Monday, 17 December 2018

Oyo State Government Organises 1dayWorkshop On High Quality Cassava Peels Utilization And Its Value Chains

NEWS:

 The Office of the Special Adviser on Intervention Funds and Development Partners in Collaboration with Oyo State Ministry of Agriculture, Natural Resources and Rural Development (MANR&RD), Raw Materials Research and Development Council(RMR&DC) with International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) held a one day sensitization workshop on High Quality Cassava Peels Utilization and its Value Chain on Theme: Waste to Wealth : Cassava Peels Utilization inside House of Chiefs Secretariat, Ibadan on the 13th of December, 2018.
  The occasion which drew along many  successful and indigenous farmers of various kind of crops and animal husbandry both females and males to the venue, was well justified and used  to educate the participants and members of the audience, on the importance and magnitude values lying in the conversion of the cassava peels to feeds, for various kinds of animals, with the assurance of healthy growth and productive importance , as suitable feeds to these animals.
  However, different speakers and specialists were invited by the organizers to educate the participants and audience on various kind of farming,starting from planting of cassava , processing of the food and feeds from it, fishery, snail rearing and many more.
  Meanwhile, the participants were made to realize the much benefit in agricultural activities, with diversified value chains, which also creates job employment, for the teeming people who are both young, old,women and men. By which through this much positive impact is made to be effected on the buoyancy of any nation in food production and produce from agricultural activities .
  According to Dr./Mrs Adebusuyi the Special Adviser on Intervention Funds and Development Partners to His Executive Governor of Oyo State Governor Isiaq Abiola Ajimobi, farming as a lucrative occupation is of a diversified value chain, which with researches regularly agriculture could ease up a lot of the problems in the area of food production to mankind, animals and yet be of an inexhaustible avenue to generate employment for the different categories of people in the country, here she stressed forth that the 1 day sensitization was first of its kind, after the Federal Government's official endorsement on initiative programmes like it , and being a practicing farmer she made it more  clear the much importance lying in farming, concerning animal husbandry and crops plantation, which in the eventual helps  any nation a lot in productive and healthy living.
  She thus promised to give priority to the indigenous farmers who are majorly the general part of the population to benefit from the initiative, when planning for another workshop, hence giving consideration to bridging the gap that could be in communication to necessitate reaching them through different languages , so that they can understand the main context and idea of the workshop, for the good of the tribes in the country. 

PDP Oyo State Inaugurates Campaign Council

NEWS:
 
  People's Democratic Party Oyo State held the inauguration of her Campaign Council inside the Premier Hotel Banquet Hall, Ibadan on the 14th of December, 2018.
  Here the party's political stalwarts both male and female like Elder Wole Oyelese, Party Chairman Alhaji Omokunmi Mustapha,Professor Taoheed Adedoja,Chief/Mrs Jumoke Akinjide, Mrs Bose Adedibu, Dr. Saka Balogun , Chief Jacob Adetoro, Senator Robert Koleoso, Nureni Akande, Honourable Kamoru Adedibu, PDP Gubernatorial Candidate Engineer Seyi Makinde and wife, Deputy Governor Candidate of the party Engineer Olaniyan, Afijio Sunday Ogunlade to mention few were present.
  The event which started with the Chairman of the party in Oyo State Alhaji Omokunmi Mustapha giving highlight on the purpose of the meeting while after him the party gubernatorial candidate Engineer Seyi Makinde rose up to introduce those on the high-table.
  However, in his speech he made it clear that fixing the ailing economy of the state is paramount, as uphold by the party, hence the option lies with  the electorates whether to secure the future of the state and her citizenry by voting wisely, to bring in the PDP Candidates from the Federal to the states especially that of the Oyo State,come 2019 election or ruin another opportunity of four years rule under the hands of incompetent set of those that would made them suffered again under unfavorable but economic hardship , which would adversely affect their future and that of the children.
  Meanwhile, he reminisced to appraised historically that as hardworking people it has been common with Oyo State and her people generating internal revenue through the discovery and development of the available natural resources without depending on allocation from the Federal Government , hence his party is ready to renew the pace being set on this by tapping into both natural and human resources , for the optimum development of the state and her citizenry.
  Nevertheless, he reiterated  in his speech that his party is readily determined to take care of the able-bodied and the physically challenged people in the state while the elderly will be given adequate priority too,in the proposed bill of the People's Democratic Party.
  After this was the presentation of both the party's gubernatorial and deputy candidates in respect of Engineer Seyi Makinde and Engineer Olaniyan by the Chairman PDP Oyo State Alhaji Omokunmi Mustapha and thus the party campaign council was declared opened.
  By and large some party members seized the opportunity to expressed some points to clarify on some issues,before the event was brought to an end

