Day: July 31, 2024

Former Minister Charges Universities On Productivity, Employability Courses

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Kunle Adelabu & Mariam Akinloye A former Minister of Works and Sen. (Dr.) Adeseye Ogunlewe, has called on the Nigerian universities to develop courses that will address productivity and help make their students employable. Ogunlewe, who is also a former Pro – Chancellor, University of Agriculture, Abeokuta (UNAAB), gave the charge at the Maiden Employability Fair organized by the Caleb University, for its students. At the fair, the university’s students were afforded the opportunity to interact with a diverse range of industry leaders and Chief Executive Officers (CEOs), to provide…

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Iyaloja General Warns Ikorodu Youths Against Protest

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Wale Jagun The Iyaloja General of Ikorodu Division, Deaconess Busola Isikalu (Busiq), has appealed to youths in Ikorodu Division, not to participate in the planned rally starting from August 1 to 10. She enjoined the youths to embrace dialogue with the government instead of going on the streets which, according to her, can be hijacked by hoodlums. Deaconess Isikalu made the appeal in a conversation with THE IMPACT on the phone. “We are appealing to our youths and childen not to allow themselves to be used by people with an…

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163 Years After, Royal Family Continues Re – enactment Of King Kosoko’s Return To Lagos

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Kunle Adelabu-Celebration holds September 8 to 16 The King Kosoko Royal Family of Lagos, is set for another edition of the historic return of Oba Kosoko to Lagos after his sojourn in Epe, following the British bombardment of 1851. This year will make it 163 years after the return of the famous Lagos King with his lieutenants, and the third edition of the celebration. At the press briefing heralding this year’s edition of “The Return 1862”, held at the King Kosoko Memorial Museum, Ereo, Lagos, on Tuesday, the Oloja of…

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PDP Fingers APC In Intimidation Of Protesters By Traditional Institutions

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Kunle Adelabu The major opposition party, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), in Ikorodu Local Government, has alleged that the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state, is using the traditional institutions to intimidate residents planning to participate in the protest against bad government. The party, in a statement by its Assistant Publicity Secretary, Mr Sodiq Lamina, said that the APC is using Oro, Osugbo and other traditional cults to prevent citizens from the planed protest slated to hold between August 1 and 10, 2024. In the past few days, there have…

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Ooni Of Ife, Lagos First Lady, Other Professionals Mentor Lagos Teenagers

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Kunle Adelabu & Mariam Akinloye The Teenage and Youth Summer Career programme organisesd by the Focus Teens Foundation, in conjunction with the iCare Foundation of Rep. Babajimi Benson, Member, House of Representatives, kicked off on Monday in Lagos. About 150 youths and students from Ikorodu Federal Constituency are participating both at the physical venue at Regency Hall and virtual centre holding at Oriwu Senior Model College Hall, lkorodu. THE IMPACT covered activities a the virtual centre in Ikorodu. The summer programme was designed to engage the students in mentorship, career…

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OPINION: On the August Protest

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By S. O. K. Shillings As protesters and Nigerians prepare for the activities scheduled for August 1 – 10, Government propaganda machinery has geared up to dissuade people from protesting. In fact, it seems that Government propaganda is the real publicity. Government has drawn our minds to the destruction that attended the EndSars protest and the Lagos State Government has pushed it to the level of an ethnic agenda of the Igbos to destroy Lagos citing the sparing of Alaba market and Igbo motor parks during the EndSars protest. The…

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