This is contained in a press statement signed by the Chamber’s Director General, Dr Chinyere Almona, on Monday.
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Governor Alex Otti of Abia has said that his administrration initiated measures to cut down the cost of governance to the barest minimum and save money.
Oftentimes, we relish the progress in advanced societies and hope that similar experiences are replicable here. As good as those thoughts usually are, we do miss one critical factor: And that is the existence of a proper feedback mechanism that is applicable in those environments that primarily account for the growth and developments we see and cherish. Accountability and transparency is the heart of good governance.
In a letter of official notification and invitation to the annual Leadership Conference and Award, addressed to the Governor and dated November 28, 2022, signed by the Senior Vice Chairman/Editor-in-Chief of the Leadership newspaper, Azubuike Ishekwene, Governor Abiodun was singled out for the award “for maintaining a steady pace of development and for execution of people-oriented projects across Ogun State, resisting the temptations of abandoning uncompleted projects initiated by your predecessor who did everything possible to thwart your ambition.”
The minister stated this while responding to questions on the state of the nation on an audience participatory programme of the language station of Radio Nigeria, Lagos operations, Bond FM 92.9, in lkeja.
The report was released on Thursday.
Criticism, when adequately weaponised, is the hub of administrative success. That’s why it’s hard to hear of any progressive democratic administration that didn’t thrive on the back of constructive criticism. Frankly, before any administration could be termed successful, modern and representative enough; there should be an institutionalized systemic diehard opposition before and beside it.
Nigerian rulers are indeed very special. When other leaders and countries are giving out palliatives to their citizens and bailouts to their production and service sectors to cushion the effects of the current pandemic, our rulers (not leaders) are here inventing more harsh policies to perpetually enslave and over-burden us. The government has just increased the pump price of fuel and electricity tariffs. I mean in the midst of this overwhelming struggle by the citizens caused by their poor economic performance and complicated by the Chinese virus crisis. Yes, things were really difficult here even before the pandemic. Today, businesses are rapidly folding up and millions of jobs slipping away. The prices of food and goods have skyrocketed. People are just desperate and hungry.
Lawal said this on Friday in Abuja when Olamilekan Adegbite, Minister of Mines and Steel Development, featured on the agency’s news programme: The NANForum.
The Director-General, Development Agenda for Western Nigeria Commission, Seye Oyeleye, made this observation, while hosting Ambassador Wale Ojo-Lanre, the Senior Special Assistant on Tourism Development to the Ekiti State Governor, who paid him a visit in his office in Cocoa House, Ibadan, Oyo State.
Lawan stated this in his remarks sequel to a motion considered on the International Day of Parliamentarism, sponsored by Senator Ifeanyi Ubah (YPP-Anambra South).
Mary Noel-Berje, Chief Press Secretary to Bello, made this known to NAN on Wednesday on the sideline of the first year of the second tenure of the governor in Abuja.
A few hours away from now, the media would be awash with appraisals of chief executives across Nigeria. This is particularly true of first term governors who were sworn in on May 29, 2019. Kwara will not be different. Friends and foes of the administration of AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq, egged on by closet admirers on both sides, would struggle to shape the narrative in an endless battle for the mind of the people.
Challenges around the world today point to one thing and one thing only: the need for the leadership to move away from sheer rhetoric and show capacity in areas so demand. It is in same light that the current situation in Nigeria demands of the government to put in place a watertight border management plan that could guarantee the security and safety of the Nigerian people.
Mallam Abba Kyari died on Friday 17th of April, 2020 at the age of 67 years. The patriot died the way he would have preferred, at the very front line of service, sadly seized by a plague against which he was defending his beloved fatherland, Nigeria.
The Governor of Oyo State, Engr. Seyi Makinde, has declared the State would be known for good governance all through his tenure.
The Senate President and People’s Democratic Party presidential aspirant, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, has congratulated Nigerians on the occasion of the nation’s 58th Independence Anniversary and urged them to ensure a more vibrant, constructive and patriotic citizen participation in the governance of their country.
The Enugu State Governor, Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi, has pledged to increase the number of women currently in his government so as to meet the 35 per cent affirmative action.
Babangida said he and other like-minds proposed as far as back as 1989 the possibility of handing over the country’s leadership to younger people who have the passion and zeal to propel it on the path of development and growth, but the older generation was recalcitrant then.