Other end of the road that has been leveled and ready for application of bitumen for dualization.

seanet02: You have probably encrypt your files on the media card i mean memory card which means it will be in .rem extension.

Now go to memory card, select the encrypt media files option to No. It will change to .jpeg file.
You are done.

Thanks, done

seanet02: You can change it with your mobile. What is your mobile operating system?

Don't know. Just a Bold 4

seanet02: You may be trying to upload a wrong file format.

My bad, you are right. It is in a document format.
I will change the format on a PC when I get to my destination. Thanks

cogitoErgo:
they may be too big!

Already compressed below 80kB

seanet02: Well done. We need good roads in South west.
Aregbesola. Ile Oduduwa ko ni baje o.

I don't know how, pictures are not uploading

There has been demolishion in Ajegule area of Osogbo due to the road dualization of Osogbo-Ikirun to Kwara boundary.

Took them with phone don't mind my error.

It was jubilation galore by civil servants in Oyo State, on Thursday, as Governor Abiola Ajimobi approved free transportation service to and from their offices with effect from January.

The governor, while breaking the cheering news to the workers during an interactive session he held with them at the House of Chiefs, Parliament Building, said that some buses had been procured by government for the purpose.

He said that the buses would be distributed to various locations to convey the workers to the state secretariat in the morning and return them to the same locations after the close of work.

Governor Ajimobi, who said that this was part of his administration’s welfare package for the state workforce in the New Year, also announced the payment of 13th month salary for the civil servants.

He also announced that the workers should close for work on Monday, December 24 by 12 noon so as to allow them prepare for the Christmas celebrations the following day.

The governor also approved 100 per cent increment in car loans for the workers and disclosed that the taxes being deducted from their salaries had been reduced by 48 per cent.

http://tribune.com.ng/news2013/index.php/en/component/k2/item/1577-free-transportation-for-oyo-workers-from-january-%E2%80%94ajimobi

http://pmnewsnigeria.com/2012/12/21/ogun-state-sheds-inherited-debt-burden/

The Commissioner for Finance in the western Nigerian state of Ogun, Mrs Kemi Adeosun, said on Friday that the debt profile of the state has been reduced from N87 billion to N63 billion.

Adeosun made this known in Abeokuta while defending the ministry’s 2013 budget at the state House of Assembly.
She said further that the present administration actually inherited N51.4 billion and not N49 billion debts.

The commissioner said that the Daniel administration incurred additional liabilities which the present government had also inherited, adding that these liabilities increased the debt profile of the state.
On the N300 million ecological funds given to the state, she said the money was inherited from the last administration and it was still intact in the coffers of the ministry.

“It will be released to the ministry of environment in due course,” she said, adding that the ministry planned to generate N10 million as revenue in 2013.
She added that N5.1 billion had been earmarked as total expenditure while N1.6 billion was set aside for capital projects.

Defending the budget of the Board of Internal Revenue, its Chairman, Mr Babajide Odubanjo, said N2.5 billion had been set aside for total expenditure.
“The board plans to generate N3.1 billion in 2013 while recurrent expenditure is going to be N1.6 billion,” she said.

THE Federal Ministry of Works, in conjunction with the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) and the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), has mobilsed over 1,500 officers in a road management exercise tagged “operation safe motoring and free flow of traffic on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway.”

Speaking at the event which was held at the Old Toll Gate end of the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway on Thursday, director of the ministry for the South-West, Mr Kabiru Abdullahi, said the exercise was to bring to the barest minimum cases of road accidents during the Christmas.

 “The inaugural edition of this exercise was initiated last year by the Minister of Works, Mr Mike Onolememen. During the period of that particular exercise, there was a remarkable decline in incidents of road accidents.

“This year, however, we even want to do better. That is why relevant agencies, such as FRSC and NSCDC, have been brought into the picture. Starting from today, they would swing into action with their professional expertise to ensure the success of the exercise,” he said.

He revealed that apart from the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, other roads on which a similar exercise was being carried out included Abuja-Abaji and Benin-Shagamu expressways.

“These roads are some of the busiest in the country,” he remarked.

Giving more details of what to expect from FRSC, Head of Operations, FRSC Lagos Sector command, Mr Adeoye Irelewuyi, disclosed that the programme would be carried out in four corridors, which, according to him, include the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, Apapa-Oshodi Expressway, Mile 2-Badagry Expressway and Lekki-Epe axis.

He also revealed that more than 1,500 officers of FRSC had been mobilsed for the exercise, including 45 patrol vehicles and five motorcycles. He further disclosed that officers of FRSC would be deployed to various locations along the road for a 16-hour surveillance daily throughout the duration of the exercise.

Deputy Commandant of the NSCDC, Lagos, Mr Adeyinka Fasiru, also revealed that his agency had made provision for four ambulances.

The exercise would be rounded off on January 13, 2013.

http://tribune.com.ng/news2013/index.php/en/component/k2/item/1537-christmas-fg-frsc-deploy-1500-officers-to-lagos-ibadan-expressway

No fewer than 3,050 members of the People’s Democratic Party(PDP) and Accord Party(AP) in the Ibadan South East Local Government Area of Oyo State yesterday defected to the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN).

A breakdown shows that 2,200 former AP members were from the camp of the former chieftain of party, Hon. Alabi Waliu, while the other 850 were from the camp of the former First Secretary of the PDP in the Ibadan South East Local Government Area, Chief Muftau Adegboyega.

The ACN chairman in Oyo State, Chief Akin Oke, who was represented by the council party chairman, Engineer Kayode Arowolo, who received the defectors into the party called for mutual co-existence among old and new members, urging the defectors not to feel alienated, but see themselves as members of the same family.

