Despite being in isolation after testing positive for COVID-19, the Ondo State governor, Mr Rotimi Akeredolu, on Friday, vowed not to transmit power to his deputy governor, Hon Agboola Ajayi. Akeredolu, however, maintained that he would be discharging his official duties and responsibilities from home where he is being isolated without any hindrance. Speaking through the Commissioner for Information and Orientation, Mr Donald Ojogo, he said transmitting power to Ajayi would amount to setting the state and governance on fire. Ojogo stated that the deputy governor has seized to be a member of the party and left governance in the…
Author: YemieFash
The Peoples Democratic Party screening panel for the party’s primary election in Ondo State on Friday disqualified two of the nine aspirants jostling to clinch the party’s ticket for the October 10 governorship election. The Yakubu Dogara-led screening panel declared the two candidates ineligible to partake in the party’s primary. Dogara told reporters after the exercise, “Unfortunately, two of our aspirants did not pass the litmus test.” He, however, declared that they are free to approach the appeal committee which sits on Monday to seek redress. Details shortly….
The online portal for the recruitment of the third batch of N-Power enrolees has witnessed over 3million applications in a week. The Federal Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development commenced the enrolment process of the third batch of the N-Power beneficiaries on 26th June 2020. A week after the portal was opened for application, the ministry said over 3million applications have been received. The Government said 400,000 applicants will be absorbed into the third batch of its N-Power National Social Investment Scheme (NSIP). The update on the application exercise is contained in a statement in Abuja on…
Social distancing rule advised by the World Health Organisation (WHO) to check the spread of coronavirus was breached in Ondo State on Friday during the burial rites of the late commissioner for health, Wahab Adegbenro. YemieFash obtained pictures of hundreds of residents who failed to observe social distancing at the burial in Akure. A video had earlier shown the governor of the state, Rotimi Akeredolu, sneezing in public without a face mask, days before he was tested positive for the virus. Mr Adegbenro died of COVID- 19 complications at the state’s infectious disease hospital on Thursday. The senior special assistant to the governor on special…
Following the rise of the COVID-19 pandemic in Ondo State, the state council of the Nigeria Union of Journalists, NUJ has called on Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu to as a matter of urgency lockdown the state for 14 days. The union emphasized that the measure will enable the government carry out effective contact tracing and deploy more combative efforts both from the state and federal government. According to the union in a statement issued on Friday, the NUJ expressed concern on the sudden surge in COVID-19 cases and related deaths in the state and attributed it to the lack of implementation…
The late Ondo State Commissioner for health, Dr Wahab Adegbenro who died early hours on Thursday morning was buried in Ilara- Mokin according to Muslim rites. Sympathisers trooped to his family house where he was buried. Details shortly…..
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has generated N258.7 million from the sales of expression of interest and nomination forms to aspirants ahead of July 20, governorship primaries in Ondo state. The party placed a N22.5 million fee on each of the governorship aspirants, while female aspirants and the physically challenged were asked to pay 50 per cent of the fee. Recall that Mrs Olajumake Anifowoshe was the only female aspirants out the 12 who purchased the expression of interest and nomination forms for the Ondo state primaries. The remaining aspirants included Gov. Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, Mr Joseph Olusola Iji, Mr Odimayo…
The Defence Headquarters says Troops of the Air Task Force (ATF) of Operation LAFIYA DOLE have destroyed a Boko Haram Terrorists’ meeting venue at Mainyakare on the fringes of the Sambisa Forest in Borno State. Major General John Enenche, the Coordinator, Defence Media Operations, in a statement on Friday, also disclosed that several Boko Haram fighters were neutralized in the airstrike. According to Enenche, the operation was executed on Thursday, following a series of Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) missions. “The Air Task Force (ATF) of Operation LAFIYA DOLE has obliterated a Boko Haram Terrorists’ (BHTs’) meeting venue, along with…
An undisclosed number of Boko Haram fighters have been killed as Military fighter jets bombard their meeting venue at Mainyakare on the fringes of the Sambisa Forest in Borno State, it was learnt. According to a statement by the Coordinator Defence Media Operations, Major General John Enenche, the operation was conducted by the Air Task Force of the Operation Lafiya Dole “after series of Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) missions had established that a prominent building in the middle of the settlement was being used as a meeting venue”. The statement read, “in what can only be described as a…
Coordinators of the 120 wards in the Akoko area of Ondo State have declared their support for a former Deputy Clerk of the National Assembly, Chief Olayide Adelami, who is aspiring to be Ondo State Governor on the platform of the All Progressives Congress. The ward coordinators in a statement on Thursday, said the decision was taken at a meeting they held with Adelami. According to them, the office of governor is not for those who want to gain experience but for someone like Adelami, “who has already acquired a wealth of experience at the federal level.” Speaking on behalf…