Tuesday, 20 November 2018

" My being chosen as the deputy governor candidate to governor Alao Akala under ADP is a destiny coming into place"- Associate Professor Abideen Olaiya.

NEWS:

 Associate Professor Abideen Olaiya has described his candidacy as the deputy Governor to Governor Alao Akala under ADP as a destiny coming into realization, considering his earlier attempt for a position as higher as that before.
 He then vouched for a good governance under ADP with the combination of him and that of the ADP's gubernatorial candidate; Chief Christopher Alao Akala.
 Here he emphasized that priority would be given to agriculture and education, with other sectors receiving equal attention.
 Meanwhile, he chided to condemned the state of things in the agricultural and educational sectors presently as all the make- believe of the propaganda given to it, instead of  a pragmatic approach that could have amount to much good result and benefit for the citizens of the state.
 However, he advised the people of the state to be patient and not engage in any violent act, but to know that democracy has given a lead-way; creating periodically for a new government to come in, so they should wait patiently and make sure they keep their voters' cards for use judiciously come 2019 election

" INEC should be proactive to eradicate vote-buying in any election in Nigeria to save the nation and her citizenry from jeopardy"- Alhaji/Chief/Dr. Lateef A. Adegoke, Oyo State Labour Party Vice Chairman

NEWS:

The Oyo State Labour Party Vice Chairman Alhaji Lateef A. Adegoke has described vote-buying in the Nigerian politics during election as an agelong abnormality which was not that pronounced then, especially with associated act of cross-carpeting, but which is now more prominent, as a result of some "money bags",who have corruptly enriched themselves and want to be in government by all means, so they see the act of vote buying as the easiest way to buy the conscience of the downtrodden and poor people, especially in this period of economic hardship.
 This he condemned as an unhealthy act, for the good of democracy and a conducive atmosphere to have free and fair election and thus could also bring the future of the country and of her citizenry to jeopardy, since vote-buying could be a means giving the questionable characters believing in the call to serve as an investment from which they would want to maximize their profit, to the detriment of the citizenry and availability of good governance.
 He therefore advised Independent National Electoral Commission to be impartial in the coming election of 2019 to all parties and make sure the election is free and fair, for the best party with the right candidates for different elective positions to be voted in, to aid the emergence of a good but civilian regime, that would be able to direct the affairs of the nation well, for the next four years.
 Nevertheless,  he enjoined the electorates to make sure they vote their conscience and vote the right candidates, while they make sure they are not influenced by money , in order not to extend their years of suffering and hardship under any bad governance again, for another four years.

"No farmer; no nation, a nation that does not care for her farmers would not survive"- Engr. Olumide Ayinla, Oyo State AFAN Chairman.

The Chairman Oyo State Association of Agricultural Farmers of Nigeria, Engineer Olumide Ayinla has implored the three tiers governments to stand up to their responsibilities in giving due encouragement to the farmers.
 This he reiterated that though the present Federal government is trying her possible best but some policies are not really favouring the farmers in the South West , hence he therefore advised the South West governors to do more in representing the farmers before the stakeholders and the governments at the three tiers well, for the benefit of the farmers.
 Meanwhile he stressed that the government should do the needful in solving the problems of farmers and the herdsmen to allow the farmers the enabling environment to farm and be able to produce abundantly for the good of the citizenry.
 Nevertheless, he bemoaned the unavailability of good roads which has been hindering the farmers from transporting their produce to the market, as at when due, and in order to avoid some of their produce from getting spoiled, especially the perishable ones, then urgent solution should be proffered to avert this problem.

