NEWSPAPER STORIES COMPILED FOR WEDNESDAY 23-04-2014 THE NATION Page 5:- PICTURE: Osun State Governor Rauf Aregbesola, his Lagos counterpart, Babatunde Fashola, Chairman, MTN Nigeria, Pascal Dozie, Edo State Commissioner for Information Louis Odion, Oyo State Commissioner for Information Gbade Lana and Lagos State Commissioner for information Lateef Ibirogba during the launch of Giants of History, a book by Ibirogba in Lagos. Page 5:- LAUTECH to install Tinubu chancellor National Leader of the All Progressive Congress (APC) and Chancellor of Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH), Bola Ahmed Tinubu, will be conferred with a honourary degree D.Sc (Honoris Causa) in Management Sciences at the convocation holding today. This is part of the combined three-year convocation ceremonies of the institution as disclosed by the Vice-Chancellor of the institution, Adeniyi Gbadegesin at a press briefing held at the varsity’s Senate Chamber. The VC made it known that no fewer than 12,181 first degrees and 9,376 post graduate degree students, spanning the period between 2009/2010, 2010/2011 and 2011/2012 academic calendars would graduate at the event. Gbadegesin maintained that the convocation would be held because of the successful fulfillment of the institution’s academic obligations just as he used the occasion to announce the conclusion of plans by the institution to establish a software engineering course. This, he said “is to complement our efforts at setting the pace for engineering breakthrough in the academic terrain in Nigeria and the industrial world”, adding, “This University is unique in our programme. “Very soon, in the next six month, we’ll establish a soft ware engineering programme that will be producing soft ware for most of industry in the country and even some of our sister universities in the country. See more at: dailyindependentnig/2014/04/tinubu-get-lautech-award/ Page 6:- APC governors ‘didn’t boycott Security Council meeting’ Governors of the All Progressives Congress (APC), under the aegis of the Progressive Governors’ Forum (PGF), have said they did not boycott last Thursday’s National Security Council meeting in Abuja. They warned those peddling the rumour to stop against national security. In a statement by its chairman and Imo State Governor Rochas Okorocha, the forum said APC governors were invited to the meeting but were later told it had been postponed. The forum said the governors’ non-attendance was based on the information they got. The statement reads: “The Progressive Governors’ Forum is concerned about the attempt to insinuate that APC governors boycotted last Thursday’s meeting of the National Security Council. “For the avoidance of doubt, we wish to state categorically that all APC governors received invitations to the meeting, but were later informed, on Tuesday night by the Presidency, that the meeting had been postponed. “It is unfortunate that a meeting as important as that of the National Security Council at this trying moment is reduced to a partisan status. See more at: thenationonlineng.net/new/apc-governors-didnt-boycott-security-council-meeting/ Page 8:- PICTURE: Osun State Governor Rauf Aregbesola; his predecessor Prince Olagunsolye Oyinlola and his wife, Omolola, when the governor visited Oyinlola at his Okuku, Osun State home to celebrate Easter with him. Page 8:- Fulani honour Akande All Progressives Congress (APC) National Chairman Chief Bisi Akande has been made the Babasale (Grand Patron) of the Fulani in the Southwest. The title was bestowed on him by the leadership of the apex Fulani organisation in the region, the Jamat Flube. The Fulani leaders, led by Sheik Toyin Sulaiman, broke the news during a visit to Akande at his Ila-Orangun country home in Osun State. They said the honour was in recognition of Akande’s contributions to development in the Southwest and Nigeria in general. They urged him to facilitate the integration of the Fulani into the socio-political system of the Southwest. See more at: thenationonlineng.net/new/fulani-honour-akande/ Page 8:- Coalition honours governor, business woman Osun State Governor Rauf Aregbesola and Mrs. Rita Lori-Ogbebor, a business woman and women leader, were honoured yesterday by a pan-Yoruba group, the O’Odua Nationalist Coalition (ONAC), for their efforts to emancipate the down trodden. At an event, titled” “Yoruba Political Living Legends of the Centenary Award”, held at the Centre for Management Development (CMD), Lagos, Aregbesola got the “Political Living Legend of the Century Award” and Mrs. Lori-Ogbebor was honoured for consistently fighting for the emancipation of minority groups in the Niger Delta and women. ONAC Leader Comrade Adeoye Adewale said the award was in recognition of Aregbesola’s efforts to provide meaningful leadership for Osun people, adding that leadership is better appreciated when heroes are honoured in their life time. He described the governor as a down-to-earth figure, who portrays himself as an ordinary man on an extraordinary seat, unlike his colleagues. See more at: thenationonlineng.net/new/coalition-honours-governor-business-woman/ Page 29-34:- The making of new Osun After nearly four years of the Rauf Aregbesola administration, things are beginning to look up in Osun State and the people are happy. OGOCHUKWU IKEJE reports on what the government has done to give the state a new lease of life. See more at: thenationonlineng.net/new/making-new-osun/ A brand new identity An identity is much more than a name or card tucked into a pocket or