Friday 27 September 2013

BABAKAWO COMPUTER SERVICES LTD


BabaKawo Computer Services Limited is a registered and indigenous Computer Engineering Consultancy Company established for the purpose of rendering its professional services to Private Individuals, Corporate bodies, Government Parastatals and International Organizations.
We specialize in the following areas of Computing:
·         Computer Systems maintenance and repairs
·         Installations and Repairs of Computer Networks (wired or wireless)
·         Installations
·          Repairs of Modern Communication Equipments
·         Supply, Installation & Configurations of Computer Hardware Systems
·         IT Solutions, Software Engineering and Repairs
·         Systems Design Development and Analysis
·          Internet Services including VSAT installations and maintenance
·         Seminars, Workshop and Computer Literacy & Development Programmes
·         We provide a very high degree clientele relationship using our group professionals and dedicated engineers.


OUR PRODUCT
Configuration and Updating of New Computer Systems
Category: Computer Repair Services
Price:N3,000

BROWSING
Night Browsing
Price: N500
Five Hours Internet Session
Price: N600
Three Hours Internet Session
Price: N400
Two Hours Internet Session
Price: N300
One Hour Internet Session
Price: N200
30 Minutes Internet Session
Price: N120

BABAKAWO COMPUTER SERVICES LTD is the Ogun State Partner of Skystar Global Network.  A Symbiotic relationship that will continually bring the fastest VSAT based internet service to the Good People of Ogun State, Nigeria and the neighboring states.We have up to 10Mbps Internet connection for as low as N35,000 per month.


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Email: babakawo@gmail.com
Phone: +2348034011421
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Ikenne, Ogun 23437
Nigeria

 

Wednesday 28 August 2013

IKENNE DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION (IDA)




IKENNE DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION (IDA), established since 1977, is the representative body of the people of Ikenne-Remo, Ogun State of Nigeria, through which the indigenes organize themselves for holistic approach to the Social, physical infrastructural and health development of this small community with a human population of less than 0.400 million. To be very specific, Ikenne-Remo is a community reputed to be 'second to none' in the sphere of Community Development in Ogun State of Nigeria. Her Volumes of developmental activities earned her the seat of the Ikenne Local Government in 1991, regardless of its small size.It is symbolic of the IDA to set aside the last week in October and the first week in November of every year to celebrate development in the town. This is a period during which all indigenes converge at home to commission the projects executed through self-development efforts of some notable public-spirited indigenes during the year. The first Saturday in November marks the grand-finale ceremony of the annual events tagged “EREKE DAY”. Since 1977 to date, the IDA has successfully executed, donated and dedicated for use the following health and physical-social developmental projects:
  • A Community Hospital, which has now been upgraded to a General Hospital by the Ogun
State Government.
  •  Equipment and drugs to the Ikenne Local Government Primary Health Care Centre &
Maternity Ward.
  • Some bore-holes in some quarters where the problem of access to portable water is hitting
hard on the indigenes.
  • Ikenne Community High School in 1980, which has now been taken over by the Ogun State
Government.
  • Facilitated the relocation of the Faculty of Basic Medical Sciences of the Obafemi Awolowo
College of Health Sciences, Olabisi Onabanjo University to Ikenne, by single-handedly
providing the land, executing the construction and donation of all the building complexes, access
roads, electricity transformer and boreholes on the Ikenne Campus of the university.
  •  An ultra-modern building complex for use as the Ikenne Divisional Headquarters of the
Nigeria Police. 8. Classroom blocks in all its four (4) public primary schools.
 An ultra-modern Post Office Complex & Post-Master's Quarters.
 An ultra-modern Multipurpose Hall for the Community
  • Rehabilitation of street lights and some roads in the town.
  •  A modern Banking Complex now being used as the Community Bank 


THE SUCCESS STORY OF OLUFEMI ADENIJI, WHO WAS THE ACTING CHAIRMAN IKENNE LOCAL GOVT AREA, OGUN STATE (2011-2012)

