SOS ON THE STATE OF ROADS IN OTA

The State of Ojuore Roundabout

The deplorable condition of various roads within Ota and environs has become an embarrassing stigma as there is hardly any part of the major and feeder roads that can be considered motor able. Most all the roads – Trunk A (federal), Trunk B (state) or Trunk C (local government) – are in terrible states. ; the manner of neglect by the relevant authorities is equally worrisome.

Adalemo Bus -Stop

Portion of Adalemo Turning, Lagos - Abeokuta Express Road

Take a look from the entry point into Ota, just after toll gate going into Sango, different portions of the road has broken down and the government seem to just look away with reckless abandonment . All we get is the banal excuse of ‘’most of the road roads are federal government roads’’. And so what? I know for a fact that the Lagos/Abeokuta expressway is a federal road, I also know how the Lagos State Public Works Corporation (LSPWC) do carry out routine repairs and rehabilitation works on this road (one of such was done very recently) and expectedly leaving out the Ogun State end of the road that stretch from toll gate upward. For me, that action of the Lagos State Government is responsiveness. Why can’t the Ogun State government take a cue from this?

Senator Gbolahan Dada advocates death penalty for corruption

 

 

Gbolahan Dada (APC-Ogun West) has advocated capital punishment for corrupt officials in the country.
Mr. Dada, who made the suggestion during interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja on Friday, said “corruption is the bane of this country and the only way out is heavy penalty, even death sentence, for those found guilty.
“The only way you can stop corruption is through death sentence”.
Mr. Dada noted that there were so many laws that should be promulgated at this stage of Nigeria’s development, pointing out that England did so too at a stage in her life.
He accused civil servants of being the major culprits, pointing out that they had access to public funds which made it easy for them to steal from the national treasury.
“This is why some of them, after stealing so much money from government, set up personal businesses but collapse soon after because they only know how to steal, not to create wealth.
“Wealth creation is a process that must be sustained but you go bankrupt the day you are taken away from the source where you steal,” he said.
The lawmaker said about 1.2 million houses built with stolen money in Lagos and Abuja were in the market for sale with nobody to buy them.

“That is why you find houses everywhere unoccupied because they steal this money and they ask the contractor to go and build houses for them. Go to Lekki, you will find them there and here in Abuja.
“If you borrowed money from the bank will you be able to lock up the houses unoccupied,” he asked.
Mr. Dada implored the Federal Government to impose property tax on all unoccupied houses in the country, promising that he would soon sponsor a bill to identify who owns each building in the country using modern platforms on the internet.
These include Bank Verification Numbers, E-passports, GSM numbers, company registration numbers, national identity card numbers, driver’s license and DNA, to know who owns which building in Nigeria.
Mr. Dada said corruption had devastated the country’s economy so much that the only way to stop it is the death penalty.
He said although the developed nations would frown against it, people should read the history of England.
“Who killed King James?” he asked. “At that time, that was what could solve the problem for them, we are not civilized here, we think we are, because we are riding exotic cars, in fact we are in the 14th in Nigeria.”
He said Nigeria had disappointed the world not just Africa “because in every group of Africans you see, five are Nigerians.
“So, the whole world expected us to be trail blazers that would lead Africa out of poverty.
“Today, many in Russian, Malaysian, Thailand, Indian and Great Britain prisons are Nigerians. Why? It is because of indiscipline in the society,’’ he said.
He said Nigeria was gradually getting to the stage the Republic of Liberia was when the war broke out. “The major danger here is the large population of youths who are unemployed.
“When you have a large population of youths who are under-educated, under-housed, under-developed and you have a handful minority in the ruling elite class monopolising the government apparatus, you are courting trouble.
“Nigeria as an oil producing nation is an enabler for job creation.
“My worry is that if nothing is done, the crisis would start from starvation, food shortage. Texas in the United States is bigger than Nigeria and the population of Texas is about 20 million and Nigeria, in about ten years time, will be 200 Million.

“The land is not expanding, yet population is increasing. We are not like India and China sub-continents. India is bigger than Nigeria. So, they can accommodate large population but that is not the issue.
“The issue is that they have a productive economy. So, we can’t compare them with Nigeria at all.
“Let Nigeria compare herself with neighboring West African countries. We had an opportunity to turn Nigeria into a productive economy for 40 years but we wasted the opportunity.
“All the money made from oil was wasted. We have no petro-chemical industry, now we import virtually everything.
“The few industries that were left by the colonial European administration have all collapsed,’’ the lawmaker said.
Mr. Dada said that was a great mistake and that Europeans should have been left to run their industries while Nigerians took over governance.


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AMOSUN IN OTA FOR ALHJI ADENIJI'S BURIAL

Ogun State Governor Senator Ibikunle Amosun, yesterday led other state functionaries and party loyalist to the burial of late Ogun State Chairman of All Progressive Congress APC  in Ota. Alhaji Roqeeb Adeniji who died on monday night at the age of 79 and was buried tuesday 22nd November 2016 according to Islamic rites.

see pics from the burial

AMOSUN PRESENT 2017 BUDGET

Ogun State Governor, Senator Ibikunle Amosun, on Tuesday, presented a total budget of N221.129bn for the 2017  fiscal year to the State House of Assembly.

The budget, which he titled, "Budget of Repositioning,"  represents an increase of 10.45 per cent compared with the 2016 budget.  

The governor further explained that the recurrent expenditure will gulp N102.82bn or 46.50 percent of the  budget while capital expenditure will gulp N118.306bn or  53.50 percent of the budget.

