Day: May 7, 2019

Wedding Photos: Traditional Rulers, Eminent Personalities Storm Ibadan As Abiru’s Son Weds His Heartthrob

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Wale JAGUN It was a rapturous invasion of the city of great warriors and political capital of Southwest, Nigeria, Ibadan, by first class traditional rulers, politicians and eminent individuals from Ikorodu division as the former Clerk/Permanent Secretary, Lagos State House of Assembly and the re-elected Chairman, Ikorodu-Oga Development Association (IKODASS), Otunba Ganiyu Olusegun Abiru and his beautiful wife, married an elegant and adorable lady for their son, Olowofela. The venue of the reception, Emeritus Prof. Theophilus Oladipo Ogunlesi Multpurpose Hall located within the University Teaching Hospital, Ibadan, was filled to…

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NUT To JAMB: Release Results of Candidates Found Innocent

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Nigerian Union of Teachers(NUT) has appealed to the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) to release the results of the candidates who were not involved in examination malpractices during the 2019 UTME’s examinations. Its chairman for Lagos State wing, Mr Adesina Adedoyin, made the appeal on Tuesday in Lagos in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN). The union said the release should be for candidates who wrote the 2019 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examinations (UTME) and were found to be innocent. He said that the examination body should sieve the…

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Decongestion of Lagos Traffic Begins As Containers, Tankers Start Movement With Rail

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Beginning from today (Tuesday) containers and oil tankers would start moving goods from Lagos ports through the newly acquired Railway wagons to the north. The goods would move to the dry port in Kaduna in the North. The transport minister Rotimi Amaechi had ordered some wagons for the Lagos-Ibadan railway for the purpose. This measure was designed to ease traffic and gridlocks caused by heavy duty vehicles from Lagos and roads. PM NEWS reports that the move is to curb the perennial traffic jam in Apapa axis, the Nigeria Railway…

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100 Youths Attend Youth Entrepreneurship Summit In Ikorodu

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Jare OLUKOTUN About 100 youths attended the 9th edition of the Youth Entrepreneurship Summit (YES), themed, “Thinking Your Way Through Successful Entrepreneurship Guidance”. The summit, which was held recently at the Funcity in Ikorodu, was organized by the Golden Integrated Empowerment Foundation. The 20 widows present at the event were also given packs containing beverages and food items to mark the 2019 International Women’s Day. There were also display of hand-made articles and products made by some young entrepreneurs trained by Golden Integrated Empowerment Foundation. Hon. Babajimi Benson, Member, House…

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Event’s Photos : Eminent Personalities, Traditional Rulers, Others Grace Asipa Kaoli’s Daughter’s Wedding

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Kunle ADELABU Chieftains of the All Progressives Congress (APC), State Government functionaries, royal fathers and other eminent individuals headed to Ikorodu Division of Lagos State, Southwest, Nigeria,  onSaturday, April 27, 2019, to attend the royal and colourful wedding ceremony of Olufunmi, the beautiful daughter of Asipa Kaoli Olatunji Olusanya, the former Lagos State Commissioner for Agriculture & Cooperatives and Vice Chairman (Lagos East), of the APC in Lagos State, and her handsome hubby, Oriyomi, the son of Deacon Adelaja J.A. The wedding ceremony was held at the Patriarch Bolaji Memorial…

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Event: Photos of Adijat and Hamed’s Nikkai in Ikorodu

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Jare OLUKOTUN On Saturday 13 April 2019, families of Oyebola Waheed and Ganiu Sulaimon Sowoola were joined by hundreds of friends, associates, colleagues and well-wishers at the Government Technical College, Ikorodu, to usher their daughter, Adijat Oyebola and son, Hamed Olaniyi, into matrimony. OPREM STUDIO captured the high points of the event in the photographs below:

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FG Stops Govs From Seizing LG Allocations

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-To begin direct allocations to 774 LGAs June 1 -Defaulting banks‘ll be sanctioned -Limits daily cash withdrawal from LGA accounts to N500,000 -Any transaction above N500,000 must go via cheques, e-transfer -NGF keeps mum THE Federal Government, yesterday, drew the battle line with state governments over financial autonomy for local councils. Alarmed by the continuous misuse of cash allocated to local councils across the country by state governments through the State Joint Local Government Accounts, SJLGA, the federal government outlawed the meddling of states in council allocations via the newly…

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