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  • 70 per cent of food exports from Nigeria rejected abroad-NAFDAC

    70 per cent of food exports from Nigeria rejected abroad-NAFDAC

    The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), has said that over 70 per cent of food exports from Nigeria are rejected abroad, with huge financial losses to exporters.

    The Director General,Prof. Mojisola Adeyeye disclosed this yesterday in a press statement signed by NAFDAC’s Resident Media Consultant, Sayo Akintola.

    Adeyeye, however, said the rejection in some European countries and the United States of America may soon become a thing of the past, if collaboration between the agency and other government agencies at ports is strengthened.

    The NAFDAC boss made the assertion, over the weekend, at official commissioning of the new NAFDAC office complex for the Murtala Muhammed International Airport/Nigerian Aviation Handling Company Plc, Lagos.

    Adeyeye said the deplorable state of export trade facilitation for regulated products leaving the country has remained a serious cause of concern for her agency, adding that a trip to NAFDAC export warehouses within the international airport would explain the major reason for continued rejection of Nigerian exports abroad.

    She noted that the agency is responding to the challenge by initiating a collaborative venture with government agencies at the ports, to ensure goods are of requisite quality and meet the regulatory requirements of importing countries and destinations.

    According to her, this raises the need for more enhanced regulation of export-packaging, pre-shipment testing and certification, to provide quality assurance and minimise rejects.

    To save Nigeria’s reputation in international commerce, Adeyeye called on all stakeholders in export trade to see this as a call to duty and collaborate with NAFDAC.

    “The mandate to safeguard the health of the populace through ensuring that food, medicines, cosmetics, medical devices, chemicals and packaged water are safe, efficacious and of the right quality in an economy that is overwhelmingly dependent on importation of the bulk of its finished products and raw materials could never have been actualised without effective presence of NAFDAC at the ports and land borders.”

    She applauded the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) for the symbiotic relationship that exists between its management and the agency, saying: “Without Customs, we will not be able to do a lot of what we have been able to do.

     

     

  • Buhari reappoints Adeyeye as NAFDAC DG

    Buhari reappoints Adeyeye as NAFDAC DG

    President Muhammadu Buhari has reappointed the Director-General of National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), Prof. Moji Adeyeye.

    A statement issued by NAFDAC Director of Public Affairs, Dr. Abubakar Jimoh, on Friday in Abuja stated that Adeyeye re-appointment was for the second tenure of five years.

    Jimoh said that the re-appointment by the president was conveyed by the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Mr. Boss Mustapha.

    He said: “Adeyeye’s tenure renewal took effect from 1st December 2022.

    “The DG’s reappointment came closely on the heels of her track record of monumental achievements and successes in the last five years, especially in the attainment of World Health Organisation (WHO) Maturity Level 3.”

    Abubakar said that Adeyeye who assumed duty on Friday was received by some staffers at the corporate headquarters of the agency in Abuja.

  • 2023: Tinubu best man to succeed Buhari, ex-minister

    2023: Tinubu best man to succeed Buhari, ex-minister

    Former Minister of Works, Senator Dayo Adeyeye, maintains that Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu remains the right man to succeed President Buhari.

    Adeyeye who is the Chairman of South West Agenda for 2023, restated that the fact that, because the zone has produced a president in the past, won’t stop it from clinching the presidential ticket if the All Progressives Congress zoned the ticket to the South.

    Adeyeye opined that former Lagos State Governor, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, remains the best and the right man to succeed President Muhammadu Buhari after bowling out in 2023 based on experience and political networks.

    Adeyeye said this while speaking in Ado Ekiti on Tuesday during the official launching of the South West Agenda (SWAGA) 2023, a political platform rooting for the presidential aspiration of the former Lagos State Governor.

    He added that the APC leaders must respect the zoning of presidency to the South in 2023, as a mark of respect for the silent agreement within the party at inception in 2013.

