Documents Showing Peter Obi Left N86bn For Willie Obiano

By Mazi Odera

 

"On the 8th of March, I called Nigerians from all walks of life and presented what I called my “End of Tenure Report”. I explained where I met Anambra State and where we are leaving her. I made it clear that we did not borrow a dime neither did we issue bond. I mentioned our investments and savings in banks. For example, I mentioned that we saved $156 Million Dollars through buying local and foreign denominated bonds.
The Managing Directors of the banks where these money are- Fidelity, Access and Diamond Banks- were present. It baffles me that some people would come up to cast doubts on people’s mind just to pull Peter Obi down. All I can say is that what we said we did, the money we said we left and all that were properly documented and certified. With the Freedom of Information Law, one can actually apply to those institutions to know if the money are there.
Let me take this opportunity to clear one misconception, I did not say I left all cash in the banks. I made it clear that some were by way of investment. For example, Anambra State invested money in some of the companies we attracted to the State.
It is important to let you know that we were able to save money in the State because we made a law that Anambra must save a minimum of N100 Million Naira monthly and I obeyed it religiously.
As a governor, I supported savings by the country. Look, no matter the situation, one must save even if a kobo every month for the rainy day. Unfortunately, when one says so, one is reminded by some people that it is already raining here. The irony is that the same people saying this have private savings? When one witnesses the mindset of some of us, one shudders. Many of us are only interested in the next post and not what the future holds for us as a country." --- Peter Obi, April 25, 2014

Ebola: Oshiomhole sensitises market women

By Gabriel - Posted on 26 August 2014

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Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State, yesterday, held a sensitisation meeting with market women in the state on precautionary measures to take to stop the spread of the dreaded Ebola Virus Disease in the state.
Speaking at the meeting with the market women in Benin City, yesterday, Oshiomhole said, “he meeting today is two parts: first, to tell you about the Ebola Disease that was brought from another country to Lagos. We thank God that the disease has not come to Edo State.
“The disease is difficult to manage and so I am advising you as leaders of market women to talk to your members to be wary of whom they shake or embrace because the disease causes serious sickness that can lead to death at short notice”.
He said, “Because of this, it is good that we should know what to do as people travel to different parts of the country. People walk about and we do not know those who are infected. That is why we must be prepared and plan so that if anybody sees any victim, he or she should know what to do.
The Governor said the second part of his sensitisation meeting is to let the market women know the value of the INEC Permanent Voters’ Cards. He said: “the INEC voters’ registration and collection of the Permanent Voters’ Card will soon commence in Edo State. So, I am advising all of you to set outside whatever you may be doing and go to your respective centres as may be designated by INEC officials and make sure you collect your cards because it is your power as the 2015 General Elections draws closer.
“As busy women, some of you may want to procrastinate your collection to a later date. It is risky because the exercise according to INEC will last for three days. So we want to ensure that within those three days, every market woman goes to the designated centres to collect their permanent voters’ card because without that, you cannot vote and if you have the temporary voters card, you will not be allowed to vote”.
He advised the market women leaders to educate their members on the need to swear to an affidavit to enable them get permanent voters card in case their temporal voter’s card has been misplaced.
He however cautioned the market women to jealously guide their Permanent Voters Card from political miscreants who may want to deceive them on the pretext that they are keeping it for them maintaining that the Permanent Voters Card is their power to vote.
Speaking on the effects of the Ebola Virus Disease, the State Commissioner for Health, Dr. Aihanuwa Eregie told the market women leaders that the Ebola Virus has been in existence since 1976.
She said, “the virus can be found in animals like monkey, bat, chimpanzee, etc and hunters who go to the bush to hunt for animals can get in contact with the virus.
She maintained that though the virus is not presently in Edo State, but the need for effective sensitization to alert our people in the state especially the market women who travel from one part of the state to another become necessary.
She highlighted some of the symptoms to include; headache, weakness of the body, waist pain, diarrhoea, vomiting, internal and external bleeding especially bleeding from the gum and advised people to regularly wash their hands as well as ensure general cleanliness of their environments.
Responding on behalf of the representatives of the Market Women from Edo South, the leader of the delegation, Mrs. Blacky Omoregie thanked the Comrade Governor for the sensitization meeting stressing that the market women will respond to the call for personal hygiene and caution.
According to her, “we thank you our Comrade Governor on this very important meeting and I want to assure you that our market women will be enlightened on the need to observe precautionary measures so as to prevent the outbreak of the Ebola Virus Disease in the state as well as ensure that they all collect their permanent voters cards when the time comes.”
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Oshiomhole’s Time Is Passing Away......................

