Pictures of  The newly commissioned Olufi Government Middle School with the Students, during the commissioning by the executive governor of the State, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, in Gbongan, State of Osun.

Governor, State of Osun, Ogbeni Rauf aaregbesola; his deputy, Mrs Titi
Laoye-Tomori (right); Secretary to the State Government, Alhaji
Moshood Adeoti (left); the Olufi of Gbongan, Oba Adetoyese Oyeniyi and
others, at the commissioning of Olufi Government Middle School,
Gbongan, State of Osun.

Governor, State of Osun, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola; his deputy, Mrs. Titi
Laoye-Tomori (left); Secretary to the State Government, Alhaji Moshood
Adeoti (right); the Olufi of Gbongan, Oba Adetoyese Oyeniyi (in
glasses) and others, at the commissioning of Olufi Government Middle
School, Gbongan, State of Osun

The newly commissioned Olufi Government Middle School with the
Students, during the commissioning in Gbongan, State of Osun.

From right, Governor State of Osun, Ogbrni Rauf Aregbesola; Olufi of
Gbongan, Oba Adetoyese Oyeniyi; member House of representative, Alhaja
Ayo Omidiran; Deputy Governor, Mrs. Titi Laoye-Tomori and others, at
the commissioning of Olufi Government Middle School, Gbongan, State of
Osun.

Photos of the Governor State of Osun, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola exchanging pleasantries with the newly inaugurated Chairman of LAUTECH Teaching Hospital, Professor Oluwole Atoyebi, while  Aragberi of Iragberi, Oba (Dr) Folorunso Agboade Makanju and others watch, during the inauguration of a nine-man Governing Board of LAUTECH Teaching Hospital, at Governor’s Office, Osogbo, on 21-12-2015.

Governor State of Osun, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola (3rd right); Secretary
to the State Government, Alhaji Moshood Adeoti (3rd left), newly
inaugurated Chairman of LAUTECH Teaching Hospital, Professor Oluwole
Atoyebi (middle), Head of Service, Mr. Sunday Owoeye (2nd left),
LAUTECH Chief Medical Director, Professor Akeem Lasisi (left),
Aragberi of Iragberi, Oba (Dr) Folorunso Agboade Makanju (2nd right),
Dr. Ademola Akintolu Onifade (right) and other members of the Board,
during the inauguration of a nine-man Governing Board of LAUTECH
Teaching Hospital, at Governor’s Office, Osogbo, on 21-12-2015.

Governor State of Osun, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola (middle) exchanging
pleasantries with the newly inaugurated Chairman of LAUTECH Teaching
Hospital, Professor Oluwole Atoyebi, while Aragberi of Iragberi, Oba
(Dr) Folorunso Agboade Makanju (right) and others watch, during the
inauguration of a nine-man Governing Board of LAUTECH Teaching
Hospital, at Governor’s Office, Osogbo, on 21-12-2015.

Pictures of the Governor State of Osun Ogbemi Rauf Aregbesola and his wife, Sherifat  with father Xmas, during the distribution of gifts to children in commemoration of Christmas celebrations, organised by wife of the governor, at the Government House Osogbo on Tuesday 22-12-2015

Governor State of Osun Ogbemi Rauf Aregbesola; his wife, Sherifat and
father Xmass, during the distribution of gifts to children in
commoration of xmass celebration, organised by wife of the governor,
at the Government House Osogbo on Tuesday 22-12-2015

Member of the House of Representative, Alhaja Ayo Omidiran(left),
Governor State of Osun, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola; his wife, Sherifat;
Secretary to the State Government, Alhaji Moshood Adept I and others,
cutting cake with children, after the distribution of gifts to
children in commemoration of Xmass celebration, organised by Sherifat
Aregbesola, at the Government House, Osogbo on Tuesday 22-12-2015

Governor State of Osun, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola and his wife, Sherifat
(middle), cutting Xmass cake with children after distribution of gifts
to them in commemoration of Xmass celebration, organised by wife of
the governor at the Government House, Osogbo on Tuesday 22-12-2015

Governor State of Osun, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola and his wife, Sherifat
(middle), cutting Xmass cake with children after distribution of gifts
to them in commemoration of Xmass celebration, organised by wife of
the governor at the Government House, Osogbo on Tuesday 22-12-2015