Oke said the defection was an attestation to the sincerity of purpose and sense of belonging of the ACN towards ameliorating the age-long impoverishment of the residents by the former PDP-led administration in the state.

Earlier in his welcome address, the Transition Committee Chairman of the Ibadan South East Local Government Area, Alhaji Abass Bolaji Najimudeen, who had earlier commissioned three public toilets in schools, one borehole and a transformer within the council area, explained that the defectors were convinced by the quality of jobs that the ACN has been doing in the state.

“I want all of you to be peaceful and unite with us because this is a collective government,” Najimudeen said.

The spokesperson for the AP defectors, Hon. Waliu, said their desire to join the ACN was inspired by the performance of the caretaker chairman of the local government, Alhaji Najimudeen.

He said :” I left the Accord Party because there is no unity among the members, and we have all seen what Governor Abiola Ajimobi has been doing to transform this state. So we want to support him because it is not necessary to oppose a progressive government.”

Also his counterpart from the PDP, Chief Adegboyega, said they were tired of insanity and leadership tussle in the People’s Democratic Party, adding that “that is why we have come to join the progressives.”

He described the council boss as “friendly and tolerant.”

http://thenationonlineng.net/new/news/3050-pdp-accord-party-members-defect-to-acn-in-oyo/

Power to the people

Fugitive sef get Power

Oyo is progressing day-by-day.

Oyo's cleanliness is in progress and infrastructure developmental programs are in place.

MONDAY, 03 DECEMBER 2012 00:00 REMI FEYISIPO, IBADAN

As part of efforts towards making Oyo one of the cleanest in the country, the state government has inaugurated 39 mini refuse trucks for 13 local government areas in the state.

The government recently embarked on sanitation and beautification exercises with the introduction of environmental sanitation on every Thursday apart from Saturday end of the month one. Ibadan and Aba had earlier been adjudged by UNDP as the dirtiest in the country and West Aftica

Abiola Ajimobi, Oyo State governor while launching the mini trucks in Ibadan, said that the resolve of the government to clean the state and make it one of the neatest remained unshakeable. According to him, the state had lost so much by its being considered as a place where filthy people inhabit, thus scaring away investors and those who could have helped develop the state.

“Today, at the launch of these mini refuse trucks, we are fulfilling a major kernel of our promise to the good people of Oyo State to institute an urban renewal programme that will reposition our state and our people as lovers of a clean environment and the aesthetics that go with it,” he said.

The governor said the procurement of the trucks was based on the requests of thirteen local government councils in the state, while the remaining twenty local government councils with agro-based inclinations opted to be provided with tractors and other farm implements.

The governor explained that the provision of the trucks would enhance clean environment while also calling on the people to cooperate with the government by cultivating the habit of healthy living.

“Our administration will leave no stone unturned in making sure that Oyo State wears a new toga of a clean and aesthetic state, as against the general belief that we are a filthy people, which we are not.

This is why I call on the people of Oyo to cooperate with this administration in ensuring that the efforts of government at ensuring a clean environment are fulfilled,” he said. Explaining the rationale for the demolition of some structures under the Molete bridge and in the Dugbe area of the state capital, the governor said the people must obey town planning rules.

“We do not have any interest in destroying the livelihood of our people. But it is also incumbent on us all to adhere to rules and regulations of town planning in not erecting houses or stalls on set-backs and in not selling our wares at designated road paths” the governor said.

Earlier in his speech, the Chairman of Association of Local Governments of Nigeria (ALGON), Oyo State branch, Yekeen Popoola, had said that the provision of the trucks would address the delay in the evacuation of refuse in the local governments where the trucks were designated.

Some of the local government caretaker chairmen promised to make good use of the refuse trucks, stating that the government’s gesture would go a long way in preventing outbreak of epidemics and other communicable diseases.

The eleven local governments in Ibadan, as well as two councils of Ogo Oluwa and Ogbomosho North, were the beneficiaries of the trucks distributed at three per local government.

http://www.businessdayonline.com/NG/index.php/city-file/city-file/48365-oyo-inaugurates-39-mini-refuse-trucks

Time to start with gas, PHCN

Yes o, Rotimi is correct. Oyo state is taking new look.

Ibadan is taking a new look

http://m.allafrica.com/stories/201212010399.html/

1 December 2012

The Oyo State Government has set up environment courts in all the local government areas to prosecute those who contravene environmental laws.

The Commissioner for Environment and Habitat, Mr Lowo Obisesan, told newsmen in Ibadan on Friday that street hawking and blocking of roads would now also attract stiff penalties.
"We have set up environment courts to convict all those who contravene environmental laws, rules and regulations.

"It has become pertinent to warn that anybody, either under-age or of age, found hawking in public streets shall pay a fine of N5,000.
"Also, it is now an offence for trucks, heavy or light vehicles, to off load their consignments at public roads between hours of 7.00am and 6.00pm daily. Violators would pay a fine of N250, 000.

"We will not tolerate anybody or group of persons holding parties on public streets. Offenders shall be convicted to one month imprisonment or pay N100,000 fine," Obisesan said.

The commissioner, who recently assumed duty after a cabinet reshuffle, said the ministry had been mandated to implement policies to beautify the state.
He, however, assured traders recently displaced due to the demolition of illegal shanties and shops across Ibadan metropolis not to despair.

The commissioner said the government had put in place palliative measures to alleviate their suffering.
"In a matter of months, every trader will be relocated to a better and modern market which I can assure you will be affordable.
"Merchandise traders, who were displaced at Molete and Mobil areas, have been temporarily relocated.
"Also cattle dealers at Iwo road have been moved to a new site at Moniya based on community health grounds," he said.

Obisesan urged shop owners to make provisions for refuse bins to ease the collection of refuse.