Osun State Governor, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, has congratulated the Managing Director and Editor-In-Chief of The Sun Publishing Ltd, Mr Femi Adesina, on his re-election as the president of the Nigeria Guild of Editors (NGE).
In a statement signed by his media spokesman, Mr. Semiu Okanlanwo, Aregbesola said Adesina’s re-election for a second term in office was a testament of his unrivaled acumen in result-oriented leadership, deep knowledge of the media industry as well as human resource management.
“Mr. Femi Adesina’s re-election as the president of the Nigeria Guild of Editors is a clear testimony to his astute leadership trait and prudent knowledge in the management of affairs of people,” Aregbesola enthused.
While commending Adesina for his all-inclusive running of the Guild’s affairs, the governor tasked him on the need to ensure that the media does not detract from its roles as a watchdog of the society.
Aregbesola also urged  the Guild to work assiduously in ensuring that the media collaborates and co-operates with the government in building, sustaining and protecting the nation’s democracy.
The Governor also reminded the media of its crucial roles in building and sustaining a virile democratic culture in the country.
He stressed that the Guild had an enormous task of ensuring that journalists are alive to their responsibilities to the society.
“The Fourth Estate of the Realm must uphold the principle of fair hearing, engage in investigative and in-depth reportage of events and ensure an egalitarian society where all shades of interests and opinions are given opportunities to air their views,” Aregbesola added.
The statement read in part: “Your re-election as the president of Nigerian Guild of Editors has come to us in Osun as another landmark achievement.
“This is so not only because you are one of the best hands in your profession, which has earned you a return to this exalted position, but also for the fact that you have done us proud as a true ambassador of Osun.
“Your re-election must certainly be hinged on your leadership qualities and successes you have recorded as a thoroughbred professional.
 
 
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Osun State Governor, Mr. Rauf Aregbesola has denied planning to stop the free feeding programme saying it has increased the state’s economy by employing 3,007 women and over tens of thousands of farmers.
In a statement made available by his media aide, Mr. Semiu Okanlawon, Aregbesola said “OMEALs has been one of our most socially impactful programmes. How can a responsible government like ours think of reviewing a programme that has been adjudged as one of the best to come out of the country? Does that not stand logic on its head?
“We have been able to improve our state’s economy through the school feeding of over 250, 000 pupils every school day. The programme has directly employed 3,007 women and over tens of thousands of farmers in the state.
“Osun is attracting local and international attention for implementing an initiative that has not only increased enrolment in its primary schools, but has also provided jobs for farmers, majority of whom are women.”
The Punch had published a story during the week alleging that the Governor is planning to stop the free feeding programme due to recommendations by Labour Leaders.
http://www.theheraldng.com/free-feeding-has-improved-osun-state-economy-aregbesola/

L-R: House of Assembly Member-Elect for Obokun State Constituency of Osun, Mr. Olatunbosun Oyintiloye; Chief Matron, Obokun Comprehensive Health Centre, Mrs. Yemisi Babatunde; and Chairman, Cedio Rural Medical Outreach Ministry, Captain Yakubu Okatahi, during Oyintiloye’s visit to the operation centre of Medical Outreach at Obokun Comprehensive Health Centre, Osun State … on Wednesday.

Osun State House of Assembly member-elect from Obokun State Constituency, Olatunbosun Oyintiloye, has called on people of his constituency and the state in general to plough back to the society through interventions to assist the government.
He made the call during his recent visit to the operation centre of the free medical treatment and surgical operations for over 200 beneficiaries, which was organised by Cedio Rural Medical Outreach Ministry, Lagos, and held at Ibokun Comprehensive Health Centre, Ibokun.

In a statement issued on Saturday, Oyintiloye said the interventions had gone a long way in reducing the health challenges faced by the people and lifted burden on him as the representative of the people in government.