worn round the neck. Osun State has demonstrated that your identity is your total being, your core values, your worldview, your sense of self-worth, your standards. In the past four years, Governor Rauf Aregbesola has championed the rebranding of the state. Osun a dara rallies the people to a collective duty to keep the state from failing. Omoluabi stresses the virtues of the exemplary citizen. “The state of Osun” may have drawn some criticism especially from outside the state, and, of course, the critics were entitled to their rights, while the state savoured its preferences, to say nothing of its own liberties. Still, there is more to renaming the state. Aregbesola speaks of ethical and philosophical revolution, and getting Osun citizens to recognise their rights and liberties to determine their own fate. This captures the new identity of the new Osun and its citizens. You find it on the streets of Osogbo, the state capital, and beyond. Four years on, gloom is giving way to enthusiasm. A sense of dignity of labour has replaced the melancholy of yesteryear. See more at: thenationonlineng.net/new/brand-new-identity/ Working for the future President John F. Kennedy did not live to witness the final fulfillment of the most ambitious of his goals: the landing of man on the moon by the United States as he predicted. The Soviet Union had had a head start many times over, starting with the Sputnik in 1957, and the United States saw it as a competition between “tyranny” (Moscow) and “freedom” (Washington). Since the Soviets had not landed man on the moon, Kennedy saw such a feat as being the achievement to settle the matter once and for all. So, on May 25, 1961, the American leader went to the Congress and threw the challenge that had since changed the face of space exploration. He told the lawmakers: “I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal before the decade (the 60s) is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth. No single space project in this period will be more impressive to mankind or more important for the long range exploration of space and none could be so difficult or expensive to accomplish… I believe we should go to the moon.” See more at: thenationonlineng.net/new/working-future/ Page 44:- An half page advert signed by Iyafin Grace Titi Laoye-Tomori congratulating Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu for the conferment for the Investiture as the 4th Chancellor of Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Ogbomoso, Oyo-State THE PUNCH Page 2:- B’Haram: President, govs set for stormy meeting today President Goodluck Jonathan is expected to meet the 36 state governors and security chiefs on Wednesday (today) in continuation of his administration’s efforts at ending the security challenges in parts of the country. The enlarged meeting of the National Security Council is a follow-up to an earlier one the President had with the Peoples Democratic Party governors on Thursday. The All Progressives Congress governors had stayed away from the first meeting because their party leadership informed them that an official of the Presidency called one of them to announce the postponement of the Thursday meeting. However, to ensure that its governors attended the rescheduled meeting, the APC shifted its state congresses earlier fixed for Wednesday (today) to Saturday. But there were concerns in the Presidency that the meeting could turn out to be a stormy session if Adamawa State Governor, Murtala Nyako, decided to confront the President with the allegations he made in a memo he addressed to his colleagues in the Northern Governors’ Forum. Nyako, in the memo, had accused the President of carrying out genocide against the North in the Federal Government’s fight against insurgency. He had also accused the present administration of allegedly being the most corrupt and greedy administration in the history of the country. The content of the memo has already been slated for discussion by the Northern state governors on Thursday alongside the outcome of the President’s meeting with the governors. See more at: punchng/news/bharam-president-govs-set-for-stormy-meeeting-today/ Page 2:- PICTURE: Lagos State Governor Babatunde Fashola; his Osun State counterpart, Rauf Aregbesola; and Lagos State Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Mr. Lateef Ibirogba, during the public presentation of a book “Giant of History” written by Ibirogba in Lagos. Page 6:- ‘Make rescue of abducted schoolgirls a priority’ The Osun State Governor, Mr. Rauf Aregbesola, on Tuesday urged the Federal Government to make the rescue of the Government Secondary School girls in Borno State a priority. The pupils were abducted last week by suspected Boko Haram members. While some of them have escaped from their captors, others are still being held. Aregbesola spoke in Lagos during the presentation of a book titled, ‘Giants Of History: Making Of Our World’, which was authored by the Lagos State Commissioner for Information and Strategy Mr. Lateef Ibirogba. The governor, who was the Keynote Speaker at the event, lamented the handling of the abduction, saying its implication on national security, psyche and image were enormous. He said, “I am depressed about what is happening in the country. I cannot understand the rationale behind the kidnapping of schoolgirls. Girls who left their homes to acquire knowledge, only to end up as companions to criminals and sycophants. It is frightening. “I urge everybody to do everything possible to put an end to this sad development. The