While leadership to some people is an opportunity to enrich themselves, few others see it as a rare privilege to better the lots of the masses and put smiles on their faces.
Hon. (Barrister) Olufemi Sunday Adeniji, Acting Chairman Transition Committee,
Ikenne  Local Government Area of Ogun State belongs to the category of politicians who are in government to better the lots of the masses. He has not only demonstrated that he is really a man of action, but also, he has demonstrated an exemplary life of dedication, service and ultimate desire to transform the lives of his people at the grassroots.In fact, since assumption of office about a year ago, the people of Ikenne Local Government Area have had cause to smile and thank  God for giving them a leader with a high sense of dedication and service to the people. Call him a ‘God- sent’ and you may not be wrong. Indeed, to the people of Ikenne LGA, Hon. (Barrister) Olufemi Sunday Adeniji is a ‘God sent’ leader.

Despite his initial complaint of meeting the council in a state of decay, Hon. (Barrister) Olufemi Sunday Adeniji declared “I ‘m here to serve my people”. Indeed, he has proved his words going by the various laudable programmes he has carried out in almost one year in office. However, following his excellent performance, Governor Ibikunle Amosun recently after his assessment tour of the 20 local government areas, adjudged Ikenne LGA as one of the best local governments in the state. This commendation scorecard remains a direct reflection of a true visionary leader in action.

What Ikenne people are witnessing today is a realisation of Hon. (Barrister) Olufemi Sunday Adeniji's dream to delivering the dividends of democracy at the grassroots. He believes in carrying everybody along, and that is why, upon assumption of office, he did not overlook the need to consult with the various community leaders and opinion moulders, all in the bid to transform the area. Today, it has paid off, and Ikenne people can tell better.

Often times, people have had this negative notion that the third tier of government operates either appendages of the state governments or out-rightly has outlived its usefulness to the grassroots people owing to the activities of some corrupt politicians, but people like Adeniji, have proved that this wrong with their selfless services.
Being a one – time chairman of Ikenne Development Association, Hon. (Barrister) Olufemi Sunday Adeniji perfectly understands the problems and challenges facing his people. And that’s why, upon assumption of office, he rolled out a holistic programmes geared towards jumpstarting even development in the area. Prominent among the programmes, was the continued maintenance of the local government’s oil palm plantation which is  situated in Ikenne.
As one of the economic base of the council, the administration occasionally carries out weeding and pruning of the plantation. The last exercise was carried out between September and October last year. The palms were harvested after weeding as planting were also carried out in the same vein, the fruits according to the council boss had since been processed into palm oil in line with the states government’s programme on agriculture. Also, the administration boasted of collecting 1,000 day old chicks (pullets) for rearing last year. Today, the chicks are said to be doing well as various vaccine and medication were giving to the birds to boast their growth.

Apart from the administration’s concern for boasting agriculture in the area, its sustained health care programme restored the hopes of a number of indigent patients in the area and has given them reason to live a fulfilled life. His construction of a new medical centre at the now evacuated dump site in Iperu, and the renovation of two health facilities in Ogere and  Ikenne, remains  a clear testimony of his believe in the slogan that ‘health is wealth”.

Other achievements of the administration in the area of providing primary health care to the people, were the provision of equipment to health facilities, sponsoring of caesarian section and appendicetory operation of two indigent patients. Also, provision of Caesarian section and appendicetory packs to care for emergency operations, sponsoring of vision screening and provision of eye glasses and drugs to patients screened according to their needs, as well as taking care and transportation of abandoned baby welfare department in Abeokuta.

Furthermore, considering the importance of water to human life, the administration embarked on the drilling of boreholes in some communities in the area. Such communities that benefited from this project included; Ademo/Abara quarter, IIisan, Oja-ale market, Iperu, Yawa, Ikenne, Ogere market amongst others. 