    Adeyeye said: “And if the ticket comes to the South, the fact that the Southwest had produced the President before won’t prevent the Yoruba race from getting the APC ticket.

    “You could all remember that the late President, Umaru Musa Yar’Adua was from Katsina State and when the ticket went back to the North in 2007, they picked President Muhammadu Buhari from Katsina. They didn’t say his state had produced President before.

    “What we need in Nigeria is someone like Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, who knows everybody. Someone who has planted and nurtured people across all the zones. Someone, who believes in making stars to unite Nigeria,” Adeyeye said.

    Also, the former Senator representing Ekiti South Senatorial District, Senator Tony Adeniyi, alleged that members of SWAGA in Ekiti were being harassed and intimidated by APC members loyal to Governor Kayode Fayemi, saying this barrage of embarrassment must stop in the interest of APC.

    “Before SWAGA was formed, we had ‘Tokan Tokan’ and original ‘JKF’, which are outfits loyal to Governor Fayemi.

    “Is it an offence to associate with one of the foremost Nigerians like Tinubu? We are being treated here in Ekiti like orphans in the Sahara desert. We are being intimated and harassed by people who had contributed nothing to APC.”

    Also, in his short lecture at the event, a Professor of Law at the Faculty of Law, University of Lagos, Prof. Yemi Oke, said he came to fraternise with the group as a Yoruba man, who believes in the Southwest agenda for the 2023.

    In his speech entitled: ‘Nigeria at a Crossroad, What Option for the Southwest Geopolitical Zone’, Prof. Oke, described Tinubu as the most qualified to lead Nigeria after President Buhari, so that all the faultlines and cleavages can be amended for national unity.

    Commending Tinubu for working hard to sustain the country’s democracy, the Chairman, Inter-party Advisory Council in Ekiti, Hon. Ife Iyaniwura said Tinubu has become a strong political stakeholder that people respect in the country.

  • JUST IN: [Ekiti South] Tribunal sacks APC’s Adeyeye, declares PDP’s Olujimi winner

    The National Assembly Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Ado Ekiti, state capital, has nullified the election that produced Chairman Senate Committee on Media and Public Affairs, Senator Dayo Adeyeye.

    Adeyeye was declared the winner of the Ekiti South Senatorial District poll.

    Hon. Danladi Adeck, a member of the three-man panel of the tribunal, who read the unanimous judgement on Tuesday declared former Minority leader and the candidate of the People’s Democratic Party, Senator Biodun Olujimi winner of the election.

    Following the declaration of Adeyeye, the candidate of the All Progressives Congress( APC) winner by the Independent National Electoral Commission(INEC) in the February 23, 2019 Ekiti South Senatorial election, Olujimi, had approached the tribunal to praying that she should be declared the actual winner of the election.

    She submitted that she scored the highest number of lawful votes cast during the election.

    Olujimi prayed the tribunal to nullify Adeyeye’s victory and order supplementary election accordingly in the district.

    In her written address, the petitioner claimed that the election was not conducted in substantial compliance with the provisions of the Electoral Acts, having been allegedly fraught with all manners of irregularities.

    She prayed the Tribunal to annul votes in areas that were found to be incredibly marked with irregularities like over voting, multiple thump printing, ballot snatching, ballot stuffing and improper ballot counting should be canceled to know the actual winner of the poll.

    The petitioner also accused the INEC of dereliction of duties, saying most of the documents used for the conduct of the election were not duly signed by agents.

    But the respondents countered the submission, saying INEC did what was right and constitutional, by declaring the candidate of the APC the winner having found to have got the highest number of lawful votes.

    Justice Adeck nullified the elections in some polling units to declare Olujimi the authentic winner of the polls.

    Eventually, Olujimi polled a total of 54,894 to emerge victorious over the Adeyeye, who polled 52,243.

    He added that apart from the nullification in some units, the outcome of the tribunal’s verdict was predicated on the recount of the ballots by the contending forces as granted by the court.

