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World Youth Skill Day: Derayo Vocation Trains 216

To commemorate the 2019 World Youth Skill Day, the skill acquisition programme advocacy, Derayo Vocational Limited in collaboration with DSIgate organized a free vocational training for the youths in Oyo State.
The free skill acquisition training which held at Race Course Amphitheatre, Lekan Salami Stadium, Adamasingba, Ibadan, featured training on six different vocations, textile design, shoe making, bead making, photography, accessory making and Aso Ofi embellishment.
The Chief Executive Officer of the Company, Derayo Animasahun, disclosed that the training was put together in line with the United Nation’s July 15 World Youth Skill Day to celebrate skill acquisition all over the world.
She stated the programme is giving Nigeria and Nigerians a different direction in making the skill a first choice option, “this is where Nigeria is going, we are breaking the circle to let the people know that skill is the best, apart from certificate you need to have skill to compliment what you have.
“July 15 every year is World Youth Skill Day, which we are going to do every year to celebrate skill acquisition, to celebrate shoe makers out there, to let them know that what they are doing is different and they can make whole lot of money from it. And for Nigerians to know that it is not only white collar job, they need to have skill to compliment whatever they do.”
While speaking about the participants, Animasahun, a fashion recycler said that about 216 people participating in this year’s maiden edition of the event, hoping that the subsequent ones will attract more people even beyond the soil of Oyo State.
The youthful entrepreneur itemized vocations such as shoe making, bead making, accessory making, textile design, photography and Aso Ofi embellishment as areas where the participants received training.
As part of effort to motivate the participants, Derayo Animasahun expressed that the company has earmarked slots of scholarship for 22 outstanding participants who distinguished themselves in their chosen vocation. She list 10 slots for bead making, five for fashion designing, five for vocation skill and two for textile designing.
Animasahun called on governments, corporate organizations and individuals to support to give necessary support and priority to skill acquisition in the country, disclosed that about 10,000 public school secondary students in Oyo State will benefit from the Derayo Vocational Limited’s free vocational training slated for October this year.
She opined that it is the part of the Social Responsibility of the company to prepare the students for the future to have basic knowledge and background of vocational skill along with their studies.
“We train people on shoe making, bag making, textile design, fashion business, we are trying to enlighten people, in October this year we are training 10,000 public secondary school students for free vocational training. We are calling on government at all levels, corporate bodies and individuals to give necessary support to develop skill acquisition.”
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May Day Drama; Electricity Worker Falls Off Ladder During March Past With Governor Makinde

There was a mild drama on May 1st, 2023 in Ibadan when an electricity worker fell off a ladder during a marching parade.
While demonstrating how electric workers operate during their march before the Governor, an official of the National Union Employee of Electricity worker fell off the ladder creating panic at the event.
The scene occurred as part of the union members’ salutation and demonstration when they got to the front of Governor Seyi Makinde who cheered the various unions marching past.
In an eye witness report to papermacheonline ‘While saluting the governor, some of the union members mounted and held a ladder at the base for one of them to climb.
Upon arriving the top of the ladder, the union member showed how electricity workers cut wire.
Things however almost went awry when the climber, while descending the ladder, had to jump down when he saw that the ladder was losing its balance on the ground.
There was however confusion as regards whether the electricity workers suffered any injury from jumping off the ladder
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Why Makinde’s Deputy, Bayo Lawal’s ‘Asiwaju Ni Wa’ Chant Unsettles APC, Folarin In Oyo

– Femi Salako
The chant of the first line of Ibadan anthem ‘Asiwaju ni wa ni ipinle Oyo’ by the Deputy-Governor of Oyo State, Bayo Lawal is said to be giving sleepless night to many as it interprets the direction in the coming 2023 elections in Oyo State.
The chants by the politician was made recently in Ondo State when the leadership of Afenifere met at the home of its leader, Pa Reuben Fasoranti to endorse the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress. Lawal represented Governor Seyi Makinde in the meeting where he claimed ‘whenever there is a event, either organised by Afenifere or any other Yoruba group, Gov Makinde will always be supportive. Though we are not of the same political affiliation, but we are bound by ethnicity.
Lawal’s remarks at the meeting had a huge impact in Oyo State as many believed his message was a validation of what to come judging by the prediction that the Oyo State Governor would work with Tinubu to actualise his ambition to become the President instead of Atiku Abubakar who is the flagbearer of his party, PDP.
The indication also had a strong effect in the camp of Senator Teslim Folarin, the governorship candidate of the APC in Oyo State.
The permutation which many believed was one of the conditions given at the earlier meeting with Tinubu by Governor Nyesom Wike and Seyi Makinde had to do with the governorship elections in Oyo State in 2023.
Some pundits who observed that Governor Makinde is taking everything easy with the mind of a guaranteed success advised he should not be too comfortable citing surprises and historical political events in the past, also with regards that the presidential election precedes the governorship election.
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