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Olujimi urges Wike, Makinde, others to support PDP
Former Senate Minority Leader and senator representing Ekiti South Senatorial District, Chief Biodun Olujimi, has pleaded with Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike and other governors, as well as other aggrieved members of his team in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), to sheathe their swords and support the party to win the 2023 presidential election.
Olujimi, who lauded Wike and aggrieved members of his team for fighting for justice, equity and fairness in the party, however, urged them to look at the bigger picture of rescuing the people who are traumatised by the alleged misrule of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).
The Ekiti State senator spoke in Ado-Ekiti, yesterday, during an interactive session with newsmen on the crisis rocking the party and the pressure put on the presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, to back Iyorchia Ayu’s removal for a chairman of southern extraction.
She said that in their quest to get the national chairman of the party out of office, the aggrieved governors did not give proper thought to the Constitution of the party that stipulates that when a chairman of the party resigns, the deputy chairman from his zone takes over from him.
Olujimi said: “Political parties are like families and there is nothing you can do without bruising each other. We have a lot of internal crises caused by ego bruising. I believe we are working on it. Despite the fact that we have problems, the party is working. We are meeting with the people that are yearning for our return to government. We are working hard to ensure that the right things are done.
“We can’t go to the extent of destroying the house we have built. I am optimistic that we will achieve our set goals. The people who are agitating may be right because the agreement is that when a candidate of northern extraction emerges as a presidential candidate, it will be wrong to retain the chairman in the North. But we didn’t think through our Constitution.
“If we remove the Chairman, the Deputy National Chairman (North) will still take over. The governors that are agitating are fighting for justice and equity. But there is a school of thought that believed that the South had done 14 years of presidency in the PDP and the North had only done two. There is nothing wrong with looking at all these issues.
“I want to beg Wike. Let him allow a middle course so that we can work towards a common goal.”
“It is not about him. He is a good party man, he loves the PDP, but we should allow peace to reign.”
On her re-election in 2023, Olujimi declared that she would defeat his rival and member of the House of Representatives, Yemi Adaramodu, despite enjoying strong backing from the federal and state governments, as she did in 2019 when she defeated Dayo Adeyeye of the All Progressives Congress (APC).
Olujimi said that she was not rattled contesting against Adaramodu and also not terrified by federal and state might his opponent enjoys.
The Kano State Government has inaugurated a 14-member committee tasked with reviewing existing education policies in the state.
Inaugurating the committee on Thursday in Kano, the Commissioner for Education, Dr Ali Makoda, said that the committee was constituted by the Kano State Executive Council to assess the state’s education policies.
“This committee was originally scheduled to be inaugurated by the governor, but due to prior engagements, he has delegated the responsibility to me so that we can begin our work immediately,” Makoda stated.
The Commissioner outlined the committee’s terms of reference, which include reviewing the four existing education policies in the state to assess whether they align with the cultural and religious beliefs of the people.
“Evaluating the feasibility of implementing the policies, and making recommendations to strengthen the state’s education system.”
He noted that the four policies to be reviewed include the Kano State Girls’ Education Policy, Kano State Gender Equity and Social Inclusion Policy, Kano State Non-State School Policy, and Kano State Teacher Development Policy.
Makoda announced that the committee has been given three weeks to submit its report, and urged the members to leverage their expertise to produce recommendations that would enhance the state’s education sector.
In his response, the committee chairman, Malam Abdullahi Dutse, assured the commissioner of the committee’s commitment to work collaboratively to meet the expectations placed on them.
“Considering the diverse expertise of the committee members, I believe the government has selected individuals with the right skills to address the challenges facing education in the state. We will work diligently to provide the necessary report,” he said.
The committee’s members include Malam Abdullahi Dutse (Chairman), Prof Abdallah Uba -Adamu, Habibu Dan Almajiri, Alhaji Danlami Garba, Kano State Commissioner for Women, Children, and Disabled Affairs Hajiya Amina Abdullahi, and Isa Ahmad.
Other members are Prof Tijjani Naniya, Malam Kabiru Hanga, Munzali Mustapha, Prof Auwal Halliru Arzai, and Dr Bashir Aliyu -Umar.
The remaining include the representatives of the Emirate Council and Civil Society Organizations, and Ibrahim Bawa, Director of Archives and Publications, who will serve as Secretary of the committee.
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President Bola Tinubu has congratulated six Nigerians named by President Joe Biden among the 400 recipients of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) in the United States.
This recognition, established by former President Bill Clinton in 1996, is the highest honour bestowed by the United States government on outstanding scientists and engineers in the early stages of their careers.
This year’s awardees, announced by Biden on Jan. 14, are employed or funded by 14 participating United States government agencies, Mr Bayo Onanuga, the President’s Spokesman, said in a statement on Thursday in Abuja.
The Nigerian honourees include Azeez Butali, Gilbert Lilly Endowed Professor of Diagnostic Sciences, College of Dentistry, University of Iowa; and Ijeoma Opara, Associate Professor of Public Health (Social and Behavioral Sciences), Yale School of Public Health, Yale University.
Others are: Oluwatomi Akindele, Postdoctoral researcher at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory; and Eno Ebong, Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering, Bioengineering, and Biology at Northeastern University;
The rest are: Oluwasanmi Koyejo, Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University; and Abidemi Ajiboye, Executive vice Chair of the Case School of Engineering, Department of Biomedical Engineering, and Case Western Reserve University.
Tinubu commended the awardees for their achievements in science, technology and engineering.
He noted that recognising the talents of the awardees underscored Nigerians’ vast potential to excel both at home and on the global stage.
Tinubu looked forward to the honourees sharing their multidisciplinary expertise to benefit Nigeria’s development efforts under the Renewed Hope Agenda. (more…)
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