Economy: Better Days Ahead, Says Senate Leader

…as Charles Akinola’s mother was committed to the mother earth in Ilesa

City of Ilesa was agog on Friday as the immediate past Chief of Staff to former governor Gboyega Oyetola of Osun State, Charles Diji-Akinola gave a beffiting burial to his late mother, Mrs Beatrice Modupe Akinola.

The funeral service was held for the deceased at the Cathedral Church of Saint John, Iloro-ilesa, Osun State followed by interment and later reception of guests from within and outside the shores of Nigeria.

ln his sermon, Archbishop Adebola Ademowo urged individuals to prioritize positive contributions to the society, with fear of God and to desist from selfishness and greed in order to make themselves forever remain in the memory of the peoplepeople for good.

Late Mrs Beatrice was eulogized and described as one who lived a worthwhile life, full of impacts and worthy of emulation.

The occasion was graced by crème de la crème, captain of industries and political bigwigs including, the Nigerian Senate leaders, Senator Opeyemi Bamidele.

Speaking on the state of the nation, Senator Bamidele said with greater percentage of the nation’s 2024 budget to be committed to capital development and capital infrastructure, the citizens should be optimistic of better days ahead.

On current global economic crises and the impacts on the economy and citizens of Nigeria, the senate leader
described the mid-term budget as a fiscal document of reality; renewed hope and one that will help in resuscitating the nation’s economy.

He noted that the mid term expenditure framework sent by president Tinubu to the National Assembly is another glimmer of hope of economic turn around.

“The budget of year 2024 is going to be a budget of reality, a budget of renewed hope and a budget that will also help to chat our course as a nation. There is no doubt in the fact that this is an unusual time in the life of our country and the entire global economy is in crisis, Nigeria is not an exemption. But when the going gets tough, it is said that the tough gets going.

“As difficult as the times are it is also a time that we show the ingenuity of leadership and we have a leader today in person of his excellency President Bola Ahmed Tinubu who I know has the scientific understanding of what to be done to do Nigeria proud and he will bring to bear his own intellectuatual acumen in ensuring that our issues are addressed in a way that life will become more meaningful for Nigerians.

“And from the mid-term expenditure that they have sent to the National Assembly, it’s obvious to us that it’s going to be an unusual budget and a budget that will also ensure that a greater percentage is committed to capital development and infrastructure unlike in the past when so much percentage was dedicated to consumables.

The recently appointed CEO and MD of Nigeria Inland Waterways (NIWA), Bola Oyebamiji who was also at the event told journalists in an interview, his determination to bring to bare his wealth of experience in enhancing the nation’s water transportation system.

Speaking, Mr Charles Akinola described his late mother as a woman who lived with Christian values of courage, love and grace.

He noted that the befitting burial given to her was, celebrating the life of a woman who had been of service all over the country as teacher all her life.

He said “In the last three years, she suffered a fall but she showed sheered strength, sheered positivity. What she represents to me is that solid resolve and determination that has become a valuable that I cherish so much.

“My mother stood a course, lost the husband, a son who was the youngest and some other time, my oldest sister. But then, you would never see that, she confronted life with the determination of a somebody sticking the Christian values of courage, love and grace. So she really today, this is celebrating the life of a woman who has been of service all over the country and she had been a teacher all her life. Life of service to mankind.