Federal Government must rise up to this challenge. Everyone in authority must act now. It is not only degrading us as a people, it is defaming us. “Children are abducted in schools and we carry on as if it is mere statistics. It is not. We must protest on the streets to say that enough is enough.” See more at: punchng/news/make-rescue-of-abducted-schoolgirls-a-priority/ Page 7:- Aregbesola meets Oyinlola over gov poll Osun State Governor, Mr. Rauf Aregbesola, visited his predecessor in office, Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola, at his residence in Okuku, in Odo Otin Local Government Area of the state. Our correspondent gathered on Tuesday that Aregbesola visited the the estranged National Secretary of the PDP on Monday night and the duo held a meeting for about an hour. Although none of the aides of the two politicians disclosed what their principals discussed, many believed that the discussion centred on the August 9 governorship election. There was acrimony between the duo when the Court of Appeal sacked Oyinlola from office on November 26, 2010 following a tribunal case which lasted over three years. The APC senator representing Osun Central Senatorial District, Prof. Sola Adeyeye, had earlier visited the residence of the former governor. Aregbesola’s visit to Oyinlola is seen by some as a move to woo the former governor to work for him in the governorship election in which Senator Iyiola Omisore is representing the PDP. See more at: punchng/news/aregbesola-meets-oyinlola-over-gov-poll/ Page 23:- Readers text message Osun financial challenge Governor Rauf Aregbesola of osun state has continuously blame the late payment of salary of civil servants and teachers including entitlement of pensioners as well as abandon projects to shortfall in the monthly federal allocation to the state The fact of the matter is that dwindling federal allocation is not peculiar to Osun State so Aregbesola should stop making it look like an isolated case or that he is being punished for being in an opposition party. Members of the public should not buy this dummy and excuse for failure. The problem with Aregbesola is that he is doing so many projects at the same time without taking into consideration the lean financial status of the state just to score cheap political points. He must be focus and do away with fopomoyo policies. Tunde sanni Ajisegiri street Sogunle Lagos state +2348163295302: NIGERIAN TRIBUNE Page 3:- Insecurity: Jonathan, govs meet today “Today, 36 state governors are expected to be in attendance at a meeting summond by President Goodluck Jonathan to explore ways to stem the rising insecurity in parts of the country, occasioned by Boko Haram. The meeting had previously been scheduled for Thursday last week but was boycotted by governors of the All Progressives Congress (APC), though the party later claimed that the governors were deceived into absenting themselves from the meeting.” Page 4:- Elections: Ooni eulogies Osun founding fathers Chairman, Osun State Council of Obas and the Ooni of Ife, Oba Okunade Sijuwade, has eulogised the new effort of the founding fathers of the state at salvaging its future in the coming governorship election. Oba Sijuwade made these remarks while receiving the founding fathers of the state, who paid him a visit at his Oduduwa Royal Palace recently. The founding fathers, now spearheading the formation of a broad-based task force committee’s seven-man delegation, were led by its chairman, Ambassador Diran Fagboungbe to seek the support of the traditional ruler in order to check the controversies that trailed elections in the state. The traditional ruler lauded the establishment of the broad-based task force committee, especially as August 9 governorship election approached. See more at: tribune.ng/news/news-headlines/item/3837-elections-ooni-eulogises-osun-founding-fathers Page 8:- Aregbesola tasks Nigerian leaders Osun State Governor Rauf Aregbesola and Mrs. Rita Lori-Ogbebor, a business woman and women leader, were honoured yesterday by a pan-Yoruba group, the O’Odua Nationalist Coalition (ONAC), for their efforts to emancipate the down trodden. At an event, titled” “Yoruba Political Living Legends of the Centenary Award”, held at the Centre for Management Development (CMD), Lagos, Aregbesola got the “Political Living Legend of the Century Award” and Mrs. Lori-Ogbebor was honoured for consistently fighting for the emancipation of minority groups in the Niger Delta and women. ONAC Leader Comrade Adeoye Adewale said the award was in recognition of Aregbesola’s efforts to provide meaningful leadership for Osun people, adding that leadership is better appreciated when heroes are honoured in their life time. He described the governor as a down-to-earth figure, who portrays himself as an ordinary man on an extraordinary seat, unlike his colleagues. See more at: thenationonlineng.net/new/coalition-honours-governor-business-woman/ Page 41:- Reactions trail Aregbesola’s visit to Oyinlola · As Oyinlola, Adeleke, Oke hold talks DIVERGENT reactions, on Tuesday, trailed the visit by the Osun State governor, Mr Rauf Aregbesola, to his predecessor, Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola, at his country home in Okuku, Odo Otin Local Government Area of the state. A source informed the Nigerian Tribune that the governor arrived at Oyinlola’s residence around 9.30 p.m. and left the house a few minutes past 10.00 p.m. Though details of the visit could not be ascertained as of the time of filing this report, the Nigerian