    Justice Adeck, said for the petitioner to be so declared, she must prove those cases of criminal allegations of non-compliance with the provisions of the Electoral Acts and other corrupt practices raised in her petition beyond reasonable doubt, which he said she did.

    The tribunal said in Ikere, Gbonyin and Emure local governments, the petitioner was able to prove cases of over voting and votes in those units were expunged from the ballots.

    The Tribunal said: “It is not tenable to say that marked ballots were not properly deposited in the boxes because when this did not happen, then it will lead to over voting and will affect counting at every level of collation.

    “To avoid this pitfall, those elections must be expunged in order not to vitiate the electoral process. Therefore, after those votes were deducted, PDP was left with 54, 894 while the respondent polled 52, 243.

    “The petitioner having polled the highest number of lawful votes should be declared the winner of the election.

    “We hereby declare the petitioner the winner and he is hereby returned elected.

    “We hereby direct the INEC to withdraw the certificate of return from the respondent and issue same to the petitioner,” he said.

  • Ekiti Guber: Adeyeye’s defection to APC won’t affect PDP’s chances – Fayose

    Governor Ayo Fayose of Ekiti says the defection of former Minister of State for Works, Mr. Dayo Adeyeye from the Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP) to the All Progressives Congress (APC) will not affect the party’s fortune in the forthcoming governorship elections scheduled to hold on July 14, 2018.

    The governor made the disclosure in a statement issued by his Special Assistant on Public Communication and New Media, Mr Lere Olayinka in Ado Ekiti on Tuesday.

    Fayose said that Adeyeye’s defection to the APC had merely confirmed his earlier position that he was never a loyal and committed member of the PDP.

    According to him, I am not bothered by the action taken by the former aspirant in the just concluded PDP governorship primary election in the state.

    “His move to APC will not in any way affect us. This is because majority of those he thought were behind him did not defect with him.

    “In fact, one of his two party agents for the last primary is still with us in PDP and you know what that means.

    “If somebody is your party agent and could not go with you to another party it tells a lot and even as he is moving from PDP, many others from APC are coming to us, so we have nothing to lose with his defection,” he said.

    The governor said that he held no grudge against him because he had the right to move from one political party to the other adding that he wished him well in his new party.

    “While he was the PDP national spokesman, he had spoken terrible things against the APC and he has now gone to join the same party,” Fayose said.

  • Ekiti 2018: Ex-PDP Publicity Secretary, Adeyeye denies joining APC

    …accuses Fayose’s aide of spreading falsehood

    Former People’s Democratic Party (PDP) governorship aspirant in Ekiti State, Prince Dayo Adeyeye, has denied news on the social media that he has joined the All Progressives Congress (APC).

    Adeyeye, former Minister of State for Works, quit the PDP two weeks ago on the heels of the governorship primary won by the Deputy Governor, Prof. Kolapo Olusola.

    The former PDP chieftain promised to reveal his next political dispensation within forty-eight hours but he was said to be consulting with his associates and supporters.

    He accused Governor Ayo Fayose of intimidating delegates at the primary which he said swayed majority of the votes to his protégé.

    Adeyeye contended that Fayose’s order that the delegates wear same uniform compromised the integrity of the primary.

    Olusola scored 1, 191 votes at the PDP governorship primary while Adeyeye garnered 771 votes.

    The social media has been awash with reports suggesting that Adeyeye has moved to the APC with an alleged visit to Ogun State Governor Ibikunle Amosun in Abeokuta.

    It was alleged on the social media posts that Amosun has promised to give Adeyeye N200 million if he joins the broom party, an allegation he has dismissed.

    Adeyeye who stressed that he enjoys freedom of association courtesy of the Constitution promised to reveal the party he would join without recourse to “yellow”.

    In a statement on Monday by Director of Media, Prince Adedayo Adeyeye Movement (PAAM), Niyi Ojo, Adeyeye described the claims that he has joined the APC as deliberate falsehood urging members of the public to disregard same.

