Vanguard, WEDNESDAY, JULY 3, 2013 — 11
Aregbesola decries rising crime rate
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From left, Adebayo Adenubi, Moderator; Chief Nike Akande, Hon. Opeyemi Bamidele, representing Hon. Aminu Tambuwal Guest Speaker, and Chief Olawale-Cole, President & Chairman of Council, Nigerian Institute of Management, NIM, at the Distinguished Management Lecture: 'The Role of The Legislature on Economic Infrastructure and Ethical Revolution in Nigeria,' at the NIIA, in Lagos, yesterday. Photo: Biodun Ogunleye.
Labour Party offers ex-Gov Daniel Senate ticket BY DAUD OLATUNJI
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BEOKUTA — Indications emerged, yesterday, that the national leadership of the Labour Party, LP, offered former governor of Ogun State, Otunba Gbenga Daniel party ticket to contest for Ogun East Senatorial District seat in 2015 election.
Vanguard gathered exclusively that Daniel who was suspended by Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in his Ward 12, Sagamu met with the National Chairman of the Labour Party, Chief Dan Nwanyanwu behind a closed door on Monday. A reliable source told Vanguard that the meeting was
held between 11 p.m. and 12:30 a.m. in Ogun State on Monday ahead of the plan to receive the former governor of the state into the party after his suspension by the PDP. It would be recalled that Daniel’s scheme to go to Senate after he served as governor of the state for eight years under the PDP was scuttled
INEC appeals new constituencies creation in Oyo BY OLA AJAYI
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BADAN — THE Independent National Electoral Commission in Oyo State has said it is not comfortable with the proposal of the Oyo State House of Assembly that it should recognise eight additional constituencies in the state. This was disclosed by the Oyo State Resident Electoral Commissioner, Mr. Nasiru Ayilara in Ibadan, yesterday, during the voters’ education programme at the Sunshine International School, Ibadan. To show disapproval of the commission with demand of legislative arm in the state, the electoral body said it had appealed judgment by state High Court ordering it to recognise the eight constituencies and organise election for them within next three months. The 32-member legislative arm had filed the suit against INEC to recognise the eight additional constituencies it added to the current 32 constituencies. The REC who personally monitored the school prefect election at Sunshine Interna-
tional school, explained that good democratic culture should be inculcated into these children now that INEC had been refined. He added that if children were not exposed to good democratic principles at early stage, they would grow up to meet unenviable democratic culture. The introduction of the voters’ education programme in secondary school was flagged
off last year by the electoral body. Ayilara advised the politicians in Oyo State to play the game according to the rule as 2015 elections approach. He noted further that the goal of the commission in introducing the programme at the secondary schools was to discourage the youth from making themselves available for electoral violence.
by the crisis in the party ahead of elections in 2011. Vanguard gathered that Daniel told LP’s National Chairman of his plan to contest in 2015 election as a Senator representing Ogun East Senatorial District which was being occupied by former deputy governor, Adegbenga Kaka, of the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN. When contacted over the development, the State Secretary of Labour Party Segun Ogini who spoke exclusively with Vanguard on phone said ” it would not be out of place for Daniel to be looking in the direction of the Labour Party. His words; “ I don’t think it is out of place for them (Daniel and Nwanyanwu) to discuss the way forward for the party. And to tell you that, every notable people in the state have dialogued with the Labour Party including members of the Action Congress of Nigeria."
Ekiti teachers suspend 5-wk-old strike BY GBENGA ARIYIBI
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DO EKITI — TEACHERS in Ekiti State, yesterday, suspended their fiveweek-old industrial action, as the state government has agreed to pay 16 per cent pecuniary allowance. The state government has, however, pledged not to victimise any member of the union. The national body of the Nigeria Union of Teachers, NUT, had at the beginning of June this year directed the local branch in the states that are yet
to commence payment of 27.5 per cent pecuniary allowance to cgo on strike. Speaking after signing the agreement at the Governor’s Office in Ado Ekiti, yesterday, the state chairman of the NUT, Comrade Sam Akosile, said the union decided to suspend action because of intervention of well meaning people from the state Akosile said it was a painful decision for members of the union to have embarked on strike action, saying they did not have an option than to follow
directive of the national body of the union “We decided to suspend the strike due to intervention of some well meaning people of the state. “It is our hope that government will abide with our agreement and treat teachers with respect and dignity Also speaking at the occasion, state Commissioner for Education and Technology, Mr. Kehinde Ojo recounted circumstances that led to break-down of talks between state government and leadership of NUT.
HE GOVERNOR of Osun State, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, has decried the rising crime wave in the country. Aregbesola observed this at a five-day workshop of the Nigeria Police Special Unit on: 'Fraud and Insider Abuse in Financial Institutions and Implications for Developing Economies.' The governor said high rate of crime in Nigeria is a symptom of failure of the state. The governor lamented a situation in which crime has become so pervasive in Nigeria. He averred that an economic system that does not encourage production but consumption is bound to retard the progress of such country. “Nobody can earn a living without an income. To do otherwise would amount to an illusion or chasing shadows. “In great Britain for instance, every citizen must work. No one consumes without contributing his quota to the economy."
Amosun calls for regional integration among Yoruba states BY DAUD OLATUNJI
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BEOKUTA — OGUN State Governor, Senator Ibikunle Amosun, yesterday, said the creation of more states, has caused artificial boundaries and division among the people in the regions. Amosun, however, called for regional integration in the country, especially among Yoruba states, describing it as a way of raising the development bar in view of the nation’s current challenges. The governor stated these at the opening ceremony of the three-day South-West Heads of Service Forum tagged, 'Re-engineering the Public Service for Regional Integration,' in Abeokuta, the state capital. While stressing the benefits of regional integration which he said would reawaken sense of history of the people in the country, Amosun applauded numerous giant leaps recorded in the South-West between 1957 and 1967 under the leadership of the late sage, Chief Obafemi Awolowo.