During my visit to the State House Abuja yesterday, @MBuhari & I further discussed the importance of the Lagos-Sango-Abeokuta Road, & the reasons for the call on the Federal Government to speedily cede its reconstruction project to the Ogun & Lagos Governments,...
... with tolling put in place after the reconstruction.
The safety of road users as well as the economic significance of our key roads is crucial. This also brings attention to the Agbara-Lusada-Atan Road, whose poor condition is a red flag for Ogun State's industrial prosperity but which we are also in the process of taking over.
I am glad to announce that the President, who clearly understood that our readiness to take the financial weight of building multiple roads off the FG's neck was driven by the need to quickly ease the plight of our people, ....
... promised to speedily provide all the necessary support we might need.
In view of the current circumstances we have found ourselves, I want to urge our youth to be calm and patient as we are taking measures to ensure that the situation is put under control.
As your government that is compassionate about the welfare of its people, We suspended our rallies as a means of showing empathy with the people and we have also taken further steps by engaging critical stakeholders in the banking sector,...
... which is not limited to top officials of @cenbank in Ogun State and Bankers' Committee so as to ameliorate the suffering of our people.
We paid a crucial visit to the Ogun State headquarters of the @cenbank in Abeokuta where we had a quick but indepth brainstorming session with top officials on ways to relieve the groaning people of the State of the tiresome cash crunch.
In addition, I made a call on the apex bank to intensify verifiable efforts to ensure wide and nonselective distribution, as well as tackle hoarding in deposit money banks.
We are hopeful that this essential session together with our visit alongside other concerned Governors to President Muhammadu Buhari in would bring the much needed solution to this troubling situation.
Ogun State will in the nearest time be host to a three billion dollars oil refinery, to be located in Tongeji Island of Ipokia LGA.
A result of our PPP with Gasoline Integrated International, the phased 400,000-litre-per-day refinery project will serve our people's local petroleum needs, provide over 10,000 direct & indirect jobs, boost the state's IGR, as well as improve infrastructure & technology.
I remarked with joy when I received the company directors led by the Chairman, Dr Lukman Bolaji today, that while this is God's compensation to us for losing a similar project to another state before our Administration, it is also a result of our stable investment drive set on...
In the wake of the second wave of COVID-19 in Ogun State, the State Government held a meeting today with stakeholders on cautionary measures to take.
We will adopt the measures we took in its emergence, but this will remove curfew on movement and retain social gathering restrictions and hygiene measures.
Schools will remain closed until 18th January, 2021, while all recreational centres will be shut indefinitely. Civil servants will proceed on Christmas and New Year holiday from tomorrow, Thursday, 24th December and resume on 4th January, 2021.