Monday, 24 June 2013
Oyo State government will, in the next two weeks, begin the payment of compensation to the people affected by the road dualisation going on in Ibadan, the state capital and other major towns in the state.

The state Commissioner for Lands and Housing, Mr Bimbo Kolade, said in a statement issued in Ibadan at the weekend that a total sum of N1,214,737,340 would be paid to 1,304 people whose properties were affected by the six dualisation projects.

He listed the roads currently undergoing dualisation as Efunsetan-Toll Gate Phase I; Efunsetan-Podo Roundabout-Toll Gate Phase II in Ibadan; Dugbe-Magazine-Eleiyele with spur to Aleshinloye-Onireke-Agbarigo Road in Ibadan; Ibadan-Oyo-Iseyin Junction-Iseyin-Okeho Junction, Iseyin; Ilorin Expressway-Ikoyi Junction-Takie-Palace-Ogbomoso Grammar School and Ibadan-Oyo Expressway-Iseyin-Oyo Junction-Owode-Akesan-Palace Road.

While 26 people will receive a total sum of N41,520,165 at Efunsetan-Toll Gate Phase I, 108 people at Efunsetan-Podo Roundabout-Toll Gate Phase II will collect N133,232,522.

The 219 people affected at Dugbe-Magazine-Eleyele with spur to Aleshinloye-Onireke-Agbarigo Road will go home with N229,103,660 while 329 people affected by the Ibadan-Oyo-Iseyin Junction-Iseyin-Okeho Junction, Iseyin will collect N241,358,796.
For the 382 people at the Ilorin Expressway-Ikoyi Junction-Takie-Palace-Ogbomoso Grammar School, they will be given N470,503,145,358 while a total sum of N99,019,051 will be paid to the 240 people affected by the Ibadan-Oyo Expressway-Iseyin-Oyo Junction-Owode-Akesan-Palace Road project.

According to the commissioner, the decision to pay the compensation followed the completion of valuation and verification, as well as the submission of the photographs of the affected structures and the verification of title documents submitted by the claimants.

Mr Kolade said that the payment of compensation would be in two phases, with the first phase affecting those affected by the Efunsetan-Toll Gate Phase I and Efunsetan-Podo Roundabout-Toll Gate Phase II in Ibadan, adding that other would follow until all the claimants received their money.

He commended Governor Abiola Ajimobi for his magnanimity in approving the payment to serve as succour for the properties they lost to the road dualisation projects, which, he said, were for the overall development of the state.
http://tribune.com.ng/news2013/en/news/item/15086-road-dualisation-1,304-to-get-n1-2bn-compensation-in-oyo.html

Goddex: Eko-Ile, your hate is getting out of hand. I pray you don't suffer hypertension because GEJ will continue to embarrass you and your paymasters.

It beats me that you could go to this lenght trying to lie about well known facts. Why find it so difficult giving credit to a performing government?

IGBO-SON:


^^^I think reference is being made to 'Hotels'.

ShyM-X:


Your Ibadan building needs some nice corrosive paint.

ShyM-X:

Glad to see Cocoa House still standing tall.

Eko Atlantic: Sunday 09 June, 2013
Expectations are high as the InterContinental Hotel in Victoria Island, Lagos, finally opens this month. At 100 metres high, the 23-storey building is the tallest in West Africa. The InterContinental Lagos boasts 358 rooms.

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The state executives said Mr. Wamakko remains their leader.
The Sokoto state chapter of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP has disowned the National Working Committee, NWC of the party over its decision to suspend Governor Aliyu Wamakko from the party.
The NWC, after its Wednesday meeting, suspended Mr. Wamakko for alleged anti-party activities.

The decision of the state chapter of the party was announced Thursday in Sokoto in a press conference addressed by the state commissioner of Agriculture, Mohammed Arzuka Tureta, on behalf of the State Working Committee, SWC.
PREMIUM TIMES learnt that Mr. Tureta addressed the media on behalf of the SWC, despite the presence of the chairman, Sabo Madawaki, because the latter cannot communicate in English language.

All the other members of the State Working Committee were also present at the briefing, except the secretary, Aminu Bello who had earlier been suspended by the NWC for accepting to reply a letter sent to the Governor by the National Chairman of the Party, Bamanga Tukur.

The Sokoto PDP leaders in their address said they felt betrayed by the NWC in hastily taking the decision to suspend Mr. Wamakko without recourse to the party executive at the state level which contravenes article 21 of the PDP constitution.

They added that Mr. Wamakko had been a loyal and committed member of the party in the state, under whose leadership the party recorded 100 per cent success in all elective offices.
The state party leaders advised the national secretariat to “stop listening to rumours mongering, hearsay and unsubstantiated claims by Abuja based Sokoto state politicians”.