Hon. Bola Ilori is the Special Adviser to the Governor of the State of Osun, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola on Environment. He was at the 4th Africa Digital Forum and Award Night, with the themed: “Broadband: Catalyst for Tomorrow’s Economy Today” held in Lagos. He speaks at the event with ROBERT AWOKUSE on the financial condition of the state, the state position on broadband among other issues. Excerpts:
The state of Osun and some other states of the federa­tion have been in financial quagmire in recent time. How will the state wriggle out of this financial mess?
Like you have said this is not peculiar to Osun state alone. 26 states got bailouts. Lagos with its Internally Generated Revenue, IGR is equally indebted. In fact, in the last four months of former president, Mr. Goodluck Jonathan’s administration, the federal government bor­rowed to pay salaries. So it’s a Nigeria problem but when you narrow it down to Osun it shows bias or that one is not conversant with the happenings in the country.
But we are looking at the debt profile of Osun in rela­tion to other states.
The debt profile of Osun is not the highest. Kogi got the highest amount as bailout, it’s just that Osun was targeted for political reason, because Osun was totally opposed to PDP, so, it was easy to paint Osun as a worst hit. And I’m giving you fact now, go and find out. Osun is not the worst of all as painted by the opposition. The question is how do we find ourselves here as a country, and it is getting worst for the country. Buhari has de­clared that Nigeria is broke, so it’s not just about a state. Nigeria used to share N1.3 trillion on monthly basis but in the last three months the highest we have shared is N600 billion and that is why the states are now get­ting paltry sum which is not even enough to pay sala­ries. Forget about deduction for loan, the salary in Osun alone is N3.6 billion. So the entire gross allocation can­not pay salary.
So where do we go from here?
It’s IGR, people have to pay taxes. I remember grow­ing up then, if you don’t pay your tax you can’t even marry. Our value system needs to change. The era of free money in this country is over and people need to realise this because the oil is not even selling again. The biggest challenges we have now is not even about the low price of oil but people are not even buying the oil; under 40 dollar per barrel they are not even buying. The Salaries, Wages and Fiscal Commission said in the next six months many states will go bankrupt. Osun will survive it, because Aregbesola is very sincere to have come out with the debt profile of the state, while many states in Nigeria did not declare their debt pro­file. You will see what will be happening in some months to come because they refused to put their debt profile on the table when the bailout facility was made available. You can see that in the last few weeks now, Osun is back and it has started doing projects, because we have re­alised our situation, we are facing governance squarely, no more frivolity.
Beyond the tablet, “Opon Imo” initiative what other area has the State of Osun encouraged access to broadband penetration?
We have a serious challenge of intermittent cable cut because of the distance between Lagos and Osun which is a little far. Nevertheless the government of the State of Osun has been very passionate about information technology. That is why we are trying to link all our in­stitutions with broadband, virtually all the offices now in the state is connected to internet facilities. We tried having what they called digital canopy at a time so that people can have access to internet facilities. Once we get over the issue of cable cut, our people can all be enjoy­ing it.
How do you intend to create more awareness for broad­band use in the state, are you going to be taking the campaign to schools and so on?
You will not be getting it right when you say we should take the campaign to them because it’s already a daily reality there, having the capacity is the key issue here not about awareness. We still depend largely on these mobile communication service providers and they are limited when it comes to what they can provide. We need dedicated internet provider to increase accessibili­ty to broadband. Our people are aware already; we share “Opon Imo” to our students, you will be shock what the students do with it on their own; the extent they have taken Opon Imo to on their own and these are students from poor background. The distribution of Opon Imo in Osun kick started a revolution. People who ordinar­ily wouldn’t have access to it at age 12, age 13 are already playing around with it and that has opened their mind to the need for broadband.
This “Opon Imo” has been described by the opposition as a means of just providing job for the boys and that it’s not sustainable given the economic crisis the state is going through currently, what do you have to say to this?
The work of opposition is just to criticise and un­fortunately Osun has the worst form of opposition; the people who are just destructive in their criticism. This Opon Imo has been adopted by UNESCO as a standard for education and don’t forget the United Nations had also awarded it as the best innovation in education in year 2013. Of course you know that it is not a local award. So, to say that Opon Imo is not sustainable is funny. It’s not as if we are buying new ones, the ones we have bought are what we upgrade. We only replace faulty ones. I went to school in those days of free educa­tion when books were being shared to students. What they did then was that at the end of the session you sub­mit the books back to the school. When one is lost, you pay for it. That is exactly what we are doing with Opon Imo. It’s meant for SSS 3 students alone, and the moment you finish your SSCE, you submit your it before you col­lect your result. It is configured for individual student so you can’t take another person’s own. We reconfigure for the new set and upgrade as the syllabus changes. So what is not sustainable in that, it’s only poverty of idea and lack of vision that makes people think that way.
Lastly, we learnt that the four tertiary institutions in Osun, colleges of education and polytechnics will not be admitting students for 2015/2016 academic session and that the governor has asked the schools to go into short courses in entrepreneur programmes, is this cor­rect?
Yes, this is still part of facing realities; life cannot go on as it used to be before now. When Aregbesola as­sumed office as the governor of the state, the percent­age of students who passed WASC with five credits was three per cent. An average of 41,000 students annually sit for WASC in Osun, only three per cent of them will pass with five credits. Now it has improved to 21 per cent, though still bad, but far better than what we met. You now wonder what happen to the remaining 79 per cent of the students, they are going to become mechan­ics, bricklayers, tillers and so on.
We sat down and look at it that we can’t abandon these people. Our society needs this kind of services. Most times, we travel as far as Togo to bring tillers. So instead of continuing churning out people who will be useless to the society every year, even the polytechnics that supposed to train technicians are just churning out people with academic qualification, so we are changing from paper based certificate to quality education.
What becomes the fate of the candidates who have already chosen any of these institutions since the state did not officially write JAMB to remove them from the brochure so that candidates wouldn’t choose them?
Anybody who is in this country should know that Osun is not admitting for 2015/2016 academic ses­sion, but if you say many people don’t know, then we will make a public announcement. You should know that with the state of things in Osun now, we need to reprioritize. We are not merging those institutions as rumoured out there, even though the interest of those who are protesting against this is the economic gain they derive from those institutions, not for academic reason. Majority of those who attend the institutions are not from Osun because if only 21 per cent of the stu­dents passed WASC, what happen to the rest, so we are looking at education in the real sense of developing hu­man capacity not just churning out people with paper qualification who cannot translate their knowledge to economic benefit for the society.
NATIONAL MIRROR

