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REPORTS OF OYO STATE CHAPTER OF THE NIGERIAN YOUTHS CONGRESS LEADERSHIP AND EXECUTIVES ENDORSEMENT CUM INAUGURAL MEETING HELD ON SATURDAY 30TH OF MAY 2020. AT WATERSHED GARDEN, IBADAN, OYO STATE. The meeting commenced at exactly 12:30pm on the instructions of our Adorable leader in person Of Com Akeem Ayo Babalola with the presence of sixteen personality in both the venue and social media respectively, embleming the youths interests across the State to which Hon ODUNOLA from ibarapa wasn't excluded and the activities goes thus: (1.) The Agenda of the meeting was read out in a more louder voice by the Chief Servant Of The State Chapter Of The Nigerian Youths Congress In Person Of Com. Abdulfatai Adeyemi LeGaCy. (2.) Opening Prayer Follows Immediately By *Com.Olaniyan SHAMSUDEEN* who happens to be the consensus Vice Chairman from Oyo Central . (3.) The Partakers Of The Progressive Meeting Individually Introduced Themselves For Proper Recognitions. (4.)A Commendable O...

RAMADAN GREETING!!! ASALAMU ALAIKUM WARAMATULILLAH WA BARAKATUHU!!! The Chairman of the Nigerian Youths Congress in Oyo state (Hon Abdulfatai A OLAGBENRO) popularly known as LeGaCy has sent an appeal to the state government and the Religious Leaders across the State. As the special month of every year that comes just once in a year has come and trying to leave again, Am talking about the Holy month ALLAH personally crowed to be the king of every other months. Remember this is the only Month that comes and cleanse out of us our sins and wrongdoing. It's Godly to remind us all that Ramadan is not only for fasting but also to feed to have-not, help the needy, guard our tongue, be wary of judging others wrongly and consequently to forgive our offenders. My supplication this year is that, may we all find the utmost source of bliss, peace, happiness and gaiety. Enjoy each and every enlightenment moment of Ramadan. may we all be granted the privilege to witness more prosper...

*RAMADAN GREETING!!!* ASALAMU ALAIKUM WARAMATULILLAH WA BARAKATUHU!!! The Chairman of the Nigerian Youths Congress in Oyo state *(Hon Abdulfatai A OLAGBENRO)* popularly known as *LeGaCy* has sent an appeal to the state government and the Religious Leaders across the State. As the special month of every year that comes just once in a year has come and trying to leave again, Am talking about the Holy month *ALLAH* personally crowed to be the king of every other months. Remember this is the only Month that comes and cleanse out of us our sins and wrongdoing. It's Godly to remind us all that Ramadan is not only for fasting but also to feed to have-not, help the needy, guard our tongue, be wary of judging others wrongly and consequently to forgive our offenders. My supplication this year is that, may we all find the utmost source of bliss, peace, happiness and gaiety. Enjoy each and every enlightenment moment of Ramadan. may we all be granted the privilege to witness more p...

FROM THE DESK OF THE CHAIRMAN NIGERIAN YOUTHS CONGRESS (NYC) OYO STATE CHAPTER The above named association felicitates with all Nigerian youths and in particular the Muslim Ummah on the occasion of this year’s Eid-el-Fitr which marks the breaking of fast and the end of the Holy month of Ramadan. We congratulate the Muslim faithful on the successful completion of the fasting period despite the challenge of the *Covid-19* pandemic which stood between us and paralyze our economy. As the holy month come to an end, we enjoy us to continue to observe the health precautions and sustain the acts of purity, charity, perseverance and tolerance in our daily lives and general conduct. We should also continue to pray for Nigeria, our dear country for God’s intervention against all the challenges that confront our nation and the world. As we celebrate with restraint as enjoined by our spiritual leaders and relevant authorities, I wish you all Eid Mubaraq. Signed: Abdulfatai A. OLAGB...

He urged other organisations and communities to come up with similar guidelines to expedite the process of safely reopening the economy. T he Director-General of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, Dr Chikwe Ihekweazu, has asked professional groups and faith-based organisations, including churches and mosques, to submit guidelines for reopening to the NCDC to review and advise. He spoke during a press conference of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 on Thursday. “This is what we’ve been advising every society, organisation, community, be it faith-based, cultural-based, professionally based, to come up with guidelines for themselves. We are happy to advise and engage, but this needs to be led and owned by the leaders of those organisations,” he said T he NCDC DG added that every stakeholder in society needed to take responsibility for the part it owned and managed. He said the centre had received a draft of guidelines by the Public Transport Owners of Nigeria A...