He said such interventions, especially on health, would assist government to actualize its programmes by attending to do other areas.
Oyintiloye said, “There is no way government can do everything but interventions like this from well-meaning Nigerians will go a long way to assist the people.
“The present administration of Governor Rauf Aregbesola is doing so much on health to make our people live healthy in spite of limited resource, but medical intervention is a plus to what the government is doing.
“The belief of the government is that all the efforts of the administration to develop the economy through empowerment of people, education and other areas will be meaningless if people are not healthy.
“We call on the people not to leave everything to government, as their support in all areas of governance, no matter how small would go a long way to make the society better.”
Commending the sponsor of the medical outreach for their commitment to the healthy living of the people, the lawmaker-elect said he would continue to support and embrace such similar supports from whoever offers it.
He also appealed to the outreach to replicate similar intervention in no distant time in his constituency to relieve other people suffering from various diseases.
http://www.punchng.com/news/osun-lawmaker-elect-seeks-health-intervention/

Representative of Osun Governor and Senior Special Assistant to the Governor on Natural and Mineral Resources Prince Tunde Ajilore (Middle);  Managing Director, Wolid International Services Limited,Engineer Ayanbamiji Oluwole Idowu (Right) presenting a car key to theOluwoye of Iwoyeland, Oba Alhaji Rasheed Ademola Oyeweso, during the Official Commissioning of Wolid Quarry Complex at Iwoye, EgbedoreLocal Government Area, State of Osun at the weekend

From Left-Representative of Osun Governor and Senior Special Assistant to the Governor on Natural Mineral Resources, Prince Tunde Ajilore;Managing Director, Wolid International Services Limited, Engineer Ayanbamiji Oluwole Idowu and Oluwoye of Iwoyeland, Oba Alhaji RasheedAdemola Oyeweso, during the Official Commissioning of Wolid Quarry Complex at Iwoye, Egbedore Local Government Area, State of Osun, at the weekend

 From Left – Acting Executive Secretary, Office of Natural and Mineral Resources, Mr. Kayode Lanlehin;  Representative of Osun Governor and Senior Special Assistant to the Governor on Natural Mineral Resources, Prince Tunde Ajilore, Member Representing Egbedore State Constituencyin the State of Osun House of Assembly, Hon Laide Awolola and Managing Director, Wolid International Services Limited, Engineer Ayanbamiji Oluwole Idowu, during the Official Commissioning of Wolid Quarry Complex at Iwoye, Egbedore Local Government Area, State of Osun, at the weekend

 Assembly man,  Hon.Busola Adeyeni representing Ife-East in Osun State has pleaded with Nigerians who are living in other countries to invest in their country.

Hon. Adeyeni expressed concerns about the attitudes of some Nigerians abroad who, somewhat, abandoned and neglected their home country just for mere luxury of living.

He also urged them to always come home to celebrate annual festivals which he said could give them the opportunity to interact and make investment plans.

“It is not a crime to be a sojourner in a foreign land but it is a crime not to have a foresight for the future,’’ He said.

He cited the violence in South Africans in which some foreigners were killed, expressing worry that some Nigerians might be unwilling to come back because of what to do to earn a living where they had not invested.

He, therefore, urged them to be visiting their country at least once in a year for identification and investment with whatever they have achieved in foreign land.

He also appealed to governments to provide adequate provision in all sectors such as education, health, agriculture, employment for youths, modern infrastructure, among others.

Adeyeni called on all Nigerians living abroad to come home and contribute their own quota to the development of the country.

http://pulse.ng/local/in-osun-legislator-urges-nigerians-abroad-to-invest-in-the-country-id3697850.html
 

 

Osun State Governor, Mr. Rauf Aregbesola, has denied plans to stop feeding of school children by his administration.
The Governor was reacting to a story published by a national daily where it claimed that the Governor might stop the programme based on the recommendation by labour leaders.
Aregbeshola in a statement made by his media aide, Mr. Semiu Okanlawon, said the programme, which had attracted commendations, would not be stopped despite the falling of allocation accruing to the state.