The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) in Osun on Tuesday assured residents of the state of adequate security during and after the Yuletide season.
The spokesman of the NSCDC in Osun, Mr Wale Folarin, gave the assurance in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Osogbo.
Folarin said the corps had put in place adequate security measures to ensure peace before, during and after the Yuletide.
He described Osun as one of the most peaceful states in the country, saying this was a reflection of the security measures put in place to protect lives and property by security agencies.
“We have officers in all the local governments, throughout the wards, in every nook and cranny of the state.
“We have officers in mufti gathering intelligence and providing security.
“Presently, we have mapped out some black spots and have posted our officers to such places to conduct surveillance.
“We are focusing mostly on religious centres during the festive period and also providing security patrols with armed officers throughout the state.
“We have also been holding meetings with stake holders to give us information on where there are security threats or breaches in the state,’’ he said

– NAN

The government of Osun State has offered to provide free train services for citizens intending to return home to celebrate Christmas and New Year.
Government Spokesperson, Semiu Okanlawon, said this would lessen the financial burden of transportation during the yuletide.
He said the free train service was in continuation of the commitment of the administration to making life more meaningful for the people of the state.
The train would, by 11h00 on Thursday convey people from Lagos to Osogbo, the state capital.
The return journey to Lagos from Osogbo will be Sunday by 11h00.
The train will also resume the services of conveying people from Lagos to Osogbo for the New Year celebration by 11h00 next Thursday and similar time on Sunday to return to Lagos from Osogbo.
The state government has, since 2011, been making similar arrangements for people of the state, to travel home during festive seasons.
The Nigerian Railway Corporations has welcomed the gesture saying it had helped many Nigerians to restore their hope in the viability of railway as a reliable means of transportation in the country.