Edo 2015 – Oshiomhole’s Time Is Passing Away – - Ugbomhe

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By GABRIEL ENOGHOLASE
Pascal Ugbomhe is Director of Organization/Operations of the Edo State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. He was a two-time member of the State House of Assembly, and before then, a local government council chairman and former vice-chairman of the party in the state. Ugbomhe is now in the race for the Edo North Senatorial ticket of his party and in this interview he speaks on reinventing the party in the state and how it is poised to challenge the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC. Excerpts:
You have been in political hibernation since 2007 after serving as a member of the Edo State House of Assembly and a local government chairman. Why your interests in the Senate come 2015?
I was not on political hibernation since 2007 as you said; I have been involved in other areas of the polity. Although I have not held elective positions as it were, I have been involved in the management of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Edo State. You will recall that after I left office as council chairman, I became the State Vice-Chairman of the PDP in the state and with the advent of the Chief Dan Orbih led leadership of the party, I was appointed the Director of Organization/Operations of the party so that I can bring my experience and technical knowledge to assist the leadership in the running of the party. To the glory of God, today, the PDP in Edo state has become a beautiful brand, it has become the most attractive brand; it has become a viable vehicle through which people are now aspiring to occupy one political position or the other. That is what I have been doing. It is not political hibernation as you said.
What are your chances of winning your party’s nomination?
I believe that my chances are as bright as others that are contesting with me, if not even brighter because I am not alien to the party. I have been involved in the building and sustenance of the party’s platform more than every other person who now wants to use it to sustain their political interests. The people know me, the party knows and had tried me, tested me both in elective responsibility and in the management of the party. With all sense of humility, I have been proven to be credible, loyal, dependable, disciplined and one with principles. These are some of the qualities which I believe that at the end of the day, perhaps; make the party to see me at this point in time as a square peg in a square hole.
There is this belief that the conduct of the PDP primaries to elect candidates into elective political positions may make or mar the fortunes of the party in the forth coming general elections. What is your take on this?
Well, for those who may be expecting this, they don’t have better democratic credentials than those of us in the PDP. I believe that the PDP will learn from the mistakes of the past, I believe that we have evolved; I am a democrat and those running the party are democrats and if not for democracy, perhaps; we would all have been in the APC if we were to be playing politics just for the stomach case. I and those managing the affairs of the party in the state are not enemies to Governor Adams Oshiomhole or to the people in the APC. I am not sure that given what we have gone though in the past seven years or so that we would be in hurry to allow the party to crumble.
What are the chances of the PDP wining elections in Edo North Senatorial zone considering the fact Governor Adams Oshiomhole hails from there?
You know many things come to play in an election; I don’t even see it that way. We are not strangers to our people in Edo North. The governor has had his time and his time is gradually fading away, coming to an end, so, it is going to be a new dawn for Edo North; Afemai does not revolve round Governor Oshiomhole and will not end with him. So, to me, I think it will be wrong to say that elections in Edo North would be between Oshiomhole and the PDP .No. We all have own pedigrees and history in Afemai land and when it comes to the general election, it will be on issues.
As a former member of the Edo State House of Assembly, what is your take on the crisis rocking the Assembly?
My brother, I weep for Edo State, I weep for the State legislature.
I need to advise my colleagues who are there now that history is looking at them.
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OSHOIOMHOLE AND EDUCATION IN EDO STATE..............

