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  • Recession: Nigeria will be stronger, say Wamakko, Ajimobi’s wife

    Recession: Nigeria will be stronger, say Wamakko, Ajimobi’s wife

    More prominent Nigerians have expressed optimism that the country will come out of the recession stronger

    Senator Aliyu Wamakko( APC-Sokoto) told reporters on Wednesday night that Nigerians would be better at the end of the recession.

    “Even now, I am confident that these unfortunate difficulties will soon be part of our history for good. I am also confident that we will overcome the challenges we are facing as a nation”.

    The wife of the Oyo State Governor Mrs Florence Ajimobi also expressed a similar sentiment.

    She spoke while inaugurating the Royal Resorts in Ibadan, and at the 84th birthday celebration of an Ibadan business mogul, Chief Kola Daisi.

    She urged entrepreneurs to help ginger the economy.

    Mrs Ajimobi said: “It is the entrepreneur that makes things happen in an economy. They are the drivers of the economy and the creators of wealth. If we must make progress in this economy, our private sector would have to play a major role, just as the public sector would also have to create an enabling environment.”

    On the Daisi family, she said:” The Kola Daisi family is well-known for their philanthropic and entrepreneurship gesture. This period when people are losing their jobs and faced with economic hardship, this new resort will ameliorate the hardship and provide jobs for people. This family is devoted to the development of our economy and Nigerians too should imbibe this culture.”

    Some oil sector players yesterday in Bayelsa State insisted that diversification remained the only possible solution to recession and other problems plaguing the economy.

    Stakeholders at the end of a two-day forum, organised in Yenagoa by the Italian oil firm, Eni, which operates the Nigerian Agip Oil Company (NAOC), said Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) should explore the potential in the agricultural sector.

    Eni brought entrepreneurs of small and medium businesses operating under its various capacity development initiatives to a two-day Business Leadership Workshop as part of its 2016 local content activities.

    Representatives of the Nigeria Content Development Management Board (NCDMB), Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Yenagoa and Port Harcourt chapters of Chamber of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agriculture, as well as Wider Perspective, among others, attended the event.

    Agip at the event signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Zenith Bank PLC to expand its 2014 Vendors’ Finance Scheme, and make it easier for SMEs to access credit facilities and sustain their firms.

    Speaking at the event, the President, Yenagoa Chambers of Commerce, Chief Lionel Jonathan, said only diversification into agricultural development would take Nigeria out of the woods.

    NNPC’s Deputy Manager, Community Relations, Clementina Arubi, spoke on the development of the agricultural sector as the best alternative to oil and gas.

    She appealed to participants to seize the opportunity of the workshop to develop the agro-based sub sector, lamenting that despite its potential, Nigeria can only produce 40 per cent of its sugar needs.

    Arubi said despite having fertile soil to produce cassava, the country still imports starch from other countries.

    But Agip said it remained committed to the development and promotion of made-in Nigeria products to improve the country’s economy.

    Vice-Chairman and Managing Director, NAOC, Mr. Massimo Insulla, who was represented by NAOC’s Manager, Nigerian Content Coordination District, Mr. Albert Ijigwe, said Agip would continue to respect Nigerian laws and guidelines relating to process for award of contracts.

    Also speaking, the General Manager, Zonal Coordinator, NCDMB, Mr. Gina Gina, who represented the board’s acting Executive Secretary, said the board would continue to enforce utilisation of made-in-Nigeria goods and available facilities.

    Gina described SMEs as the critical segment of the Nigeria business community saying they accounted for 90 per cent of business enterprises in the country.

  • Fire guts Ajimobi’s wife’s office

    Fire guts Ajimobi’s wife’s office

    A fire incident occurred at the Information Communication Technology (ICT) Centre in the office of the wife of Oyo State Governor, Mrs Florence Ajimobi on Saturday.

    The fire, which broke out at about 11: 20am in the centre, was apparently caused by a power upsurge from the server in the building, when the Ibadan Electricity Distribution Company restored power.

    The Florence Ajimobi ICT Centre was commissioned by Governor Abiola Ajimobi on Thursday, December 22, 2011.

    Property worth millions of naira was destroyed, although the fire service men arrived in time to stem the destruction..

    A Senior Fire Superintendent, Mr Omotayo Paul, who led his men to the scene, said: “We got the distress call around 11:30am and we got here after five minutes. There is no smoke detector and it is only when we are called that we can be able to come to the fire scene.

