The Senator representing Lagos East senatorial district in the ninth Assembly, Adebayo Osinowo, is dead.
Senator Osinowo died on Monday, June 15, after a brief illness at the age of 64.
He was elected Senator in 2019 and was subsequently appointed as the Chairman, Senate Committee on Industries.
Senator Osinowo had his primary education at St. Augustin Primary School in Ijebu-Ode and his Secondary Education in Issoyin Grammar School, Isoyin.
In 1977, he started his career as a Land Officer at the Federal Ministry of Works till 1979. He then became the Managing Director at NITAL International from 1986 to 2003.
He became the Managing Director at NIMCO International Co. Ltd from 1990 to 2003. He also worked as Managing Director, at Extreme Piling and Construction Company Ltd and NIMCO Dredging Company from 1990 to 2003.
Osinowo began his political life in the second republic serving as a youth Chairman of the Social Democratic Party (SDP).
Osinowo was a four-time honorable in the Lagos State House of Assembly.
Meanwhile, Gov. Hope Uzodinma of Imo said his government would raise the state’s monthly internally generated revenue (IGR) to N5 billion in the next few years.
Uzodinma, who made the promise at the maiden stakeholders’ forum held on Friday, June 12, in Owerri to mark Democracy Day said the state currently generates N1.2 billion monthly.
He also approved the payment of the new minimum wage for Imo workers with effect from July.
The governor said that he met an internal monthly revenue of N600 million when he came on board; but had so far moved it to N1.2 billion.
He said his government had worked out the framework to achieve the new monthly target without increasing taxes or introducing new ones.
According to him, a combination of creative interventions and prudent warehousing of government receipts and inflows will do the magic.
