For five years, Professor Femi Mimiko, was Vice Chancellor, Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba. In his released a 500 page book, he relieves his experience as the Vice Chancellor of the Institution and on Nigerian Universities . According to him, managing the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), was indeed a challenge. “ The loyalty of the average academic to our union, the Academic Staff Union...
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The state has received its share of the second tranche of the Paris Club refund. It received the sum of N7, 003, 648, 314. 28. Other South West states also received huge sums. Lagos State received N8, 371, 938, 133. 11,Ogun, 5, 739, 374, 694. 46,Osun, 6, 314, 106, 340. 62, Oyo, 7, 901, 609, 864. 25,Ekiti, 4, 772, 836, 647. 08. In all, the...
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Governor Rotimi Akeredolu and other Southwest Governors have directed the Development Agenda for Western Nigeria (DAWN), to organize a southwest agriculture summit in Ibadan, Oyo State. At the end of their meeting in Abeokuta, they also put together a joint task force to sustain security threats and guarantee safety of lives and property, agreed that the competitive advantage of states in the region be harnessed...
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Primary school teachers in the state, under the auspices of the Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT), have protested the payment of their salaries by local governments. The teachers who took to the streets of the state capital in Akure, said they wanted the State Government to take over the payment of their salaries. The protesters marched to the Governor’s office, Alagbaka Akure, chanting...
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The state has taken its investors drive to Britain, Australian, Algeria and some multilateral agencies. Towards this end, Governor Rotimi Akeredolu, his deputy, Agboola Ajayi and the entire cabinet, met with representatives of governments of Britain, Australian and Algeria and some multilateral agencies and donor organizations, on how to tap into investment opportunities that abound in the nook and crannies of the state. The discussion...
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Ondo State Government has expressed its preparedness to partner investors willing to do business with the state. Receiving a delegation of the Federal Government Industrialization and Economic Diversification team, led by the Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Usani Usani, in Akure, Governor Rotimi Akeredolu, expressed his dream to see the state become the investment hub of the country. He said the state is the third...
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Ondo State has been described as a better investors haven than Lagos. Governor Rotimi Akeredolu, who made this assertion in Akure, said the state has no traffic challenges as Lagos and neither is it congested. Furthermore, he explained that the state is strategically located with abundant land, unlike Lagos which has no land. He boasted of the security in the state, which he described asvery...
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Ondo State Government has expressed its preparedness to partner investors willing to do business with the state. Receiving a delegation of the Federal Government Industrialization and Economic Diversification team, led by the Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Usani Usani, in Akure, Governor Rotimi Akeredolu, expressed his dream to see the state become the investment hub of the country. He said the state is the third...
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The Nigeria Police Force and other security agencies have clamped down on the activities of cultists in the state. Over ten lives had been lost in inter cult battles which has brought fear to law abiding citizens. The police have arrested over 30 suspects and charged 20 before the Magistrate Court on murder charges, attempted murder and conspiracy. State Commissioner of Police, Mrs Hilda Ibifuro...
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The State Government has donated relief materials worth N25million to the people of the Ajapa, a coastal community in Eseodo Local Government Area of the state, recently invaded by the military in pursuit of militants. The community had been deserted by the people for the fear of being killed or arrested following the invasion of soldiers under Operation Delta Safe, which invaded Ajapa following the...
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