Ojudu as a Scaremonger (1) - By- Musa Omolere

Ojudu as a Scaremonger (1) - By- Musa Omolere

_In yo ooo!_ With the way my Omiye, Senator Babafemi Ojudu goes about carrying placard against his party, his state, his local government, his ward and his governor these days, one could mistake him for a Special Adviser in charge of Activism or Nuisance Making. No one should blame him though: Ojudu's job as Special Adviser on Political Matters in the Presidency is not defined at all. He does not report to the President, he is never invited for any political meeting, his advice is never sought and he is never asked to represent the President or any top Partyman at any function. Being an idle hand, therefore, the devil must find job for him. So when next you find Ojudu criticising Gov. Fayemi or anyone within his party, simply ask him what he has been able to do better as a party man either for the state or at the national level, be it during his 4 years as a Senator or in his 5 years as a Special Adviser to the President on Political Matters. In Ado where Ojudu claims to have come from, he has become a laughing stock for his meanness, mindlessness and stinginess. The Ureje River, for which he collected N2.5bn to dam as his constituency project, has since been abandoned, and it remains an eyesore. This is one reason Ojudu cannot enter Ado Ekiti in the daylight. Soon, our _Omiye_ will float another _Sakamnaje_ group, give it a name linked to a past national or international struggle and start swindling unsuspecting people in the name of _aluta_ with it.  No doubt, my brother, Ojudu is now a poster boy for scam and scaremongering.

_From Musa Omolere, a concerned Ado indigene from Ward 8._

Provisional Date Set For UEFA Champions League Restart

The 2019/20 UEFA Champions League campaign will resume in August, it was announced by UEFA in a statement yesterday.

The remaining round of 16 matches will now be played on 7 or 8 August, pending a decision on whether they will take place at the home team’s stadium or in Portugal.

UEFA also announced plans to complete the remainder of the competition as a final eight straight knockout tournament over an 11-day period in Lisbon from 12 to 23 August.

The UEFA executive committee confirmed the 2020/21 Champions League group campaign would begin on 20 October and new dates were also set for the postponed Euro 2020 finals, which will now take place next summer.

Ekiti APC asks Fayose to account for N10 billion airport project allocation

The All Progressives Congress, (APC) in Ekiti State has advised the opposition People’s Democratic Party, (PDP) to face its internal wrangling and woes rather than insulting the good people of the state with its incongruously written comments.

The APC, in a statement in Ado Ekiti on Tuesday, noted that the opposition PDP or any of its distraught members has no moral right to comment on the ongoing cargo airport project currently being executed by the APC controlled administration.

The statement, signed by the Director of Media and Publicity of APC, Elder Sam Oluwalana explained that the criticism from the opposition PDP is only reminding the people of the state of the chains of dirty deals and sufferings unleashed on them by the immediate past administration of Mr. Ayo Fayose.

“This is an administration that earmarked over N10 billion for the cargo airport and nothing to show for this taxpayers money.

“At the inception of the present administration of Dr. Kayode Fayemi, nothing concrete or visible was found at the project site despite the huge amount of money earmarked for it and approved by the house of assembly,” he added.

According to him, now that the project has been revisited and work has commenced in earnest at the site, the opposition party started raising baseless and unfounded allegations.

“If members of the PDP are not suffering from symptoms of senility or dementia praecox, it is better for them to concentrate on resolving the internal bickering currently bedevilling the party.

"I am aware that PDP members resort to blackmail in their desperate attempt to redeem their battered and diminished fortune, but the good people of Ekiti State know and understand better.

“From the huge amount of money budgeted for the airport project, Fayose found it difficult to pay coempensation to landowners whose properties were acquired for the project.” Elder Oluwalana declared. (Daily Post)

Nigeria records 587 new coronavirus cases, total now 17,735

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has announced 587 new cases of COVID-19, bringing the total number of confirmed cases in the country to 17,735.

The health agency in a tweet Wednesday night said the new cases were reported in 18 states.

According to the NCDC, the 587 new cases are reported from 18 states: Lagos – 155, Edo – 75, FCT – 67, Rivers – 65, Oyo – 56, Delta – 50, Bayelsa – 25, Plateau – 18, Kaduna – 18, Enugu – 17, Borno – 12, Ogun – 12, Ondo – 7, Kwara – 4, Kano – 2, Gombe – 2, Sokoto – 1 and Kebbi 1

“Till date, 17735 cases have been confirmed, 5967 cases have been discharged and 469 deaths have been recorded in 35 states and the Federal Capital Territory,” the agency said.

Excitement As Two Children burnt with charcoal Iron by their father discharge from hospital

Excitement As Two Children burnt with charcoal Iron by their father discharge from hospital.

••As Erelu Bisi Fayemi clears bills

 

I presumes we all still remember the story of one Mr. Babatunde that burnt his two children with hot charcoal iron on the 16th of March 2020. In this particularly incidence, the children were severely burnt by their father, because they disobeyed him by going to their mother's house to eat lunch when he wasn't at home. 

Since then, the children identified as Akin and Tope aged 8 and 7 respectively have been receiving treatments at the Federal Medical Centre, Ido Ekiti. The two boy was said to have undergone series of operations which was all successful.

It is however a cheering news that the two children have been formerly discharged from FMC on 16th June, 2020 hailed and hearty, and all hospital bills paid by Her Excellency Erelu Bisi Adeleye Fayemi.

Their father who was duly arrested then, is still  facing his charges for maltreating the children.

• Ekiti frown at child Maltreatment, Child Labour and all sorts of #ZGBV

Ekiti churches, mosques remain shut – Govt

Ekiti churches, mosques remain shut – Govt

The ban on worship centres and social functions in Ekiti remain, the State Government declared on Wednesday.

Commissioner for Health, Dr. Mojisola Yaya-Kolade, who disclosed this while briefing newsmen.

She insisted that churches and mosques across the state remain shut to prevent escalation of the COVID- 19 cases.

 

Yaya-Kolade said it would commence the general testing of residents of the state at its molecular laboratory to boost the state’s testing capacity, adding that Ekiti still have six patients after four were discharged from the isolation centre recently, having tested negative twice.

Yaya-Kolade said : “We have met with the religious leaders and what we said was that churches and mosques remain closed. We have met and deliberated and the decision to reopen will be made as we see that we have enough scientific evidence which show that it is safe to reopen.

“We don’t want to open and later say we want to close our worship centres. A lot of things happen in churches like handshaking, embracing, clustering and taking of holy Communion together, all these must be resolved before we can say we want to open our churches” .

The Commissioner said all the patients at the isolation centre are stable, adding that those on oxygen supplimentation had been taken off and can now breathe on their own.

“Two of the six still being isolated have turned negative. We are awaiting the second negative for them to be discharged.

 

“We will begin pilot testing tomorrow (Thursday) at the molecular laboratory that we established. Everything is set for the commencement of the large scale testing .

“We are happy that there is no community spread in Ekiti, there is even decline and we have to keep this tempo going”, she said.

The coordinator of COVID- 19 Task Force in Ekiti, Prof Bolaji Aluko, stated that the security situation is still intact with no major breaches at the borders.

“The guidelines for the bringing of corpses to Ekiti still remain the same. Whoever wants to do any burial must get a death certificate to obtain clearance at the ministry of Health.

“The use of masks is still very imperative at this point, because it will help in curtailing the spread while the government is receiving palliatives from major partners and distributing to the residents to cushion the effect of the relaxed lockdown on them,” he said.