Published Since May 29, 1968									Wednesday 27. Aug 2014
Educational Transformation In Edo State
THAT there is all round decay in our educational sector in Nigeria is no news. What may be news is the level the decadence has taken on the quality of graduates we produce in our primary to university education. We now produce university graduates who cannot fill NYSC form. We now produce university graduates who can’t take or read ordinary minutes of simple meetings. A university graduate was appointed as a secretary of a political ward. Members were shocked when he could not read the minutes of their previous meeting in which he acted as a secretary. It was clear to the members that someone developed the minutes for him. At the end a primary 6 holder read the minutes and was made the secretary. I have seen a university graduate who could not write the names of his kingsmen. It is that bad. Yet many stake holders especially teachers appears to be comfortable with it. Teachers that prepared these bunch of block heads and certified them graduates ought to bury their heads in shame, but the reverse is the case. It all boil down to corruption which to me is the first and last problem of our dear country Nigeria. Most teachers are corrupt, they collect money from students in exchange for marks in internal exams and aid them in cheating in external exams. For this reason they don’t teach. If teachers who are the custodians of educational values could aid and mastermind the acquisition of paper qualification instead of intellectual qualification where is our future? In Edo State one can better describe the educational sector as pre-Oshiomhole and Oshiomhole era. The pre-Oshiomhole era was the dark days where everything negative was the order of the day. The Oshiomhole era is what one can call the transformation era which like any other transformational changes are always unpalatable and resisted. In the pre-Oshiomhole era the level of commitment to education on the part of government and teachers was very low. Nearly all the primary and secondary schools were in a state of total dilapidation. Children were learning under trees and sitting on the floor. Teachers were poorly motivated, educational/instruction materials were not provided, teachers were grossly inadequate, the few employment done were based on political patronage where party leaders were given slots, it was strictly who you know or cash and carry. Promotion and portfolio was not based on competence or seniority which are the universally known criteria. It was based on where you ‘fellowship’ or who your political father is. Many schools were broken down to several schools still in one compound just to create room for political loyalists to be principals/school heads. Level 13 teachers were heading teachers on level 14 above. Every action of government concerning education was purely political. Any teacher perceived to be in the opposition party was either demoted, denied promotion, suspended unjustly or transferred to a remote village school. Government shot itself on the foot by neglecting and politicizing education. Teachers on their part have to respond to governments act of irresponsibility. They have to survive in the face of very poor and irregular salary. They took teaching as a secondary job, any job that could put food on their table became their first job. To get money they have to sell anything sellable and that included examination marks. Edo State became a national exam centre. Students from other states were coming to Edo State in large numbers to enroll because the cheating rate was second to non in the country. Students naturally did not see the need to study since they can pay and get all the credits they needed. Teachers were happy making money while parents and students were happy buying result. Teachers were not ready to teach, students were not ready to learn and government was not ready to spend money on education. They were all comfortable, government was diverting the money for education into private pockets. Teachers were making money and students were getting paper qualification. There was a diabolic conspiracy to ruin the educational sector in Edo State. Government, teachers, parents and students were comfortable with the rot because of their individual immediate gains. In the Oshiomhole era we have seen a lot •of commitment on the part of government. Teachers welfare has improved, schools are being renovated, learning materials are provided, exam malpractices has reduced drastically, war against corruption/indiscipline is at top gear. But what is the response of the teachers? As the saying goes; bad habit is easy to learn but difficult to leave. Those benefiting from a rotten system will always resist change. Despite the fight some teachers are still adamant, they have refused to let go of their bad habits, they are opposing every reformatory move by the government. As at today, many still go to school late, some still stay away from school, they still collect money to aid cheating in external exams, some still go to school and stay away from class. Their only interest is salary and extortion from students. Edo State is now forward ever and backward never. Government is matching forward, teachers should get along. Red roof and white board is nothing without dedicated and competent teachers. Any one that says there are no non-dedicated and incompetent teachers in our schools is being economical with the truth. Qualification is different from dedication and competence, have we ever imagined the damages these non-committed and incompetent teachers are doing to our collective future? Certificate only show qualification, it does not show competence and dedication, only performers show these. I appreciate the Comrade governor for living up to his constitutional responsibility toward education. He has done much and is still doing much. There are some he can’t do before his tenure expires but there are some he can do that he has not done. Yes salary is regular and yes the issue of increment has been settle; Retired teachers should be taken care of so that the ones in service will be happy to retire. More teachers should be employed and promotion should be as at when due. If these are done coupled with the regular salary, teachers will not have any genuine reason not to perform.

WHO SUCCEDS OSHOIOMHOLE IN EDO STATE..............

Edo 2016: Oshiomhole has not picked successor —Aide •We’ll not allow Oshiomhole to choose successor —PDP

19.May.2014 Banji Aluko– Benin City.

 

