Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State has announced Mrs Olubunmi Olufunke Oni as the new Head of Service (HoS) for the State.
This follows the retirement of the outgoing HoS, Alhaja Amdalat Ololade Agboola who will officially bow out of service next week.
Until her new appointment, Mrs. Oni was the Permanent Secretary cabinet at the office of the governor.
The Commissioner for Special Duties, Alhaja Fausat Saani gave the disclosure at a press briefing today shortly after the State Executive meeting chaired by governor Makinde.
Property worth millions of naira has been destroyed at Ondo corner market, New Court road, Dugbe Ibadan.
Radio Nigeria reporter visited the scene of the incident reports that about ten sewing machine shops were razed by the inferno.
The inferno which started at about 1am very early in the morning was suspected to be as a result of an electrical fault.
According to the traders, the security guard on duty a Hausa man found it difficult to communicate the incident on the phone to the victims due to language barrier.
The victims later contacted the men of the Oyo state fire service who swung into action to prevent further loss of property.
One of the victim engineer Muyideen Olaniyi appealed to the state government to come to their aid as they had no other means of livelihood.
As at the time Radio Nigeria got to the scene some of the victims were parking the debris.
Oyo state government has said that it rejected the 1,800 bags of rice meant as Covid-19 palliatives by the Nigerian Customs Service because they were truly bad and unfit for consumption.
A statement by the Chief Press Secretary to Governor Seyi Makinde, Mr. Taiwo Adisa, indicates that any claims to the contrary was a disservice to humanity and an attempt at endangering the lives of the people in the state.
The statement explains that members of the Food Security Sub-Committee of the Oyo State Covid-19 Task Force, after its meeting to review the palliative discovered that the bags of rice were not fit for human consumption as they had been infested with weevils that freely move about on every bags kept at the storehouse in the Secretariat, Ibadan.
It reiterates that the state government neither intended to dramatize nor politicize the development on the rice
According to the statement, the Executive Adviser to the governor on Agribusiness, Dr. Debo Akande, who addressed the media on the issue clearly stated that if Customs could muster other bags of rice in good condition, the state would readily receive such.
The statement, however, notes that the immediate reaction from Customs, Oyo-Osun Command was a bit comforting that the bad bags of rice must have been picked from the wrong store and expressed readiness to immediately send in 600 bags to replace the bad ones.
The statement says the state’s team that went for the inspection of the 600 bags returned with another sad verdict that at least 30 percent of the 600 bags promised as replacement were also infested with weevils.
It says the opposition All Progressives Congress, APC, in the state, which commented on the matter, was merely dabbling in what it knows nothing about.
Nigeria Custom Service however in a statement signed by the Public Relations Officer Oyo-Osun Area Command, Abdullahi Abiola says NCS, as responsible government agency could not turn round and be associated with giving anything that will negatively affect the people.
It would be recalled that Nigeria Custom Service through Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and in line with Federal government directive had given 1,800 bags of rice to Oyo state government as palliative to the vulnerable in the wake of COVID-19 pandemic.
Despite the order given by health officials and the government, on ways to prevent the community spread of covid-19 among residents, some market men and women have in Ogunpa, Dugbe, and Aleshinloye in Ibadan failed to comply.
Radio Nigeria observed that, the marketers expressed mixed feelings on the preventive measure orders.
One of them, Mrs Sakirat Aboderin said, though there was social distancing among the traders, other measures were not strictly complied with.
Others who spoke with Radio Nigeria lamented low patronage, urging the government to intensify efforts on containing the spread of covid-19.
Oyo state government had earlier directed that all markets in the state should be closed down due to the corona virus pandemic.
Officials of NNPC have confirmed that the Premium Motor Spirit, PMS spill which has caused residents of Aba pan, and Elebu area to panic is as a result of pipeline vandalism.
NNPC officials digging to ascertain level of vandalism on the pipeline
An official who craved anonymity said the vandals
had successfully installed three industrial valves on the pipeline with which
they used in siphoning the product.
Some years back, a pipeline along the route was vandalised by unscrupulous people.
It was observed that the spot of vandalism is about 100 meters away from a police station.
Oyo State Government is intensifying efforts to ensure that there is no community transmission of coronavirus in the state. Incidence Manager for Oyo State Emergency Operation Centre, Dr Taiwo Ladipo stated this in an interview with Radio Nigeria while reacting to the 2 new positive cases of coronavirus in the state. He said so far all the 3 cases are returnees from overseas as the target of the government was to make sure that there were no community transmission of the virus. Dr Ladipo said the 3 victims were at the isolation centre receiving treatment and was optimistic that they would soon get better. He confirmed that a lot of people were at home undergoing self isolation as the government was following them while relevant tests were being carried out on them. The Incident Manager said the Information about most of those in self isolation were gotten through communities and that prompted adding them to the surveillance system of government. He added that the government was not considering shutting of markets for now as that would create panic but precautionary measures would henceforth be put in such places to prevent the spread of the virus.
Oyo state government has expressed readiness to
collaborate with the Nigerian Association of Technologists, as parts of its
effort to curb building collapse in the state.
The State Governor, Engineer Seyi Makinde said
this during a solidarity visit by the technologists to his office at
Agodi-Secretariat, Ibadan.
Speaking on behalf of the governor, the Deputy
Governor of Oyo state, Engineer Rauf Olaniyan, urged the technologists in
engineering to give adequate support to the present administration in its
determination to transform the state.
In a remark, the Chairman, Nigerian Association of
Technologists in Engineering, Oyo state branch, Engineer Wole Ajagbe said
measures had been put in place by the national body of the association to stamp
out quackery in the profession.
Engineer Ajagbe explained that the visit was part
of the activities lined up by the association to commemorate this year World
Engineering Day.
