Special Adviser to the Governor on Information and Strategy, Semiu Okanlawon, stated this at the weekend, during the installation of the first female Rotary President of Osogbo GRA, Olori Bola Akinyemi, at the state capital of Osun.
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Aregbesola said this while inspecting 40 acres of farmland owned by the state in Ilesha area.
The Osogbo-born Professionals under the aegis of the Osogbo Affairs Forum has sent its heartfelt condolences to Aregbesola over the death of his mother.
The DSM in a statement on Sunday condemned the statement widely credited to Aregbesola that the government he is leading does not owe workers and pensioners.
L-R: Former Governor of Osun State, Chief Bisi Akande; Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State; and Deputy Governor of the…
Specifically, the payments are to offset the balances of payments of workers on Grade Levels 8-10 and Grade Levels 12 -17, who were being paid modulated salaries owing to the agreement reached between the Labour and government in 2015.
According to a communiqué issued after a crucial meeting of the NMA, signed by its State Chairman, Dr. Tokunbo Olajumoke, and Secretary, Dr. Olaleken Ajayi, the body urged the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission to probe how Aregbesola spent the initial fund released to Osun State by the Federal Government.
In a statement signed by the Director of Bureau of Communication and Strategy, Office of the Governor, Semiu Okanlawon, Aregbesola said the death of the playwright, theatre director and teacher was a huge loss not to the creative world alone, but also to the world of Yoruba language and culture heritage which he promoted till his death.
Ambode said his administration would do everything possible to support Governor Rauf Aregbesola of Osun State at ensuring the success of his government.
Aregbesola said the position of Lagos State as the economic nerve centre of the country and the brilliant performance of the Governor in office could not be downplayed in any form.
In a paper presented at a Colloquium to mark his six years in office as the Governor of Osun State, Rauf Aregbesola reiterated his administration’s commitment to laying a solid foundation for the state in every area such that tampering with its progress in the future would be difficult, if not impossible. While describing “rising expenditure, especially wage bill, within the contrast of falling revenue” as the biggest challenge facing his government, Aregbesola promised that his administration would do all within its powers to ensure that no one was left behind in the distribution of the dividends of democracy to the good people of Osun
Badmus led other management staffers of the company to the Office of the Governor in Osogbo for a presentation to the Governor of Osun State, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, on the National Egg Production scheme.
This was as the governor warned that the country must discourage penchant and preference for foreign goods if it must sail through the current economic crisis
Aregbesola specifically said radio broadcasters have great roles to play in doing this and further promoting the peace of the society by discouraging hate messages and promoting those that enhance communal peace and stability
This was as the Accountant General of the State revealed that Labour leaders said pensioners were not at all captured in the bailout fund but the governor, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, in his magnanimity, decided that the pensioners, having served the state diligently, must be included in the disbursement of the bailout
The communities that declared against FMG include Eko Ende, Eko Ajala, Iba, Asa, Iwo Oke, Ajagunlase, Alapata, Owode, Araromi in Ifelodun, Olaoluwa, Ede North and Orolu Local Government Areas of the state
Aregbesola made the statement while declaring open the three-day Education Quality Assurance Training Workshop organized by the Osun State Education Quality Assurance and Morality Enforcement Agency at the State Universal Basic Education Board conference hall in Abere, Osogbo
The Governor spoke both at a special edition of a live interview broadcast organized by the state-owned radio and television station, OSBC, and the Colloquium organised to mark the second anniversary of the second term of his administration held in Osogbo
In a statement in Osogbo by the Coordinator of the group, Yusuf Olaosebikan, the group accused Aregbesola of diverting the meagre resources of the state “to feather his expansionist political agenda” in other states while the state’s workers suffer from months of unpaid salaries
Speaking at the public presentation of a book titled: “The Heritage of Islam in Nigeria: Essays in Memory of Dr. Dawood Adekilekun Tijani,” on Saturday in Ede, Aregbesola said scholarship does not die as he noted that the huge investment in education in the defunct Western region by the late Chief Obafemi Awolowo culminated in the Western part of Nigeria having the edge it had over other parts of the country