AN aide to Governor Adams Oshiomhole of  Edo State, Mr John Akhigbe,  said on Sunday that  the governor had not picked a successor to take over from him in  2016.
Akhigbe, a  Senior Special Assistant to the Governor on Protocol, said this in an interview with the News Agency of  Nigeria (NAN)  in Benin.
He said this while reacting to speculations  that the crisis rocking the party was as a result of the governor’s overbearing  influence in the running of the state chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC)
But  Akhigbe said  the governor was a democrat who believes that the choice of the next governor should be made by the people.
“The governor has consistently maintained that it will not do the state or anybody any  good to be discussing what is over two years away.
“So, the governor has not anointed anybody because he has not said anything and I don’t think the governor I know will anoint anybody.
“He has told us that the leaders of the party will decide and the leaders have not yet decided.
 “He has also said it is not time for 2016 and  that people should reason with us that governance is more important to Edo people than the person who will be governor in 2016,” he said.
``We have all agreed that the idea of succession should be laid to rest for now,” he stated.
On the alleged over bearing influence of the governor, Akhigbe  said:  “ How can he be influencing the running of the party?”
``They have also blamed him for being responsible for the misunderstanding in the party because he (Oshiomhole) wants  to build his political structure.
 ``In fact, the governor does not believe that you must build a structure to be able to get a position politically.
``He believes the structure that you should build is  building yourself in the heart of the masses.
``The governor cannot be influencing anything in the party because he is not the one running the party but he is a leader in the party.
Meanwhile, Edo State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has stated that it will thwart efforts by the state governor, Adams Oshiomhole, at choosing the next governor of the state.
Edo State chairman of the party, Chief Dan Orbih, who stated this while speaking at the weekend in Benin at a rally organised to welcome defectors from the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ikpoba Okha Local Government Area to the PDP, said that the people had since realised that the government could not be trusted to deliver on its electoral promises, hence they would resist plans by the governor to decide who would govern the state.
“They have realized that he is the exact opposite of what he claims to be. Edo people will not make the same mistake again. As he is going, his party, the APC, and the hardship they have brought upon Edo people will go with them.
Never again shall we allow stranger to rule us. He came from Kaduna and Edo people have realized the error they made in putting their faith in a stranger. More than five years after his government, he has not fulfilled his electoral promises,” Orbih said.
He pointed out that it was sad that the government was finding it difficult to power the generator at the Benin Central Hospital while the governor embarks on a wild goose chase of looking for foreign investors that costs over N40 million per trip and more than N4.5 billion in total.
Also speaking at the rally, the PDP chairman in Ikpoba Okha Local Government, Hon Scot Osagiede expressed joy that leaders of the PDP in all the wards of the council have seen reasoned to return home, pointing out that with their entrant to the PDP, the end has come for the APC the council.
Among those that defected from the APC along with their followers from the ten wards of the local government are Chief Dan Osabuohien, Nelson Edosomwan, Elder Sunday Osawe, Mrs. Rose Okungbowa and Elder Mike Ojo.

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MACTSTACOPRIME, Edo govt partner for trade fair

                                   MACTSTACOPRIME, Edo govt partner for trade fair

 

 

14.Aug.2014  Banji Aluko

 

MACTSTACOPRIME has partnered with the Benin Chamber of Commerce Industry Mines and Agriculture (BENCCIMA) and the Edo State government on a one week trade fair in Benin City.
Secretary to Edo State Government (SSG), Professor Julius Ihonvbere, who represented Governor Adams Oshiomhole at the fair, said his administration was planning to privatize or resuscitate ailing industries across the state, just as he said his administration has partnered with the Bank of Industry (BoI) to create N500 million soft facility for small and medium scale enterprises.
With the theme “Great People, Bountiful Resources, and Boundless Opportunities,” the governor said his administration has simplified land acquisition challenges, which he said has been a challenge for investors nationwide.
He noted that the process of land documentation in Edo State could now be done in 48 hours while Certificate of Occupancy (C of O) could now be received within 30 days.
He also disclosed that the state government has concluded plans for the construction of industrial, furniture and specialized market for industrial goods.
The governor added that the state government would periodically adjust its policy frame work in order to meet global standard.
Earlier in his address, President of BENCCIMA, Andy Edobor, commended the state government for supporting the event but appealed for the completion of the permanent site for the BENCCIMA.
He said the event could not hold at the chamber’s permanent site in the state capital because “there are no basic infrastructural facilities at the complex, adding that “adjoining roads to the trade fair ground have become dilapidated and unmotorable”
He called on the government to held build the complex with expected facilities.
Chairman of the Trade Fair Steering Committee, Austin Atakpu, called on manufacturers, entrepreneurs and Small, Medium Enterprises (SMEs) operators across the country to invest in the state because of enabling environment provided by the government.

LASSA FEVER ................

Lassa fever: Edo govt warns residents

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THE Edo State government has warned residents of the state to adhere strictly to measures that will prevent the outbreak of Lassa fever, a deadly desease caused by rats.
The Director of Disease Control, Ministry of Health,  Dr Osamwonyi Irowa, gave the warning in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Benin.
Irowa advised the people to avoid getting into contact with rats, endeavour to keep food items in covered containers, keep their environment clean and avoid bush burning.
The director reminded the people that Edo is one of the states that have cases of Lassa fever.
“The disease is endemic in Edo Central and some parts of Edo North Senatorial Districts,’’ he said.
“One case of Lassa fever in any territory is an outbreak, we have had two cases in the state this year and  effort is being made to reduce the incident of the disease.’’
He called on the people to go for early treatment once they felt the disease had been contracted, noting that it is fatal.
“Anybody who has symptoms such as fever, sore throat, diarrhea and pink eye, among others, should get screened immediately, for confirmation and treatment,” he said.
According to him, treatment is free for those exposed to the virus in the state and other parts of the country.
He described as false, the belief in some quarters that indigenes of the endemic areas in the state were not affected by the disease.
“Lassa fever is not a spiritual thing; indigenes also die when they come in contact with the disease.
“It is just that  most times, they don’t access treatment and when they die, they say the cause of the death is spiritual,’’ Irowa said.
He, however, said that some people had immunity and may not come down with the disease,   adding that researches were on to provide a vaccine for it.