An accident on the Otedola bridge, Lagos State, yesterday claimed the life of an unidentified woman. A tanker loaded with petrol on Thursday rammed into a bus and a car on the Otedola Bridge. The Director-General, Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA), Dr. Olufemi Oke-Osanyintolu, said that two persons were severely injured in the accident, which occurred at about 8:30a.m. Oke-Osanyintolu said that the agency’s officials immediately raced to the scene to rescue the victims and remove the vehicles from the road to ease traffic. According to him, a female adult lost her life to the accident, while a male adult and a child got injured. He said that the body of the deceased had been taken to a mortuary, while the injured were being treated. An eyewitness said: “The brake of a tanker fully loaded failed and rammed into an inter-state Mazda bus. Six persons were critically injured include a boy of about nine-year-old, one woman died and the injured persons have been taken...

Boss Mustapha, Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF) has given details of Thursday’s National Economic Council (NEC) meeting. The first-ever NEC teleconference was chaired by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo.  State Governors and relevant government officials joined virtually.  In a statement, Mustapha said during the meeting, the issue of alignment of their state level actions with the guidelines issued was emphasized. “Similarly emphasized is the need for states to diligently implement and enforce compliance. Particularly, I underscored the need for the Governors to provide personal and strong leadership, carry the policy of community ownership to the grass roots and create deeper awareness. “The Governors were also advised on the decision taken by some of their colleagues to permit large gatherings as such decisions could inadvertently endanger the elderly, the sick and those with underlying factors during such gatherings.” The SGF, also the Chairma...

The House of Representatives has asked the Federal Government to develop a long-term socioeconomic plan for Nigeria. The lawmakers adopted a motion at the plenary on Tuesday, entitled, ‘Need for Nigeria to Develop a Long-Term Social and Economic Development Framework Vision’. The House urged the Federal Government to develop a ‘SMART 40-year Strategic Economic Master-Plan and Development Strategy’ and an economic framework to implement the strategy. The House also urged all relevant agencies to articulate a long-term agenda anchored on the government economic development strategy framework. The lawmakers mandated its Committee on National Planning and Economic Development to ensure compliance with the resolution. Moving the motion, Mr Henry Nwawuba, who jointly sponsored the motion with Mr Nasiru Ali-Ahmed, noted the significance of Nigeria’s past development master plans. Nwawuba stated that Nigeria needed to consolidate its leadership role in Africa by establishing itsel...

Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19 pandemic says Nigeria would have failed its next generation if it does it learn from the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic to build enduring and sustainable institutions. Speaking at the daily briefing of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 pandemic, its chairman and Secretary to Government of the Federation (SGF), Mr Boss Mustapha, who made the assertion, also observed that the virus has exposed the weaknesses in all sectors of the country and the world. He noted that the coronavirus outbreak has caused serious disruptions as he assured that life will never be the same after the pandemic. Mustapha said: “I can assure you that at an individual level, at the community level, at the state level, at the national level, we will begin to do things differently. It cannot be business as usual again. “If we do not learn anything from COVID-19 and build institutions that will be enduring and sustainable, we would have failed the next genera...

•  Make case for states in sharing of looted funds • Task new CoS, Gambari on nation building The Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF) has urged the National Assembly to step down the proposed Control of Infectious Diseases Bill, 2020 introduced by the House of Representatives until an appropriate consultative process is held. The Chairman of the Forum and Governor of Ekiti State, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, who disclosed this in a communique issued at the end of the group’s eighth teleconference yesterday, said that the consultation must include a public hearing to gather public opinions and concerns. According to Fayemi, the governors, after receiving an update on the proposed bill, raised concerns on the lack of consultation with state governments who are at the forefront of the epidemic and resolved that the bill should be stepped down until an appropriate consultative process is held. He disclosed that in the light of the development, the forum established a committee comprising...

The Federal Executive Council has approved the review to the 2020 budget and the Medium Term Expenditure Framework for 2020-2022 as recommended by the ministry of finance. The budget has new benchmarks which now includes $25 per oil barrel, and a target production rate of 1.94 million barrels per day and then an exchange rate of N360 to $1, Finance minister Zainab Ahmed said while briefing State House correspondents on Wednesday. Ms Ahmed said the revised budget now amounts to N10.5 trillion, a difference of about N71.5 billion when compared to the initial approved budget. "This is because, as we cut down the size of the budget," she noted, "we also have to bring in new expenditure previously not budgeted, to enable us adequately respond to the COVID-19 pandemic." Ms Ahmed said while the federal government will fund the budget by N5.158 trillion, the deficit from N5.365 trillion will be financed by both domestic and foreign borrowing. Already both the S...