    He said: “There is deliberate falsehood and blackmail trending on social media that Prince Adeyeye and his supporters have defected to APC with a promise of #200million to be sourced by Governor Amosun of Ogun State.

    “The rumours emanated from Prime Reporters, a blog owned and managed by Governor Fayose’s Media aide, Lere Olayinka, whose life achievement as a journalist is to libel, blackmail and malign the integrity of any person apart from who is presently feeding him.

    “We call on the general public to disregard the write up as the figment of the imagination of the author.

    “Prince Adeyeye has the right to any political association of his choice and he knows how to unveil his new platform without recourse to yellow journalism as evidenced from the publication of falsehood to the general public.

    “We assured all lovers and admirers of Prince Adeyeye that in a matter of days a broad based platform for the realization of his ambition shall be made known after extensive consultations and deliberations.”

  • PDP guber primary: Adeyeye dumps party, seeks alliance with other parties

    Barely 72 hours after losing the governorship ticket to Prof. Kolapo Olusola, former Minister of State for Works, Prince Dayo Adeyeye, has quit the People’s Democratic Party (PDP).

    Adeyeye said he was moving to another party to stop the continuity agenda of Fayose which he said was not in the best interest of Ekiti people but to keep the state in perpetual slavery.

    He disclosed that since he lost the PDP primary to Fayose’s anointed candidate (Olusola), not less than five parties have approached him to come over and contest on their platform.

    The former PDP national spokesman promised to reveal the platform he would use to contest for the governorship “in the next forty hours.”

    Adeyeye spoke on Thursday shortly after holding a meeting with members of his campaign team, the Prince Adedayo Adeyeye Movement (PAAM) at its headquarters along Ikere Road, Ado-Ekiti.

    He disclosed that he has been receiving solidarity messages from all parts of the world from people who were impressed with his performance at the PDP primary.

    The Ise-Ekiti prince said Fayose’s agenda was to do a third term in office by installing Olusola in a bid to perpetually corner Ekiti’s commonwealth.

    According to him, he would have won the PDP governorship primary “if not for the way Fayose intimidated delegates by forcing them to wear aso ebi to the venue.”

    Adeyeye condemned Fayose for standing up at a stage during the primary to monitor how delegates voted adding that he complained on the matter to the Chairman of the Electoral Panel, Governor Ifeanyi Okowa.

    Okowa, according to him, said there was nothing he could do about Fayose’s alleged intimidation of delegates inside the hall when he (Fayose) discovered that he (Adeyeye) was receiving more votes than earlier envisaged.

    He revealed that Fayose allegedly coerced the delegates to same on local government basis to monitor how they voted which intimidated many of them.

    Despite allegedly monitoring delegates, Adeyeye said many of the delegates voted against Olusola which enabled him (Adeyeye) to garner 771 votes.

    He claimed that the governor who had boasted that he (Adeyeye) would not get up to 50 votes was shocked that he got 771 votes which allegedly made him (Fayose) to embark on an investigation of those who voted against Olusola.

    Adeyeye accused Fayose of stealing Ekiti funds and using same to acquire property while majority of the people are wallowing in poverty.

    The former Minister claimed that Fayose has wasted N8 billion Ekiti funds on chartered flights in the last three and half years while the flyover project was jerked up from N5 billion to N17 billion.

    He said: “I am leaving the party because the party can change but your state cannot change, the party can change, your hometown cannot change.

    “I can’t be part of enslavement, I can’t be part of corruption, I can’t be part of those keeping our people in poverty but spend billions of Naira on chartered flights to Abuja every year but will be riding okada at home.

    “By seeking another platform, I want to tell him that he can’t be riding roughshod over Ekiti people and he cannot turn Ekiti to one-man rule.