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EDO STATE IS CONFUSED

Illegal levies collection: Govt vows to deal with violators

By Evelyn - Posted on 27 February

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Edo State Government has threatened to deal decisively with anyone who flouts its earlier ban on the collection of illegal levies and rates from road transport workers in the state.
This was made known yesterday by the Chief of Staff to the Edo State Governor, Hon Patrick Obahiagbon when crowd of commercial bus drivers from Ekiosa and Ring Road motor parks in Benin City led a protest to Government House to intimate the Governor, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole on the outright disregard of its ban on the illegal levies and rates.
Throwing more light on the statement earlier made on the issue by the Secretary to the state Government, Prof Julius lhonvbere, Hon. Patrick Obahiagbon stressed that Akugbe Ventures remains the only body authorized to collect personal income tax from road transport workers on behalf of the state government, adding that levies and rates earlier collected from road transport workers by Road Transport Employers Association of Nigeria, National Union of Road Transport Workers and others remain banned.
The chief of Staff said that anyone who flouts government directive is aiming to test the capacity of the state government to enforce its rules and decisions and as such the culprits would face the wrath of the law.
Condemning the defaulters, Obahiagbon said thus; ‘They are testing the resolve and capacity of the Edo State Government to enforce its rules and decisions. Don’t take laws into your hands because the government can implement its rules and decisions.”
Earlier, the spokesman of the protesters, Mr. Victor Edusa said they were beaten up yesterday morning when they refused to pay the levies and rates banned by the government.
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Oyerinde’s Murder: Oshiomhole storms Reps today

By Evelyn - Posted on 27 February 2013

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Edo State Governor, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole will today, meet members of the Federal House of Representatives Committee on Public Petition over public outcry on the alleged complicity and improper investigation of the murder of Comrade Oyerinde Olaitan by the Nigeria Police.
Governor Oshiomhole in collaboration with civil society organisations in Edo State will be attending a public hearing of the House of Representatives in furtherance to the February l3, 2Ol3 first meeting of the Committee on Public Petition against the Nigeria police on alleged improper investigation and complicity made by Edo State Civil Society organisations on the death of Comrade Oyerinde Olaitan.
Human rights fighter, and Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Femi Falana is expected to stand for the Edo State Civil Society, while Comrade Peter Esele will lead the TUC to the public hearing.
Meanwhile, the unfounded charges and framing up of Comrade David Ugolor, on the cruel assassination of the Private Secretary to the Edo State Governor, Comrade Olaitan Oyerinde was unanimously condemned by the National Executive Council (NEC) of the Trade Union Congress of Nigeria (TUC) during its NEC meeting held in Benin City on Thursday last week.
In a communique signed and issued by the President General and Secretary General, Comrade Peter Esele and (Barr.) Musa Lawal respectively TUC called for justice on the dastardly assassination of Comrade Olaitan Oyerinde.
The NEC-in session, while praising the endurance of Comrade David Ugolor, called on the National Assembly to ensure justice as demanded by the acquitted freedom fighter, particularly in relation to the role played by the police authorities.
Comrade Peter Esele and Barr. Musa Lawal in the NEC Session maintained that the TUC also throws its weight behind the position of the Edo State Governor in calling for justice especially on the unedifying role played by the police on this matter. Besides, the NEC in session in its resolution at the end of the meeting joined well- meaning Nigerians in condemning the misappropriation of N4bn for the proposed First Lady’s Mission Home.
While lending its voice to Prof. Wole Soyinka’s view that the project is a mind-boggling fiscal misappropriation, the NEC in session maintained that such project is another drain pipe on the nation’s economy.
The executive body of the union therefore called on the Federal Government to stop forthwith the project, stressing that all monies proposed for the mission home should be applied to create jobs for the unemployed youths in Nigeria.

Edo assembly members criticise media.

