NAGGMDP Ondo state had her congress today 22nd June, 2020 to review the response of Ondo State Goverment to the communique of our State Executive Council meeting held on 2nd June, 2020. In the Communique , the Association highlighted some of the immediate concerns of members which include, but not limited to the following: • That this is the fifteenth (15th) in the series of letters and communique to Government over burning, germane and mandatory issues affecting members in the last couple of months. • That the Government of Ondo State has become increasingly cold and insensitive towards the…
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Armed Police personnel sealed the National Secretariat of the All Progressives Congress on the orders of the Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, on Tuesday. The PUNCH gathered that the IGP had scheduled a meeting with some of the feuding members of the party for 1 pm. The Appellate Court sitting in Abuja last week upheld the suspension of the APC National Chairman, Adams Oshiomhole. Chief Giadom is laying claims to the position of the APC National Chairman in an acting capacity. Butt some of his colleagues in the National Working Committee said the former governor of Oyo State, Senator…
Mr Allen Sowore, Special Assistant on New Media to the embattled Deputy Governor, Agboola Ajayi, has been sacked. The PUNCH gathered that Sowore was accused of recording and circulating the viral video showing the state’s Commissioner of Police, Bolaji Salami, stopping the deputy governor from leaving the governor’s office. He was said to have also made comments in support of the deputy governor on Adaba FM on Monday. Sowore’s sacking takes immediate effect, according to a statement issued on Tuesday in Akure by the governor’s Chief Press Secretary, Mr Olusegun Ajiboye. The statement read, “The Ondo State Governor, Arakunrin Oluwarotimi Akeredolu,SAN, has relieved…
Aggrieved nurses working in government hospitals in Ondo State are currently protesting the rising cases of Coronavirus among health workers in the state. The nurses, who converged at the Mother and Child Hospital in Akure, the state capital, are accusing the government of not doing enough in carrying out contact tracing of infected persons in the state. The health workers revealed that over 10 nurses and five doctors have contracted the deadly COVID-19 in the state in the last one week. They said the situation had forced their colleagues to stop work at the Neuropsychiatric Hospital in Akure. Chairman…
Trouble looms for Edo state governor, Godwin Obaseki, as a Federal High Court on Monday, June 22, stopped him from taking part in the PDP governorship primary, a report by P.M News has stated. Justice E.A. Obile of the Federal High Court in Port Harcourt banned the newest member of the PDP from participating in the party’s primary election scheduled for Thursday, June 25. The motion filed by a member of the opposition, Omoregie Ogbeide-Ihama, is seeking a court order to stop Secondus and PDP from allowing Obaseki to buy the forms for the Edo state governorship primary. The party’s…
The House of Representatives on Monday expressed displeasure over the failure of the National Commission for Refugees, Migrants and Internally Displaced Persons (NCRMIDP) to provide relevant documents on the utilisation of N25 billion appropriated between 2015 and 2019 fiscal years. Chairman, House Committee on Public Accounts, Hon. Wole Oke, who presided over the investigative hearing into the 2015 to 2019 audit queries issued by the office of the Auditor General of the Federation (oAuGF), stressed the need to investigate the efficiency of Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS) with a view to stopping the menace of ghost workers in…
The Chief of Army Staff, Lt. General Tukur Buratai, has directed all war commanders in the North-east to enforce President Muhammadu Buhari’s order by crushing all criminal elements, exposing their sponsors and collaborators. Acting Director, Army Public Relations, Colonel Sagir Musa, made this known to reporters on Monday at the end of a meeting with top Army officials at the Army headquarters, Abuja. Recall that President Buhari had last week reprimanded the service chiefs for the poor performance in the fight against terrorism, banditry, kidnapping and other violent crimes in the country, saying they needed to do more. Speaking further,…
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) said it has extended the sale of nomination forms for Ondo State governorship election. Kola Ologbondiyan in a statement he signed and made public on Monday reads: “By this, the party extends the last day for the sale of nomination forms from the earlier announced date of Monday, June 22, 2020, to a new date of Wednesday, June 24, 2020. “All other time frames related to the nomination processes for the Ondo state governorship election remain as earlier announced. “All leaders, governorship aspirants, critical stakeholders and members of our great party in Ondo state should be…
Nigeria has recorded 675 new cases of coronavirus, bringing the total number of infections in the country to 20,919. The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) made this known via its Twitter handle on Monday. “675 new cases of #COVID19Nigeria; Lagos-288 Oyo-76 Rivers-56 Delta-31 Ebonyi-30 Gombe-28 Ondo-20 Kaduna-20 Kwara-20 Ogun-17 FCT-16 Edo-13 Abia-10 Nasarawa-9 Imo-9 Bayelsa-8 Borno-8 Katsina-8 Sokoto-3 Bauchi-3 Plateau-2.” https://twitter.com/NCDCgov/status/1275190376421306368?s=20
With the COVID-19 pandemic spreading rapidly in Ondo State, Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, on Monday, tagged the development as a state of emergency. According to Akeredolu, with 80 confirmed cases within seven days in the state, he lamented the nonchalant attitude of the people towards the pandemic. Governor Akeredolu, who spoke during his weekly media briefing of the deadly virus in the state, described the trend as disturbing. With the new confirmed cases, the total cases in the state are now 154 and total of 18 deaths a situation the governor termed as state of emergency. Akeredolu said that the 80…