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Olalekan Soyombo is a lawyer and Senior Special Assistant (SSA) to Governor Kayode Fayemi on Students Matters. He speaks with ’YOMI AYELESO on the 2023 presidency, youth unemployment, among others.
DR Kayode Fayemi is in his second and final term as Ekiti State governor. How will you describe his policies, especially the one bordering on education?
I make bold to say that Ekiti State education sector has witnessed unprecedented development upon the advent of Dr Fayemi as governor in October 16, 2018. Being a visionary leader and an advocate of qualitative education, he made education reform in Ekiti State, a key priority, thereby making it second to none. He signed an Executive Order on Free Basic Education and this made education in Ekiti State compulsory, giving Ekiti State children uninterrupted access to formal primary and secondary school education. All levies were revoked and it became unlawful for any government agency or local government authority to impose any fee
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SUNDAY ADEPOJU reflects on the activism or otherwise of the organised labour in 2020 and earlier vis-à-vis the workers cum public expectations as critical stakeholders in the polity, as politicians embark on subtle horsetrading ahead 2023 elections in the country.
DATING back to the precolonial era, labour movement has always been in the vanguard of the political evolution of Nigeria. It consolidated the role stronger during the prolonged military interregnum. The organised labour was the major pillar in the bitter struggle against the annulment of June that culminated in the hurried exit of the military from power in 1999. Through massive mobilisation of the citizens, the organised labour shut down the country in the demand that Nigeria return to civil rule. However, today, there is a recurrence of the expression that “the organised labour has become a toothless dog.” Unlike the expected role of the organised labour to always seek the welfare of the working population a