Governance

Gov. Abiodun Launches Empowerment Scheme, Tasks Youth On Self Development

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6 years ago

November 4, 2020

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The Ogun State Governor, Prince Dapo Abiodun has launched the State Youth Empowerment Scheme, OF-YES with a call on youth to key into the scheme to develop themselves for a secure future.

Abiodun, who spoke while launching the scheme at the June 12 Cultural Centre, Kuto, Abeokuta, to mark this year’s National Youth Day with the theme, “Youth, Skills and Insecurity: Connection, Cost and Opportunities,” said the scheme would focus on training participants to become artisans, such as bricklayers, carpenters, welders among others.

Participants, the Governor explained, would be selected from those already registered on the job portal and those who would be registering, then matched with offtaker organisations in both the public sector and private sector with beneficiaries receiving allowances during the skill acquisition programme.

He noted that the new empowerment scheme was another window of opportunity for all youth, particularly artisans, to realise their dreams, as there was a link between unemployment, insecurity and lack of education..

“This empowerment programme will accommodate 250 youth from each of our 20 Local Government Areas – this means 5,000 youth across our dear State. And we are particularly delighted that this initiative will be another boost to employment generation, poverty alleviation and food security in our dear State. Very importantly, it is a veritable approach towards placing our youth at a vantage position as proud inheritors of the future that we are building,” Governor Abiodun explained.

The Governor opined that it was imperative to pay adequate attention to the development of the youth as they form over 60% of the nation’s population, maintaining that it was the function of the society to help in harnessing and focusing the vibrancy and energy of the youth to positive enterprise.

“For us as a government, we have and will continue to tap into this raw energy of our youth through different approaches of our policies and programmes,” he said.

In his welcome address, the Commissioner for Youth and Sports, Mr. Oludare Kehinde, while reeling out some of the achievements of the administration in youth empowerment, said the programme came at a time when issues concerning youth are currently at the front burner nationally.

Delivering a lecture on the theme of the celebration, social entrepreneur and founder of Rise Network, Mrs. Toyosi Akerele-Ogunsiji, while criticising past and present leaders on neglecting the youth for too long, stressed the need for youth to organise themselves and aspire for leadership positions.

She opined that the #EndSARS protest was a reflection of anger in the land, adding that it was time to fix education and create jobs in order to channel youth exuberance and energies into viable productivities.

Founder and Senior Pastor, Victory Life Bible Church, Apostle Lawrence Achudume, enjoined the youth to embrace entrepreneurship, while the Chief Imam and Lecturer, Department of Arabic and Islamic studies, Olabisi Onabanjo University, Associate Professor Akeem Akanbi, harped on the need for the youth to be disciplined and lead an upright life, urging religious leaders to help in bringing up the youth in a righteous way.

Ogun Youth Ambassador and winner of this year’s Big Brother Naija, Olamilekan Agbeleshe who was also in attendance, called on Nigerians to accept more, vital social impact lessons from the #EndSARS protest, while government at various levels should put in place viable skill acquisition centres to impart on youth to be solution providers.

Governance

KW-GIS Transforms Land Administration with Cutting-Edge Technology

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2 years ago

January 3, 2024

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Established by Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq CON, Kwara State Geographic Information Service (KW-GIS) provides modern and efficient land administration in the State.The agency has since improved land administration and other processes related to land with the use of technology and digital platforms.It has also led to the harmonisation of all departments dealing with land administration to minimise bottlenecks and enhance efficiency.The reforms at KW-GIS has also secured land documents and curtail activities of land grabbers, as efforts are ongoing to digitise and serialise R of O, C of O, and other title documents.KW-GIS collates, gathers, analyse and digitise all geospatial data in the state and store them in a central database that can deliver products such as maps, satellite imageries, survey plans, building permits, among others.#IjobaMekunu#IseNlo

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Strong Institutions Will Help Curb Government Excesses – Prince Adewole Adebayo

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3 years ago

December 12, 2022

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SDP Presidential Candidate – Prince Adewole Adebayo

Prince Adewole Adebayo, the Social Democratic Party’s (SDP) candidate for president, says his administration will focus on creating powerful institutions that will aid in limiting governmental excesses.

At a Town Hall Meeting titled “Building Nigeria’s Steel, Petrochemical, and Agroallied Industries,” which was hosted by media giant Arise Television, he made this bold declaration as a guest.

He said that this was nothing new because Alhaji Tafawa Balewa, the country’s then-prime minister, included it in the first development plan for the years 1960 to 1965.

As part of the “import substitution program,” which aimed to lessen the importation of those minerals, Prince Adebayo noted that these plans gave rise to the development of the Ajaokuta Steel Plant, Ajala Steel, and other companies.

He added that the First Republic’s accomplishments were a result of public servant discipline, clearly defined objectives, and a powerful Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN).

The legal authority claimed that the CBN was so powerful that the bank’s former governor stopped General Yakubu Gowon, the country’s head of state at the time, from using money to buy ammunition for the Civil War.

The CBN is currently too weak to stand up to the current administration, and a large portion of the proceeds from the sale of crude oil are missing and unreported.

Addressing the solutions, he stated: “We already have the solution, but I need to establish a government that will make things function. To make it work, the CBN will have complete control over the amount of money in circulation, the price of money, and inflation.

In terms of money spent, my government would also be answerable to the people. In order to sort out deteriorating and unfinished projects, we will also establish project management.
We’ll achieve this by developing an economy that will draw capital to finish those projects and provide a stable exchange rate.

Additionally, he pledged to lower unemployment rates, keep inflation at single digits, and build a social system that will thrive on brains.

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NULGE goes against abolition of local councils in Nigeria

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5 years ago

April 8, 2021

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The Nigerian Union of Local Government Employees (NULGE) has expressed concern over a bill at the House of Representatives, seeking abolition of local government councils in Nigeria.

Mr Hakeem Ambali, National President, NULGE, said this when he spoke with newsmen in Kano.

Ambali, represented by Mr Aliyu Haruna, NULGE National Treasurer, said abolishing local councils will worsen the security situation in the country.

“A lawmaker from Rivers has sponsored a bill at the House of Representatives seeking to abolish local government councils in Nigeria.

“In spite of the fact that governors have refused to implement the local government autonomy, what we are witnessing now is an attempt to abolish the local government councils in the country. This is a gang up against the masses.

“This is an attempt to bring the country backward. Therefore, we are calling on the National Assembly to look into the issue, which is an attempt to take away what remain for the people at the grassroots.

“I assured you that if the local government autonomy is implemented by the governors, the issue of insecurity would have been a thing of the past, because some security issues can be handled locally,” he said.

Ambali added that once the local government councils were granted full autonomy, socio-economic activities will spring up at the grassroots level.

He said that NULGE had made contact with the leadership of the National Assembly on the issue, adding that if such did not yield good result, it will embark on strike.

Ambali also expressed concern over sack of about 2,000 workers by the Kaduna State government as well as the slashing of workers’ salary by the Kano State government.