Vanguard, THURSDAY JUNE 16 , 2016 — 11
CJ orders Aregbesola to provide Osun’s debt profile By Gbenga Olarinoye,
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SOGBO—THE Chief Judge of Osun state, Justice Oyebola Adepele Ojo, yesterday granted a mandamus order compelling the state Governor, Mr Rauf Aregbesola, to provide information about the debt profile of the state and repayment modality. The order was sought by a human right lawyer, Mr Kanmi Ajibola, pursuant to Order 40, Rule 3 of the High court with 30 paragraphs affidavit in support of motion ex-parte. Ajibola urged the court to compel Aregbesola to provide the lists of all capital projects being executed by his government since November 26, 2011. The applicant sought an order compelling the Governor to provide information about the financial cost of all the capital projects executed by him. He urged the court to compel the Governor to provide evidence of the lodgment of the deductions from the salaries of the Osun State Civil Servants, being their contributions to the Pension Scheme into the Retirement Savings Account. The human rights lawyer also sought an order of the court compelling Governor Aregbesola to provide evidence of the lodgement of the Contributory Pension Scheme into the Contributory Retirement Savings.
OSUN CHRISTIAN/MUSLIM FACE-OFF: Religious ‘battle' enters physical, spiritual realm •Gov orders school shut • CAN condemns hijab ruling By Gbenga Olarinoye & Sam Eyoboka
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SOGBO—THE face-off between Christian and Muslim leaders degenerated, yesterday, but the timely intervention of Oluwo of Iwoland, Oba Adewale Akanbi, saved what could have snowballed into major religious crisis as some Christian students of Baptist High School, Adeeke, Iwo for the second day appeared in church robes to attend classes for the day. In defiance to Governor Rauf Aregbesola’s warning on Tuesday that any student found disobeying school rules and regulations risk expulsion, some students who arrived the school for the day’s lessons in church robes were turned back by security men manning the gate who however allowed female Muslim students who wore hijab as a complement to their uniforms into the school premises. However, some Christian leaders who initially kept a safe distance watching the unfolding event at this point moved to the gate to ensure that their children also gained access to the school premises. The Christians eventually gained access into the premises. Muslim leaders who were around the school premises also moved to the gate and a face-off ensued between the two groups. It was gathered that the paramount ruler of the town, Oba Akanbi, stepped in by personally
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ALEB International College, Magodo Lagos yesterday bagged the prestigious award of “The Best Private Secondary School in Lagos State in 2015”. The Award was yet another monumental feat added to the string of previous meritorious recognitions given to the College for academic, moral and spiritual excellence. The award was presented to the college by the Permanent Secretary, Lagos State Ministry of Education who was represented by a Deputy Director in the ministry, Mr. KassimMufutau. Speaking moments after the presentation of the Award, the Project Manager of the Zunongene Ltd, the organizer of the event, Mrs. Oluwatoyin Oluwatoyin said the College got the award based on the painstaking efforts of the no-nonsense re-
Ogundeji, was meant to reject the court ruling on hijab and other alleged islamisation plot by the state government. Dr Ogundiya told Vanguard that the prayer was also meant to seek for peace from God and to “nullify anti-Kingdom laws and dealings with satanic forces that are tormenting the state for the past few weeks”. Meanwhile, Baptist High School, Iwo where students went to school, yesterday, with various choir and church apparels as well as hijab was condoned-off by the police after it was shut by the state government, as the Christian and Muslim leaders held meetings with the Iwo monarch, Oba Abdulrasheed Adewale Akanbi to find solution to the impasse. CAN condemns hijab ruling in Osun state
Security men at the gate of Baptist High School, Iwo, Osun State, yesterday.
