The Commissioner for Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs in Ondo State, Chief Oye Alademehin, is dead. Alademehin who hailed from Okitipupa Council area of the state was said to have died of cancer of the blood yesterday.
His death was confirmed by the Information Commissioner, Ranti Akerele ,who said the state government would issue a statement later.
Akerele described the death of Alademehin as painful and a great loss to the state government and the people of the state.
Source: Vanguard.
Ondo State Governor Olusegun Mimiko, last weekend held a media parley with journalists in Akure, where he revealed that real development would be taken to the doorsteps of the people. NIYI BELLO was there.
What are your experiences in the task of governance since you assumed office eight months ago?
We had no doubt that things were not going right. If things were going right, I would not take the risk of resigning as a minister, despite pressure not to do so, to enter the race and contest for the governorship.
We faced a lot of challenges in the last eight months, some of which we did not envisage, but we thank God we were able to surmount them.
For instance, we have no handing over notes. In the corporate world, that is called hostile takeover. We expected some of the reactions from the people we took over from, but be that as it may, we had our focus. While we tackle the challenges, we never allowed ourselves to be distracted.
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New Ondo State logo
The logo was launched over the weekend. Three former state Governors were in attendance.
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For more than two decades now, pensioners in Ondo State have been going through agonies and pains due to the failure of past administrations to settle their entitlement. But the jinx was broken recently when the present administration paid the entitlement of 1, 551 retirees to the tune of N1.4 billion. A new beginning now beacons on the retirees that are still alive. GBOYEGA AKINSANMI writes via ThisDay (‘Thought I’ll Get My Gratuities in Heaven’).
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The Ondo State Residency Card (Kaadi Igbe-ayo) is a statewide card which, on issuance, is capable of serving as an interface in all interactions between government and the Ondo State Residents. It aims at helping government to take the statistics of all basic features of its residents; it will also help government to deploy the basic welfare packages and development projects that are acceptable to the good people of this State.
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The newly elected Labour Party lawmaker representing Akure North Local government area of Ondo, Adeniyi Akindele was on Tuesday turned back by the leadership of state parliament who refused to swear him as the lawmaker representing his constituency.
It was the second time that the leadership of the Assembly, which is controlled by the Peoples Democratic Party lawmakers, would frustrate Mr Akindele’s ambition to be inducted into the house.
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As part of efforts to reduce infant and maternal mortality rate among residents of Ondo State, the government has concluded arrangement with the World Bank for the execution of a N1 billion special healthcare programme in which pregnant women would get personalised care from trained health workers across the state.
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As Dr. Olusegun Mimiko turns 55 on October 3, he has appealed to those desiring to place congratulatory adverts in newspapers and on the radio and television to use funds meant for such purposes to help the less-privileged in the society.
In a statement by his Chief Press Secretary (CPS), Kolawole Olabisi, the governor urged well-wishers to also pray for him and his family over the task of delivering the dividends of democracy to the people of the state.
Olabisi quoted the governor as urging “colleagues, well-wishers as well as government officials in ministries, departments and agencies of government to use the occasion to remember us in their prayers rather than placing congratulatory messages.”
ONDO State Governor, Olusegun Mimiko yesterday signed into law, a bill on the World Bank Assisted Community Social Development Project which he said would give legal backing to his administration’s quest to employ the bottom-up approach for its rural integration programme.
At a brief ceremony in his office where the signing of the bill, the first since the inception of his administration, was performed, Mimiko also lauded the swift and thorough manner with which the bill was passed by the state House of Assembly, noting that the lawmakers “are real partners in our quest to develop this state.”
The governor noted that despite the political differences between the two arms of government, the mainly Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Assembly has shown its preference to drop partisanship and work with the Labour Party (LP) executive, describing it as “a sign of good things to come.”
Mimiko told a small audience that included all the principal officers of the House including the Speaker, Taofeek Olawale Abdusalaam and senior government officials that the World Bank project had a significant relationship with his administration’s Quick Win projects aimed at involving communities in their developmental projects.
Source: Guardian.
Intercontinental Bank inaugurates 50 million Naira Ondo State Scholarship Scheme. Also, in line with its corporate social responsibility policy and strategy the bank has completed a 1000-seater Lecture Hall and an ultramodern students hostel for Adekunle Ajasin University (AAU) Akungba Akoko in Ondo State worth over N150million. Photo credit: Punch.
Dr. Olusegun Mimiko