Tribune learnt that the duo had a discussion, which may have bordered on the political development in the state, ahead August 9 governorship poll. However, before the arrival of Aregbesola, the senator representing Osun Central senatorial district in the Senate, Professor Sola Adeyeye, was also spotted emerging from the living room of Oyinlola, who escorted him (Adeyeye) and his wife outside before they left around 2.00 p.m. Apart from Aregbesola and Adeyeye, who visited Oyinlola, two of the three aspirants who contested the last governorship primaries of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Senator Isiaka Adeleke and Honourable Wole Oke, also visited the former governor. See more at: tribune.ng/news/news-headlines/item/3843-reactions-trail-aregbesola-s-visit-to-oyinlola-as-oyinlola-adeleke-oke-hold-talks Page 41:- PICTURE: Osun State Governor Rauf Aregbesola; his predecessor Prince Olagunsolye Oyinlola and his wife, Omolola, when the governor visited Oyinlola at his Okuku, Osun State home to celebrate Easter with him. Page 46:- Abducted school girls: Aregbesola calls for public protect Osun State Governor, Rauf Aregbesola has called for nationwide mass protest against Islamic terrorists, Boko Haram over the recent abduction of 234 schoolgirls. The girls were taken hostage from Government Girls Secondary School, Chibok, Borno State, Northeast Nigeria. Aregbesola spoke at the public presentation of a book “Giants of History (The Making of Our World)” written the Lagos State Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Aderemi Ibirogba. The event was held at the Civic Centre, Victoria Island, Lagos, Southwest Nigeria on Tuesday. Describing the abduction as a national disaster, the governor said there was need by all Nigerians to rise up against the abduction of innocent citizens, lamenting that it was sad that one week after the abduction, Nigerians moved on as if nothing had happened. “I don’t even know what to say than to urge everybody to do anything humanly possible collectively and individually to put an end to this sad development. The Federal Government must rise up to this challenge. Everyone in authority must act now. It is not only degrading us as a people, it is defaming us. See more at: pmnewsnigeria/2014/04/22/aregbesola-calls-for-mass-protest-over-missing-schoolgirls/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+PmNewsNigeriaFeed+%28PM+News+Nigeria%29 Page 49:- Osun approves Igbajo – Ada road rehabilitation “Governor Rauf Aregbesola of Osun State has disclosed that his administration had already approved the tarring of Igbajo/Ada road in its bid to enhance movement of farm produce to commercial centres in the state. He made this disclosure at the 27th Igbajo Day celebration at Baptist Elementary School, Igbajo. Governor Aregbesola who was represented by his Deputy, Mrs. Titi Laoye –Tomori.” DAILY INDEPENDENT Page 2:- Aregbesola calls for mass protest over insecurity · We’ll overcome Boko Haram, says Shettima PDP cautions Nyako on letter Osun State Governor, Rauf Aregbesola, on Tuesday described the abduction of 234 girls from Government Girls Secondary School (GGSS), Chibok, Borno State, as a national disaster, urging Nigerians to rise up and take a stand against the trend of kidnapping innocent citizens. He said it was frightening that over one week after it was reported that Islamic extremists besieged the school in the North East and abducted the girls, there has been no lead as to where the girls have been taken. The Governor spoke in Lagos at the public presentation of a book, ‘Giants of History (The Making of Our World), authored by Lateef Ibirogba, Lagos State Commissioner for Information and Strategy. According to Aregbesola, Nigerians were gradually accepting the trend of kidnapping as a normal occurrence, lamenting that girls who left their homes in search of educational pursuit have ended up as companions to criminals and sycophants. “I don’t even know what to say than to urge everybody to do anything humanly possible collectively and individually to put an end to this sad development. See more at: dailyindependentnig/2014/04/aregbesola-calls-mass-protest-insecurity/ Page 6:- Nigerians want to stay together - Delegate A member of Osun State delegate to the National Conference, Chief Gbadegesin Adedeji, has told Nigerians that the ongoing debate at the conference would not lead to disintegration of the country, ratherit will make the country more united. He equally stated that the Yoruba agenda at the conference was mainly on the devolution of power and restructuring, which according to him, had also received support from other regions of the country. Speaking with journalists at the weekend in Iwo, Adedeji allayed the fears of disintegration of the country, but stated that majority of Nigerians want to remain together despite their differences. According to him: For once, I saw Nigerians talking and discussing their problems. It was a frank talk without inhibition. The speech from everybody was a catalogue of complaints. Grievances that have been bottled up over the years came out into the open. Delegates from the West, East, North and South, for once, were seen discussing and talking bitterly but frankly. The conference will work well. Most Nigerians, at least 80 per cent of us, want the country to remain together provided certain things are done right, he noted. See more at: codewit/nigeria-news/18679-nigerians-want-to-stay-together-says-delegate Page 8:- Aregbesola calls for mass protest over insecurity Osun State Governor, Rauf