Awosika polled 154 out of 157 votes to emerge Chair of the prestigious 21-person UN scientific body.
CLCS is the UN body that decides what portions of the seabed can be exclusively mined
Browsing: Ondo State
The trip had been set up in continuation of his tour of the oil-producing communities, which earlier took the Acting President to Delta, Bayelsa, Rivers and Imo States
The director general was reacting to the allegation by Atijere community in Ondo State that the Federal Government had appointed some surveyors to carry out boundary adjustment in the area
Bolanle Olafunmiloye, the Ondo State Focal Person for the programme, said in a statement in Akure that verification to engage the youths would commence throughout the state on December 19
Sankey said: “The petitioner in the most unholy description of my personality being a Justice who has just recovered from a protracted illness was open to corruption
Aidi, the only aspirant in the primary election, was unanimously adopted by 100 delegates across the 18 local government areas of the state.
He thanked members of the party for finding him worthy to carry the flag of the party in the forthcoming gubernatorial election.
A source at the Federal Medical Center, Owo told Radio Nigeria, Ibadan, Oyo State that Asaju was on his way to Abuja for a meeting
Governor Mimiko said the challenge in driving development in the Niger Delta had largely been that of poor supervision or lack of it and commended the NDDC management for moving around the states to see things for itself and ensure compliance to standards and specifications
Ige said the PDP won 202 out of the 203 wards in the councillorship election, while the Allied Congress Party of Nigeria won one ward.
The chairman said ACPN won the councillorship election at Ward 9, Oba-Ile in Akure North Local Government Area
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Mimiko pointed out that a key challenge to budget implementation was inadequacy of fund, which had been quite precarious of late.
According to him, this is not unconnected with the dwindling oil revenue, which incidentally provides about 90 per cent of the country’s revenue receipts
Governorship of Ondo State against Agagu who was an incumbent. His decision then, though was against the political calculations of the then President Olusegun Obasanjo and the People’s Democratic Party establishment, all of whom favoured Agagu’s reelection, became a popular grassroots movement that swept across the length and breadth of Ondo State like a powerful tsunami. And despite the evil machination of the establishment to deny the Ondo people of their moment of joy, the will of God prevailed. Now, seven years down the line, it has become crystal clear that the people’s hope in Mimiko was not a sham
Available information had it that he was abducted on his way to Abuja for a political meeting from Akure, the Ondo State capital
He also served the governor in other capacities such as Special Assistant, Senior Special Assistant and Commissioner for Education.
He was Special Adviser on International Relations to President Goodluck Jonathan before becoming the Director-General of the Technical Aids Corp
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Olamide George of the PDP, representing Akure North Constituency, nominated Akindele, who was unopposed, while Joseph Araoyinbo also of PDP (Akoko North-West 2) seconded the nomination
Members of the panel include Aladesanmi Akingbade, Barrister Ademola Ekundayo, Ven. Richard Obafemi, Abraham Kola Mathew, Alhaji Ibrahim Shodeinde and Eunice Yinka Obadele
He said: “Our investigations revealed that the victims, who are commercial motorcyclists, gathered at some local joints to take alcoholic substance mixed with roots and some other local herbs on the eve of the outbreak of the disease