Day: February 16, 2023

Kunle Adelabu & Odede Efezino Kenneth (IT Student) If all the adoption by different groups is anything to go by, the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Lagos State, may be heading for a landslide victory in the coming general elections. The party’s candidates were again adopted and endorsed by all the clubs in Ikorodu. The clubs and bases, under aegis of United Area Clubs (UAC), endorsed the Presidential, Governorship, Senatorial, House of Representatives and Assembly candidates of the ruling party at the Ita – Elewa Sports Complex, Ita – Elewa,…

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Our Editor -Over 3,000 Farmers to Access Tractor Hailing Operations  The Lagos State Government has launched the Eko Agro Mechanisation Scheme through which farmers will henceforth have access to statewide tractor-hailing operations as part of measures to boost mechanised farming and ensure sufficiency in food production.  Speaking at the launch held at the Agricultural Training Institute, Araga, Epe, Commissioner for Agriculture, Ms. Abisola Olusanya, said the scheme marked another demonstrable evidence of the commitment of Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu’s administration towards the growth of agriculture and attainment of food security.   Olusanya…

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Our Editor Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has deployed a Cessna 406 aircraft for aerial mapping of the state in line with the government’s determination to ascertain the actual figures of buildings and the infrastructural strength of the State. Speaking during the inspection of the Aerial Survey Aircraft (ASA) for the 2023 Mapping and Update of the Lagos State Spatial Data Infrastructure for the eGIS Project at Dominion Hangar, Murtala Mohammed Local Airport, Ikeja, the capital of Lagos on Wednesday evening, Governor Sanwo-Olu said the aerial mapping will equally…

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Kunle Adelabu President Muhammadu Buhari, today, ordered the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to allow the old 200 naira note and the new 200, 500 and 1000 naira notes to coexist. Buhari gave the directive in a national broadcast on the challenges of the currency swap and state of the nation, aired on national stations, earlier this morning. According to the President, only the 200 old naira notes will continue to be legal tender till Monday, April 10. “I have given approval to the CBN that the old N200 bank…

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Kunle Adelabu  There was a palpable tension in Ikorodu on Wednesday evening as a Mobile Police Officer allegedly stabbed a soldier to death.  The incident, THE IMPACT gathered, occurred at Odogunyan in Ikorodu North Local Council Development Area (LCDA), in Ikorodu Division of Lagos State, Southwest, Nigeria.  According to residents, the dead soldier was said to have stabbed the said Mobile officer, who some also said is actually a Legion officer, and queried him over the service cap he had on him.  It was gathered that the officer showed his…

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