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  • Artisans urged to improve standard

    Tailors and fashion designers have been enjoined to improve on the standard of their profession.

    According to the Director, Lagos State Ministry of Commerce and Industry (LSMCI), Mr Hakeem Adeniji, there is a need to move from the old order to a new one.

    He spoke at the inauguration of Local Government Executives and Board of Trustees of the Lagos State Tailors and Fashion Designers Association of Nigeria (LASTFADAN). His paper was entitled Duties and responsibilities of being a trustee.

    Adeniji said the trusteeship of the association, which is life membership, should be reduced to a four-year term to allow for change. “I think four years is enough for any trustee to contribute his or her quota to the development of the association. I see either a patron or matron as a position that can be for lifetime but I do not agree with that of a trustee,” he added.

    He said the Ministry of Commerce and Industry often advises association to make their president and other notable management members as trustees so that they can be more efficient. This, he said, was because they would be able keep sensitive document such as acquisition of movable and immovable property of the association, among others.

    Describing a trustee, Mr Yekini Kolawole, a barrister at law, said he is someone who has control on the money or property that was put in a trust for somebody. He is also a member of a group of people that controls financial affairs of a charity or other organisations, he added.

    Kolawole, who presented the paper, said the Board of Trustees, which is also an advisory council on policies, should ensure high standard of morality and integrity in every activity of the association as custodian of information. “The board shall be vested with the assets of the association and serve as its keeper,” he said.

    On role of the board, he said: “It mediates and serves as arbitrator in dispute resolution between the executive and members.”

     

  • 2013 budget’ll improve Osun, says ACN

    The Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) in Osun State yesterday said the policies and programmes in the state’s proposed 2013 Budget have “further proven” that the Governor Rauf Aregbesola administration means well for the state.

    Aregbesola presented the N183 billion proposed budget to the House of Assembly on Tuesday.

    In a statement by its Publicity Director, Mr. Kunle Oyatomi, ACN said the budget has proved the opposition’s criticism wrong.

    The party said the budget centres on the implementation of the administration’s Six-Point Integral Action Plan, which is “aimed at abolishing poverty and making life more abundant and meaningful to the populace”.

    It said: “The governor’s commitment to agricultural development in the 2013 fiscal year will encourage rapid agro-allied industrialisation of the state and improve the welfare of the citizenry. It will also make the sector attractive to people, especially youths.

    “That N9 billion was budgeted for agriculture shows that the government has genuine interest in the sector. The gesture is a pointer that the state would have excess food in the year.

    “In the education sector, the budget shows that the administration would rehabilitate all primary, secondary and tertiary institutions owned by the state government and provide necessary facilities and equipment.

    “No government in the history of the state has shown much commitment to the education sector as the Aregbesola administration.

    “It has demolished old structures and built modern classrooms in primary schools and introduced the free feeding programme, which will be extended to pupils in primary four, according to the 2013 budget.

    “We urge the people to support the administration to deliver all its good promises in the year.”