Governor Ajimobi Presents N207bn Budget of Self-Reliance

Governor Abiola Ajimobi of  Oyo State
presenting 2017 budget to the OSHA

Governor Abiola Ajimobi of Oyo State on Thursday presented a total budget of N207.671 billion for the 2017 fiscal year to the State House of Assembly, which represents an increase of 19.13 per cent compared to the 2016 budget.

The governor, while presenting the budget titled “Budget of Self Reliance”, explained that the recurrent expenditure will cost N126.87 billion which is 61.09 per cent of the budget while the capital expenditure will take N80.80 billion or 38.91%.

Governor Ajimobi stated that Personnel Cost, made up of Salaries, Allowances and Promotion Arrears stands at N56.04 Billion or 26.99 per cent while overhead cost accounts for N20.04Billion which is 9.75%, adding that N50.79bn or 24.45 is meant for the Consolidate Revenue Fund Charges to sum up the total Recurrent Expenditure of N126.87 billion.

OYO ASSEMBLY PASSES N173BN APPROPRIATION BILL INTO LAW

The Oyo State House of Assembly on Tuesday passed N173billion appropriation bill into law.
Governor Abiola Ajimobi had presented the budget for the 2016 fiscal year to the state legislature a few weeks ago.

The total figure was put at N173,769,404,444 billion by the state lawmakers.

The breakdown shows that N100,651,599,183 billion is for recurrent expenditure, while N73,117,805,261 billion is budgeted for capital expenditure.

The initial amount presented by the governor was N165,097,845,486 , but the recurrent expenditure now has an upward review of 8.7 per cent, capital expenditure 0.05 per cent and the budget size has a total increase of 5.2 per cent.

Election Tribunal dismisses Ladoja’s petition against Ajimobi

The Oyo State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal has dismissed the petition filed by the candidate of Accord, Sen. Rashidi Ladoja against the election of Governor Abiola Ajimobi of the All Progressives Congress (APC).

FANI - KAYODE AND THE APC STRANGE DREAM OF A MUSLIM/MUSLIM TICKET (PART 2)

Boko Haram: Femi Fani-Kayode And APC Muslim/Muslim Ticket (1)

All the clever rationalisations and justifications in the world for presenting a muslim/muslim ticket will not enable us to escape this ugly tag. As a matter of fact they will simply confirm it. We have a lot of work to do in this respect and permit me to share just one of the things that we ought to do very quickly if we wish to avoid the consequences of our own folly.

We must go out of our way to redress the religious imbalance in our Interim National Executive where you have virtually ALL the KEY positions in the hands of muslims and where it is only the lesser positions that the Christians enjoy.

Gov. Ajimobi visit kidnappers’ ritual den, vows to fish out perpetrators

Governor Abiola Ajimobi of Oyo State, on Monday, led members of the State Executive Council and all the arms of the security agencies in the state and a forensic expert on an on-the-spot assessment of the forest where several decomposing bodies were found and several victims of a kidnap syndicate were rescued at the week-end in Ibadan.