– CAJ News

REMARKS BY THE GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF OSUN, OGBENI RAUF AREGBESOLA, AT THE INAUGURATION OF THE GOVERNING BOARD OF LADOKE AKINTOLA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY TEACHING HOSPITAL AT THE EXCO LOUNGE OF THE OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR, BOLA IGE HOUSE, ABERE, ON DECEMBER 21, 2015
 
 
Protocols,
HIT THE GROUND RUNNING
It gives me great pleasure to welcome you all to the inauguration of the governing board of Ladoke Akintola University of Technology Teaching Hospital. Last month, the government announced a nine-man board headed by Prof Wole Atoyebi. Other members are: Dr. Kayode Akinlade, Dr. Ademola Akintolu Onifade, Oba (Dr) Folorunso Agboade Makanju Olaniyan, Prof Akeem Lasisi (Acting Chief Medical Director [CMD], LAUTECH); Dr. Temitope Olalekan Oladele (P.S Health), Dr. Surajudeen Ogunyemi, Chairman, NMA), Prof. Samuel Sunday Taiwo, Provost, College of Medicine and Dr. Daniel Adebode Adekanle (Chairman, Medical Advisory Committee). We are gathered here to inaugurate the board.
This is a well packed board headed by a renown and award winning medical scientist who had been provost of Lagos University College of Medicine; which also includes LAUTECH CMD; a traditional ruler who is also a medical practitioner; a medical labour unionist; the provost of LAUTECH College of Medicine and others who know and have practiced medicine at the public and private levels. This is our tradition, we don’t do half measure.
This board is being inaugurated at an interesting time, when public finance is at its nadir, on account of falling oil price and uncertainties at the global economy. In addition to your statutory responsibilities, therefore, you will be required to think for the hospital and make it a centre of medical excellence, by national and global standards.
There is a medical ethics at the tertiary level: since a teaching hospital is a hospital of last resort, patients brought there are ordinarily not expected to survive. I want you to change this mind-set; let LAUTECH be a miracle centre where those expected to die would live.
The second miracle you are expected to perform is to secure funding for the hospital without passing the burden on patients beyond what it is at the moment. On this, you are well familiar with what obtains elsewhere, a substantial part of the funding for hospitals comes from endowments, gifts and philanthropy.
The third pressing need is to have harmonious relations with workers and trade unions and ensure a seamless running at the hospital. I am glad the chairman is himself a labour titan and the chairman of the medical association is on board. While not discounting the right of people to association and advance their cause through the unions, industrial actions should have no place in a hospital where the difference between life and death is a matter of seconds. It is a sign that we are fast losing our humanity when caregivers look on indifferently and on purpose while people die.
Lastly, the board must also be on board our administration’s renewed efforts at work ethics. It is universally established that every human endeavour is for a higher purpose. This is why work must yield a higher value of result than the input. The surplus value between input and result is called profit. This is not a problem at the private sector; it is indeed the raison d’etre of enterprise where every worker hired is expected to add value. This principle must guide the public sector as well. Workers must see government work as an enterprise where the output must surpass the input. For the health sector, this must be manifest in punctuality, efficiency, honesty, a commitment to caring for people and ultimately an improved healthcare delivery to the people of the state. You should ensure that those who do not share this vision no longer have any place in the hospital.
In spite of the recent financial challenges we have had, we will continue to fulfil our obligations of state, especially to critical institutions like LAUTECH and other hospitals.
We have employed a multifaceted approach towards achieving our goal of providing healthcare for our people. The measures we have taken cover such health-related areas as provision of potable water supply to our people, especially in the rural areas, in order to promote personal hygiene. This has been known to go a long way in keeping away many disease-causing micro-organisms.
On the environment front, we have also ensured that waste management gets the deserved priority attention through regular bi-monthly environmental sanitation exercise, including the cleaning of work and market places on a weekly basis. Our administration has also taken care of the recurring incidents of flooding across the state along with its potential for spreading water-borne diseases. This we have done by embarking, immediately we assumed office, on widening, channelization and de-silting of our numerous canals, streams and rivulets. We are still doing it on a regular basis.
These and other measures have been adopted to raise the health status of our people. We have therefore been maintaining our free healthcare policy through constant procurement to ensure the availability of free drugs at our hospitals, while there are also free anti-malaria drugs for expectant mothers as part of their ante-natal treatment in government-owned hospitals. Indeed, in a recent World Bank publication, Osun came second after Lagos in the result of a national assessment for 2014 on infant and maternal healthcare delivery.
In addition, we have renovated nine state hospitals, as well as constructed nine trauma centres at the State Hospital, Asubiaro, Osogbo. There is also the upgrading of our existing primary healthcare centres while new ones are being built. To further enhance these efforts, medical equipment, furniture and electrical appliances have been procured for some of our health facilities where these are needed. Furthermore, ambulances were purchased and are now in full operation under the Osun Ambulance Services (O-Ambulance), which is aimed at improving the quick-response capacity of the health system, in cases of accidents and emergencies.
I congratulate members of the board and trust you will hit the ground running.
I thank you all for your kind attention.
Osun a dara!

