Author: Impact Newspaper

Wale Jagun & Mariam Akinloye The Golden Community Care Foundation, a non – governmental and community – based organization, has partnered the Lagos State Government, to give support to about 100 farmers in Ibeshe area of Igbogbo/Bayeku Local Council Development Area of Ikorodu Division. The beneficiaries were given cutlass, hoes, rakes and other farming tools at a programme themed, “Grow Your Own Farm”, which took place at the Kith & Kin Sports Centre at Owode, Ibeshe in Ikorodu, on Saturday. Convener of the community group, Ms. Patricia Okosodo, speaking with…

Wale Jagun & Bolu Orebajo (SIWES Student) The management and staff of the Lagos State University and Science University (LASUSTECH) and residents of its host communities, have welcomed the Ounje Eko Food Discount Market, as a welcome intervention from the government. The Ikorodu main campus of the institution, yesterday, Friday, September 6, 2024, hosted first of the special campus sales that would continue every Friday for the next eight weeks. Prof. Abiodun Denloye, Deputy Vice Chancellor (DVC), Academics, launched the discount market on behalf of the Vice- Chancellor, on the…

Kunle Adelabu It was celebration galore as Prince Abdulazeez Yusuf Owolewa, a Chairmanship aspirant for the Ikorodu Local Government on Thursday, bagged Masters (M.SC.) in Buisness with Human Resources Management from the University of Northumbria,p London. The colourful graduation ceremony was attended by Ikorodu indigenes and residents. Some of the Ikorodu sons at Afeez Odesanya, Akeem Sanwoola, Sulaimon Mojeed Sanni, Kazeem Elemuren, Olowu Nofiu, Kazeem Awoyade, Hameed Ganiu and kayode Badmus among others. Sulaimon Mojeed Sanni, the publisher of an online media platform, Blackbox, revealed the development on his social…

Kunle Adelabu The Commissioner for Information & Strategy, Lagos State, Mr Gbenga Omotosho, has given commendation to the Governor of the state, Mr Babajide Sanwo – Olu, on the rating of the state as the 6th best city in the world for nightlife. Lagos was named by the Time Out Magazine published by Time Out Group. It operates in 333 cities in 59 countries. It started as a London-only publication in 1968. The five cities ahead of Lagos are: Rio de Janeiro in Brazil, Manilla in Philippines, Berlin in Germany,…

Wale Jagun The Lagos State University of Science and Technology (LASUSTECH), on Friday, 6th September, 2024, signed the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Nigerian Institute of Transport Technology, Zaria, for the construction of an Autogas Conversion Centre in the Ikorodu campus of the university. According to LASUSECH management, the institute is also expected to collaborate with the institution in other areas of academics and consultancy services. The MoU signing ceremony, held at the Abuja Office of the Institute, with the Vice Chancellor, Professor Olumuyiwa Odusanya signing on behalf of…