Also, the administration undertook the rehabilitation of  solar borehole at Oke-Ola street, Ilisan, as well as the ancient shrine at Ikenne market, construction of open- stores at Ogere and Ikenne markets. In the area of sanitasizing the environment, the administration, carried out a number of laudable projects, including the clearing of dump sites within the local council, prominent among them was the evacuation of debris/silts from the blocked drainage system in the area, cutting of roads verges with the council, landscaping the median of the road, and procurement of reflective safety jackets for participants during environmental sanitation day exercise which the council observes monthly.

Despite facing a lot of distraction from his opponents, the council boss has remained resolute and determined to give the people the best of governance at the grassroots. 

Friday 23 August 2013

BIOGRAPHY OF CHIEF OBAFEMI AWOLOWO

OBAFEMI AWOLOWO
Chief Jeremiah Obafemi Awolowo (March 6, 1909 – May 9, 1987), commonly known as Awo and often referred to as the sage, was one of Nigeria's founding fathers. His first name, Obafemi, means 'The king loves me' and the surname Awolowo means 'The mystic, or mysticism, commands honour or respect'. A Yoruba and native of Ikenne in Ogun State of Nigeria, he started his career as a nationalist in the Nigerian Youth Movement like some of his pre-independence contemporaries and was responsible for many of the progressive social legislation that have made Nigeria a modern nation.
  He was an active journalist and trade unionist as a young man, editing The Nigerian Worker amongst other publications while also organizing the Nigerian Produce Traders Association and serving as secretary of the Nigerian Motor Transport Union. After earning a Bachelor of Commerce degree in Nigeria from a London University through correspondence, he went to the UK where he earned a law degree as an external student. While there, he founded the Egbe Omo Oduduwa, a pan-Yoruba cultural society, which set the stage for the formation of the Action Group, a liberal and nationalist political party. As Leader of the Group, he represented the Western Region in all the constitutional conferences intended to advance Nigeria on the path to independence. He was the first Leader of Government Business and Minister of Local Government and Finance and first Premier of the Western Region under Nigeria's parliamentary system, from 1952 to 1959, and was the official Leader of the Opposition in the federal parliament to the Balewa government from 1959 to 1963. In addition to all these, Awolowo was the first individual in the modern era to be referred to as Leader of the Yorubas (Yoruba:Asiwaju Omo Oodua), a title which has come over time to be conventionally ascribed to his direct successors as the recognised political leader of the elders and young members of the Yoruba clans of Nigeria.


EARLY LIFE
Chief Obafemi Awolowo was born on March 6, 1909 in Ikenne, present day Ogun State Nigeria. His father was a farmer and sawyer who died when Obafemi was only seven years old. He attended various schools, and then became a teacher in Abeokuta, after which he qualified as a shorthand typist. Subsequently, he served as a clerk at the famous Wesley college, as well as a correspondent for the Nigerian Times. It was after this that he embarked on various business ventures to help raise funds to travel to the UK for further studies.[citation needed] In 1949 Awolowo founded the Nigerian Tribune, the oldest surviving private Nigerian newspaper, which he used to spread nationalist consciousness among his fellow Nigerians.

POLITICS
Awolowo was Nigeria's foremost federalist. In his Path to Nigerian Freedom (1947) — the first systematic federalist manifesto by a Nigerian politician — he advocated federalism as the only basis for equitable national integration and, as head of the Action Group, he led demands for a federal constitution, which was introduced in the 1954 Lyttleton Constitution, following primarily the model proposed by the Western Region delegation led by him. As premier, he proved to be and was viewed as a man of vision and a dynamic administrator. Awolowo was also the country's leading social democratic politician.He supported limited public ownership and limited central planning in government. He believed that the state should channel Nigeria's resources into education and state-led infrastructural development. Controversially, and at considerable expense, he introduced free primary education for all in the Western Region, established the first television service in Africa in 1959,and the Oduduwa Group, all of which were financed from the highly lucrative cocoa industry which was the mainstay of the regional economy.

