Browsing: Semiu Okanlawon

The Government, through the Bureau of Communication and Strategy, Office of the Governor, said there was nothing like an N82 billion paid to Osun State out of an imaginary “$4 billion being over-deductions on Paris and London Club Loans on the accounts of State and Local Governments from February 1990 to March 2002”

On Sunday, November 27, 2016, it would be six years exactly into the two term administration and second years of his second term.
About the time he wrote those words some six years ago, it was at the beginning of, in reality, confronting the multi-dimensional, hydra-headed problems which could only have necessitated the need for a Messiah in Osun in the first place?

A statement by the Bureau of Communication and Strategy, signed by its Director, Semiu Okanlawon, quoted both Governor Rauf Aregbesola and his Deputy, Grace Titi Laoye-Tomori, as debunking this while hosting the newly-elected executives of the National Association of Osun State Students, who were on a familiarization visit to them

In a statement signed by the Director of the Bureau of Communications and Strategy, Semiu Okanlawon, the government said ugly incidents such as that which happened at the Anglican High School and Adele Middle School, both in Osogbo, were part of the ugly results of long years of neglect of the education sector

The group, in its letter of congratulations to the new monarch in Iwo on Wednesday, said the emergence of Oba Akanbi heralded the beginning of a new phase in the history of the ancient city, which the group however regretted is in dire need of rapid development

The Governor, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, through a statement by the Director of the Bureau of Communication and Strategy, Office of the Governor, Semiu Okanlawon, said the declaration was in line with the usual practice of the state government to declare holiday for Muslims to observe the important Islamic calendar date

Okanlawon expressed disgust at the publication, which reported that a detachment of policemen have been drafted from the Osun State Government House, while a sum of N175 million was given to Omirin and other members of the All Progressives Congress in the Ekiti StateHouse of Assembly in their alleged efforts to remove Governor Ayodele Fayose

A statement by Governor Rauf Aregbesola’s Media Aide, Semiu Okanlawon, stated that sequel to a false accusation against Governor Aregbesola by the PDP two days ago over a purported plot to bring hoodlums to pose as members of the judiciary workers union and prevent lawyers and members of the tribunal from gaining access into the premises, a fairly large population of hoodlums loyal to the PDP actually stormed the premises of the court on Friday and created confusion also around the Government House premises

An aide to Governor Rauf Aregbesola, Semiu Okanlawon, in a reaction to claims by Vice President Namadi Sambo and the National Chairman of the Party, Alhaji Adamu Muazu, who asked workers in Osun State to demand for their salaries, claiming that the Osun State Government collects its federation account allocations as at when due, said it is a tragedy of immense proportion when people in exalted offices such that of the vice president of a country could descend so low to the point of telling barefaced lies to score cheap political points