Filed under: IKARE AKOKO, OKALAND | Tags: AGUNLOYE, Akokoland, akokostar, BOROFICE, goke oluwole, NASRDA, Oka Akoko, ondo state
BOROFFICE,LP SENATORIAL CANDIDATE BAGS SPACE SCIENCE AWARD
The Oka Akoko born Labour Party Senatorial flagbearer and former Director-General of the National Space Research and Development Agency (NASRDA), Professor Robert Ajayi Boroffice, has been conferred with the 2011 Golden Merit Award in Space Science by the World Federation of Science Journalists, in collaboration with Nigerian Association of Science Journalists.
At a ceremony in Abuja, to mark the International Science Communicators Conference, the body lauded the efforts of Professor Boroffice in the successful take-off of the NASRDA, which is today the leading space agency in Africa.
The immediate past president of the Nigeria Association of Science Journalists, Mr Hamisu Mohammed, said the award was in recognition of the contributions of Professor Boroffice to the advancement of space science and technology.
He described him as an erudite scholar and distinguished scientist, whose efforts and roles in space technology would continue to serve as reference point in Nigeria, Africa and the world at large.
Boroffice, who was represented on the occasion by the Director-General, NASRDA, Dr Seidu Mo-hammed, thanked the association for the honour.
A former Minister of Science and Technology, Professor Turner Isoun, who was also honoured by the association, described the awards as inspiring and heartwarming, and, therefore, thanked the association for the awards.
Filed under: IKARE AKOKO, OKALAND | Tags: AKOKO POLITICIAN, Akokostars, Akungba Akoko, AUGA AKOKO, BODE OBANLA, goke oluwole, HON JIMI ADEDAPO, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ASPIRANT, ISOWOPO WARD, Mimiko, Oka Akoko, ondo aspirant, ondo state politicians, PDP flagbearer
MIMIKO POLICY IS DEFECTIVE…HON ADEDAPO.
A former political appointee in Ondo State and Peoples Democratic Party[PDP] flag bearer in the Akoko South Federal Constituency, Hon. Jimi Adedapo has opened up that the present administration under Dr Olusegun Mimiko has nothing to offer Ondo State people as they are out to satisfy their personal desires.
The House of Representative hopeful who was accompanied by Honourable Bode Obanla during a courtesy visit to Sunshine Daily Watch[SDW] office yesterday evening made these remarks that the present administration in Ondo State under the Labour Party[LP] is only made up of some aggrieved PDP members who are only interested in bleeding the state red under Dr.Olusegun Agagu but were prevented from doing so by the former governor.
“The point is that most of the people who are parading themselves as Labour party members are formally from the PDP, they left PDP for Labour party because they were not allowed to dip their hands into the coffers of Ondo State to satisfy their ego they now feel that they are going to have a field day in Labour party which they having already now but it is now at the detriment of the good people of Ondo State.” he said.
Adedapo further buttressed his point that it is in the open that the present governor promised to better the records of Agagu in six years in about hundred days but that everybody can see what is happening in the state now.
“He promised to turn around Ondo state in hundred days but the people have not seen his impact in about seven months now, this goes a long way to show that it is either is policy is defective or he even has nothing to offer the people of Ondo state as it is obvious to the people who are now groaning under serious hardship.” Hon. Adedapo said.
The Akoko born Prince however called on the people of Ondo State to keep faith with the PDP because it is the only Party that can continue with the developmental agenda of Dr. Olusegun Agagu who has done a lot to develop Ondo State to the level it is right now.
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BOROFFICE JOIN SENATORIAL AHEAD OF ONDO GUBER 2013
-Stories by Sam Ogunmusi
The election into the Ondo North Senatorial position may still be little bit far but some ambitious politicians may have started the race underground such a person may be Professor Ajayi Boroffice.
According to an impeccable source close to the former NASDA boss, Prof Boroffice have declared his intention to occupy both the enviable position with some subtle political moves he is now making in some quarters of recent
It was also revealed that Prof Boroffice has now become a beautiful bride that some politicians want to associate with as he is seen as an accomplished man that can steer the wee of development in Ondo State.
It was also gathered that the PDP big wings in Abuja to come and contest Ondo state Governorship election in the platform of the party.
It was however learnt that though he did not turn the invitation down outright, he might have made up his mind for now to contest the Governorship election under the Labour Party (LP) as some Labour party leaders from the south senatorial district of Ondo state especially in Ilaje already positioning them selves as the Akoko born space management expert.
In a recent development, Prof Boroffice was said to have been more convinced to go into the race as some politicians in the Labour Party especially those who were left out in the political appointments of the current Governor are already looking up to him as a person they can really work with to realized their dream.
While the support is coming largely from the Ondo south senatorial district the people from the central part of the state are still observing the political calculation in the state before making any move to support him for the position.
I believed that Prof has really make up his mind to contest and he is now almost ready to pick his running mate who might likely be some body from Ilaje Local Government in the Ondo south senatorial district we have been meeting some stake holders in the Ondo state project, I can assure you that we are really going to make it as everything is now done to see that we come out with a sound strategy to win the ticket in our party and the Governorship election in the State “the source hinted”
When contacted, Professor Boroffice refused to comment on the development but said that he was watching the political development in Ondo State and at the appropriate time he would come out with his position.
“ I am watching the political development, it is still premature to make any political statement but at the appropriate time I will let the public know my position” he said.
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BORROFICE CONDEMNS MONETIZATION POLITICS
…lauded Rt.Hon. Abdusalam for being a good Akoko Ambassador
[Stories by Alaba Aliu and Ladi Akinwale of Sunshine Daily Watch Akure]
The Asiwaju of Akoko land, Prof. Ajayi Robert Borrofice has called on Akoko sons and daughter to desist from monetization politics and rather engage in farm and small scale industries to liberate themselves from poverty.
He made this known at the palace of Olukare Oba Akadiri Momoh during the new yam festival in Ikare Akoko recently.
The Akoko-born icon pointed out that “it is a dangerous thing to make politics an investment” stressing that some of the politicians will sell their houses and landed properties to get their way into political offices and that they will be looking for ways to recoup whatever money they have invested they get into the position.
He however noted that hard work and skill accusation would bring about great improvement on the economy of Ondo state, adding that all hands must be on desk to revive the economy.
Borrofice also advised the indigenes of the state to learn from the Igbo’s who are highly industrialized and mentor others on the same business, that the older should mentor the younger ones.
In his words “we need to introduce memorization into business like Igbo will trained their apprentices and later give them seed money to start their new business, so let us be our brothers keeper”.
According to him “all hands must be on deck to lift up akoko land and to see how to encourage our youth and adult in our lands “
Borrofice lauded Ondo State Speaker of House of assembly Hon. Taofik Abusalam for being a good ambassador of Akoko land both at home and abroad.