Residents join NLC mega rally against Ajimobi govt members in Oyo State yesterday at a mega rally to protest non payBADAN—THE national ment of workers salaries for the leadership of the Nigeria past six months. Led by the Deputy Vice PresiLabour Congress joined its dent, Muhammadu Shuaibu, the workers staged a peaceful protest on major streets of Ibadan chanting anti government slogans.But, quite a large number of civil servants turned search team of the Lagos State up for duties during the protest Ministry of Education. which lasted several hours. She said the findings of the reThe workers want the governsearch team proved beyond reament to stop the process of sonable doubt that Caleb Interhanding over of some secondnational College is truly commitary schools in the state to their ted to academic, moral and spirowners.They also want the govitual excellence. ernment to drop all charges levResponding, the Principal, elled against some labour leadCaleb International College, ers and members in the state Magodo, Mrs. Linda Olumese who were arraigned in an Iyadescribed it as the marvelous ganku Magistrate Court for aldoings of God. leged disruption of a stakeholdShe said the award is a ers’ meeting the penultimate challenge for the College and week. stakeholders in general to be However, the state Governor more committed to academic, Abiola Ajimobi said (despite the moral and spiritual excellence to protest) he was impressed by the glory of God. workers’ attendance at various She thanked God for being the ministries, insisting that pillar of the College and Caleb workers who shunned their Group of Schools while expresswork would forfeit their income ing sincere appreciation to the for the period of absence. Proprietor of the Group of Schools, The governor said this while Dr. Ola Adebogun for his divinemonitoring attendance at the ly inspired vision, focus and unministries on Wednesday while flinching support.
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Caleb is best private secondary school By Tare Youdeowei
visiting the school to douse the tension by inviting both the Christian and Muslim leaders to his palace for a meeting. The battle after a while, turned spiritual as Christians in the state, yesterday, organised an interdenominational prayer where they offered prayers to God to intervene on the issue of hijab and the court ruling. The prayer rally which was attended by over 200 pastors and thousands of Christian faithful across all denominations in the 30 Local Government Areas of the State including Ife East Area Office was held at Dominion Hall of Osun Baptist Conference, Gbodofon, Osogbo . The prayer called by the State CAN Chairman, Reverend Dr. Elisha Ogundiya and led by his Vice, Pastor Moses Adedeji
Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, yesterday, expressed disappointment over recent High Court judgment in Osun State on the use of hijab in all schools including missionary schools, describing the development as unfortunate which may send a wrong signal that Osun State Government is clearly favouring one religion over the other. The meeting which was well attended, had in attendance the National Officers of the Association, all the five Heads of blocs, the zonal chairmen, the states chairmen and delegates representing the five blocs of the association; Catholic Secretariat of Nigeria (CSN), Christian Council of Nigeria (CCN) Christian Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria/ Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (CPFN/PFN), TEKAN/ ECWA, and Organisation of African Instituted Churches
the protest was on.The protest which started at the NLC secretariat later spread to Oje, Beere, Mapo, Oja-Oba, and other major areas in Ibadan metropolis. Vanguard observed that several other people who are not workers joined the protest which went on peacefully. As they moved on, they stopped at every junction to inform residents about what led to the protest. Unlike the
initial rally last week, there were hundreds of people with the union leaders. The NLC chairman in the state, Waheed Olojede, said the mega rally was a demonstration against untold hardship that they suffered due to non payment of salaries by the state government. Despite the boycot by some workers who were in their offices, Olojede described the protest as a huge success noting that it was necessary for the government
FG urged to support community policing By Elizabeth Uwandu
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HE Federal Government has been called upon to support organizations and groups that engage in grassroots mobilization for information and intelligence gathering to assist security agencies in their operations. Speaking on a topic “Community policing as a modern tool to enhancing efficiency on security matters”, a secutity expert, Mr. Fredrick Davies, President of Global Security Network, Dallas, Texas, USA, said the performance of security agencies all over the world in modern times are enhanced by the embracing of com-
munity policing which gives encouragement to grassroots mobilization and intelligence gathering. Also speaking, Director-General of PAC, Dr. Martins John-Oni commended the Inspector General of Police, Senate Committee on Police Affairs and office of the Vice President that have been collaborating with PAC in organizing seminars/workshops to train its members and other stakeholders on information/intelligence gathering, and the office of the Vice President that had shown willingness to work with organization, and urged the government to continue to support the committee.