They also argued that what the PDP needs at this moment is for “all hands to be deck in unity at all levels,” adding that “we wish to affirm our loyalty to his Excellency Governor Magatakarda Wamakko who is the leader of the PDP in Sokoto state”.

aminho: Its just becus of jonathan

The one-day inter-religious prayer session organized by the PDP National Youth Vanguard lasted for more than three hours.

The Ogun State Chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, on Thursday went spiritual in its supremacy battle with the ruling Action Congress of Nigeria.
Prayers by both Christian and Muslim Clerics were held at the party secretariat located along Presidential Boulevard, Abeokuta.
The PDP also told the state governor, Ibikunle Amosun and the ruling ACN that they should forget about winning a second term in 2015.

The one-day inter-religious prayer session organized by the PDP National Youth Vanguard lasted for more than three hours and was conducted by pastors from the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria- John Akinbode, Kinrin Emmanuel and Olusesi Obateye- and Muslim Clerics from Morcaz in Ogun State including Giyath Oyelayo and Moshood Uthman.

Quoting copiously from the Quran and the Bible, the clerics prayed for continued unity of the opposition party as well as their success in the 2015 polls. They further predicted victory for the PDP in the next general elections in the state.

The PDP chairman in Ogun, Adebayo Dayo, said at the prayer session that the people of the state have suffered untold hardship due to the improper handling of the state affairs by the Amosun administration.

Mr. Dayo boasted that with the spiritual war declared against the Amosun administration, the ruling party should be prepared to leave the saddle in the next general election.
“No matter what they do, God is there. If they put themselves in the hole, God will be looking at them.

So, we are using today to tell God what we have been going through,” Mr. Dayo said. “We have been going through hell under the leadership of Governor Ibikunle Amosun and we want to beg God to come to our rescue and I tell you by the grace of God, come 2015 election, we’ll all be there. We shall all be in that office to chase him out.”

“Not long ago, we read it in the papers that PDP is dead in Ogun State. Ibikunle Amosun is deceiving himself. PDP is not dead. PDP is alive. But today is a day of prayer and not campaigns.

“All the bad wishes that they have been saying against our party, all the thinking of our enemies it will be returned to them by the grace of God. PDP is here to stay. PDP is now one. We are PDP under the leadership of our Baba, Chief Obasanjo. Prince Buruji Kashamu is our leader. We are all working together for the success of the PDP in Ogun State.

“Whether ACN likes it or not, there will be no room for them. There will be no room for second term. So, by the grace of God, we are going to take back that office come 2015,” Mr. Dayo said.
He emphasised that prayers had become imperative for the opposition party in its bid to regain its glory in the state; urging members not to relent in their spiritual battle against the ruling ACN. The PDP led the state from 2003 to 2011 when Gbenga Daniel was the governor.

“I will implore our people, both Muslims and Christians to help us. We all pray in our respective houses, but today is a special day for prayers. When you are going to war, you have to pray before going.

“We want to wage war against ACN in Ogun State and that is why we have called the religious clerics from the Muslim and Christian sides to come and tell God on our behalf to be with us in our battle. We are going to war against ACN in Ogun State and we should defeat them by the grace of God.
Mr. Dayo also pointed out that Mr. Amosun was a founding member of PDP in the state.

“We started PDP together and at one time or the other, he went to another party from where he came back to ACN. But we have been staying here all the time. We have been in PDP and we’ll stay in PDP to regain our lost glory come 2015,” he said.
He commended the PDP Youth Vanguard for taking the initiative to organize such an inter-religious prayer session.
“You have done what the elders should have done,” he said.

The Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, has described the recent prayer session organised by the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to stop the second term bid of Ogun State Governor, Ibikunle Amosun, as a mockery of religion.

ACN called on PDP to first of all seek God’s forgiveness for the eight years’ sins it committed against the electorate in Ogun State rather than embarking on spiritual warfare against Amosun.

An online statement signed by the state ACN Publicity
Secretary, Sola Lawal, at the weekend, warned PDP to desist from such prayer, stressing that God does not honour such spiritual blackmail shrouded in falsehood.
The youths’ wing of the Engineer Bayo Dayo-led chapter of state chapter of PDP last Thursday launched a spiritual warfare to enable the party defeat Amosun in the 2015 election.

The youths, who organised themselves under the aegis of PDP National Youth Vanguard, at the one-day inter- religious prayer session, also engaged the services of both Christian and Muslim clerics who conducted more than three hours’ prayer session to enable them achieve their aim.

