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South West Governors Admit Lagos Formally Into O’dua Investment Group by alfanio(m): 11:15pm On Mar 28, 2018 |
…Signify Interest In Murtala Muhammed Airport
Concession
…Resolve To Pursue Accelerated Rice Program
The six Governors of south west region under the
auspices of the Western Nigerian Governors Forum
on Wednesday formally admitted Lagos State into
the O’dua Investment Group with a total of
115million shares thus growing the share equity of
the company to 690million.
R-L: Governor Rotimi Akeredolu of Ondo State;
Governor Ayo Fayose of Ekiti State; Governor Rauf
Aregbesola of Osun State; Governor Akinwunmi
Ambode of Lagos State; Governor Abiola Ajimobi of
Oyo State and representative of Ogun State
Governor/Deputy Governor, Mrs. Yetunde Onanuga,
holding hands to demonstrate the Unity of the
South-Western States after the signing of
Memorandum of Understanding to formally admit
Lagos State into Oodua Investment Group at the
Quarterly meeting of the Western Nigeria Governors
Forum, held at the Lagos House, Alausa, Ikeja, on
Wednesday, March 28, 2018.
The Governors – Akinwunmi Ambode (Lagos), Rauf
Aregbesola (Osun), Abiola Ajimobi (Oyo), Rotimi
Akeredolu (Ondo) and Ibikunle Amosun (Ogun), in a
communiqué issued at the end of a two-day
quarterly meeting held at Lagos House in Alausa,
Ikeja, also ratified a document allowing Lagos to
acquire land in their respective states for massive
rice cultivation and production.
Specifically, all the Governors resolved to embark on
a Rice Accelerated Program for Integrated
Development (Western RAPID) to further consolidate
actions on food security and job creation in the
region, while a Regional Agriculture Summit to be
sponsored by Lagos State, was agreed to be held in
Ibadan in May 2018.
The forum, which is being coordinated through the
Development Agenda for Western Nigeria (DAWN)
Commission, also signified interest in the concession
of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport.
Reading the communiqué to journalists, Director
General of DAWN Commission, Mr Oluseye Oyeleye
said: “The States of the Region as a bloc will be
monitoring the process for the Murtala Muhammed
International Airport Concession into a world class
infrastructure.”
He said the Governors also resolved that DAWN
Commission, Focal Representatives and Agriculture
Commissioners of the region would hold a technical
session with Nigeria Incentive-based Risk Sharing
System for Agricultural Lending (NIRSAL) and
develop a state by state roadmap in four weeks
before the Regional Agriculture Summit scheduled
for May 2018.
It was also agreed that DAWN Commission should
work on reviving Regional Inter-School Football
Competition, and as well conduct a study on the
successes in Education in Ekiti State for peer
learning/adoption among the Western Nigeria states.
Also, the Governors directed the DAWN Commission
and the Focal representatives to structure a
programme on the Omoluabi Ethos of the Yoruba
people.
However, Ogun State Deputy Governor, Mrs
Yetunde Onanuga, who represented Governor
Amosu, raised some reservations about the land
deal, saying that the State Government on account
of previous issues with Lagos on the similar subject
matter would be refraining from releasing land to
the State until the said issues were resolved.
Nonetheless, Onanuga said: “We will be prepared to
sign this memorandum later when some of these
issues are straightened out.”
When asked by journalists on way out of the issues
raised by Ogun State, Governor Ambode said he
was optimistic that all the States would join in the
effort to ensure food security and create jobs for
the people.
He said: “What has happened is that we wanted to
expand the agric output of our rice mill and in doing
so, we decided that all the south west States should
be able to cultivate rice and supply paddy to the
proposed rice mill that is coming up in Imota in
Lagos.
“So, what we have done is that four other States
have agreed to sign the Memorandum of
Understanding which they have actually done today
and so what is happening between Lagos and Ogun
is that there were some minor issues that were
outstanding before and based on that they could
not sign today but you could also hear that they are
committed to signing when those issues are
resolved.
“We are having a 32-ton per hour rice mill in Imota
and we are going to require 32,000 hectares of
paddy cultivation which even the whole of the south
west cannot even provide but because we are
interested in integration and also independence, it
is important that beyond going to Kebbi or Kano, all
the south western states should also benefit from it
and the idea is that we are trying to procure land
there but we will also use the people and the
farmers in the respective states to cultivate the land
and by so doing we have created employment in
those States and we will be off-takers to the
paddies that they are producing and so I am able to
buy it and also use it for my own rice mill and then
sell it in Lagos and so I create employment across
the region and at the same time put money into the
pocket of our people,” Governor Ambode said.