    He said they were able to report promptly because the governor has positioned fire trucks at strategic places to curb any fire outbreak in the state.

     

  • I’ve no senatorial ambition, says Ajimobi’s wife

    I’ve no senatorial ambition, says Ajimobi’s wife

    The wife of the Oyo State Governor, Mrs. Florence Ajimobi, has debunked rumours that she will contest for a senatorial seat in 2019.

    Mrs. Ajimobi made the denial at the International Women’s Day celebration with the theme:” Planet 50-50 by 2030: Step it up for gender equality” organised by the Ministry of Women Affairs and Community Development.

    She said: “I am not aiming to be a senator in 2019 because my husband has been a senator and now he is governor. After his tenure I want to enjoy him.

    “Senator Adeola Sunmonu is in the Senate and we are proud of her. In 2019, any woman aiming to become a senator will be supported by me.

    “Women have excelled in all known fields of human endeavour and have broken their way into spheres that were hitherto reserved for men.

    “This goes to show that the only difference between men and women today is physical and this was brilliantly designed by the creator for mutual pleasure and procreation.”

  • 400-level undergraduate nabbed for impersonating Ajimobi’s wife

    400-level undergraduate nabbed for impersonating Ajimobi’s wife

    The Oyo State police command has paraded a 400 level student of a private university in Osun State for using the name of the wife of Oyo State governor, Mrs Florence Ajimobi, to commit fraudulent activities on Facebook.

    Pelumi, an International Relations student, was said to have opened a fake facebook account with the name of Mrs Ajimobi to request money from people.

    The State Commissioner of Police, Leye Oyebade, disclosed this while addressing journalists on Friday at the state police headquarters in Eleyele, Ibadan.

    According to him, the command’s unrelenting war against fraudsters and other criminals yielded a positive result when Pelumi was apprehended on November 25, 2015.

    “The suspect opened a fake Facebook account purportedly belonging to the Oyo State first lady, Her Excellency, Mrs Florence Ajimobi. The intention of the suspect was to defraud innocent and unsuspecting members of the public on the wall and timeline of the fake Facebook account by requesting them to pay into his bank account.” he said

    The police boss noted that the suspect has confessed to the crime, adding that Mrs Ajimobi’s women empowerment programme and car loan scheme were the gimmicks used by Pelumi to defraud his victims.

    Confessing to the crime, Pelumi explained that he lost his father last year and has been faced with financial challenges in school.

    “My mother cannot take care of my financial challenges. My father was a Laboratory Scientist at Obafemi Awolowo Teaching Hospital (OAUTH), and he died last year. We have collected his gratuity and it has being spent on my school’s up-keep.

    “This is a computer age and everybody makes use of the Internet, so I just collected Mrs Ajimobi’s photos on Google and went to open a Facebook with her name and photos, and that was how people started adding me up. I have only had contact with four people who said they want a car loan and I told them to pay N100,000 in order to access the loan.” he said.

    Pelumi who looked remorseful over his action noted that he has not collected any amount from any of his contacts yet. He appealed to Mrs Ajimobi to forgive him, so he can return to school.

    Similarly, a notorious fraudster, Bolaji Ajao (25), has been arrested for defrauding many unsuspecting victims while impersonating a retired Deputy Inspector General of Police (DIG), Isreal Ajao, as his father.

    Oyebade said Ajao made a car dealer part with an unregistered Honda Accord car 2005 model, through a fake electronic alert.

    The stolen vehicle was sold to a criminal receiver in Lagos but was later recovered. The suspect has confessed to the crime and has been helping police investigation.

    But Ajao insisted that he is only an Internet fraudster who dupes foreigners and not Nigerians.

     

  • Kudos for Ajimobi’s wife on award

    Kudos for Ajimobi’s wife on award

    A coalition of non-governmental women’s group under the auspices of Oyo Women Arise for Development (OWAD), has congratulated the wife of the Governor of Oyo State, Mrs. Florence Ajimobi (JP), on her recent award as the Allure First Lady of the year, describing her as a visionary.

    They described the award conferred on her by Vanguard Allure, a magazine of the Vanguard newspaper, as a well deserved honour and a mark of recognition for her hard work.

    In a statement signed by its Chairman, Chief (Mrs) Treasure Adeola Babalola, the group stated that a look at the activities of Mrs. Ajimobi is a challenge to other women in the state to also take up the responsibility of bettering the lives of others.

