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  • Sanwo-Olu appoints coordinators

    APC governorship aspirant in Lagos state has appointed coordinators for his campaign for the party’s ticket. The names of the coordinators were contained in a statement yesterday by the Director General of the campaign in Lagos, Mr. Tayo Ayinde.

    Details are:
    1. Mobilisation – Alhaji Abdullah Enilolobo
    2. Special Duties- Hon. Adeniran Onilude 
    3. Fund raising – Tobi Lawal.
    4. Legal – Hon. SOB Agunbiade.
    5. Research and Intelligence- Hon. Wasiu Eshilokun.
    6. NGO, Civil Society & Students-  Hon. Kola Egunjobi.
    7. Media & Publicity- Hon. Sesan Dani
    8. Security – Hon Bolaji Ariyo.
    9. Planning & Strategy- Hon. Jimi Benson
    10. Women Affairs – Hon Bolanle Akinyemi – Obe.
    11. Ethnic Affairs- Hon. Wale Adelana.
    12. Welfare – Hon  Ayoola Fatai.
    13. Finance – Hon. Kolade Alabi
    14. Party Affairs- Hon. Abiodun Mafe
    15. Medical and Safety – Dr Sulaimon Aleshinloye.
    16. Volunteers’ group- Hon. Kamal Olohrunoje.
    17. Youth- Hon. Fuad Atanda – Lawal
    18. Religion- Rev. Samuel Olufemi Ogedengbe.
     
    Senatorial Coordinators:
    1. Coordinator Lagos West- Hon. Rasak Ajala 
    2. Coordinator Lagos Central- Hon Wahab Alawiye King.
    3. Coordinator Lagos East- Mayor Dele Oshinowo

  • Institute inaugurates regional coordinators

    The Institute of Agricultural  Research and Training, Moor Plantation,  Ibadan, has inaugurated regional co-ordinators for soil development to foster food sufficiency in the country.

    Inaugurating the committee, the institute’s Executive Director, Prof. James Adediran, said members comprised professors and specialists on soil.

    According to him, the committee is expected to raise a team of soil scientists that cut across all disciplines in soil sciences in their respective regions.

    He noted that the committee would also co-ordinate research activities for agricultural transformation in the country.

    Adediran said: “Based on our national mandate, we are well positioned to do this through the cooperation from each region. We are to raise a team of soil scientists in the region that cuts across all disciplines in Soil Science and to also collaborate with other regions in planning and executing soil research programmes in Nigeria.

    “We are also saddled with the responsibility of identifying challenges and environmental impacts on soils with the aim of providing sustainable methods of land use in all the regions.”

    Speaking on the need for such development, Adediran said the mandate for national soil research was given to the institute by the Federal Government in 1978 when the Ministry of Agriculture was recognised to conduct and co-ordinate research for the development of soil management technology in all agro-ecologies.

  • NYSC coordinators advised on teamwork

    State coordinators of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) have been urged to institutionalise teamwork as a strategy for achieving the core mandate of the scheme.

    The advice was the key point of a lecture titled: Re-invigorating the NYSC Orientation Course to achieve the desired objectives of the scheme, delivered by Director of the National Productivity Centre, Mrs Adebimpe Aro, during the 2016 Batch “B” pre-orientation workshop held in Calabar, the Cross River State.

    Adebimpe said the goals of the scheme were strategically conceived, noting also that the mandatory orientation course played key role in achieving the objectives.

    She said every individual involved in the operations of the scheme must play his role in collaboration with colleagues, adding: “There is need for collective efforts to make the scheme stronger.”

    The guest lecturer also stressed that the actions and decisions of every staff must align with the strategic objectives of the scheme.

    Mrs Aro said: “Even the most junior member of staff should be equipped with the right knowledge, because individual behaviours can be so strong that they can either help achieve or hinder the organisation’s ultimate goals.

    “The key to success is identifying critical information required to make correct decisions and ensuring that the information is in the decision makers’ hands if and when they need it.”

    The lecturer called for clear definition of required decisions and roles of individuals in decision-making in order to boost staff performance.

  • OPC coordinators push for Gani Adams’ probe

    Some state coordinators of the Oodua Peoples Congress (OPC) have urged the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to investigate the bank accounts of the group’s National Coordinator, Gani Adams and some of his personal aides.

    The coordinators advised the President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration to monitor the banking sector, asking that “how can someone save over a N1billion within one month without the bank raising an alarm if there is no connivance”?

    Speaking with reporters yesterday in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital, the state coordinator, Salami Olarewaju, urged the national coordinator to react to the allegation of $22 million he collected from the late Libyan President Muammar Gaddafi.

    Flanked by Oyo and Ondo state coordinators, national publicity secretary and other national leaders, Olarewaju said: “Gani Adams has lost direction, focus and abandoned the main objectives formation of OPC.

    “He is a product of crises; he has turned OPC to his  personal property; he runs the affairs of OPC as his family company and he should know that Kwara State is not an extension of Lagos or any other state.”

    Said he: “He promised our members that if Jonathan released money, each member will get between N200,000 and N250,000 as empowerment.

    “Jonathan released N1.6 billion for that empowerment and there was nothing to show for it. He should explain how Jonathan’s money was spent.

    “Before the election, there was a publication by Alhaji Lai Mohammed that Gani Adams had collected N9 billion from Jonathan to disorganise the Yoruba race.

    “We denied that but later we realised that he collected the money.

    “At the first meeting after the election, he told us that he spent N800million on OPU outside the country. Where did he get the money? He also bought some property.

    “After the election, he went to London to establish Oodua Voice Radio, which cost him thousands of pounds, where did he get the money from if he did not collect N9 billion from Jonathan.”

    Olarenwaju listed Adams’other offences as greediness, self-centredness and unaccountablity. Others are lack of respect for elders and leaders in politics and outside politics and lack of freedom for state and local government coordinators.

    “He should explain how Jonathan’s money was spent. He should show the whole world the registration certificate of Olokun Festival Foundation, Oodua Economic Empowerment Initiative and Oodua Voice Radio,

    “Just of recent, you are all living witnesses when a former President Olusegun Obasanjo went to Ooni of Ife, he prostrated before the Ooni. But when Gani Adams went, he just bowed his head and had a handshake with the Ooni. That is disrespectful.

    “He is a disgrace to Yoruba culture. When you are promoting culture and you cannot bow in front of one of the most highly respected Oba in Yoruba land that is totally unacceptable,” he added.