    “Our party leaders in Abuja were surprised at my performance at the primary despite the intimidation but I told them that I can change party, party may go into extinction but Ekiti will remain.

    “I will not, because of party affiliation, allow Ekiti to be destroyed. That is why we will take a decision today on where we are going.

    “Since Tuesday, civil servants, teachers, local government workers have become sad. Ekiti has been enveloped in mourning.

    “What is paramount in my mind is to liberate Ekiti. Today, we will not reveal where we are going yet but we are no longer where we were (PDP).”

  • [Update] Fayose’s man, Eleka defeats Adeyeye, wins PDP governorship primary in Ekiti

    [Update] Fayose’s man, Eleka defeats Adeyeye, wins PDP governorship primary in Ekiti

    Prof. Kolapo Olusola Eleka who is the the preferred candidate of Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose has emerged the overall winner at the Peoples Democratic Party governorship primary conducted in the state today.

    Olushola will represent PDP come the July 14 governorship election in Ekiti state.

    With over 1000 votes out of the total 1968 votes cast, Kolapo Olusola, deputy governor of Ekiti state, polled 1,191 votes out of 1968 total numbers of voters.

    Olusola was declared winner at exactly 8.30 pm by Delta State Governor Ifeanyi Okowa, who is the Chairman of the Ekiti PDP Governorship Primary Electoral Committee.

    Declaring the result, Okowa said: “We have come to the end of the congress and in the first instance, you are aware that just before voting started, Senator (Biodun) Olujimi stepped down and we have only Prof. Kolapo Olusola and Prince Dayo Adeyeye.

    “It was definitely a keen competition, at the end, we had total number of 1,968 accredited voters and Prof. Kolapo Olusola scored 1,190 votes and Prince Adedayo Adeyeye scored 771 votes.

    “That brings the total valid votes to 1, 961 with seven votes voided; I want to also announce that both aspirants told us that they did accept the results.

    “Before Prince Adeyeye left, he told me that he was quite satisfied with the conduct of the primary. I must thank all members of the State Congress Committee as appointed by the National Working Committee.

    “I want to thank everybody for your patience for the success of this primary. I want to thank the representatives of INEC who came out in good numbers.

    “I want to thank the Press, because without you, the world will not hear about it. I must also thank agents of our aspirants.

    “I hereby return Prof. Kolapo Olusola as the duly nominated gubernatorial candidate of the PDP for the Ekiti State gubernatorial election. I want to congratulate Prof. Kolapo Olusola for his victory at this gubernatorial state congress.”

    In his acceptance speech, Olusola appreciated everybody who contributed to the success of the PDP governorship primary extending his hand of fellowship to Adeyeye.

    Olusola said: “Today is historical, the victory of today has not only validated our loyalty to the party but it has also rekindled our trust in the democratic process.

    “I humbly and sincerely appreciate all our party stalwarts who have contributed to this victory, more importantly my mentor, a man with golden ideas who has stood solidly behind me, His Excellency, Chief Peter Ayodele Fayose.

    “I saluted the doggedness of my co-contestant, Prince Adedayo Adeyeye. I extend my hand of fellowship to you (Adeyeye). There is no victor, no vanquished.

    “Every hand must be on deck to economically develop Ekiti, the development witnessed under Governor Fayose must be sustained and we assure our people of transparent and inclusive governance.

    “We are aware of the intent of desperate interlopers to coerce Ekiti into economic slavery. Ekiti people are set and prepared to resist these interlopers loaded with evil intention. We are going to record another 16-0 victory.

    “I appreciate our dynamic delegates for making a good choice. I thank Governor Peter Ayodele Fayose for standing behind me daring all odds.”

