuta North constituency reinforcing his Mask4All Nigerians Campaign.Oyegbola-Sodipo, popularly known as LOS, presented the face masks tagged, ‘Ibomu Lanre’ at an elaborate event attended by representatives of the 16 wards of Abeokuta North Local Government, party leaders and members, community leaders, artisan groups, amidst mammoth supporters.While handing over the face masks to the representatives of the 16…

Sudan’s transitional government signs much-anticipated peace deal with various armed groups, raising hopes of an end to 17 years of conflict.Actors in Sudan crisis makes peaceSudan’s transitional government on Monday signed a much-anticipated peace deal with various armed groups, raising hopes of an end to 17 years of conflict.Prime Minister Abdullah Hamdok and Transitional Sovereignty Council Chairman Abdel Fattah al-Burhan signed the agreement with the Sudan Revolutionary Front, a coalition of armed groups operating mainly in the volatile Darfur, Blue Nile, and South Kordofan regions, the country’s national broadcaster reported.After nine months of tough negotiations, the signing took place in…

Mr Gbenga Adefaye, the General Manager/Editor-in-Chief of Vanguard Newspapers, has been appointed as Provost of the Nigerian Institute of Journalism, Ogba, Ikeja.A statement signed in Lagos on Monday by former Ogun governor, Chief Olusegun Osoba, Chairman, Governing Council of the NIJ, said Adefaye would serve as Provost of the institution with effect from Sept. 1, 2020 pending the appointment of a new Provost.He succeeds the former Provost, Mr Gbemiga Oluleye, who has served out his term meritoriously.Adefaye was a former two-term president of the Nigerian Guild of Editors.The NIJ is a Nigerian monotechnic institute located at Ogba in Ikeja, Lagos State.It is…

The Ogun state chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has shown great concern if the state is no more a part of the Southwest States as the State government led by Governor Dapo Abiodun has refused to inaugurate the State Chapter of Amotekun to combat the rising security challenges in the state.Our party is much disturbed by the uninspiring attitude of the All Progressive Congress(APC) ruling government in the state to leverage on the opportunities provided by the widely accepted Amotekun as a formidable security initiative as seen in other states.It is most ridiculous that while its counterparts in…

PDP LogoThe Ebonyi State Independent Electoral Commission (EBSIEC), announced candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), winners of all the chairmanship and councilorship seats in Saturday’s council polls conducted across the 13 Local Government Area (LGA) of the state.Mr Jossy Eze, Chairman of EBSIEC, made the disclosure in Abakaliki while announcing the results of the elections held across the 171 electoral wards and 13 councils of the state.Eze announced that the commission has ratified and adopted the chairmanship results for the 13 LGAs as announced by various LGA returning officers and the councillorship results announced at the 171 electoral wards.“Chief…

LASG says it will start the dislodgement of illegal slabs as well as the monitoring of all veterinary premises from Sept. 1.Gov. Babajide Sanwo-OluThe Lagos State Government (LASG) says it will start the dislodgement of illegal slabs as well as the monitoring of all veterinary premises from Sept. 1, across the state.The State Acting Commissioner for Agriculture, Ms Abisola Olusanya, said this on Sunday during the re-inauguration of the Monitoring, Enforcement and Compliance (MEC) Team of the ministry.Olusanya said that the dislodgement was in furtherance of the sanitisation and reform of the red meat value chain.She noted that the exercise…

At the inception, the introduction of N-Power scheme stands out as one of the best policies of the Federal Government under President Muhammadu Buhari with a lot of graduates been engaged through the scheme aspiring to move to the assumed next level of the programme which was interpreted to be permanent employment or empowerment not knowing it is a rehearsal for the journey to the colony of unemployment.On 30th June, 2020, the Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Diseaster Management and Social Development, Sadiya Umar Farouq, announced the commencement of the disengagement of the batches A and B of the Npower volunteers…