Earlier, Governor Aregbesola described the
incorporation of Lagos State into the economic
framework of the south west region as historic and
long coming since 1948, adding that the
development would strengthen the O’dua
Investment Group and drive the development of the
region.
https://www.vanguardngr.com/2018/03/south-west-govs/ |
Re: South West Governors Admit Lagos Formally Into O’dua Investment Group by Nobody: 11:22pm On Mar 28, 2018 |
front-page worthy lalas |
Re: South West Governors Admit Lagos Formally Into O’dua Investment Group by deomelllo: 11:28pm On Mar 28, 2018 |
The forum, which is being coordinated through the Development Agenda for Western Nigeria (DAWN) Commission, also signified interest in the concession of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport. Reading the communiqué to journalists, Director General of DAWN Commission, Mr Oluseye Oyeleye said: “The States of the Region as a bloc will be monitoring the process for the Murtala Muhammed International Airport Concession into a world class infrastructure Took them forever to arrive at the conclusion that as the custodians and host of this vital infrastructure that they must be active and even proactive by taking total control of MMA and turn it into a world-class service airport. Well, better late than never. |
Re: South West Governors Admit Lagos Formally Into O’dua Investment Group by BankeSmalls(f): 11:29pm On Mar 28, 2018 |
Olu Falae and Samuel Afolayan should be heading the group, after all fulanis has destroyed their farms and rendered them jobless in their own states. Quote me wrongly and collect quit notice from ya landlord tomorrow 1 Like 1 Share |
Re: South West Governors Admit Lagos Formally Into O’dua Investment Group by funmijoyb(f): 11:41pm On Mar 28, 2018 |
BankeSmalls:This is exactly what's been called inferiority complex. It reeks on your post. Yoruba has nothing against Fulani herdsmen... Your region has suffered more from Hausa and Fulani's to d extent you made them your lord and masters. 2 Likes |
Re: South West Governors Admit Lagos Formally Into O’dua Investment Group by TheKingdom: 11:50pm On Mar 28, 2018 |
See Yoruba people, knowing who they are. Yet our people will be wearing ISI AGU and denouce Biafra...CAN U IMAGINE THAT. XHAI |
Re: South West Governors Admit Lagos Formally Into O’dua Investment Group by deomelllo: 11:53pm On Mar 28, 2018 |
We are having a 32-ton per hour rice mill in Imota and we are going to require 32,000 hectares of paddy cultivation which even the whole of the south west cannot even provide The SW can not provide 32,000 acres to form rice? With all the land in the SW? I like what LASG is doing, but every SW state cannot be like Lagos, they should go back to the old Awolowo regional formula. Industries, finance and commercial for Lagos, Ogun Agric and now industries, Ibadan for political and cultural capital, Osun, Ekiti and Ondo Agric and Cash crops. Today, Cocoa is Nigeria's second largest source of foreign exchange after oil and the largest cocoa states in Nigeria are Ekiti, Osun and Ondo states. They should go back to that formula, it worked back then and it's still a very potent formula. Osun revived the cocoa industries in Osun state and cocoa farmer are getting needed attention, but Ekiti and Ondo are not doing much, even though Cocoa is their strength and natural resources, just like some states have oil as their natural resources. Aric is their wealth, it was back then and it still can be. |
Re: South West Governors Admit Lagos Formally Into O’dua Investment Group by BankeSmalls(f): 12:07am On Mar 29, 2018 |
funmijoyb: Let me sleep sha, wake me up when you install an Oba in Illorin or have an Faleke win Kogi guber. Then we can talk. 1 Like |
Re: South West Governors Admit Lagos Formally Into O’dua Investment Group by Herdsmen: 12:10am On Mar 29, 2018 |
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Re: South West Governors Admit Lagos Formally Into O’dua Investment Group by deomelllo: 12:16am On Mar 29, 2018 |
^^^^^^^^^^Some leaders are brainstorming to make their states better and better the lives of their people, while other states are raising and producing internet nuisance and trolls with zero sense of direction, no future ambition beyond hate, anger, bitterness, frustration and gross apathy. And the same clowns are running around Nigeria shouting marginalization. How sad. |
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