Aregbesola, on Tuesday described the abduction of 234 girls from Government Girls Secondary School (GGSS), Chibok, Borno State, as a national disaster, urging Nigerians to rise up and take a stand against the trend of kidnapping innocent citizens. He said it was frightening that over one week after it was reported that Islamic extremists besieged the school in the North East and abducted the girls, there has been no lead as to where the girls have been taken. The Governor spoke in Lagos at the public presentation of a book, ‘Giants of History (The Making of Our World), authored by Lateef Ibirogba, Lagos State Commissioner for Information and Strategy. According to Aregbesola, Nigerians were gradually accepting the trend of kidnapping as a normal occurrence, lamenting that girls who left their homes in search of educational pursuit have ended up as companions to criminals and sycophants. “I don’t even know what to say than to urge everybody to do anything humanly possible collectively and individually to put an end to this sad development. “The Federal Government must rise up to this. Everyone in authority must act now. It is not only degrading us as a people, it is defaming us. See more at: dailyindependentnig/2014/04/aregbesola-calls-mass-protest-insecurity/ Page 10:- PICTURE: Osun State Governor Rauf Aregbesola; author of Giants of History, Lateef Ibirogba; Lagos State Governor, Babatunde Raji Fashola representative of Oyo State governor, Prince Gbade Lana and Chairman of the occasion, Chief Pascal Dozie, during the book presentation in Lagos. Page 11:- Aregbesola woos Oyinlola, others Osun State Governor, Mr. Rauf Aregbesola, visited his predecessor in office, Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola, at his residence in Okuku, in Odo Otin Local Government Area of the state. Our correspondent gathered on Tuesday that Aregbesola visited the the estranged National Secretary of the PDP on Monday night and the duo held a meeting for about an hour. Although none of the aides of the two politicians disclosed what their principals discussed, many believed that the discussion centred on the August 9 governorship election. There was acrimony between the duo when the Court of Appeal sacked Oyinlola from office on November 26, 2010 following a tribunal case which lasted over three years. The APC senator representing Osun Central Senatorial District, Prof. Sola Adeyeye, had earlier visited the residence of the former governor. See more at: punchng/news/aregbesola-meets-oyinlola-over-gov-poll/ Page 24:- Pan Yoruba groups honour Aregbesola Governor of Osun State, Rauf Aregbesola, will on Tuesday presented with the Centenary Award by a pan Yoruba groups otherwise known as Oodua Nationalist Coalition (ONAC), an alliance of several Yoruba groups. The groups drawn from eight Yoruba speaking states of the federation presented the award in recognition of the role the governor has played in the promotion of Yoruba heritage. According to the spokesperson of the event, Dr Mathew Olurunyomi, the award was aimed at demonstrating the blood-bound relationship that exists between the Pan-Yoruba groups and Ogbeni Aregbesola. The groups expected at the event are from Edo, Ogun, Ekiti, Ondo, Lagos, Osun, Kwara, Kogi and the Itsekiri area of Delta State. The group stated that since 2010, “we have seen the government of the people. This is responsible for the peace and stability that the SW enjoys today. To be sure, the Nigerian institutions have largely been designed by the military to make good governance and utilitarian service delivery impossible or hard to fulfill. See more at: dailyindependentnig/2014/04/pan-yoruba-groups-honour-aregbesola/ Page 51:- Tinubu to get LAUTECH award National Leader of the All Progressive Congress (APC) and Chancellor of Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH), Bola Ahmed Tinubu, will be conferred with a honourary degree D.Sc (Honoris Causa) in Management Sciences at the convocation holding today. This is part of the combined three-year convocation ceremonies of the institution as disclosed by the Vice-Chancellor of the institution, Adeniyi Gbadegesin at a press briefing held at the varsity’s Senate Chamber. The VC made it known that no fewer than 12,181 first degrees and 9,376 post graduate degree students, spanning the period between 2009/2010, 2010/2011 and 2011/2012 academic calendars would graduate at the event. Gbadegesin maintained that the convocation would be held because of the successful fulfillment of the institution’s academic obligations just as he used the occasion to announce the conclusion of plans by the institution to establish a software engineering course. This, he said “is to complement our efforts at setting the pace for engineering breakthrough in the academic terrain in Nigeria and the industrial world”, adding, “This University is unique in our programme. “Very soon, in the next six month, we’ll establish a soft ware engineering programme that will be producing soft ware for most of industry in the country and even some of our sister universities in the country. See more at: dailyindependentnig/2014/04/tinubu-get-lautech-award/ Page 54:- Okpekpe Race: Oshiomhole laughs off Amaechi, Uduaghan, Aregbesola’s challenge The Edo State Governor, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole may be in for a serious competition in the 2nd edition of the 10 kilometres Okpekpe Road Race. A close aide of comrade Oshiomhole confided that Governors Rauf Aregbesola of Osun, Hon. Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers and Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan of Delta State have sent in their registration form to participate in the Okpekpe Road Race come 3rd of May, 2014. The aide said the governors has also sent in words that they are not participating to make up the numbers of athletes but to win one of the star prizes of the competition. He specifically mentioned Rivers and Osun State governors whom he said vowed to give Oshiomhole a run for his money. “My brother, our governor is in for trouble this time around. If you heard what Governor Amaechi (Rotimi) and Aregbesola (Rauf) are talking, if our governor refused to train hard, they will knock him out. - See more at: vanguardngr/2014/04/okpekpe-road-race-3-govs-ready-challenge-oshiomhole/#sthash.qIB6SYQ8.dpuf GUARDIAN Page 3:- PICTURE: Osun State Governor Rauf Aregbesola; author of Giants of History, Lateef Ibirogba; Lagos State Governor, Babatunde Raji Fashola representative of Oyo State governor, Prince Gbade Lana and Chairman of the occasion, Chief Pascal Dozie, during the book presentation in Lagos. NATIONAL MIRROR Page 7:- PICTURE: Osun State Governor Rauf Aregbesola; author of Giants of History, Lateef Ibirogba; Lagos State Governor, Babatunde Raji Fashola representative of Oyo State governor, Prince Gbade Lana and Chairman of the occasion, Chief Pascal Dozie, during the book presentation in Lagos. Page 8:- Mixed reactions trail Aregbesola’s visit to Oyinlola in Okuku Mixed reactions yesterday trailed the visit of Osun State Governor, Mr. Rauf Aregbesola to his predecessor in office, Prince Olagusoye Oyinlola in his Okuku country home on Monday. Sources in Okuku informed National Mirror that the governor arrived in Oyinlola’s residence around 9:30 pm and left the house few minutes past 10 O’clock in the evening. It was reliably learnt that the two men held talks which may have touched on political developments in the state ahead of August 9 governorship poll. Although, the two leaders took photographs when Aregbesola was about departing from Okuku residence of Oyinlola, details of the talks between them was kept away from newsmen. Earlier in the day, the Senator representing Osun Central Senatorial District in the Senate, Prof. Sola Adeyeye was sighted in the premises of Oyinlola in Okuku being escorted out by his host, Prince Oyinlola. See more at: nationalmirroronline.net/new/mixed-reactions-trail-aregbesolas-visit-to-oyinlola-in-okuku/ Page 14:- Nigerian parties lack ideology – PDP chieftain Comrade Olalekan Jackson Ojo, a chieftain of the Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP, and National Coordinator of the Yoruba Youth Alliance, YYA. Speaks with BOLADALE BAMIGBOLA on the impending implosion in APC, the chances of PDP in the August 9 gubernatorial polls in Osun State among other sundry issues. Excerpts: See more at: nationalmirroronline.net/new/nigerian-parties-lack-ideology-pdp-chieftain/ Page 44:- Obanikoro receives 4,000 APC defectors into PDP in Alimosho · Says, PDP’ll take over Lagos in 2015 Minister of State for Defence and a former governorship aspirant on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Lagos State, Senator Musiliu Obanikoro, has received about 4,000 defectors from the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Lagos State. The defecting APC members were from the Alimosho Local Government Area of the state. Obanikoro, who welcomed the defectors into the PDP, assured them of level playing field in the party as a prelude to the 2015 general election in the state. Addressing the mammoth crowd at the ceremony, Obanikoro assured that the PDP would take over the reins of governance in the state next year. Insisting that it was not time for campaig yet, he maintained that his mission in the locality was to receive the defectors into the PDP. See more at: nationalmirroronline.net/new/obanikoro-receives-4000-apc-defectors-into-pdp-in-alimosho/ DAILY NEWSWATCH Page 3:- Abduction of Borno school girls barbaric - Aregbesola Gov. Rauf Aregbesola of Osun State on Tuesday described the abduction of about 100 schoolgirls by insurgents in Borno State as ‘barbaric’. Aregbesola spoke at the public presentation of a book, ‘Giants of History’, written by Mr Lateef Ibirogba, Lagos State Commissioner for Information and Strategy. He said that the kidnap of the innocent girls was a pointer to the fact that the security situation in the North-East was worsening day by day. The governor urged Nigerians to join hands with the relevant security agencies to bring terrorist activities in the country to an end. Aregbesola also advised political office holders in Nigeria to stop using titles that suggested they were ‘larger-than-life’. He said the preference by leaders to be addressed as ‘Your Excellency’ and other ‘irrelevant honorific’ was an aberration in leadership. “Public officers get their right by popular electoral mandate and so it is totally paradoxical to address them as Your Excellencies. See more at: punchng/news/abduction-of-school-girls-barbaric-says-aregbesola/ Page 4:- PICTURE: Osun State Governor Rauf Aregbesola; author of Giants of History, Lateef Ibirogba; Lagos State Governor, Babatunde Raji Fashola representative of Oyo State governor, Prince Gbade Lana and Chairman of the occasion, Chief Pascal Dozie, during the book presentation in Lagos. Page 8:- Look inwards, discover giants of history in Nigeria – Tinubu “Former governor of Lagos State and National Leader of All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Hamed Tinubu, has charge