Against the backdrop of the recently concluded general elections, the Governor of Osun, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola has called on Nigerians to guard democracy jealously for the development of the country.
The governor made this appeal during a broadcast in Osun titled, “‎Watering the tree of democracy with love and determination” on Sunday.
He commended the people of Osun for their conduct before, during and after the elections, saying Osun is among states in the country that recorded few incidents during the period of elections.
The governor also noted that the people of the state in no small measure contributed to the emergence of the President-elect, Alhaji Muhammadu Buhari, the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC).
According to him, “The pattern, shape and the result are indications of your diligent planting and nurture of the tree of democracy in the past 16 years; and the buds of its early fruits.
“Election is now assuming its true definition as political empowerment for the people. With your voter’s card, you now determine those who rule over you and make laws for the government of the country and your state.
“This is the most critical first test of democracy since 1999, a free and fair election in which the people choose their leaders, and you have passed it in flying colours.
“I congratulate you for this historic achievement. What we need to do now is to guard it jealously and build on this solid foundation the superstructure of productivity, development, security and life more abundant for all”. The governor emphasised.
‎Aregbesola stated that for Osun to be aligning with other progressive states to vote for a progressive president, the state has helped to realise the dream of Chief Obafemi Awolowo by setting the country on an unstoppable path of greatness.
He reiterated that his government in Osun will be a people-centred government that will provide security, jobs and good life for the people.
The governor assured the people of the state that the president-elect will put the wealth of the nation to use and develop Nigeria to an enviable height among the committee of Nations.
He said, “Let me congratulate the winners for their deserved victory and the losers for keen sportsmanship and belief in the democratic system.
“In a free and fair contest, a winner must emerge. The winners therefore should regard the mandate given to them as sacred and serve their people with honour and integrity, knowing that in four years’ time, they will be required to give account of their stewardship.
“The losers too should be gallant and take seriously the reasons why they were not preferred by the voters and use the next four years to do their homework in the hope that they will have a better outing at the next round of elections,” he noted.
‎The governor expressed regrets that some candidates in the bid to gain unfair advantage or manipulate the outcome had to unleash violence on the people.
Aregbesola noted that the reports of violence and malpractices before, during and after the election, no matter how small, shall be revisited, saying that those that have breached the laws of the land will be brought to justice.

“My heartfelt condolences go to the families of the bereaved. We are building a peaceful new nation characterised by law and order, where every life is sacred and where safety of lives and property is guaranteed.

“This new nation has no place for violence, brigandage, cheating, injustice and impunity. More importantly, no one will get into any elective office through cheating, violence, intimidation, thuggery and manipulation”.

Pictures of the All Progressives Congress (APC) supporters in Iwo Local Government area of Osun participating in a Walk-For-Continuity Exercise in support of their Candidates in the House of Assembly and seek for votes in Saturday election at Iwo on Thursday 09-04-2015

All Progressives Congress (APC) supporters in Iwo Local Government
area of Osun participating in a Walk-For-Continuity Exercise in
support of their Candidates in the House of Assembly while seeking for
votes in Saturday election. Insert: Secretary to the State Government
of Osun, Alhaji Moshood Adeoti (2nd right); Former SSG, Alhaji Kazeem
Adio (left); Director, Bureau of Communication and Strategy, Mr. Semiu
Okanlawon (3rd left); Former Assistant Chief of Staff to Governor
Aregbesola, Hon. Mudathir Toogun (3rd right); House of Assembly
member, Hon. Ezekiel Adedibu (2nd left) and others, on Thursday
09-04-2015

All Progressives Congress (APC) supporters in Iwo Local Government
area of Osun participating in a Walk-For-Continuity Exercise in
support of their Candidates in the House of Assembly and seek for
votes in Saturday election at Iwo on Thursday 09-04-2015

Secretary to the State Government of Osun, Alhaji Moshood Adeoti (2nd
right); Former SSG, Alhaji Kazeem Adio (left); Director, Bureau of
Communication and Strategy, Mr. Semiu Okanlawon (3rd left); Former
Assistant Chief of Staff to Governor Aregbesola, Hon. Mudathir Toogun
(3rd right); Member, House of Assembly, Hon. Ezekiel Adedibu (2nd
left); APC Chairman, Iwo Local Government, Hon. Semiu Ayofe (right)
and others, during a Walk-For-Continuity Exercise in support of APC
Candidates in the House of Assembly in Iwo on Thursday 09-04-2015

Leaders of the All Progressives Congress in Iwo, headquarters of Iwo Local Government Area of Osun on Thursday warned the Peoples Democratic Party against attempting to perpetrate any form of electoral fraud in any part of the state in the Saturday House of Assembly election.

Specifically, the leaders said the APC was aware of plots by some PDP stalwarts to organize for the disruption of the House of Assembly poll taking place on Saturday saying those caught for electoral manipulations would be made to face the full wrath of the law.