 

Edo assembly members criticise media for addressing them as APC legislators

Uyi Igbe, Speaker Edo House

Members of Edo State House of Assembly elected on the platform of All Progressives Congress (APC) have criticsed the media, especially the electronic media, for referring to them as “APC legislators”.
The Chairman, House committee on Information, Kabiru Adjoto, expressed the opinion of the legislators in Benin on Wednesday during plenary of the group at the Old Assembly Complex.
“I want to correct an impression and the use of language in some media, especially the electronic media. The media should stop referring to us as APC lawmakers.
“We are not APC legislators but honourable members of the house elected on the APC platform by the people to represent them in Edo State House of Assembly.
He legislators led by the Speaker of the assembly, Uyi Igbe, are serving the state and not the party. “I am using this medium to inform the media and the public to address the legislators and Mr Speaker properly as honourable members of the house,” Adjoto said.

Also, the Majority leader, Philip Shaibu, said the lawmakers were holding their plenary in the Old Assembly Complex sharing a fence with the Government House.
“If we want to hold plenary in Government House, we would have used the executive chambers which is roomier.
Shaibu said he had watched with keen interest how the house was being addressed as APC lawmakers sitting in the Governor’s Office and described the development as misinformation.
He urged the media to use the right words where appropriate. NAN reports that the assembly has been in crisis since 9 June, following the suspension of four lawmakers, including the Deputy Speaker, Festus Ebea.
The minority PDP legislators hold their plenary in the assembly complex, while the majority APC legislators sit at the Old Assembly Complex.

President Jonathan Congratulates Governor Rauf Aregbesol

President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan has congratulated Governor Rauf Aregbesola of Osun State on his victory in Saturday’s governorship election in the state.
The president made this known in a statement signed by Reuben Abati Special Adviser to the President on Media & and Publicity.
The President commends the Independent National Electoral Commission and national security agencies for ensuring that the elections were free, fair, credible and peaceful in keeping with the avowed commitment of his Administration.
President Jonathan also applauds the people of Osun State who came out enmasse yesterday in all the local government areas of the state to peacefully and freely exercise their democratic right, trusting in his assurance that all necessary measures would be taken to ensure their safety and the sanctity of their votes.
The President believes that the free, fair and peaceful conduct of the elections have fully reaffirmed his administration’s determination to positively reform Nigeria’s electoral processes.
The outcome of the election has also given the lie to the false, unfair and uncharitable allegations that measures put in place by the federal government for the Ekiti and Osun State elections were partisan and designed to achieve a favourable outcome for his party.
As Governor Aregbesola prepares to begin a second term in office, President Jonathan looks forward to continuing to work with him and other state governors to further improve the living conditions of Nigerians in Osun and other states of the country.

Which way NIGERIA............................

PDP Rejects Osun Governorship Election Result

Meanwhile, the Osun State chapter of the People’s Democratic Party has rejected the election result declaring Governor Rauf Aregbesola as the winner of the governorship poll.
The PDP agent in the election and State Publicity Secretary, Mr. Bola Ajao, distanced the party from the result after the announcement of the outcome of the poll by the Returning Officer, Professor bamitale Omole, this morning, in Osogbo.
Mr. Ajao refused to sign the election results form given to agents at the INEC office.
The party spokesman faulted the process of the election, saying some of the figures published were unacceptable.
He said the party had earlier written a petition to INEC, complaining about the election process in some units.

Esama of Benin in Ancestral Home..............

Esama of Benin Leads Household to Ancestral Home

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Okada, Home Town of the Esama of Benin, Sir Chief Doctor Gabriel Osawaru Igbinedion, stood still as the lion of Okada and the Esama of Benin led his children, grand-children and great grand-children to visit their ancestral home.
Kingsley Uchegbu reports that the visit which was widely described as the triumphant entry afforded various groups in Okada the opportunity to accord the Esama and his entire household a heroic reception.

Oshiomhole inaugurates Land Use C’ttee, HMB

Oshiomhole inaugurates Land Use C’ttee, HMB, other Boards today

Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State will today, Monday August 4, 2014 inaugurate the Land Use Allocation Committee, Traditional Medicine Board, Board of Edo Arts Council and Hospital Management Board.
Venue is the Banquet Hall, Government House, Benin City, beginning at 1pm.
A statement by Peter Okhiria, Chief Press Secretary to the governor requests guests to be seated by 12.30pm

OSHIOMHOLE AND THE MEDICAL SECTOR.................