  • BREAKING: Olujimi steps down for Adeyeye in Ekiti PDP primaries

    The senator representing Ekiti South, Abiodun Olujimi, has stepped down for a former Minister of State for Works, Prince Dayo Adeyeye, in the race for the Peoples Democratic Party’s governorship candidate.
    Olujimi said she sacrificed her ambition for peace, progress, and stability of the party.
    She urged her supporters to cast their votes for Adeyeye as the preferred candidate for the July 14 governorship election.
    Details soon…

  • The Senate of the University of Lagos; a Conglomeration of Academic Ignorami

    The University of Lagos prides itself as a cosmopolitan university and over the years has maintained the status quo of excellence among her peers in Nigeria and the world at large. I promise not to make this BOMB as lengthy and circuitous as my last post on this medium. I will also make it as lucid as possible.

    I mentioned in my last article WHAT IS GREAT ABOUT THE GREAT NIGERIAN STUDENTS the jejunity of the mission statement of the UNILAG, hardly had I finished the article when the whole statement of mine started receiving fulfillment. One would call me a prophet!.

    I now see the reason for the backwardness of my nation, we blame those at the corridor of “power” forgetting those at the corridor of “education;” the corridor of “common sense.” I am a discussant of history and it has made me realise that from time immemorial, whenever there is problem in the society, tertiary institutions are places of solace, they are citadels of solutions. The government would go to schools to consult undergraduates, lecturers; professors as they posed to be the backbone of the society. Now, Nigeria is in shambles; the economy is crumbling, where is Dr. Nduibisi Nwokoma of the Economics department? Buhari is still waiting for your economic model computation and those econometrics rubbish theories you teach your students. Prof. G.L Oyekan!.., there is infrastructural decay! Prof. Idoro Godwin, buildings are collapsing and projects are poorly handled! This is not project planning class where you come to disturb students with your unending battery of questions e.g What is Objective?..answer – Objective is ….Question 2 – What is “is”? What a comedian!

    Vice Chancellor sir, you remain a first class Chemical engineering graduate from Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile- Ife. What has happened to the Great Ife in you? Our power generation is deteriorating and you are alive. The nation’s investment of knowledge on you to make you a scholar is a WASTE. Your first class honours degree is the true definition of a FIASCO.

    That’s by the way, the protest that led to Senate’s resolution to dissolve the student union and the forceful blood covenant oath-taking was a peaceful one. One that started on a calm note with the intention to end in a day only if the DSA or VC came to talk to the students during the act. The egocentricity of an African man would not just allow them to come. They are PhD holders. I call them ACADEMIC IGNORAMUSES!

    The irresponsibility, insensitivity and irresponsiveness to the welfare of the students of the VC and his misMANAGEMENT have shown that they are all misfits when it comes to parenthood.

    They all stood up when the former mistake we had as president tried to rename Unilag to Maulag because the brand UNILAG gives them the pride they need to sleep with any girl-student and admission-seekers effortlessly. These are the goings-on in Unilag, let the world know! The likes of Ogbinaka Karo were ready to tear down the nation if the renaming was not revoked. Now, this is our own issue; welfarism, we can’t find them. Are they telling me that the name issue is greater than welfarism. Is the aesthetics of a building more important than the structural stability? If you don’t know, go ask the MD, Lekki Gardens.

    My secondary school teacher once told me that during his days at the University of Ibadan, they protested when the chicken on their breakfast meal was reduced to 1 instead of the usual 2. For Christ’s sake, was it this same Nigeria? We never asked for all these things Bello and his cohorts enjoyed, all we asked for was water/light and all we could get from a sensible Senate is the threat of expulsion. Are there no “common sense” persons in the management anymore? We mourn the late Prof. Ayodele Awojobi freshly.

    I promised not to make this too lengthy but I stand in this era for change as I don’t want to be too much of a victim of circumstance because I have never gained anything from this system of education. I learn everything myself, just like most of us. My lecturers are too busy to teach but are very ready to threaten you with failure. Where is Julius Faremi? .

    I am ready not as Adekunle Gold but as an active citizen for any step they might want to take against me. E e ba mi ni’be.

    I remain Adeyeye Olorunfemi.