Nigerian Tribune 47 Thursday, 12
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Mimi KatsinaAlu's death is a
national loss ~Oyin101a ORMER Osun State gov e rnor, Prince O l ag unsoye Oyinlola, has described the death of the wife of the Chief Justi~e of Nigeria . (CJN), Justice KatsinaAlu , as a devastating blow to the nation. Prin ce Oyin lola, in a letter to the ClN on.Tuesday, said the tragic loss of Mrs Mimi Katsina-Alu was m os t painful a nd very unfortUnate. "I implore you to take .solace in the fa ct that the deceased liv.ed an exemplary life worthy of emulation and left indelible prints on the sand of time. I pray that the good Lord, w ho knows best, will grant you the fortitude to bear this loss of your dear co mpanion, friend and loving wife," Oyinlola told Justice Katsina-Alu. He added ' that the Katsina-Alu fam ily al'd the nation had been robbed of the invaluable services of the deceased, who he described as Justice Katsina-Alu's "companion and sou l mate," with whom he shared the better part of his life. "The occurrence is most certainly a regrettable incident which sounds almost incredible. My family and I share in the grief occasioned by this loss of m onumental proportions," Prince Oyinlola said.
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Briefly Oyo new head of service asks workers to be neutral OYO State's new Head of Servi.ce, A lh aji' Tajudeen Olasunkanmi Aremu, has charged civii servants to steer clear of partisan politics and be dedicated t9. task of peing veritable vehicles for im pl eme nting government policies. A lhaji Aremu, speaking after his swearing-in in Ibadan on Wednesday, said civil servants' calling entailed th a t th ey maintain the ethics of civil service which includ ed anonymity, impartiality, loyalty and neutrality. The new head of service, who remarked that civil · servants were going to be re-orientated to ensure they uphold the' ethics of their profeSSion, stated that this was important to ensure that civil service improved , q quality. By Sade Oguntola
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NY 348AA, Lagos, conveyHE . fire accident . ing pupils of a nursery and that invo lved a school in !badan, Mitsubisru bus, has claimed
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Ibadan, four pupils were brought to the arodent and emergency unit of the ho~at about
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on Monday, w"le t e re maining one is still receiving treatment at the burnt unit of the hospital," the hospital said. Also, at the Ibadan CentreJ Hospital, Ososami, Ibadan, Dr Ogunlade Ajibola said ~,at five pupils were brought to the hospital on Monday at about 5.30 · p.m.; with varying degrees of injuries and gave their names as Opeyemi Oladin, Quyum Mohammed, MUe€z Alabi, Yusuf Kadijat arid Rofuib Yusuf, adding ~. ·that two of them were referred to UCH because they had over 70 degree burns ~",nd said that three others were responding to treatment. At the LAD Medical Centre, Orila Challenge, ibadan, Dr MK Akinsola said that
-Prom left, LagOs Advert Manager, .Mr Titiloye Kayo<!e; Deputy Manager, Sales, Mr Pemi Sobowale; former two pupils were brought to Group Business Editor, Mr Samuel Ibiyemi; Senior Supervisor, Account, Lagos, Mr Owolabi Oyebanji; Head of the hospital at aboui5·45 pm, Credit Control" Lagos, Mrs Oladayo Yinka and Lagos Bureau Chief, Mr KunIe Oderemi, aJJ of the Nigerian on Monday, and said that one offuem,simplycalled Kayode, Tribune, at the senq.-oH party for Mr Ibiyemi, in Lagos, on Wedne~day. Photo: Tajwo 8a1ogun.
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Maize As~ocia. tion of Nigeria (MAAN), on Wednes day, . charged states and local governments in the cou ntry to support maize farmers in their bid to increase food
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A d' h' hid f T h h'l 25 t ccor Ing to · 1m, t e ca san ertilser to t e w I e per cen was states and· the local gov- 'association at subsidised given on ferliser. ' ernmenfshould emulate rate,. say ing such a move . He said the meeting . the Federal Government should be complemented had directed that the in thl! area of provision of by the government at the needs of each state should incentives to maize farm- ' state and local levels. be collated, saying much ers in the country: He sa id the Federal as the effort was, it would . He .said although Government gave 50 per not be sufficient for the some states like Ondo, . cent subsidy on m aize members of the associaBauchi and Kaduna had seedlings and chemicals, _ tion.
had already been disd1arged whiletheremaining·one, · Moses Akanji, was respondingtotreatrnent. However,whenthe Niger.ian Tnbunevisited thesmool on Wednesday afternoon, scores of sympathisers were seen discussing the tragedy that befell the school pupils in groups outside the school premises, while the school was locked and deserted.
