77 Hearty Cheers to His Royal Majesty, Oba (Dr) Adedotun Aremu Gbadebo, CFR (Okukenu IV), the Alake and Paramount Ruler of Egbaland
On behalf of the Government and good People of Ogun State, I felicitate with you on the occasion of your 77th birthday celebration today, Monday, 14th September, 2020.
Kabiyesi, you are a foremost monarch in Ogun State and Nigeria in general, whose influence, words of wisdom, prayers and interventions have helped in shaping the Nation's development and the laudable achievements of our Administration.
We pray that God will richly bless you with many more years, good health and vitality.
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.