CRISIS IN WESTERN NIGERIA
From the eve of independence, he led the Action Group as the Leader of the Opposition at the federal parliament, leaving Samuel Ladoke Akintola as the Western Region Premier. Serious disagreements between Awolowo and Akintola on how to run the western region led the latter to an alliance with the Tafawa Balewa-led NPC federal government. A constitutional crisis led to a declaration of a state of emergency in the Western Region, eventually resulting in a widespread breakdown of law and order.Excluded from national government, Awolowo and his party faced an increasingly precarious position. Akintola's followers, angered at their exclusion from power, formed the Nigerian National Democratic Party (NNDP) under Akintola's leadership. Having previously suspended the elected Western Regional Assembly, the federal government then reconstituted the body after new elections that brought Akintola's NNDP into power. Shortly afterwards Awolowo and several disciples were arrested, charged, convicted and jailed for conspiring with some Ghanaian authorities under Kwame Nkrumah to overthrow the federal government. The remnants of the Action Group fought the National election of 1965 in alliance with the largely Igbo, and south-eastern NCNC. Amid accusations of fraud from the NCNC-AG camp, the NPC-NNDP won the election; the AG supporters reacted with violent riots in some parts of the Western region. Awolowo was later freed and pardoned by the military administration.He was much later appointed the Federal Commissioner of Finance and Vice-President of the Federal Executive Council, by Yakubu Gowon's military administration. This took place in the unsettled circumstances immediately preceding the Civil War.

LEGACY
Awolowo is remembered for his remarkable integrity, ardent nationalism, principled and virile opposition and dogged federalistic convictions. His party was the first to move the motion for Nigeria's independence in the federal parliament and he obtained internal self-government for the Western Region in 1957. He is credited with coining the name 'naira' for the Nigerian standard monetary unit and helped to finance the Civil War and preserve the federation without borrowing. He built the Liberty Stadium in Ibadan, the first of its kind in Africa; established the WNTV, the first television station in Africa; erected the first skyscraper in tropical Africa: the Cocoa House (still the tallest in Ibadan) and ran a widely-respected civil service in the Western Region. Awolowo was reputedly admired by Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah, and some of his disciples in the South-West have continued to invokehis name and the policies of his party, the Action Group, during campaigns, while his welfarist policies have influenced politicians in most of the other geopolitical zones of the nation.He was a Senior Advocate of Nigeria and Chancellor of the University of Ife (his brainchild) and Ahmadu Bello University. He held many chieftaincy titles, including the Losi of Ikenne, Lisa of Ijeun, Asiwaju of Remo, Odofin of Owo, Ajagunla of Ado-Ekiti, Apesin of Osogbo, Odole of Ife and Obong Ikpa Isong of Ibibioland and was also conferred with the highest national honour of Grand Commander of the Federal Republic. Many institutions in Nigeria honoured him and some regional and national institutions are named after him, including Obafemi Awolowo University in Ile-Ife, Osun State (formerly University of Ife) Obafemi Awolowo Stadium (formerly the Liberty Stadium)and the Obafemi Awolowo Institute of Government and Public Policy in Lekki, Lagos State. His portrait is on the 100naira note. He was also the author of several publications on the political structure and future prospects of Nigeria, the most prominent of which are Path to Nigerian Freedom, Thoughts on the Nigerian Constitution, and Strategies and Tactics of the People's Republic of Nigeria.However, his most important bequests (styled Awoism) are his exemplary integrity, his welfarism, his contributions to hastening the process of decolonization and his consistent and reasoned advocacy of federalism-based on ethno-linguistic self-determination and uniting politically strong states-as the best basis for Nigerian unity. Awolowo died peacefully at his Ikenne home, the Efunyela Hall (so named after his mother), on May 9, 1987, at 78, amid tributes across political and ethno-religious divides.