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Pastor Tunji Adenola, rnents should also 'join in said this in Akure, Ondo the effort at making food Sta te capital, after the . available on the table of meeting of the association the · people and aiso imat the conference hall of prove their economy. the Ondo State AgriculH e said the Federa l tural Development Government had already given seedlings, chern iProgramme (ADP).
Fnday Ekeoba, Lagos Institute of CharteredoAccountants of Nigeria (ICAN), on Wednesday, admitted 1,494 persons into the membership of the institute
·Tunde Oyekola, _ _ _ _O _so....,g bo SUN State Governor, Mr Rauf Aregbesola, has desc;ribed as a big loss to the state the death of the Mayor of Southwark Borough in London, United Kingdom, Mayor Tayo Situ. . The governor, in a state, .ment by the Director, Bureau of Communications and Strategy, Mr Semiu Okanlawon, said ·Situ was a source of pride to Nigeria as a whole and Osun State in particular, having exhibited unique leadership qualities in his capacity as the Mayor of Southwark in the United Kingdom. "It is a sad thing for us in Osun State that Mayor Situ is no more. He was a source of pride to Nigeria and Osun State in particular. It
Ingdevelopment atthegrass roots level In Osun State. "He was in Nigeria for the World Summit of Black Mayorswhichwehostedin Osun State between February 28 and March 3, th is year. During the programme, he was full of life and he made very robust contributions," the statement said.
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IS much more painful that Ius death has come at a time when the ~peri~nce. of Nigenans hke him m the diaspora;sneeded ·toaccelerate developmeht at home. "Osun State justsigned a Memorandum of Understanding with the Borough of Southwark, where he wasthemayor,lastweek,as part of our efforts at boost-
for successfully pas~ing with ~he needs of th e their qualifying exam ina- natIOn s econonllC growth tian. and development a nd This brings the benchmarked against the institute's' membership to .bes t mternatlOnal stan 32,727 from a modest be- dard of trallllllg and cerginning of 250 ip 1,965. tifi ca tion. Speaking at the inducOwuama noted that tion ceremony, the presi- furthe r to the cred ibility
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sa id the appreciable increase in memb ers hi p was a clear demonstration of the institute's enduring co mmitment to quali tati ve ca paci ty building, parti cularly with regard to the training and production of k'lI d · . f S Ie accounhngpro esslOnals m accOldance
rate failures in variOus~urisdictions it was imperative that th~'new members cont inu e to liv e above board . He noted that the recent incidents in the banking sector have again re-ech·oed the need for transpar. I e.n c~ III tle corpora te activltles. . ,
.COurt dissovles another Nollyw,ood marriage Yejide GbengaOgundare, Lagos Lagos High Court Sitting in Ikeja, on . . Wednesday, dissolved the marrii'ge be: tween popul ar Nollywood acto'r; Federick Aseroma and his wife of over 10 years, Blessing, on the .grounds ihat the f!larriage had broken down ·completely.
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Justice Ol ubunmi Oyewole said the divorce sha ll .become abso lute three months from the day of judgment if no appeal goes through. ' " I h al(e duly considered the petition and I have noticed that the entire demeanor of the petitioner, Fred; is consistent with . hi s desire to get out of the marriage and also that in the
cross petitIOn, the res pond e nt has s hown that the petitioner was cruel to. her. I hereby pronounce a decreeniser, dissolving the marriage and it shaH becom e absolute three months from now," the judge sa id . Blessing had, during trial, revealed t o the court that ~er estranged husband, Fred, had re-
peated ly bea ten her for her refusal to sign a divorce document to enabl e him marry_ anoth er woman, Titi Jacobs, in London. She said trouble began when Fred returned from London and told her that she should sign the divorce document, saying that it was part o f his plan to relocate the family to London.