Oshiomhole advocates overhaul of medical sector

By Donatus - Posted on 05 August 2014

Governor Adams Oshiomhole says there is the need to overhaul the nation’s healthcare system to ensure it delivers effectively to the people.
The Governor who decried the incessant strikes by medical personnel in the country said “even blue collar workers don’t resort to strikes as frequently as our medical doctors do.”
Speaking at the inauguration of the Hospitals Management Board; Land Use and Allocation Committee; Traditional Medicine Board and Edo Arts Council, yesterday (Monday), Oshiomhole said “to get the best from the health sector, I am convinced that we need to completely overhaul the system. We need a healthcare system that operates on the best world practices. This means that it cannot be business as usual because the system has not been working.
“As at today, many of our doctors are putting in few hours into government work and the remaining hours on their personal work. It hurts me that people that the world is focusing on, especially in this period when people talk about Ebola Virus which has no cure yet are on strike.
Though in Edo State, it is not here and will not be here, all of us must pray that it does not get to our boundary.
“Nigeria must live beyond where the medical doctors walk out of their jobs and their patients are left dying. Even blue collar workers don’t resort to strikes as frequently as our medical doctors do. I do not think that we can continue in that way.
“We can play with everything, but we shouldn’t play with human lives. The most important resource of any government is the people, because without life if we construct roads, who will drive on them, if we build schools with fine roofs who is going to attend the schools?
“So the fundamental thing is life. However, because people can leave work for as long as they want with the slightest provocation if there is any, and then return to collect accumulated salaries with taxes collected from patients who are dying, then the problem will continue. I am a worker, I’ve been a Union leader, I have organized strikes but I understand the difference between essential services, life-saving sector vis-à-vis other sectors.
“So we need a robust debate on how to reposition the health sector and it will be your lot to ensure that those who receive money from government in the name of service put in commensurate work. A situation in which somebody who is supposed to be at the Central Hospital or at the Stella Obasanjo Hospital or at the Auchi General Hospital or other General Hospitals is diverting patients to private clinics will certainly be unacceptable.”
“As we speak, the construction work at the Central Hospital Complex is ongoing and I’m sure that the first part of the hospital which is called the Emergency/Management Control Centre will be ready within the next few months.
Once that hospital is completed, we will put in the latest state-of-the-art medical equipment and obviously we will have to seriously engage management on how to ensure that the investment translates to effective asset to every Edo man and woman that needs medical care.”
In their various responses the Chairmen thanked the Governor for the honor done them and promised to justify the confidence reposed in them.
They pledged to leave their boards better than they met it and pleadged their loyalty to government.
T
he Traditional Medicine Board has Prof. Thomas Omon-Oleabhile as Chairman; Hospital Management Board is headed by Dr. Ebegue Amadasun; Land Use Allocation Committee is headed by Mr. Simon Omofuma while Edo Arts Council Board is headed by Mr. Lawrence Oboh.

114 ROOM STUDENTS HOSTEL FOR TERTIARY INSTITUTIONS IN EDO STATE
The Edo State Ministry of Housing and Urban Development hereby invites for pre-qualification and consideration to tender from Category A contractors only for the construction of 114 (one Hundred and fourteen) room students’ hostel for selected tertiary institutions in Edo State.
SCOPE
The construction of a 114 room prototype multi floor students’ hostel to be sited at different locations in Edo State. Details of construction drawings and bill of quantities will be provided for Category A contractors who are successful in the pre-qualification exercise.
REQUIREMENTS
Competent and interested contractors with requisite experience, equipment, personnel and financial capability are required to submit the company profile which must include but not limited to the following documents:-
(I). Company profile with staff list and evidence including resumes, professional qualifications, registration with relevant professional bodies and experience.
(ii). Evidence of previous similar projects undertaken in the past 5years including scope, site of project, contract sum and evidence of successful completion of the projects. The Ministry hereby reserves the right to independently verify any claims in the submitted documents.
(iii). Evidence of possession of relevant plants and equipment; please state location of the plants and equipments for ease of physical independent verification.
(iv). Evidence of registration with Corporate Affairs Commission
(v). Evidence of Annual Returns to Corporate Affairs Commission
(vi). Tax Clearance Certificates of 2 directors of the company for the past 3 years (i.e. 2011, 2012, 2013).
(vii). Evidence of VAT registration and remittances.
(viii). Evidence of financial capability and banking support (bank references) and letter authorising the Ministry to verify same from the relevant bank.
(ix). Please state the full address of the company, branch offices, contact officer, GSM phone numbers, email and website (where applicable).
METHOD OF APPLICATION
Eligible companies are required to submit their pre-qualification documents in 1 hard copy and 1 soft copy on a compact disc or flash drive in a sealed envelope clearly marked ‘’The Construction of a 114 room students’ hostel for tertiary institutions in Edo State’’, and addressed to:-
MINISTRY OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT
OFFICE OF THE PERMANENT SECRETARY
1ST FLOOR, EDPA BUILDING
SAKPONBA ROAD
BENIN CITY
Deadline
All proposals must reach the above address not later than noon of August 22nd, 2014.
NOTE:-
This is not an invitation to tender; only successful pre-qualified contractors will be invited to tender for this project. All successfully prequalified contractors will be required to register with the Edo State Government. Already registered companies must show evidence of current registration.
SIGNED:
ARC. FRANCIS EVBUOMWAN, MNIA, FMP
Honourable Commissioner
Ministry of Housing and Urban Development

FLOOD WONDERS IN EDO STATE...........................

