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Dapo Abiodun Mourns As LG Chair-Nominee Dies Hours To Screening
The Ogun State Government has described the demise of the chairman-nominee, Saibu Adeosun, for the transition committee in Ipokia Local Government Area of Ogun State as shocking.
The Chief Press Secretary to Dapo Abiodun, Kunle Somorin, said on Wednesday that the Governor expressed shock over the demise of the chairman-nominee.
Adeosun passed-on a few hours to his screening by the State House of Assembly.
The statement read;
“He (Adeosun) was such a diligent and resourceful grassroots politician whose skills and astuteness would have helped the people of Ipokia to move to a higher level of development.
“He will surely be missed by the All Progressives Congress, the good people of Ipokia LGA that he had plans to lead and the Dapo Abiodun administration will miss his envisaged contributions to our model of inclusive and participatory governance.
“Governor Dapo Abiodun prays that the good Lord will comfort his immediate family and grant his soul eternal rest in Aljanah Firdaus.”
Tolu Odebiyi, Senator representing Ogun West has also expressed shock at the news.
Odebiyi said;
“as an astute politician who was very instrumental to the electoral success of our great party, the All Progressives Congress, achieved in his local government.”
The senator said the deceased was also a Senior Legislative Aide in the National Assembly and a member of the Ipokia Local Government Transition Committee in 2016.
Adeosiun was among the chairmen-nominee for the 20 local government transition committee in Ogun State appointed by Dapo Abiodun last week.
A close family source disclosed that Adeosun had already dressed up for the trip to Abeokuta to enable him to come before the Assembly Committee when he decided to take a short rest and didn’t wake up.
He was a graduate of Mass Communication from the Moshood Abiola Polytechnic and a former Special Assistant and Senior Special Assistant to a former chairman of Ipokia LGA.
He is survived by Mulikat Adeosun, wife and three children.
The NBA All-Star game has now to be called The Kobe Bryant MVP Award. NBA commissioner, Adam Silver made this announcement on Saturday 15th February.
The Kobe Bryant MVP Award will be given this Sunday at the closing of this year’s All-Star Game in Chicago. Both teams will be captained by Giannis Antetokounmpo and Lebron James respectively. Team Lebron will put on No 2 and team Giannis will put on No 24. These two numbers were worn by Gianna, Kobe’s daughter and Kobe Bryant.
Recall that Kobe won the All-Star Game MVP in 2002, 2007, 2009, and 2011. Also, he played as the youngest player to feature in the All-Star Game at 19 in 1998.
Modibbo Kawu, the DG of the National Broadcasting Commission, NBC, has been put on suspension by President Buhari. This came following his corruption charges by the Independent Corrupt Practices, ICPC.
This development was confirmed by Armstrong Idachaba, NBC’s Director of Broadcast Monitoring. Further, the most senior director in the commission has been directed to take over from Modibbo Kawu.
Modibbo Kawu is currently facing a 12-count charge bordering on money laundering, abuse of office, and misleading a public officer with the intent of defrauding the government.
So, this contravenes Section 26 (1) (c) of the Corrupt Practices and other Related Offenses Act 2000 and punishable under Section 19 of the same Act.
Beisdes, Modibbo was first arraigned in May 2019 over the alleged misappropriation of N 2.5 billion for the digital switch-over (DSO) program of the government.
The Health Ministry in Egypt has confirmed the first case of the deadly Coronavirus. The authorities made this disclosure on Friday 14th February in a press release. They said the World Health Organization has been informed and the patient is in isolation for monitoring and treatment.
The patient’s nationality was not given. However, Egypt is the 28th country in the world to record Coronavirus and the first in Africa.
So, over 64,000 cases of the Coronavirus have been diagnosed around the world and 1,363 persons have been confirmed dead since its outbreak in Wuhan, China
