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CRS A Social Obligation By Companies To Host Communities, House Speaker
By Kayode Sanni-Arewa
The Speaker of the House of Representatives, RIght Honourable Tajudeen Abbas, has described corporate social responsibility, (CSR) as a social obligation that corporate organizations should discharge to their host communities.
He stated this in Abuja on Tuesday while declaring open the public hearing on a Bill to regulate corporate social responsibility in Nigeria.
The Speaker who was represented at the public hearing by the Leader of the House, Rt. Hon Professor Julius Ihonvbere further stressed that the Public hearing was one of the legislative processes intended to provide legal status and guidance to corporate social responsibility in the country.
He urged participants to make meaningful and robust contributions adding , “the success of this Bill is dependent on your responses and contributions to the public hearing”.
Speaker Abbas also assured the committee on Corporate Social Responsibility that the House was looking forward to the outcome of the deliberations to guide the parliament in further legislative action on the Bill.
Earlier in her welcome address the Chairman of the Committee, Honourable Professor Obiageli Lilian Orogbu said the Bill was meticulously crafted through extensive consultations with stakeholders to address identified concerns in the implementation of of corporate social responsibility in Nigeria.
According to her, “the Bill seeks to give a clear definition of CSR and provide a common understanding of what constitutes responsible businesses conduct in the Nigerian context.”
Honourable Orogbu further disclosed that as the Chairman of the House Committee on Corporate Social Responsibility she had long advocated the need for a robust and comprehensive framework for CSR implementation in Nigeria.
“We have witnessed firsthand the transformative power of responsible businesses that prioritize the well-being of their employees communities and their environments. We have also observed instances where the lack of clear guidelines have led to inconsistent and sometimes inadequate CSR practices.”
She consequently observed that the Bill would ensure a baseline level of Social Responsibility and provisions for monitoring, reporting and enforcing compliance when eventually passed into law.
The public hearing was well attended by stakeholders from all facets of the economy and the general consensus was that the Bill was necessary to regulate CSR activities in the country.
Bishop Godwin Elim, the Senior Pastor at Live for Christ, aka Lifting Assembly in Abuja has said God’s Kingdom is the birthright of believers as this is not negotiable.
Naijablitznews reports Bishop Elim made this assertion on Saturday in his sermon drawing vivid examples from bible passages and real life examples.
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The All Progressives Congress, APC has won all 20 Chairmanship and 236 Councillorship seats in the Ogun LG Polls.
Naijablitznews reports that the Ogun State Independent Electoral Commission (OGSIEC) on Sunday, declared all the 20 chairmanship candidates of the All Progressives Congress (APC) winners of Saturday’s local government elections conducted in the state.
The Chairman of the commission, Babatunde Osibodu also declared all 236 APC councillorship candidates as winners of the election while presenting the official results of the polls at the commission’s headquarters at Oke-Ilewo, Abeokuta, the state capital.
Osibodu said the ruling party, APC, emerged victorious across all the 20 local government areas and 236 wards in the state by polling a total of 613,156 votes cast in the exercise which witnessed major political parties like the Accord Party (AP), African Action Congress (AAC), African Democratic Congress (ADC), Action Democratic Party (ADP) and the All Progressives Congress (APC), participating.
Other political parties that participated in the exercise included the Allied Peoples Movement (APM), All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), Labour Party (LP), Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Social Democratic Party (SDP), Young Progressive Party (YPP), Action People’s Party (APP), Action Alliance (AA), Boot Party (BP), People’s Redemption Party (PRP), National Rescue Movement (NRM) and Zenith Labour Party (ZLP).
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared Governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa as the winner of the guber election conducted in Ondo State on Saturday.
Aiyedatiwa, who is the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the election.
He polled a total of 366,781 votes to defeat his closest rival in the election, Agboola Ajayi, who is the candidate of the People’s Democratic Party in the election.
The APC cleared all 18 local government areas.
While the PDP polled a total of 117,845 votes, the Labour Party (LP) polled 1,162 votes and the Zenith Labour Party (ZLP) polled 2,692 votes.
Prof Olayemi Akinwunmi announced the result of the Ondo governorship election at the State headquarters of INEC in Akure.
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