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Punch Newspapers Sections Tunde Oyekola, Ilorin Youths from the Kwara State Chapter of the All Progressives Congress on Friday urged stakeholders to support the state governor, Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq, to succeed. The spokesman of the youth, Abdulmumin Lade-Yunusa, made the call in an interview with journalists in Ilorin. He said since the governor is the leader of the party in the state, all members should join him in his quest to make the state great again. He added that the youth are in support of the removal of the chairman of the party’s caretaker committee in the state, Bashir Bolarinw...

Share Biola Azeez takes a cursory look at the impact and effect of the ratio nine for women to seven for men in membership of the cabinet of Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq of Kwara State that was dissolved recently. In his resolve to compensate women in Kwara State over their alleged lack of representation at the last general election in the state in which all the elective positions went to men, Governor Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq in December 2020, surprised many when he appointed nine women as commissioners in his 17-member cabinet. The governor said that by the singular action, the state made ...

By Yinusa Ishola Ado-Ekiti, Jan 5, 2021 Ekiti state government, on Tuesday, said that its payment of N7.3bn Universal Basic Education (UBEC) counterpart fund was part of its intervention to reposition the education sector. Prof. Femi Akinwumi, Chairman, Ekiti State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB), disclosed this while briefing newsmen on the commission’s activities geared towards uplifting basic education in the State. According to him, the N7.3bn payment was for the execution of projects in public primary and secondary schools in the last two years, approved by gov. Kayode Fayemi t...

Last Monday, the book, Olusegun Obasanjo: The Man, The General, The President written by Otunba Femmy Carrena was publicly unveiled to a select associates and strategic ‘partners’ of the former president. Around to spice the occasion was Emeritus Professor Michael Abiola Omolewa with his inspiring and stimulating presentation on why Obasanjo remains relevant on the country’s socio-political turf despite the perceived failings when he held fort as president from 1999-2007. We should ask ourselves if Chief Obasanjo was a leader. Did he have followers? It seems obvious that a General woul...

2020 witnessed an unprecedented closure of most sectors of the economy; education being the worst hit with the prolonged strike by academic staff union of public universities and delayed reopening of schools after the lockdown. In this report, Uchechukwu Nnaike and Funmi Ogundare recount activities that shaped the outgoing year 2020 can best be described as a year of uncertainty and struggle in the education sector. While the devastating effect of the COVID-19 pandemic was not envisaged, the indefinite strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) was inevitable, following series ...