Nigerians to look inwards and identity, celebrates giat of history in Nigeria. Delivering the keynote address, Osun state governor, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, began his speech by saying that people should stop calling those in authority “Your Excellency,” and noted that it is only in Nigeria that people attach importance to that title.” Page 8:- Osun 2014: Iwo community seeks dep gov’s slot Page 13:- Sambo’s many political battles In the next two months, the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) will be meeting again at the polls to elect governors for the states of Ekiti and Osun. The candidates for the two states have emerged. APC’s governors are gunning for their second terms in office as the 1999 Constitution permits. The governors; Dr. Kayode Fayemi and Rauf Aregbesola of Ekiti and State of Osun are no push-over. Both governors have given good accounts of their stewardship, and their people cannot deny the fact that they were performers, who out-performed their predecessors from in all ramifications. The two spokesmen for the states have since replied Sambo that their states cannot be battle fields for elections. The Federal government, under PDP, has not been able to find its feet in battling Boko Haram. How wise will it be for the same Federal government top now turn peaceful states to another battle grounds. PDP is still embroiled in internal wrangling in almost all the 36 states of Nigeria, how then would PDP be able to cope with external adversaries? The primary elections conducted in the above-named states were other wars within PDP in which the injured are still nursing their cancerous wounds. These ought to be Sambo’s concern. See more at: mydailynewswatchng/sambos-many-political-battles/ Page 26:- PDP urges security agencies to call Aregbesola to order Osun State Chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has appealed to security agencies and the office of the National Security Agency (NSA) to call the state governor Rauf Aregbesola to order on his statement which is capable of inciting members of the public to take up arms. The party in a release signed by its publicity secretary Prince Bola Ajao said for the state governor to have gone on air and start singing ’How many people soldier go kill, eh eh them go kill us tire, was an invitation to anarchy. PDP said calling for bloodletting in the name of politicking was grievous. It is also a debasement of the high office he occupies as it is repugnant to public order, safety and security. The party also said it was aware of the plan of the governor in conjunction with some people to destabilise the state, by getting T shirts for miscreants with the inscription “who killed the man”. The party said the miscreants are those it has alerted the security agencies about, and they were to embark on candle light procession “these miscreants from among those whom we had earlier advised are put on security watch list”. It said. See more at: mydailynewswatchng/pdp-urges-security-agencies-call-aregbesola-order/ Page 32:- Osun set to hold talks on economy Determined to draw the attention of the whole nation to the multi-various positive transformation that has been the lot of Osun State in the last four years in the area of economic development, a large number of professionals based in the state will be coming together under the auspices of a non-governmental organisation, the People’s Welfare League (PWL), to organise an economic summit where stakeholders from different parts of the state and nationwide will share ideas on how to safeguard the achievements so far recorded in the areas of economic development and youth empowerment with a view to setting agenda for future improvement. Tagged “Orisun Aje 2014”, the two-day summit which will hold in Osogbo, between 29 and 30 April is to have the theme “Crux of Osun’s Developmental Masterplan: Analysing a radical economic Paradigm Shift.” According to Comrade Biodun Agboola, Coordinator of the Peoples Welfare League, which is the convener of the summit, the programme is expected to capture and expose to the whole world the new potentials and opportunities now opening up in the state as a result of the developmental and transformational strides the state has taken in the past 40 months of the Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola administration. See more at: mydailynewswatchng/osun-set-hold-talks-economy/ Page 58:- Osun’s Orisun Aje 2014 2014 economic summit holds in April Determined to draw the attention of the whole nation to the multi-various positive transformation that has been the lot of Osun State in the last four years in the area of economic development, a large number of professionals based in the state will be coming together under the auspices of a non-governmental organisation, the People’s Welfare League (PWL), to organise an economic summit where stakeholders from different parts of the state and nationwide will share ideas on how to safeguard the achievements so far recorded in the areas of economic development and youth empowerment with a view to setting agenda for future improvement. Tagged “Orisun Aje 2014”, the two-day summit which will hold in Osogbo, between 29 and 30 April is to have the theme “Crux of Osun’s Developmental Masterplan: Analysing a radical economic Paradigm Shift.” See more at: mydailynewswatchng/osun-set-hold-talks-economy/ VANGUARD Page 5:- PICTURE: Osun State Governor Rauf Aregbesola; author of Giants of History, Lateef Ibirogba; Lagos State Governor, Babatunde Raji Fashola