    “The award is well deserved for a woman of substance whose passion is not aimed at amassing wealth but in making life better for the less-privileged through her various initiatives like the Educate a Rural Child (ERC), the Access to Basic Medical Care (ABC) and the Clinic for the Aged among others.

     ”The organisers of the award have succeeded in proving that recognition is not only about money but also on hardwork and service to humanity which Mrs. Ajimobi is known for”. We wish to call on women in Oyo State especially wives of public office holders to emulate the good deeds of Mrs. Ajimobi (JP)”.

    According to the statement, the myriad of projects initiated by the governor’s wife for Oyo state people is worthy of emulation

    “A look at the activities of Mrs. Ajimobi through her Access to Basic Medical Care (ABC) Foundation and the Educate a Rural Child (ERC) reveals that she is a mother and a visionary who will leave behind a lasting legacy.

    “It is obvious that she is not paying lip service to her commitment to bringing improvement in the lives of the Oyo State people. If other women are like her, Oyo State will soar higher than it has been doing”.

    The group called on people to join hands with Mrs. Ajimobi in a partnership that will further bring the dividends of democracy to the people of doors of the Oyo people and concluded that if women emulate her deeds, the state will easily have a pride of place among other states of the federation.

  • Deputy governor, Ajimobi’s wife make case for girl-child education

    Deputy governor, Ajimobi’s wife make case for girl-child education

    Deputy Governor of the State of Osun, Mrs Titi Laoye-Tomori, has called on the government and stakeholders to ensure full education of the girl-child.

    The call was made at the installation of Sade Ajasin and induction of new board members of Zonta Club of Ibadan, held at the Zonta Multipurpose hall, Jericho, Ibadan

    Mrs Laoye-Tomori noted that Nigeria accounts for six of the 36 million girl-child of school-age not in school worldwide.

    Tomori said the education of the girl- child should be paramount and non-negotiable in the agenda of the government and parents if the country is to develop.

    According to her, after 52 years of Nigeria’s independence, the country is still struggling to give all girl -child quality education, which she blamed on culture and religious sentiment.

    She urged the federal government on the need to create a new strategy and take a pragmatic step towards ensuring that all girl child in the country are giving quality education.

    “The government have not been up to the task of promoting girl child education, “We have realised that girls were at a disadvantage simply because of their gender. The creation of a day that recognises the importance of respecting, educating and empowering girls would help put a focus on girls’ right to equality,” Tomori said

    She noted that a girl who gets access to both quality primary and secondary education was less likely to experience violence, or get married and have children whiles she was still a child but more likely to be literate, healthy and grow into adulthood, invest her income into her family, community and country, and understand her rights and be forced to change.

     

     

     

    Also the wife of the governor of Oyo State Mrs Florence Ajimobi who was honoured as a member of the club, promised to continue to advocate for the interest of women fold.

    Ajimobi argued that that women’s right are humans, noting that ensuring a better course for women is ensuring a better life for the world. END

     

  • Ajimobi’s wife provides food for women

    Ajimobi’s wife provides food for women

    The wife of Oyo State Governor, Mrs Florence Ajimobi, has distributed foodstuff to over 500 women selected from different local government areas in the state.

    Food items, which included tubers of yam, maize, yam flour, rice and others, were given out to the beneficiaries through Mrs Ajimobi’s poverty alleviation scheme known as the Ajumose Food Bank, at the Government House Arcade.

    In her speech at the event,  Ajimobi’s wife explained that the initiative was a fulfillment of the electioneering campaign of food sufficiency and women welfare made by Governor Abiola Ajimobi to the people of the state in 2011.

    The gesture was also in commemoration of this year’s World Food Day.

    She remarked that the governor has approved that the programme be held once every month throughout the remaining years of his administration.

    Mrs Ajimobi assured the women in the state that the governor would increase the number in the subsequent editions of the programme, out of his passion for the well-being of women and the people of the state in general.

    She urged women and the people of the state to continue to pray for the governor to succeed in his vision to transform the state to the glorious heights envisaged, adding that the state would witness more progressive development under the governor.

    Two of the beneficiaries who received the items, Mrs Rafatu Oladejo and Bintu Owoiya from Ibadan South-East Local Government Area, who said the gesture was  not the first from Mrs Ajimobi, expressed happiness and appreciation to her and the governor for the donation as well as prayed to God for continuous protection over the state’s first family.

    They noted that the Ajimobi-led administration has changed their lives and the fortunes of the state since May 2011.

    The beneficiaries pledged continued support for the state government.