President of the Association of Industrial Security and Safety Operators of Nigeria, AISSON Dr. Ona Ekhomu, has faulted the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 verdict which attributed the mysterious deaths in Kano State to the CoronaVirus disease, saying the methods used to arrive at the conclusion did not conform with forensic pathology methodology. Ekhomu, stated rather, that, the panel should have conducted conventional autopsies on the bodies to determine Coronavirus disease, saying, “the so-called verbal autopsies are unscientific, have no validity, no reliability and certainly are not reproducible”. The security expert further stated that “ relying on the age of victims was mere profiling (a class characteristic) and did not constitute an individualized explanation of the deaths. The report by the taskforce blaming Covid-19 was fatally flawed, did not reach the threshold of forensic pathology, and should not have made such a weighty conclusion”. He, therefore, urged it to...

Nigeria’s Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment, Adeniyi Adebayo, has asked commercial banks and other financial institutions, to open up all their branches to customers. Adebayo, speaking at the weekly briefing of the Emergency Operation Centre of the Committee on Sustainable Production and Delivery of Essential Commodities During COVID-19 on Thursday, said it would assist the government’s efforts in preventing the spread of COVID-19. Following the relaxation of a five-week lockdown on Monday, May 4, there have been rowdy scenes at banks and other financial institutions. Customers in Lagos and Abuja, have been seen violating the set guidelines, which includes social distancing and use of face masks at public places. Most banks also limited their operations to a few branches after the lockdown. Adebayo feels this could pose severe dangers of infection of COVID-19, as well as compromise measures to tackle the spread. The Minister also hailed security agenci...

As part of efforts to combat the COVID-19 pandemic, the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), has ordered the immediate evacuation of all imported medical equipment from Nigerian ports. This is even as the President has given a blanket waiver of Customs duty on medical supplies. Disclosing this on Tuesday, via his official  Twitter  handle, the Special Assistant to the President on Digital and New Media, Tolu Ogunlesi, stated that in addition to the import waiver, Buhari had also directed the Nigerian Customs Service to implement expedited clearing of all imported healthcare equipment, medical and pharmaceutical supplies at the nation’s ports. Ogunlesi said, “Mr President has approved a blanket waiver of import duties for medical equipment and supplies, as part of Nigeria’s efforts to strengthen health infrastructure in response to the COVID19 pandemic. “In addition to the import waiver, President Buhari has also directed the Nigeria Customs Service to ...

The Speaker of the House of Representatives,Femi Gbajabiamila, said on Tuesday the Control of Infectious Diseases Bill would undergo public hearing. The Speaker stated this while addressing members of the House and members of the Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19 in Abuja. He said that stakeholders’ contributions would be sought to make improvements to the bill before being reviewed and debated by the Committee of the Whole. Gbajabiamila said: “It is from the accumulation of these myriad views, suggestions and good faith critiques from within and outside the House that we will arrive at final legislation that meets the present and future needs of our country, and which we all can support in good conscience.” He, however, said that the social distancing guidelines under which the House operates presently meant that the usual format of public hearings was not tenable. He added: “If a socially distant public hearing becomes workable, we will certainly explore that opt...

The mysterious deaths recorded in  Kano  state, Nigeria, in recent times is said to be caused by coronavirus, an official of the Presidential Task Force Committer on COVID-19 has confirmed. Over 640 persons, including prominent figures, reportedly died in the previous week in Kano from previously unidentified illness. The illness has now been confirmed to be Coronavirus. Dr. Nasiru Sani Gwarzo, leader of the Presidential Task Force Committee on COVID-19 said that the virus was the cause of the mysterious deaths recorded in Kano State in recent days.  The state government had previously  denied  links of COVID-19 to the deaths but a survey based report carried out by by Yusuf Yau Gambo, a lecturer at the department of mathematics at Yusuf Maitama Sule University in Kano  revealed  otherwise. Governor Ganduje inspecting palliatives to be distributed Kano residents Gwarzo, who spoke on Sunday, said the test carried out established that COVID-19...