representative of Oyo State governor, Prince Gbade Lana and Chairman of the occasion, Chief Pascal Dozie, during the book presentation in Lagos. Page 10:- Aregbesola tasks FG over abducted students, others Governor Rauf Aregbesola of Osun State, yesterday in Lagos, called on the Federal Government to prioritise the rescue of the remaining abducted Government Secondary School girls in Chibok, Borno State and stop other acts of violence by insurgents in parts of the country. This came as his Lagos counterpart, Mr. Babatunde Fashola blamed the socio-economic and political crises facing Nigeria on leadership vacuum. Aregbesola, spoke at the public presentation of a book titled, “Giants of history: Making of our world”, authored by Lagos State Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Mr. Lateef Ibirogba. The governor, who was the Keynote Speaker, lamented the lacklustre attitude of the Federal Government towards the abduction incident, saying; “The implication of the abduction on national security psyche and image are enormous. I am so depressed about what is happening in the country and I do not know how to put it - See more at: vanguardngr/2014/04/aregbesola-tasks-fg-abducted-students-others/#sthash.aNP3UIAa.dpuf Page 11:- Aregbesola, Adeleke, others at Oyinlola’s Easter party in Okuku Ahead of the August 9 governorship election in Osun State, Governor Rauf Aregbesola Monday night held a secret meeting with his predecessor in office and former National Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola, as parts of his efforts to win a re-election. The meeting which took place at Oyinlola’s country home, Okuku lasted less than one hour. Sources told Vanguard that the governor arrived Oyinlola’s residence around 9:30 pm and left the house few minutes after 10 pm. Though details of the meeting were not immediately known, it was reliably learnt that the two men held talks on political developments in the state, particularly the August 9 governorship poll. Both Aregbesola and Oyinlola later took photographs when Aregbesola was departing Oyinlola’s Okuku residence. - See more at: vanguardngr/2014/04/aregbesola-adeleke-others-oyinlolas-easter-party-okuku/#sthash.F8Mvg9Md.dpuf Page 11:- Osun holds economic summit Banking on the developmental strides in Osun State in the last four years, some Osun-based professionals will be coming together under the auspices of a non-governmental organisation, the People’s Welfare League, PWL, to hold an economic summit next week. The summit, where stakeholders from different parts of the state and nationwide will share ideas on how to safeguard the achievements, is tagged ‘Orisun Aje 2014. It has as its theme: ‘Crux of Osun’s Developmental Masterplan: Analysing a Radical Economic Paradigm Shift’. The summit will hold in Osogbo, the state capital, between April 29 and 30. PWL coordinator, Comrade Biodun Agboola, in a release, said the summit is expected to capture and expose to the whole world the new potentials and opportunities opening up in Osun State in the past 40 months of the Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola administration. See more at: osun.gov.ng/2014/04/19/osun-hold-summit-economy/ Page 47:- PICTURE: Osun State Governor Rauf Aregbesola; his predecessor Prince Olagunsolye Oyinlola and his wife, Omolola, when the governor visited Oyinlola at his Okuku, Osun State home to celebrate Easter with him. Page 56:- Osun: When the language of development is empowerment IMAGINE! Omisore flagged off his campaign here (Freedom Park) and he had the nerve to say Aregbesola hasn’t completed any project. If this place was not completed, how did it become available to him to have a campaign rally? Any way, we’ll soon change the name from Freedom Park to Nelson Mandela park”.Why Mandela, asked one of his listeners. South Africans wouldn’t name a facility after Awolowo, for example. “Well, that’s their business. We’re pan-Africans,” was the curt response. Hmmm, Pan-Africanism. Of what benefit has it been to the average Nigerian, this reporter wondered as the tour bus navigated a narrow path avoiding a jam in this busy Osogbo traffic. - See more at: vanguardngr/2014/04/osun-language-development-empowerment/#sthash.dQxuvOZ8.dpuf DAILY SUN Page 6:- Aregbesola visits Oyinlola, hold secret meeting Osun State Governor, Mr Rauf Aregbesola, on Monday night visited his predecessor in office, Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola at his country home in Okuku, headquarters of Odo-Otin Local Government Area of the state. It was gathered that the Senator representing Osun Central Senatorial District, Professor Olusola Adeyeye had earlier visited Oyinlola on the same day. Sources confided in Daily Sun that both Oyinlola and Aregbesola held a closed door meeting at the residence of Oyinlola during the visit. Although details of the meeting were not made open, it was learnt that the meeting might not be unconnected with the forthcoming governorship election scheduled for August 9, this year. However, another source said the visit which was said to be a private one, was to celebrate Easter festival with Oyinlola and members of his family. See more at: sunnewsonline/new/?p=60794 Page 7:- PICTURE: Osun State Governor Rauf Aregbesola; author of Giants of History, Lateef Ibirogba; Lagos State Governor, Babatunde Raji Fashola representative of Oyo State governor, Prince Gbade Lana and Chairman of the occasion, Chief Pascal Dozie, during the book presentation in Lagos. ...
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