Ogun State Government has released N1.5 billion for the payment of gratuities to pensioners and severance package of former political office holders. The money will be paid to 561 ex-civil servants and former political office holders who had served the State in different capacities. In a statement signed by Alhaji Yusuph Olaniyonu, Commissioner for Information and Strategy, the gratuities will cover the civil servants who retired between May 2011 and November 2012 who have filed their papers with the State Bureau of Pensions while ex- political office holders who served between 2007 and 2011 but were not paid their severance…
Author: Ogun News
The Ogun State Civil Service Commission has announced dates for the final phase of the interview for successful candidates who sat for the Administrative Staff College in Nigeria (ASCON) examination. In a Statement today in Abeokuta, Chairman of the Commission, Chief Mrs. Aderonke Folarin indicated that the interview will hold between Tuesday 1st April 2014 and Friday 11th April 2014. Venue is the Commission’s office, Block A at the State Secretariat, Oke Mosan, Abeokuta beginning at 8 a.m. each day According to the statement, applicants in the Administrative Officers Cadre will be interviewed on the 1st and…
The flyover bridge and road construction embarked upon by the Ogun State Government in Sabo, Sagamu Local Government Area of the State will be completed by May 2014. This was disclosed by the Project Manager, Personal Works Nigeria Ltd,[PW], Engineer Kazeem Olabode while speaking with journalists at site affirming that it was PW that was handling the construction of the road and the flyover bridge. According to Engineer Olabode, “construction works s on the flyover and the road has reached 70% completion meaning that the project will be ready by May 2014. The flyover bridge which is already in…
Ogun State Governor, Senator Ibikunle Amosun has given out Certificates of Occupancy (C of O) and other title documents to the first set of beneficiaries under the Homeowner’s Charter, an initiative of the state government introduced last December to enable homeowners regularise their legal status at a discounted rate. The governor, while presenting the documents to ten beneficiaries at the Conference room of the Governor’s Office, Oke-Mosan, Abeokuta, expressed satisfaction with the interest so far shown by indigenes in the scheme and charged those who are yet to take advantage of the program to do so. Amosun explained…
Farmers planting cocoa in the Ogun State government-owned forest reserves and the State Ministry of Forestry have entered into a new agreement on how to regenerate the reserves. Under the agreement, the Ministry would supply free tree seedlings to the farmers who in turn will plant them in the farms. The farmers are also to stop payment of regeneration fees forthwith. All these were made known today in Abeokuta by the State Commissioner for Forestry, Adebayo Fari while addressing newsmen on the outcome of a meeting between officials of the ministry, those of the Ministry of Agriculture and…
The Ogun State Governor, Senator Ibikunle Amosun will tomorrow Wednesday, 26th March 2014 present Certificate of Occupancy and other title documents to the first batch of applicants in the on-going Home-Owners’ Charter programme. A statement by the State Commissioner for Information & Strategy, Alhaji Yusuph Olaniyonu indicated that the event will take place at the Governor’s office conference room beginning from 12 noon. “This event is in fulfillment of the promise by His Excellency in December 2013, when the programme was launched as part of his Mission to Rebuild” the statement noted. The Homeowners’ Charter programme, an…
National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and former Lagos State Governor, Senator Bola Tinubu has described the various on-going developmental projects in Ogun State as multi-pronged, noting that the Ibikunle Amosun administration is focused. Tinubu made this submission in Abeokuta after visiting some project which included roads, flyovers and modern shopping malls across the state. He also described the Amosun-led government as visionary and people-oriented and noted that it has impacted positively on the lives of the people in the state in no small measure. The APC leader said he was more delighted with the…
The Ogun State Government has ordered the management of the Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ago iwoye, to effect the immediate payment of the outstanding one month salary arrears owed lecturers of the institution. The State Governor, Senator Ibikunle Amosun who gave the directive also promised that all other outstanding arrears would be paid without delay. In a statement today in Abeokuta, Secretary to the State Government Barrister Taiwo Adeoluwa noted that the Senator Ibikunle Amosun-led administration inherited a backlog of arrears from the immediate past administration, adding however that it had prioritized payment of wages, cleared the backlog and…
The Ogun State Government will not hesitate to collaborate with relevant stakeholders, particularly those in the private sector as it moves to attract investors and improve industrial presence in the State, Commissioner for Commerce and industries, Otunba Bimbo Ashiru has declared. Otunba Ashiru made this declaration in Abeokuta while briefing newsmen shortly after a tripartite meeting held between the Ministry, Ogun State Property and Investment Corporation (OPIC) and Agbara Estate Limited on a Memorandum of Understanding on the provision of infrastructure. His words “the purpose of this meeting was to bring the industrialists closer to the State Government…
Ogun State Government is leaving no stone unturned in providing adequate health care delivery to the citizenry especially in the fight against malaria. Speaker of the State House of Assembly Rt. Hon. Suraj Ishola Adekunbi emphasized this when he hosted a Non-Governmental Organization, Health Reform Foundation that paid a courtesy visit to the Assembly complex. The Speaker disclosed that since inception, the current administration has devoted more attention to the fight against malaria and other health related issues, assuring that the legislature would not rest on its oars at supporting the executive towards providing better health delivery service…