The Managing Consultant of CSDC Consulting Enterprise Solutions, the firm engaged by the Ondo State Government to drive its internally generated revenue, Mr Akinyele Oladeji, has said the state’s IGR increased from N8,684,406,573.63 in 2016 to N30,135,881,918.26 in 2019. He gave the IGR for 2017 as N10,927,871,479.76, which increased to N24,788,059,725.53 in 2018. He noted that the state had an average monthly IGR of N723,700,547.75 (2016); N910,655,956.65 (2017); N2,065,671,643.79 (2018) and N2,511,323,493.19 in 2019. In a statement on Friday, Oladeji also said reports by the National Bureau of Statistics on IGR generated by states showed that Ondo State moved from…
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Victor Osimhen scored another hat-trick for Napoli in their 4-0 win over Serie C club Teramo in a pre-season friendly match. Osimhen played a starring role in Friday’s encounter as the Serie A outfit ended their pre-season training camp in Castel di Sangro on a flying note. Last Friday, the Super Eagles striker kicked off his career in Gennaro Gattuso’s team with an eight-minute hat-trick against L’Aquila – an encounter that ended 11-0. He continued from where he left off with the opening goal for the Partenopei in the fourth minute. Hirving Lozano doubled Napoli’s lead 10 minutes later as…
RESIDENT doctors across the country are set to commence an indefinite strike beginning on Monday, 7th of September 2020, as the government has failed to fulfil its sundry promises pertaining to the overall welfare of healthcare workers in the country. Apart from citing the non-payment of the outstanding salary shortfall of 2014, 2015, 2016, the National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) said the government was insincere in its promise concerning the revised hazard allowance for all health workers, which was supposed to commence in September 2020. The President of NARD, Dr. Aliyu Sokomba, made this known in a statement on…
Governor Babajide Sanwo-olu of Lagos State has ordered the suspension of the Executive Secretary of the Lagos State Film and Video Censors Board, Bamidele Balogun. Balogun had written letters to several digital platforms including Netflix and Iroko TV demanding five per cent. This was done despite a Federal High Court barring the LSFVCB from levying film and video producers. Justice Chuka Obiozor of a Federal High Court had in a judgment in June 2020 stated that the LSFVCB could not be collecting taxes at the same time as the National films and video censors board (NFVCV) as it amounted to double…
With less than two months to the governorship election in Ondo State, Mr Agboola Ajayi, deputy governor of the state and vandidate of the Zenith Labour Party, has raised the alarm over plans by Governor Rotimi Akeredolu to attack him during his campaign to the some parts of the state. Ajayi alleged that Akeredolu had contracted political thugs loyal to the All Progressives Congress to attack and mob his convoy during his visit. In a statement on Friday by his Special Adviser on Media, Mr Allen Sowore, Ajayi said the new plot was part of series of plans to unleash…
Scores of armed bandits have been killed by the air components of Operation Thunder Strike, in separate air bombardments at a forest in Kaduna state. An operation update released to the media in Abuja, on Friday, by Major General John Enenche, Coordinator of Defence Media Operations, (CDMO), disclosed that the air strikes disrupted the bandits hideouts and in the Kuduru and Kwaimbana Forest areas of the state, leading to their neutralization. General Enenche said in the updste: “The Air Component of Operation Thunder Strike has neutralized several armed bandits and disrupted their camps in the Kuduru and Kwaimbana Forest areas…
Suspected political thugs on Friday injured five members of the Action Democratic Party (ADP) in Owo, Owo local government area of Ondo state. The supporters and members of the ADP were said to be on a campaign to Uka junction in Owo local govt when the suspected thugs allegedly attacked them. According to one the victims who alleged that the suspected thugs came in three branded Siena buses belonging to All Progressives Congress (APC), brandishing dangerous weapons while some members of the ADP were beaten and injured. He said the hoodlums warned them against campaigning in the area, claiming that…
President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday in Abuja told the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, to work diligently and ensure fairness in electoral processes, while returning governorship candidate of the party, Rotimi Akeredolu, SAN, for the second term in office. The President, who presented the party’s flag to the candidate at the Presidential Villa, said the reconciliation process in the state branch of the party had provided a solid ground for an easier clear victory for the candidate than he achieved in his first term. In a statement issued by the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity,…
The Chairman of the All Progressive Congress (APC) National Caretaker/Extraordinary National Convention Planning Committee and Governor of Yobe State, Mai Bala Buni, has expressed confidence that the party will win the October 10 Ondo State gubernatorial election. Buni and his Lagos State counterpart and Chairman of APC Ondo State Campaign committee Babajide Sanwo-Olu were at the presidential villa, Abuja on Friday to present the APC gubernatorial candidate in the election, incumbent Governor Rotimi Akeredolu, to President Muhammadu Buhari for his blessing. Also with them were the Chairman of Progressive Governors Forum (PGF) and Governor of Kebbi State, Atiku Bagudu and…
The Federal Government on Friday received the sample COVID-19 vaccine from Russia. The Russian Ambassador to Nigeria, H.E. Alexey L. Shebarshin, who delivered the vaccine, said the purpose of presenting the sample vaccine to Nigeria was for study, further researches, patronage and application. The Director of Information, Media and Public Relations of the Federal Ministry of Health, Olujimi Oyetomi, made this known in a statement in Abuja. The Ministry stated that the next line of action is to refer the sample vaccines to the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) and the National Institute for Pharmaceutical…