But reacting to the development, Lawal pointed out that it was the prayers of the electorate that “kicked out PDP’s eight years ineptitude administration which left the people of the state with indelible scars”.
He said: “The extent of bloodletting, brigandage and general atmosphere of lawlessness perpetrated by top brass in the government of PDP has never been witnessed in the state.

“It is now a comforting surprise that those who played God yesterday have not only come to realise their dispensability and limitation but also the rapacious reach of retributive justice.”

Lawal described the prayer session as an abominable act, stressing that the PDP was only evoking “divine judgement against itself for its unrighteous and evil acts perpetrated against the people of the state”.

Tolexander: eeese!

RedReact: If they are talking about candidates fir gubernatorial election, should Senator Iyiosi Omisebi be amon them?
Did he think governance is about polithuggery? You disrepected a senior and later spearheaded his assasination and you now desire to govern sane people? Laakuli jalailu!!
Let those muntuluistic mumus come and test their party's acceptability come next year now and let's see.

Aregberascal ... Rascalize the opposition
Aregbebrutal ... Brutalize the opposition
Aregbesola ..... Solidarize your hold onto governance with your good works come 2014

Ise rere o duro, ina apa ni ko si mo.

malc619: Calling GEJ a dunce is actually an insult to the real dunces since he doesn't even measure up to that..

21 May 2013
By Chineme Okafor 

The 2013 Resource Governance Index (RGI) of the Revenue Watch Institute (RWI), which measures the quality of governance in the oil, gas and mining sector of 58 countries across the globe has placed Nigeria 40th in the overall global ranking.


According to the report, which was released in Abuja recently, Nigeria, which remains Africa's largest oil exporter and the world's 10th largest oil producer and accounted for more than 2.2 million barrels of crude oil per day in 2011 received a "weak" overall composite score of 42 over 100 within the multiple scales of “satisfactory, partial, weak and failing.”
The report was launched by the Chairman Board of the Zero Corruption Coalition (ZCC), Auwal Musa, at a press briefing, which held simultaneously across the globe to unveil the 2013 RGI findings to the public.


Accordingly, the 58 countries that were accessed produced 85 per cent of the world's petroleum, 90 per cent of diamonds and 80 per cent of copper. Profits from their extractive sector totalled more than $2.6 trillion in 2010 and in 41 of these countries, the extractive sector contributed a third of gross domestic product and half of total exports on average.
Nigeria with oil revenues that totalled about $50.3 billion in 2011, ranked 40 out of 58 countries with relatively strong performance on its institutional and legal setting component contrasting with poor enabling environment score.


From highly ranked countries like Norway, the United Kingdom and Brazil to low ranking countries like Qatar, Turkmenistan and Myanmar, the index identified critical achievements and challenges in natural resource governance; it indicated that in 2011, oil revenues for Nigeria alone were 60 percent higher than total international aid to all of sub-Saharan Africa, adding that the future of the country depends largely on how well it manages its oil, gas and minerals.


For instance, in its assessment of institutional and legal setting which it scored Nigeria "partial" with 66 points, the report stated that such reflected substantial public access to information but incomplete revenue disclosure policies.
It explained that Nigeria’s minister of petroleum resources grants licenses for oil exploration, while the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR), under the minister, oversees the licensing process and regulates the sector, yet some revenues in royalties, rents, license fees and bonus payments still bypass the treasury and are not reported to the legislature.


The report further stated that the lack of contract transparency and incomplete reporting on most aspects of the petroleum industry had led to Nigeria’s "failing" score of 38 in reporting practices, adding that the country received a "failing" score of 18 in enabling environment for government inefficiency and lack of rule of law in the sector.
Musa in his assessment of Nigeria’s performance in the process stated that it was a national shame for the country to continue to encourage opaque practices in its resource management.

“Our preliminary reaction to Nigeria’s overall “weak” rating in the RGI is that the premise upon which the scorecard was based is a true reflection of the state of governance of Nigeria’s oil and gas industry.
“Indeed, it has only confirmed the bad practices bedeviling the industry on the basis of which the civil society has been seeking appropriate reforms and redress,” Musa said.


He added: “Given its experience in oil and gas production and the quantum of what it produces as the world’s 10th largest producer of oil, it remains a national shame and embarrassment that Nigeria lacks virtually all the basic ingredients of best practices in the extractive industry.”

Tolexander: Why are these people a front runner in anything called civilization!

It's high time these state governments had a nairaland handle so that we can yab them anytime they misbehave

malc619: Omojuwa over 60k followers. That's more that the sum of all the followers of the twitter handle of all SW states combined.

So what da hecck are you saying??