₦airaland Forum

ebamma: apga governor wining and dining with a PDP president #anambra apga =PDP

KwoiZabo: now let me tell all of you, all these proliferation of news on deportation is just to make what fashola did to look mild but we cannot be deceived. what fashola did is bad, an insult to igbos, condemn able in all its ramifications. how on earth can you justify dumping 72 citizens under a bridge in their own country at the dead of the night in the name of reconciling them with their family. what rubbish.

Eko Atlantic: 135 were reunited from Lagos to Osun in 2010, you mean they did this because of 2013 ibos deportation?!

ShymX: Impressive!

However, they need to spread the love to the other SW states. Lagos is fine and Ogun is on the come up. It won't be a bad idea to create massive industrial estates in the remaining SWern states.

SW gatts the juice!

[size=14pt]Dangote to site $8bn refinery in Olokola FTZ[/size]
Indications emerged on Wednesday that the $8bn refinery proposed by Africa's richest man and President, Dangote Group, Alhaji Aliko Dangote, would be located at the Olokola Free Trade Zone, Ondo State.

A senior official of the company, who asked not to be named because he was not authorised to speak on the matter, told our correspondent that the refinery would be located in the OFTZ.

One of the factors considered for the location of the refinery, according to the source, is that it is the biggest deep seaport in the country and other big industries are located there; besides, Ondo is one of the oil producing states in the country.

The source added that stable crude oil supply was also a vital element in the choice of the location for the refinery because Chevron and a number of other oil producers had oil fields in the oil-rich region of the state.

On why Lagos was not chosen, industry analysts said though the state was a coastal state, Dangote would have to build pipelines to transfer crude from oil fields to the refinery, thereby incurring additional expenses.

ShymX: Why all the different slogans - from "Eko o ni baje," to "Osun a dara," to "Ogun ishe Ya?"

And what are the slogans for the other Yoruba states?

malc619: Amosun should pls fix the roads in Agbarra Ind. Estate. The roads there are an eyesore. I'll be uploading pics of Agbarra roads when I return to Nigeria.

Kudos all the same. The drive to industrialize Ogun State is surely working, in Agbarra alone the number of new companies under construction is very much. I just secured a well paying job in onne of the new factories there....

Ogun Oni Baje ooo!!!

billante: Once I saw that part it became as clear as the biblical MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN that it is an APC pre arranged drama!

Let them keep decieving themselves!

Dreal1247: .
Who ran to Aso Rock like a crying baby? Were the Osun indigens dumped at 3.00 am? Moreover, they want to use this to cover up the ill treatment given to Igbos.

Written by  Oluwole Ige - Osogbo Thursday, 08 August 2013 04:07

AMID  growing controversy  over the evacuation of some non-Lagosians from Lagos State to states of their origin, Osun State government, on Wednesday, received 46 destitues evacuated from Lagos State.

Receiving the destitue at the National Youth Development Centre, Ode-Omu, on Wednesday, the Special Adviser to Governor Rauf Aregbesola, on Youths, Sports and Special Needs, Honourable Biyi Odunlade, said the state government welcomed the request of the Lagos State government to evacuate the affected people, because “we are responsible.”

He hinted that over 100 destitutes had been repatriated to Osun  from Lagos, Oyo and other places since the current administration came on board, adding “we were invited by Lagos State to come and pick our brothers and sisters, who are destitutes and 46 persons were brought, out of which we discovered that just 26 were actually indigenes of the state, comprising 19 men, five women and two children, who were from different local governments in the state.

According to Odunlade, “it is our responsibility to take the matter up, as the governor believes in quick and responsive government; that is why the state government insisted that anytime Lagos invites  us for their evacuation, we should respond in good time.
“However, it is unfortunate that most states did not respond to the exercise, which is not good enough, because these people are part of us; we have their relations with us here.”

Odunlade attributed the present harsh situation in the country to the increasing number of destitute in the country, observing that most of them were abandoned by their parents and relations due to their health issues.
He  stated that the Osun State government was ready to take good care of the received destitute, both medically and mentally, in order for them to live normal lives and later reunite with their families.

While noting that Osun State government does not discriminate in rehabilitation of the destitute, Odunlade, however, maintained that the government would not tolerate street-begging, saying “we have started handling their cases and would not relent until they get better.”
Concerning the two children, Odunlade disclosed that the Department of Youth and Social Welfare would take care of them.

Giving a statistical breakdown of the destitute brought back to the state, Odunlade, said on April 27, 2010, 47 beggars and destitutes were returned from  Lagos to Osogbo.  On October 4, 2010, 13 persons were again brought form Lagos and reunited with their relations in the state.

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ogaju007: She looks like a farmer.... lol

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August 5, 2013
Going by the request of the Ogun State government towards the location of Samsung Electronics Academy in Ogun State, coupled with the mission to empower Nigerian youths on engineering and entrepreneurship as part of its corporate social responsibility (CSR), Samsung Electronics is planning to site its engineering academy in the state.

Victor Odukwe, business manager, Samsung West Africa Limited, disclosed that the electronics firm was considering the location of its engineering academy in Ogun State after the completion of such academy that was ongoing in Ekiti State, saying the firm desired to contribute value to the lives of young jobless Nigerians.

According to Odukwe, the proposed engineering academy is committed to empower youths through provision of skills acquisition in engineering and entrepreneurship that will address problem of unemployment and poverty, as the company has taken the step, as part of its CSR to create wealth for Nigerians to be self-reliant.

The business manager, who received the Ogun State Technical and Vocational Education Board that carried out a facility tour recently at the Samsung Electronics headquarters in Lagos, declared that the board member had taken a right step by making a request for the location of its engineering academy in the state, adding that the presence of Samsung in the state would not only instil skills acquisition in her youths, but would also create wealth.

Speaking earlier, Doyin Ogunbiyi, chairman, State Technical and Vocational Education Board, revealed that the board made the request based on the recommendation of World Bank that required the state to develop technical and vocational education that would develop the economy.

Ogunbiyi said the World Bank recommendation on vocational and technical education, coupled with the state government’s desire to empower jobless youths through engineering and entrepreneurship prompted the proposed establishment of the engineering academy in the state, adding that the planned skills acquisition academy would make the youths to be self-reliant and therefore, reduce unnecessary dependence and poverty.

She, however, commended the business and economy initiatives of Samsung Electronics Limited for investing in the state economy, urging other multinationals to spread their CSR to the state, just as she promised that the state government would continue to partner genuine, both local and foreign investors, in human capacity development.

By: RAZAQ AYINLA