A prominent Ibadan-based businessman, Alhaji Dawud Akinola, was on Saturday installed as the new Aare Musulumi of Yorubaland, to succeed the former title holder, the late Alhaji Abdul-Azeez Arisekola-Alao, who died on June 17, 2014.
The certificate was presented by Osun State Governor, Rauf Aregbesola, while the turbaning was carried out by the representative of the President-General, of NSCIA in conjunction with the President-General, League of Imams and Alfas.
Sheikh Habeebullah Adam Al-Ilory, the Rector of Agege, Lagos-based MORCAZ, in a sermon, said that the assignment of the Aare Musulumi was a great one that required devotion and absolute commitment.
The Islamic scholar urged the new Aare Musulmi to be committed to the task ahead of him and lead by example at all times, by emulating the great leadership style of his predecessors.
Former Lagos State Governor, Senator Bola Tinubu, who was the Chairman of the occasion, praised the late Mr. Arisekola-Alao, saying he was wealthy, humble and very generous in his life time.
Represented by Oyo State Governor, Abiola Ajimobi, also urged the new Aare to emulate the leadership style of Arisekola-Alao, whom he said devoted all he had to the upliftment of Islam and humanity.
The Governor, in his own personal remarks, urged Muslims to establish schools where children could learn morals, and vocations to cope with the challenges of life, and implored Akinola to prepare for greater challenges as the new Aare.
“Arisekola-Alao was a rare breed whose leadership acumen and generosity transcended Yorubaland.
“Anytime I look at the man to be turbaned today, I pity him because he would have to devote all he has to justify his new leadership status,’’ he said.
Also speaking, the Sultan of Sokoto and President-General, Nigeria Supreme Council of Islamic Affairs (NSCIA), represented by Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, NSCIA Secretary-General, said the new position was to rally the Imams for the development of Islam, and urged Akinola to see his new position as an opportunity to lift Islam to greater heights.
The Sultan stressed the need for the teaching of religious studies from the primary school level to secondary school, saying lack of this had bred indiscipline.
The new Aare Musulmi, in his acceptance speech, pledged to serve in the new capacity with all he was endowed with by God and would never let the people down, and promised to work in harmony with all Islamic title holders to improve on the legacy left behind by the late Arisekola-Alao during his life time.
Akinola also solicited the cooperation of all Islamic organisations as well as the Muslim Ummah of South-West Nigeria in fostering unity among the faithful.
Among the prominent dignitaries who graced the occasion were Governor Abiola Ajimobi of Oyo State, his Osun counterpart, Rauf Aregbesola, the Minister of Communication, Adebayo Shittu, and Michael Adeyemo, the Speaker of the Oyo State House of Assembly.
Others were Alhaja Aminat Abiodun, the Iyalode of Ibadanland, Yekini Adeojo, Sheikh Jamiu Bello, President-General, League of Imams and Alfas of Yorubaland, Edo and Delta States and Adebayo Adelabu, Deputy Governor, Central Bank of Nigeria, Seyi Makinde, Sheikh Muyideen Bello, as well as politicians and Islamic clerics from all over Nigeria.

In the MOU, Osun State is willing to partner with JIL farms and Equipment Limited to develop a 1,500 hectare ranch under the O-BEEF and O-REAP programme for the breeding and development of 2,500 foundation breeding cattle herd, which will include the Tuli and Boran species
 
