…Government will get life, medical insurance policies for Amotekun personnel…The Southwest Governors have executive powers, which they exercised in setting up ÀMỌ̀TẸ́KÙN. The legal framework that the Federal Government was demanding is already embedded in the constitution. …Our Governors are already working with the legislative houses in the Southwest States in ensuring that ÀMỌ̀TẸ́KÙN be […]
Adetayo Adeleke-Adedoyin is the Head of Special Projects at the Development Agenda for Western Nigeria, also known as the DAWN Commission. The commission played an integral role in the formation of the South-west regional security outfit recently launched. The commission is also the coordinating agency at the regional level. In this interview, he spoke to […]
…it is mischievous to tag outfit as Yoruba police “Insecurity is not our way of life in the southwest. This is the region that has been exposed to the outside world for about 700 years ago. …in the western region not only Yoruba live here. Every region lives here because we are an accommodating region. […]
The Director General, Development Agenda for Western NIgeria (DAWN) Commission, Mr Seye Oyeleye, has revealed how personnel of the Western Nigeria Security Network codenamed Amotekun, will be paid. Oyeleye revealed on Your View, a breakfast talk show on TVC on Monday that each state government will recruit and remunerate the personnel according to its security […]
Businessman and Advertising Mogul Birth, Early Years and Education Chief Olu Falomo was born on August 13, 1938 in Ilesa, Osun State. He attended St. John’s Anglican School, Iloro in Ilesha for his primary school at the age of five. He later proceeded to Government College, Ibadan, for his secondary school. By the time Falomo was […]
DAWN Commission’s collaboration with UI’s research and development unit is to technically simplify the nexus between town and gown and at the same time disrupt the perceived gap that exists between university and development practitioners. Government has been called upon to, as a matter of deliberate policy, promote research by strengthening the link between academic […]
The Governor of Ekiti State, Kayode Fayemi, has tasked the Heads of Service in the six states of the Southwest to work hard and ensure the restoration of the lost glory of the civil service. Fayemi urged them to use their positions as the number one civil servants and one of the policymakers in their […]
The Director-General, Development Agenda for Western Nigeria (DAWN) Commission, Seye Oyeleye, advised the government to make agriculture attractive, especially to young men and women, for them to see agriculture as an economic activity and as a money-making business like Aliko Dangote Mr Oyeleye who noted that people were still thinking of agriculture as a hoe […]
The Ministry of Agriculture in Lagos and Ogun State, with the support of DAWN Commission and DFID/PERL (Partnership to Engage Reform and Learn) recently inaugurated an Agricultural Change Management Team to steer desired developmental changes in the States. The inauguration which took place at the ParkInn Hotel, Abeokuta, the Ogun State Capital and Shoregate Hotel, […]
• Govt Should Widen Tax Net, Not Increase Taxes The Director General of the Development Agenda for Western Nigeria (DAWN) Commission, Mr. Oluseye Oyeleye spoke on the strategy to curb insecurity in the Southwest, and how the precarious situation forced the commission to postpone its Investment Summit for the zone. Muyiwa Adeyemi (Head South West […]