" Those having their names that have to do with court cases on corruption should be debarred from any election in Nigeria until court declared them eligible"- Dr. Pade Agoro

NEWS:
  
 Dr. Pade Agoro has advised President Muhammed Buhari to extend the list of the 50 corrupt Nigerians to those having court cases on corruption and should be debarred from partaking in any election.
 He emphasized that there are a lot of dirty names that are going round signifying to contest in the coming election of 2019, who have to clear their names first by courts before coming out to contest in any election.
This suggestion by him was what he described as a way of sanitizing the political arena in Nigeria, in order to give rooms to those who are upright and are eligible enough to serve the nation well and honestly, to achieve the best for her citizenry.

Friday, 26 October 2018

"It is a woman's world once the women follow me; we are winning the election in 2019"- NIP Oyo State Gubernatorial Candidate Omobolanle Ashabi Sarumi Aliyu.

It is absolutely true that girl child education should be given much priority and gender equality must be embraced , for the good of the society, to get the best from both male and female children educationally, this assumption is being deduced from the reality in this present generation, having and seeing in different fields of professions some best products from different colleges, tertiary institutions globally as female ; performing wonderfully, in their various walks of life and immensely contributing excellently to this modern day development in their different sectors of life, hence to say the fact that women in Nigeria should come on board politically and that they could bring much positive difference to politics in Nigeria is an issue that should be welcomed and deliberated upon for an acceptance.
 This suggestion is premised on the summation of our evaluation about the personality and proficiency by which the gubernatorial candidate of the National Interest Party Mrs Omobolanle Ashabi Sarumi Aliyu responded to our various questions posed to her recently in the course of our interview with her, proving to us of her readiness in all aspects. that is essentially needed politically to take women in Nigeria to an enviable level of engagement and performance in contributing their much quota to the state of politics and changing the fortune of the women, youth and the Nigerians in general.
 She is very eloquent in speech, sound in diction. coherent in presentation and fully knowledgeable of the intrinsic in politics, but of a compassionate and selfless in her objective to serve her people , and bring the necessary change to politics in Nigeria and here underneath we presented the interview we had with her as thus.
  Who are we having a chat with?
  Iam Mrs Omobolanle Ashabi Sarumi Aliyu, the candidate under National Interest Party contesting as the Oyo State Gubernatorial Candidate, come 2019 election.
Madam, the issue in Nigeria today especially the Oyo State focuses on youth , women , if selected in 2019 what are your plans for the women and youth?
Quite early to give you my manifestos however I will ensure every single citizen and not just women and the youth only, of the state live a comfortable life, I will ensure I give them an enabling  environment to thrive , and perform better, I will ensure that our medical facilities are top notched, I will ensure the educational system is fantastic , ensure the kids have the materials we need , to make sure they have proper laboratory equipment; physics and chemistry equipment, make sure they have computers in the schools, and the expectant mothers will have prenatal and post natal health care and the elderly will collect their pensions as at when due, how can somebody worked for donkey years and you cannot value the person and ensure they get their pension on time, the civil-servants will be paid timely as well, there will be a lot of welfare, because I studied social policy as well, psychology and sociology , everything I have done all my life is related to working for the betterment of people's life basically, so we would ensure we have all that is necessary , mass housing , all sorts, my manifestos forms my heart , if you breakdown HEART , I can send it to you on whats app, so you can have the breakdown there what I have to do for the people.
  Madam , what can you say about your area of vocational empowerment of the people especially women and the youth?
  Oh, definitely I have been in the business since the age of twenty-one, I have never used my certificate to work for anybody, so that is to show you that anyone that feels he/she couldn't continue or further  the education shouldn't feels he/she is going to be left out because I'm an entrepreneur , I will ensure we have enough vocational institution and skills acquisition centres, where people will learn different trades and also we will give them grants to make sure they fulfill what they wish to do and those who are in schools as well, we will make sure they are able to study well without disturbing their parents for finances, I did both my primary and secondary education in Nigeria but my university education in England and I know what the government over there did for me , to make my life comfortable to finish my education  without giving my parents one day of worry, so we are going to make sure we have that here as well.
  Madam, what do you have to do about some of our ladies going outside he shore of the country without having genuine document and yet do engage in illicit activities oversea?
