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An Era Of Meaningful Development and Positive Impact* Apart from being tagged an era of 'Business Unusual', many of us living in Ogun state did not know what to expect immediately he assumed office, but what was certain was that his campaign was unique, therefore we had no reason to be afraid of what to come. One will remember vividly that immediately he won the election, he commenced his work, visiting all government ministries, assets, and monuments, right on the spot, he was dishing out instructions on how to wake Ogun state the sleeping giant. He had all programmes planned out, he visited China and other business thriving countries to replicate their models in Ogun state, which gave us economic boost like our neighbouring state, Lagos. It is important to say that the efforts put into Ogroma, Ogegep, and Agriculture showed to the world the calibre of political individual, we breed in Ogun state. Within a short time he bagged the Best Performed Governor of the year (an...

A Note to Ogun Stakeholders Segun Showunmi Ever conscious leaders and citizens of our beloved Ogun State, I greet you all. I trust that you all must be concerned about the development of our beloved state just as I am. The activities in our common patrimony demands of us the need to speak out, in the hope that things will be corrected; and in the unlikely event of that not happening, at least, it will be on record that we spoke. It is about the peer review of our Governor, HE Dapo Abiodun, relative to his handling of affairs in the last six months since he mounted the saddle of authority in Ogun State. To make things less cumbersome, I will speak under thematic headings and make comparisons with the past governors and also with a few good ones in this present class. For the past, I will be limiting the comparison to HE Olusegun Osoba, HE Gbenga Daniel, and HE Ibikunle Amosun. For those on the saddle right now, I will limit myself to HE Seyi Makinde of Oyo State and HE Bello ...

Ogun Association of Senior Civil Servants opens N100M secretariat Association of Senior Civil Servants (ASCSN) Ogun state branch on Wednesday opened to the public its N100M ultramodern secretariat at Magbon, Abeokuta. This no less an achievement brought to an end running of the 30 years old union activities on temporary and rented apartments. Speaking during the commissioning, Ogun state Chairman of the association, Comr Bunmi Fajobi who also doubles as the state Chairman of Trade Union Congress (TUC) said the project which was solely financed from the check off dues of its members commenced in October 2017 and was completed under two years. Comr Fajobi said that the tastefully furnished secretariat which boast of several offices for its housing scheme, microfinance, 700 capacity sitting hall, guest house among others would undoubtedly enhance productivity and smooth running of the union activities. Fajobi said the saving scheme of the union has hit over N2bn while it has als...

*Note to President Buhari* Mr President, the unpleasant optics of horror from the Kogi and Bayelsa elections, is a bright Code Red, an emergency - the nature of a fire alarm in a hospital except that this is about the fundamental idea of democracy in our country. I am particularly concerned, and I think you should also be for I cannot imagine what this portends for our country Nigeria especially as we begin to march towards future elections. In future, should all parties in a democracy go and procure arms and soldiers in a bid to match the members of your party, the APC, and security agencies under your watch? Mr President,  how do you explain that this is happening under your watch?  I have reflected soberly as to what could be your reading of things. I am sure you have access to security reports indicating that all hell was let loose on the citizens you swore to protect while your police and other military agencies looked on, or in some cases, perhaps participated in thi...

Shakespearean Femi Adesina A fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool. (William Shakespeare, As you like it) I suppose in this season when the Villa has become dangerous to the men of your tribe, re the now known as VP minimized, you have in an unprofessional and despicable manner tried to do a revisionist explanation full of sycophancy your warped reading of things around the 2019 election in which you consider there is anything to gloat about in one of the most disgraceful, embarrassing sham of an election, adjudged to be the worst in our history by those not drunk on filthy crumbs from the table of Buhari, mister man,  will you keep quiet and let serious minded historians speak some sense into you and by extension the nation. Do you pride yourself to have done noble on a process that has called to question the dignity and otherwise credibility of all institutions from INEC.,  to the security agencies, the judiciary not sparing the huge co...

On Saturday, November 16, 2019, the people of Bayelsa State will, through their votes, decide the person and party to lead them for another four years. Like Bayelsa, the game is getting hotter even in Kogi State, ahead of the governorship elections. Primaries have been concluded, and preferred candidates chosen by political parties. Though there are many parties in the race to the government house, the contest in Bayelsa will mainly be between the All Progressives Congress, APC, and the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. However, having scaled through well contested party primaries, Senator Douye Diri of the PDP and Chief David Lyon of the APC still have issues to contend with as regards reconciling aggrieved members within their parties, who felt shortchanged in the primaries that produced them. But this has almost become a normal occurrence in recent Nigerian politics. The real deciding factor is how well the APC and the PDP are able to convince Bayelsans to give them the mandate...

Citizens of the oil-rich Bayelsa State are getting set to elect a new governor come November 16, 2019, as the incumbent governor, Seriake Dickson, is rounding off his second term in office. Unlike in the past governorship elections in the state, anxiety is thick in the air and is visible in the nook and cranny of the state, especially among the supporters and leaders of the two major political parties. Traditionally, Bayelsa is a known Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) state and political observers and watchers of political events in the country would give any election in the state to the party. However, the result of the March 2019 National Assembly Elections, where the All Progressives Congress (APC) made great inroads into the state, has thrown permutations on the result of future election in the state open. Thus, as the preparation towards the election has reached a feverish level, the APC leaders are boasting that they will consolidate on the gains of the March 2019 election whil...