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  • 2019: Group backs ex-Ondo council boss for Senatorial race

    Scores of Youths in the Southern district of Ondo State have adopted an engineer, Raphael Ademulegun as their candidate for the 2019 senatorial election in the state.

    At a news briefing in Akure, the state capital, the youths mainly from Ikale axis of Okitipupa local government lamented the alleged retrogression in the area due to poor representation particularly at the National Assembly.

    The chairman, Ikale Youth Organization (IYO) Ademola Akinrinlola who spoke with reporters said Ademulegun, the chairman of Odigbo local government in Ondo state is their sole candidate for the Ondo South Senatorial seat.

    He said they hinged their decision on the fact that the former council chief going by his antecedents and youthful disposition would elevate the district.

    The youth leader said irrespective of the political platform Ademulegun was to run for the election, they would support him for victory.

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    IYO lamented that the Ondo South senatorial district had suffered a major setback due to bad leadership and errors in appointment.

    It said “Due to poor representation and appointment error by the executive, Ondo South has suffered a major setback in terms of development and infrastructure.”

    “We are in darkness for the past four years now and we have a senator, a minister and other elected and appointed representatives as if we have none. It is irritating that many of them are making move to return for the second term despite their present failures.

    “Just imagine our current Senator in Ondo south is also seeking re-election despite his obvious failures in governance. He has been in the Senate since over three years as if the Ondo South senatorial seat is vacant”.

    The aggrieved youths maintained that they would go out to all the local governments and wards in the district to mobilize support for Ademulegun.

  • Ikale community honours ex-Lagos police spokesman

    Ikale Community in Lagos State will tomorrow honour ex-Lagos State Police Command spokesman CSP Bode Ojajuni with an award, for his exemplary role among Ikale sons and daughters, at this year’s Ikale Night.

    A statement by the Chairman, Planning Committee, Prince Temidayo Monilari, said: “CSP Ojajuni has been a very wonderful son in our great land, Ikale. He is to be honoured as the Ikale Man of the Year. This honourable group in Lagos did a research on him and other notable sons and daughters of our great land and we have come up with an idea of celebrating them at this year’s Ikale Night.

    “Tomorrow’s event is the 11th Ikale Night. It will hold at Big Soul Hotel & Garden, Ikorodu, Lagos. Lots of activities have been lined up. Among those to be honoured are Oba Michael Obatuga Adetoye, the Jegun of Idepe-Okitipupa; Princess Regina Mogbojuri; Pastor John Egbont’Olorun and Otunba Steven Fasawe.”

    The Grand Patron of Ikale Community, Gen. Olu Bajowa, OFR, thanked God for the event. He implored the government to assist their kinsmen at home in Okitipupa Local Government Area of Ondo State with the restoration of electricity.

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  • Group to Mimiko: Complete abandoned projects in Ikale

    Group to Mimiko: Complete abandoned projects in Ikale

    Indigenes of Ikale land comprising Okitipupa and Irele local government are using the mood of the christmas season to plead with Governor Olusegun Mimiko to complete all abandoned projects in the area.

    Through a group of eminent Personalities in the area under the aegis of Omawa Club of Ikale land, they lamented that Ikale land has not witnessed any visible development in the last six and half years.

    They noted that all major projects capable of impacting positively on the lives of the Ikale people initiated by their kinsman and former governor Olusegun Agagu have been abandoned.

    According to the group’s President,Otunba Benson Akindeji, the effect of this situation is causing untold hardship on the residents.

    The group specifically lamented the poor condition of health,electricity and water supply in the area.

    It urged Mimiko to approve funds for the immediate completion of the abandoned Ayeka-Irele and Ode-Aye-Igbotako roads.

    “The governor should also commence the rehabilitation of Okitipupa-Ikoya-Igbotako-Akinfosile and Ore-Okitipupa road as well as embark on the construction of road network that will guarantee easy access and transportation in Ikale land”

    “There is also the need to extend the urban renewal scheme in respect of the dualisation of township roads as done in Ondo town,Akure,Owo and Ikare Akoko to Okitipupa and Irele towns”.

    “The state government should provide medical facilities,drugs,equipment and medical personnel including doctors to the existing health facilities in Ikale land to facilitate maximum operation with each facility having a Resident Doctor”The group pleaded.

    It also sought for adequate funds to run the State University of Science and Technology (OSUSTECH) Okitipupa to attain the status of excellent learning centre.

    Besides,the group urged the governor to ensure restoration of electricity to the southern part of the state with potable water to prevent water borne diseases in the area.

  • ‘We’ve been neglected’

    Concerned indigenes of Ikale land of Ondo State in the diaspora under the auspices of Overseas Ikale Patriotic Congress (OIPC) at the weekend decried the alleged marginalisation and underdevelopment in the area.

    In a communiqué in Akure, the state capital, the group condemned the collapse of infrastructure and industries in the area.

    Signed by its Chairman, Dr. Iyiola Aiyeku and Secretary Dr. Duro Akindutire, the group said the infrastructural deficiency has crippled the economic development of the people and forced the youth into crimes.

    It noted that among the abandoned infrastructures were Oluwa Glass Factory, Okitipupa Sport Complex Project, Irele-Okitipupa Bridge, Aye-Igbotako road, Cassava Processing Industry at Ikoya in Irele.

    The group said part of the neglect was the power outage in Ikale land, which has incapacitated the region’s social-economic well being.

  • Ikale students mark day

    Ikale students mark day

    The Federation of Ikale Students (FISU) at the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife (OAU) has held its yearly day. The event, which also witnessed the inauguration of national executive council of the association, was hosted by the University of Lagos (UNILAG).

    In her address, a lecturer at the Department of Sociology, Dr Ayoade Adebowale, said promotion of cultural heritage remained one of the solutions to underdevelopment in any society.

    She said: “Sustainable development is usually driven by a people’s culture. A country would do itself great good by exploring this key aspect of its social make-up.” She bemoaned the prevalence of social vices and youth restiveness caused by unemployment and failed economic policies of government in the country.

    Adebowale decried the struggle for white-collar jobs by graduates, saying that young people should embrace entrepreneurship to achieve self-reliance.

    The new executive council led by Olusegun Enisan as President and Charity Itansehinwa, Vice-President, took the oath.

    Others members of the executive include Oyeniyi Iwakun, Senate President; Oluwadamilare Omopariola, General Secretary; Olusegun Jawosimi, Public Relations Officer and Abosede Aladekoye, Financial Secretary.

    Olusegun said the event was organised to foster unity among Ikale students. “We are using this occasion to promote the unity of all Ikale students. We understand that such co-operation is needed to bring about real transformation in our community,” he said.

    The event was attended by Bode Ojajuni, a Chief Superintendent of Police, Lagos State Command; Dr Francis Adebayo, chairman, Nigerian Medical Association, Lagos State chapter, Donald Ajibola and Mr Henry Oloja, Editor, Ikale Voice.