Flood kills 3 persons, renders many homeless in Edo  

Published on July 15, 2014 by  
No fewer than three persons were confirmed dead following a torrential rain on Sunday in Igarra, headquarters of Akoko Edo Local Council of Edo state.
NAN reports that houses and household items were submerged by heavy flooding caused by the rain.
An eyewitness, Akinola Onabiyi, told NAN on Monday at Igarra that the rain, which started about 5:00 p.m. lasted for about 8 hours had rendered hundreds of people homeless.
“The flood occasioned by the rain swept people off the road into a nearby bridge where the two persons died.
“Another victim, a middle aged man in Utua area of the community, was said to have visited a friend when the building collapsed on him. His body was also recovered from the debris this morning.”
The traditional ruler of Igarra, Adeche Saiki, confirmed the death of the persons, saying that the community was devastated by the flood.
Saiki called on relevant government agencies and good spirited individuals and organisations to assist the victims to restart their lives.
“We are shocked at the level of damage. Many houses have collapsed and some totally unhabitable as their structures have failed. We lost three persons; one of them an undergraduate who was coming home from school.
“We need urgent assistance of both the local and state governments because many people are homeless now.
“For the dead, some of them have been buried today; the families need the support to continue their lives.
“We are appealing passionately to both the local government, state government and the Federal Government through the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) to come to our aid,” he said.

HOPE FOR NIGERIA MY COUNTRY.

Improving Education

President Goodluck Jonathan has led the fight to ensure that all Nigerians have access to a first class education, regardless of their background.

Amongst other measures, President Jonathan has:

• Launched the Safe Schools Initiative to ensure that young people are not only safe in going to school, but that schools are an environment ripe for learning, growth and development free of fear.
• Established 14 new universities to improve access to higher education in the North and ensure that students in all states have access to a Federal University.
• Constructed special girls schools in 13 states of the Federation in order to improve the Girls’ Education Programme, including girls boarding schools in Adamawa, Yobe, Zamfara, Nasarawa, Ebonyi, Ekiti, Delta and Akwa Ibom.
• Introduced a Formal Early Childhood Education programme.
• Refurbished and equipped 51 Federal and State Polytechnics with modern laboratories to encourage participation in technical and vocational education and training.
• Refurbished 352 science and technical laboratories in the 104 Federal Unity Colleges, in addition to providing 62 ICT centres and 40 sets of mathematical kits.

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OSHIOMHOLE NOW IN LOVE SPECIFICALLY WITH PDP ELDERS....

PDP ELDERS NOW WARMING UP TO OSHIOMHOLE
WHAT IS THAT?

This may just be evidence of his ongoing behind-the-scene negotiations to return back to his former party PDP.
Is somebody still doubting the strange dream I had some few days ago?
My  God bless edo state, and show us the part to success.

Road Rehabilitation: Residents Commend Oshiomhole

  August 7, 2014

BENIN CITY- Residents of Ugbiyoko Community in Benin City have commended the Edo State governor, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole for a work well done in the community.
They made the commendation in their reaction when the news crew visited the community recently.
It would be recalled that before now, the road leading to Ugbiyoko Community was in bad state until the state government rehailitated it earlier this year.
In an interview, some residents of the community including Mr Osahon Ehimwenma appreciated the Governor for a work well done, especially for constructing the road which provided access to different parts of the community.
Another respondent, Mrs. Agnes Ehiagwina also commended the good governance of Governor Oshiomhole and therefore used the opportunity to pray for continuity in the governing process.
She also used the opportunity to call on his detractors to desist from it and give their Maximum support to bring transformation to Edo State.
  

Igbinedion Visits Oshiomhole Over Edo Asembly Crisis

Chief Gabriel Osawaru Igbinedion, a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party(PDP) and father of Chief Lucky Igbinedion, former Governor of Edo state on Thursday visited Governor Adams Oshiomhole at the Government House, in Benin; Leadership reported.

The closed door visit lasted for about 35-minutes. Unnamed sources who were present claimed that part of the issues discussed during the visit was the crisis in the Edo state House of Assembly.

However, after the meeting, Chief Igbinedion and Governor Oshiomhole refused to disclose what the meeting was about.

Chief Igbinedion simply said, "He is the governor of Edo State and I have come to see my governor". On his part, Governor Oshiomhole congratulated the PDP chieftain on his forthcoming birthday.

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