The governor added that, "Our Expenditure consists of Capital Expenditure of N118.306bn (53.50%) and Recurrent Expenditure of N102.823Billion (46.50%). 

"Personnel Cost, made up of Salaries and Allowances stands at N62.73 Billion while Pension and Gratuities account for N11.2Billion which is about for 5.06% of Total Expenditure.

"The balance of N28.89 Billion which accounts for 13.07% is set aside for the Overhead Costs."

He further revealed that the 2017 budget would be financed through Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) and revenue from the Federation Account.

Governor Amosun added that 51.71 percent or N114.34bn of the proposed  N221.129bn budget is to be funded through IGR while N41bn or 18 percent is expected from the federations account.

Capital receipts is expected to contribute N65.78bn or 29.75 percent of the budget.

This information is contained in a statement signed and made available by Adejuwon Soyinka,
Senior Special Assistant (Media) to the Ogun State Governor.

BREAKING NEWS: OGUN STATE APC CHAIRMAN ALHAJI ADENIJI IS DEAD

Alhaji Roqeeb Adeniji the Ogun State  Chairman of the All Progressive Party APC is dead.
Baba as he is fondly called died in the early hours of today according to one of his sons Hon. Bashiru Oladele Adeniji,who is the current executive chairman of Ado-Odo/Ota Local Government.
He told our correspondent that he was still his father yesterday and Baba even watch a football match.
The frontline politician will be buried by 4pm today according to Islamic rites. ''Baba has done his best and it is the will of Allah to call him to rest and so we submit to Allah's will''. Says Hon. Adeniji. 
A condolence register had been open at his residence in the Oju Ore area of Ota. sympathizers are seen trooping into the residence to condole with the bereaved family.

Details later......

ADO-ODO/OTA LG SET TO LAUNCH ENVIROMENTAL CAMPAIGN

The Chairman Ado-Odo/Ota  Local Government Hon. (Prince) Bashiru Oladele Adeniji and his team are set to launch a campaign on cleanliness of our environment. This campaign is coming  on the heels of the recent clampdown on some premises by officers the Ogun State Environmental Sanitation Task Force

You will recall that the Enviromatal Task Force were in Ota in the course of the week, where they seal off some premises. This action was met with protest and restrictions from many residence (this almost degenerated but for the timely intervention of the Local Government Chairman) claiming that they were not properly informed about the waste disposal policy of the government and that refuse disposal trucks do not come to pick their refuse often as they should.

The chairman who spoke to our correspondence in office on Friday, said his administration will take environmental sanitation as a major task and efforts are in the pipeline to launch an intensive campaign and sensitization on the issues of making our environment clean and how to dispose off refuse without creating frictions with the necessary authorities. He explained that the sensitization campaign will be done in English, Yoruba, Igbo and Hausa language as well as in pidgin recognizing noting that Ota is a multi-ethnic community hence the need to carry everybody along.

Hon Adeniji enjoined all residence of Ota to be peaceful and law abiding, he urge everyone to desist from indiscriminate dumping of refuse as he promised to strengthen Sanitation department in the Local Government and position it for effective service delivery .

WARNING: PLASTIC RICE FLOODS NIGERIA MARKET

 

Video of an alleged Chinese involved in manufacturing plastic rice emerge on the internet days ago. Read below how you can test your rice to be sure you are not buying or eating plastic rice that is dangerous to our health     

With the Federal Government’s announcement of imminent famine next year coupled with Nigeria’s craze for imported goods, experts have raised the alarm of possible flooding of the Nigerian market with harmful ‘plastic rice.”

Since 2011, the world was alerted to the industrial manufacture of rice by Chinese firms.

In a report by the Korean Times on the growing menace, the newspaper said; “China famous for having all, making all, has now been reported to have made rice out of plastic and has distributed it.

“The Korean-language Weekly Hong Kong in Hong Kong quoted Singapore media that “Fake rice made out of plastic is massively sold on the Chinese market.”

“According to the report, some distributors are selling fake rice in Taiyuan, Shaanxi Province, and this rice is a mixture of potatoes, sweet potatoes and plastic.

“This ‘plastic rice’ is made by forming potatoes and sweet potatoes into rice-like shape, then adding industrial synthetic resins,” said a food expert. “Since the rice is different from normal rice, it is hard like stone even when cooked.

Moreover, the synthetic resin in it is very harmful to the human body.”

One Chinese restaurant association official warns that eating three bowls of ‘plastic rice’ is the same as eating one vinyl bag. He added that since the rice is very dangerous there would be strict investigation on the rice factory.

But Nigerians can determine if the rice they have is genuine or not by following any of the simple tests:

The water test
Pour a tablespoon of raw rice into a glass filled with cold water and mix vigorously. If the rice falls to the bottom of the glass, everything is fine, if on the contrary it floats on the surface, be vigilant, because it surely contains plastic!

The fire test
Using a lighter and a match, burn a handful of rice. If it catches fire and smells of burnt plastic, you know what to do! Do not eat it!

The mortar and pestle test
When molding a few grains of rice with a mortar and pestle, the powder should be quite white. For artificial rice, you will notice a yellow discoloration instead.

The mold test
If you want to be sure that you do not risk anything with your cooked rice, put a small amount into a tupperware and leave it in a warm place. In a few days, mold will have to appear, otherwise it is that your rice is artificial.

This is how to get it right: is the rice you buy natural or artificial? Show these diff tips to all your friends so they do not take the risk of eating plastic.



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