  Yes, I do not support people leaving Nigeria and going to another man's land without the right documentation, they are going out there to suffer and it pains me when I heard of the women they are using for sex slavery in Libya and all those funny countries, I'm sure most of these people left the country because of the harsh nature of this country , that is why beside I wanting to be governor, every other person s aspiring to be governors should also have this at heart, they should ensure we can have an enabling environment for people to thrive so that we can be proud to be Nigerians, stay in Nigeria and live well here.
  Madam, among the educated is where we believe girl-child education is more pronounced but what do you plan to do to help those girls at the grassroots who have not being fortunate enough to enjoy being educated well?
  It is not the wish of the women at the grassroots not to see their daughters being sent to school . I dont think any woman will go through the pains of nine months , carrying the baby, raising the child and then wants the child to be selling on the streets, you could find most of these homes have some major problems. I met one woman at Ode Aje in Ibadan she has three children , the husband has run away and she is on her own , so the child couldnt go to school and I asked her what was the problem I discovered  it was only something of five thousand naira, and I make sure I gave her the money to put that child back in the school , do you think a woman will be the governor and allow the children to be hawking on the streets, it is not going to happen because I have children, I have kept my children aside and said look you guys cannot be comfortable while the children in Oyo State are suffering, because I picture how the children in pains feel, that is why they need more women in government because most of these men in government have no glue, they are not bothered about things like that, it doesn't pain them, for example once I am the governor I will ensure every single state in Nigeria adopts that child-right-act, that child's-right-act of 2003 till today all those states in the north have refused to adopt it, a twelve years old girl is being married to a fifty years old man as I speak to you right now, it is wrong, and if they refused to adopt it; I'm going to marry their own twelve years old daughters , I will make sure I found some of my adopted sons to marry their young-aged daughters and see how they will feel about it , it is the poor man's daughters they are marrying now, they cannot marry their own daughters at that tender age.
  With our evaluation of your personality, it is obvious you have the gut, grit and gumption, how do you want to win women more to your side to achieve this objective behind your aspiration?
  It is a woman's world, once the women follow me we are winning the election in 2019, because I have told the women that they are the ones suffering the most, so I have gingered them and I have woken them up, they should stop collecting one kongo of rice and dancing , singing and following these men, it is not going to happen again, we need to claim our rightful position now, back in the days the women did very well. I dont know how we got suppressed and oppressed along the line. You cannot tell me to be giving birth to children to the society and be giving birth for nothing to enjoy, so now we are all out there , and I have told the mothers that do they want to enjoy their fruits of labour then they should put me there and see what would happen, I'm not worrying, I'm not bothered, we are going to get there , all women are going to lock down , all women are going to lock down their 'thing', by January , there would be a strike in January.
  What will be your first area of concern if voted in come 2019?
  Employment ASAP especially for the youth and the young women with talents inside them but nobody to encourage them, the system has frustrated them, they have no jobs to go through, somebody needs to tell them look there is hope in you, you can be somebody , now I want to make sure you are somebody, so I would make sure there is employment ASAP, there will be a lot of things to do, I will collect data of the people in Oyo State, that will be the basis to the employment of ten thousand people , I want to know know  how many old people, I have in this state, how many young, how many unemployed, how many pensioners, like that they do abroad, so everybody will be documented and will be linked to computer. And it will be linked to their BVN as well and those who don't have BVN will go and get , so that I will know how many things I will channel for the pensioners, youth, unemployed, women , that is how they run a system, Nigeria we don't even know how many we are and it is on purpose, they don't want us to know how many we are so that  when they say I billion we have for the pension-fund, nobody can divide the one billion if they know three thousand people that should be there, but they don't want you to know the accurate figure , so it can't work with me.
What is your message to the populace?
Don't sell your tomorrow again, don't sell your future , if any politician come to you with money tell them to go and bring empowerment, don't collect that cash because that cash would do you nothing good for long, tell them to bring you your wealth, tell them to go and renovate schools, it is government money, so they can do it, when they have now done it decide if you want them , but for me I  cannot start doing a lot of things in local governments because I cannot afford it, I'm a business woman, I have never served before but I will ensure to sit down at every local government and map out what you need and I will sign "Memorandum Of Understanding" with you and then I would deliver once I'm voted in as the governor of Oyo State. So my people should not sell their votes .