The Governor of Osun State, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, has described the notion that Osun State is a civil servants state as a misnomer that must be resisted by all well-meaning indigenes.
The Governor, while signing a Memorandum of Understanding on behalf of the state government and an America-based equipment leasing and beef rearing company, stated that Osun State is an agrarian state.
In the MOU, Osun State is willing to partner with JIL farms and Equipment Limited to develop a 1,500 hectare ranch under the O-BEEF and O-REAP programme for the breeding and development of 2,500 foundation breeding cattle herd, which will include the Tuli and Boran species.
JIL Farms possesses the ability to finance, operate and maintain the agricultural land into ranches and farmland in such a manner as to maintain the infrastructure and develop additional farmlands for production of livestock and crops.
The partnership will develop a 10,000-head capacity feedlot centre; construct a feed mill for processed grains, a meat processing plant, and a packing plant for vegetables; develop a youth training centre, a livestock and farming out-grower scheme; and a retreat centre for seminars and trainings.
Aregbesola noted that it will be foolhardy for‎ anybody to believe that Osun State will survive with what it receives monthly from the Federal Allocation, which at its best ever was N5 billion, saying what has been sustaining the state is agriculture.
According to Aregbesola: “Although I am no longer excited by signing of MOU because most of it are impressive, most of it are just ceremonies without action thereafter, but with the commitment and drive with which you have shown, I look forward to a better days ahead.
“I am very hopeful of a fantastic result from this collaboration, I have confidence in what the supervisory legal department and our own have done. I hope that activities will commence by January, we will put the resources of the state behind this. I look forward to a celebration of a successful venture.”
Aregbesola enjoined the state Ministry of Agriculture to support the present administration in its effort to make the state realize its potentials as an agrarian state.
The Governor held that the time has come for everybody in the state to turn to agriculture, adding that with the development of agriculture and farming, there will be plenty in the land.
Earlier, the Director JIL equipment leasing and beef rearing Company, Dr. Jenny Caringham, pointed out that his company will bring change into livestock farming in Osun State.
Caringham added that the team will also be going into total agriculture with the latest available technologies that will in no distant time improve employment opportunity for youths in the state.
Caringham commended Aregbesola for taking to agriculture for the development of the state, stressing that his team will give everything it takes to improve abattoirs and beef production in Osun State.
He assured of visibility of the project within 30 days of its commencement of operation in Osun State and that by the end of the first quarter of 2016, there will be a resort centre that will enhance tourism.
He said: “I want to use this occasion to thank the state for this opportunity.
“We will not let you down.
“By January, we will be here to start fully.
“We are not importing anything because we have everything in Nigeria.”
THE EAGLE

Osun State Governor Rauf Aregbesola has asked the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) to increase its interventions in tertiary institutions in the state in order to complement the efforts of his administration.
According to him, the commitment of his administration to basic education in the state  to prepare a solid foundation ‎for the tertiary institutions has robbed the latter of government attention, hence the need for TetFUND to fill in the gap in order to balance the equation.
He said, “Our commitment to foundation education has robbed us off the commitment to higher institutions.”
‎Aregbesola stated these in Abuja at the weekend when he paid a courtesy call on the Executive Secretary of the Fund, Professor Suleiman Bogoro.
He said he came to seek a mutual relation with the Fund and also explore areas where his government and TETFund can work together.
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The governor said Osun State is the second state in the country with the highest number of tertiary institutions ‎noting that he came to the TETFund headquarters to be able to do more for the tertiary institutions.
He said “I came to seek a mutual relationship and exploit areas where his government and TETFund can work together. Knowledge is power, education is the greatest legacy, any society could leave to those who are going to take up the mantle of leadership. The best investment therefore is education. There can’t be any investment of greater value than education.
I want to thank  those who created TETFund, we thank the leadership of this country that thought it wise to create an education trust fund. I’m not here to complain, there’s no reason for it. I’m here therefore to do more for higher institutions in my state.
You would see me more often and I will not put any pressure on you. I will fraternize with you with the mind that my state will get the best from you and you will get the best from the investment.
“My state is probably second in terms of number of highest number of higher institutions in Nigeria. I proudly invite any appropriate head of department to come and survey what we are doing in education particularly the foundation education.
“We are remodeling and restructuring primary education the way no one has done in this country. The higher education is useless when the foundation is defective.
Our universities, colleges and polytechnics must impact on the society because we have peculiar needs. We are not collapsing institutions. We are simply rejigging institutions for them to be more useful‎.”
‎While responding, Executive Secretary of TETFund, Professor Suleiman Bogoro remarked that ‎the country has a lot to thank Osun state government for over the introduction of school feeding noting that the federal and state government must emulate the model.
“Foundation is where the future is. We can not achieve anything if the foundation is poor,” he said
He disclosed that the governor gave him at a closed door session they had,  specific requirements for his state saying ” we shall make sure we make contributions to add value to what the governor has been doing.
“Federal government and other states should learn from Osun state,” he added.
LEADERSHIP