The Oyo State Community and Social Development Agency (OYCSDA) has trained the newly-deployed officers of the agency on the need for team-work, dedication to duties, among other positive attitudes, so as to achieve the aims of Oyo State government, the Federal Government and the World Bank, in improving the living conditions of rural dwellers.

General Manager of the agency, Salau Jelili, who spoke on behalf of the Chairman of the OYCSDA, Babatunde Eesuola, at the induction training held at OYCSDA Conference Room, charged the new officers to dedicate themselves to their work as they have been doing at their former workplaces that made them qualify to work for the agency.

He said that the agency had implemented 788 community projects and 64 group micro projects, while nine out of 10 replication projects of 2021/2022 had been completed.

Guest Lecturer at the event, Mr. Adewole Babatunde, who was the former General Manager of the agency, took the new officers through the work implementation procedures of the OYCSDA and enjoined them to take teamwork and cooperation as important, so as to be able to achieve success.

IN another development, the Career Development and Counselling Centre of the University of Ibadan (UI) has organised a one-day seminar for over 100 members of staff who have either just retired or are about to retire in the next few months.

Director of the Centre, Prof. I. P. Onyeonoru, said the seminar was to enlighten the retirees on “living good and well after retirement.”

Dons and experts, who spoke at the training, urged the prospective retirees to change perception on retirement.

In his goodwill message, the Registrar, who was represented by Deputy Registrar, Human Resources and Development (Non Teaching Staff), Mrs. Stella O. Soola, charged the participants not to see retirement as a passport to death but rather as a visa to better living.

She advised them that it was “better to live rich than to die rich,” adding that they should enjoy the fruits of their labour rather than suffer to leave money in their accounts for their families to inherit.