FUEL SUBSIDY: Kwara Govt Registers 30,775 Indigenous Students  For Palliative

At the close of online students’ portal registration for fuel subsidy removal palliative for tertiary institutions students of Kwara State origin, a total of  30,775 applicants have successfully registered.

The technical sub-committee of the Kwara State Government Committee is expected to start verification exercise to sort, analyse, and authenticate the data submitted by the applicants online.

According to a statement made available to newsmen by Prof Shehu Raheem Adaramaja, Chairman, Government Committee on students’ palliative on Thursday 31st August 2023, successful applicants will be credited as soon as the committee completes its verification exercise.

Students’ palliative payment is one of the numerous initiatives of the Mallam Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq-led administration to mitigate the effect of the removal of fuel subsidy by the Federal Government of Nigeria. Kwara State Government has extended similar initiatives to civil servants,  traders, and artisans. These are in addition to the distribution of rice palliatives to the downtrodden in the state on a non-partisan basis.

In a related development , the Kwara State Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq has approved the reappointments of Mr. Tajudeen Kayode Aremu and Mr. Yomi Clement Adeboye as the General Managers of Radio Kwara (Kwara State Broadcasting Corporation) and the Herald newspapers respectively.

According to a statement on Thursday, August 31, 2023 by Rafiu Ajakaye, Chief Press Secretary to the Governor , the appointments take immediate effect.

Aremu, from Ilorin, was the helmsman of the state’s official broadcaster until May 29, 2023 during which he took the station to a new height — as Adeboye, a wordsmith, from Esie in Irepodun local government, was to the Herald.

The icing on the cake: there is a new General Manager for the Kwara Television. He is Mr. Razaq Ayobami Akanbi, a fine bureaucrat of many years.

The appointment mirrors a combination of experience, brilliance, people skills, integrity, and discipline.

Akanbi, who hails from Oke Ode in Ifelodun Local Government, was the immediate past Director of State Information Services at the Kwara State Ministry of Communications, one-time Director of Information at the Kwara State House of Assembly, and a former Deputy Chief Press Secretary in the Government House Ilorin. He is reputed for his great work ethics and management skills. He was Manager, News and Current Affairs Department at the Kwara State Television Authority before moving to the ministry.

With basic and secondary education in Port Harcourt and Kano cities respectively, Akanbi holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in English Language from the University of Ilorin and a postgraduate diploma in Journalism from the International Institute of Journalism Abuja.

The Governor has also approved the appointment of Alhaji Danmaigoro Zubair Ibrahim as Senior Special Assistant to the Governor on Religion (Islam) and Timothy Oluwagbemiga Akangbe as Senior Special Assistant to the Governor on Religion (Christianity). Both men acted in the same roles as Special Assistants on Religion (Islam/Christianity) until May 29, 2023 when the dispensation wound down.