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Breaking: Lagos Assembly suspends 3 council bosses over alleged disregard for guiding rules
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By Olasunkanmi Akoni
Barely few months to the conduct of local government elections in Lagos, the State House of Assembly, on Tuesday suspended three local government council chairmen over alleged disregard for the guidelines governing their activities.
The House said it can no longer continue to watch while the council chairmen stubbornly flout the state’s local government guidelines.
The affected chairmen were named Ogidan Mukandasi Olaitan of the Lekki Local Council Development Agency, LCDA, Suleiman Jelili of Alimosho Local Government Area and Tajudeen Ajide of the Surulere local government area.
Views: Visits 9 By Olasunkanmi Akoni Barely few months to the conduct of local government elections in Lagos, the State House of Assembly, on Tuesday suspended three local government council chairmen over alleged disregard for the guidelines governing their activities. The House said it can no longer continue to watch while the council chairmen stubbornly flout the state’s local government guidelines. The affected chairmen were named Ogidan Mukandasi Olaitan of the Lekki Local Council Development Agency, LCDA, Suleiman Jelili of Alimosho Local Government Area and Tajudeen Ajide of the Surulere local government area. Members of the House of Assembly in a voice vote unanimously approved the suspension without any.
28 August 2016: King Mswati III attends the traditional Umhlanga Festival, also known as the Reed Dance, at Ludzidzini royal village in Lobamba, eSwatini. (Photograph by Ihsaan Haffejee/ Anadolu Agency/ Getty Images)
King Mswati III turns 53 today. Fresh from Sherbone School in Dorset, England, he ascended the throne at just 18, inheriting a system carefully built by his father, King Sobhuza II. Over the years, he has exercised control over the country, routinely quelling dissent and populating institutions with people agreeable to him and his policies across all three spheres of government.
Now, 35 years later, one institution – Parliament’s House of Assembly – is showing signs of independence, vigorously debating the government’s bills and notices to the point of rejecting some. But there is no official opposition in the house, owing to there being no political party representation. Instead, some members of Parliament (MPs) have formed a collective akin to one.
STATEMENT BY PREMIER AND MINISTER OF FINANCE
HONOURABLE ANDREW A. FAHIE
Good day and God’s Blessings to you my people of the Virgin Islands.
Together, through and with the Grace of God, we continue to move forward with a clear plan of action that involves balancing lives and livelihoods in this era shaped by the COVID-19 global pandemic.
I must say that for the most part, we all have been doing remarkably well, navigating and implementing the different phases of the Virgin Islands COVID-19 response plan.
We are now in Phase III in the border reopening process which started on 1st December, 2020 allowing international travel through the Terrance B. Lettsome International Airport and the carefully managed re-opening of the tourism industry.
Consultations On Sustainable Development Plan Moves Forward
The Government of the Virgin Islands is engaging stakeholders in a series of public consultations on a National Sustainable Development Plan (NSDP) for the British Virgin Islands.
Premier and Minister of Finance, Honourable Andrew A. Fahie officially launched the public consultations on March 12 in collaboration with the United Nations (UN) Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC).
Premier Fahie stated that the Government is establishing a National Sustainable Development Plan to ensure that it fulfills its commitment to citizens and to engage at the regional and international levels more effectively.
Premier Fahie said, “The alignment of national development priorities with the Sustainable Development Goals is an indication of our national ownership of the global agenda and will help to meet international monitoring and evaluation standards, as well as allow us to be accountable to the people of