At the sensitization walk were the Secretary to the State Government, Alhaji Moshood Adeoti, newly re-elected member of the House of Representatives, Mr. Ghafar Akintayo Amere; former Special Adviser to Governor on Works, Engr, Oladepo Amuda; Director, Bureau of Communication and Strategy, Mr. Semiu Okanlawon, former Secretary to the State Government under the administration of Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola, Alhaji Kazeem Adio; former Assistant Chief of Staff to Governor Aregbesola, Hon. Mudathir Toogun,  House of Assembly candidate for the Iwo State constituency, Mr. Gbadebo Abdulahi, the incumbent in the House of Assembly, Hon. Ezekiel Adedibu and a host of other party stalwarts.

The chairman of the party in Iwo Local Government, Hon. Semiu Ayofe, who spoke on behalf of other leaders of the party after an eight kilometer Walk-for-continuity, said all members of the APC have been sufficiently mobilized, galvanized and educated to protect their votes and ensure the victory of the APC.

“The victory of the APC in the presidential and National Assembly election is not a fluke. It is a confirmation of the supremacy of the APC over all those other parties. We must however sound this note of warning to those who are planning to snatch ballot boxes, intimidate our members on Saturday that we have uncovered all their plans. They must be warned not to try it as the full weight of the law would be brought to deal with them.”

The walk, which took almost two hours, saw to the members and leaders dancing and singing to the admiration of many residents who trooped out to acknowledge the huge crowd of supporters that came out for the walk.

The Governor of Osun, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola has commended the people of Ife-North Local Government of the State for their massive support and vote for the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the March 28 elections which culminated in the victory of the party’s presidential candidate, Alhaji Muhammadu Buhari.‎

In a statement by the Director, Bureau of Communication and Strategy, Mr. Semiu Okanlawon, the governor was quoted as speaking during his commendation visit and shoring of supports for the House Assembly candidates of the APC in the state in the area.

It was in continuation of the governor and his party’s efforts to ensure a repeat of the massive vote for the APC in the presidential poll on March 28.

The campaign team criss-crossed towns like; Ipetumodu, Edun-Abon, Okuuomoni, Famia, Onibambu, Oyere-Aborisade, Modakeke, among other notable towns in Ife-North local government of the state.

He described their love for APC as unprecedented stressing that the area is known as pro-Obafemi Awolowo even in the face of frustration, political molestation, assault and monetary inducements.

He held that the people of the areas have written their names in gold in the political history of the State, adding that their rare passions and supports to his administration can never be forgotten.

The governor frowned at the way and manner in which PDP and its loyalists went about inducing people with money and other items before, during and after the elections, describing such act as barbaric to modern democratic principle and values.

According to him, ” I want to use this occasion to congratulate all of us on the success of our party, the APC at the last presidential and National assembly elections. We thank God that the change we have been waiting for has come.

“I also want to commend and thank you for the way you trooped out for the March 28 elections which gave victory to General Muhammadu Buhari and our representatives to the National Assembly.

“Our people should be commended for standing tall despite the intimidation and the inducement of the PDP before and during the elections. Our people are wise, some of us collected their Dollars and still did not vote for them, while majority rejected them with their Dollars.

“We must come out en-mass on April 11 to vote for our candidates to the House of Assembly like we did during the presidential election, a vote for APC on Saturday will be a vote for stability and continuity in Osun.

“You must all ensure that you vote all our candidates, by doing so, you are voting for more positive transformation of the state and the continued development of infrastructure the state has been witnessing in the past four years”. The governor told the gathering at the campaign ground.

Aregbesola pledged to fulfill all his electioneering campaign promises to the people of the areas as soon as the earning of the states improves.

Earlier in their separate remarks, the Apetumodu of Ipetumodu, Oba James Adedokun, the Ogunsua of Modakeke, Oba Francis Olatunji Adedoyin, Olomoni of Okuuomoni, Oba Taiwo Odedoyin congratulated the President-Elect, General Muhammadu Buhari and other APC candidates for their victories at the polls.

The traditional rulers pledged their royal support at all times for the APC government and that the council will do everything to lift the development of the state and that of Nigeria.

The monarchs equally hailed the people of the State most especially in Ife-North for their peaceful conduct during the March 28 elections, urging them to replicate such manner in the fort-coming election.