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HAJJ 2025: Lagos Announces New Fare, Fixes January 31 As Deadline For Payment

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Our Reporter The Lagos State Muslim Pilgrims Welfare Board has announced N8,784,085.59k as the new Hajj fare for intending pilgrims embarking on the 2025 Hajj exercise in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia through the State. The new fare was announced by the Board Secretary, Mr. Saheed Onipede, during week, sequel to the announcement of the 2025 Hajj fare by the Chairman/CEO of National Hajj Commission of Nigeria (NAHCON), Prof. Abdullahi Saleh Usman for the country. According to the statement, the Board urges intending pilgrims who had completely paid the initial…

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Hon Aro Moshood Fulfills Another Campaign Promise, Purchases New Transformer For Ilado – Inu Community

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Wale Jagun The representative of Ikorodu Constituency II in the Lagos State House of Assembly, Hon. Aro Moshood Abiodun (AMA), has continued to endear himself to the electorate fulfilling one electoral promise after the other. His latest gesture is the purchase of a transformer for the Ilado – Inu community in Igbogbo, Igbogbo/Bayeku Local Council Development Area (LCDA), a thriving community which has been left in darkness for about a year with the economic and social lives negatively affected, after its old transformer broke down. In a release on Wednesday…

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Ayangbure Bags Honorary Doctorate In Business Administration From CALEB University

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Wale Jagun -KOLUJO felicitates Monarch The Ayangbure of Ikorodu, His Royal Majesty, Oba (Engr.) Kabir Adewale Shotobi, the Ayangbure of Ikorodu and the 1st Permanent Vice Chairman, Lagos State Council of Obas and Chiefs has been bestowed with a Honorary Doctorate Degree in Business Administration by the CALEB University in Imota. Oba Shotobi, who owns a chain of businesses was conferred with the honour on Tuesday. Meanwhile, the KOLUJO Team of Comrade Japheth Odesanya, the Chairmanship aspirant for Ikorodu Local Government in the forthcoming 2025 election has felicitated the monarch.…

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Lagos Holds Leadership Training For State, LG Community Development Bodies

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-Our Reporter Urges ownership of govt projects Lagos State Government has urged members of Community Development Associations (CDA) and members of the Community Development Advisory Council (CDC) to safeguard government projects in their communities by taking ownership of these projects. Special Adviser to Mr. Governor on Rural Development, Dr. Nurudeen Agbaje, gave the charge in his keynote address delivered at a leadership training held at Secretariat, Alausa in Ikeja. He disclosed that in the last six years, the administration of Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu has continued to affirm the pivotal role…

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Lagos Female Council Bosses Pledge Support For New Speaker Meranda

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Mariam Akinloye The emergence of the first female Speaker of Lagos State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon.Mojisola Lasbat Meranda, has continued to generate interesting developments and support for her is coming in torrents. Hon. Meranda, held the position of Deputy Speaker until last week when Hon Mudashiru Obasa was removed by the members of the House for gross misconduct. The latest wave of support is coming from none other than the Speaker’s gender constituency serving as elected Chairpersons in various Local Governments across the state. In a statement by the…

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Ikorodu LG Chairmanship: Majekodunmi Ibrahim Olayinka Unveils Fresh Ideas For Sustainable Council Area

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Kunle Adelabu Indeed, the Ikorodu Local Government needs not just fresh, but also innovative and implementable ideas to be sustainable, and that is what a young man, Majekodunmi Ibrahim Olayinka, FCTI, CNA, B.Sc, M.Sc, MBA, MILR, has offered to the residents and electorate of the indigenous council in his manifesto upon which he is seeking their mandate to lead as the Chairman. Yinka Majekodunmi who is well-known within the Ikorodu political firmament is aspiring to lead the council on the platform of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), a party…

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LASUSTECH Set For 2nd Founders’ Day Celebration

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Wale Jagun The Lagos State University of Science & Technology (LASUSTEC), is set for the celebration of its second Founders’ Day. The celebration themed, ‘Getting It Right In A New University’ is slated for 10: 00am at the 500 – Seater Auditorium, College of Agriculture, LASUSTECH Ikorodu main campus on February 3rd, 2025. According to the institution’s management in a statement on Tuesday, Prof. Adesegun Fatusi, Vice Chancellor, University of Medical Science, Ondo, Ondo State, will be the keynote speaker while Prof. Olumuyiwa Odusanya, VC LASUSTEH is the Chief Host.…

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Ways Subsidy Removal, Tax Reform Are Helping Nigeria – Rep. Jimi Benson

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Kunle Adelabu The Chairman, House of Representatives Defense Committee, Rep. Babajimi Benson, has stated that the implementation of subsidy removal and the proposed tax reform of the new administration have made more funds available for developments. Rep. Benson, who is representing the Ikorodu Federal Constituency in national assembly, explained the foregoing as one of the many issues that he addressed last weekend at the commissioning of the 3.6km Erunwen Road. He also said that the reforms have made the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) to stop borrowing to pay for…

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Andu Family Of Igbogbo Donates Phototherapy Unit To General Hospital Ikorodu

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Wale Jagun In remembrance of their father and in fulfilment of their pledge the family of Late Pa Musibau Andu Sokefun donated a phototherapy equipment to the General Hospital Ikorodu. The family had raised funds for the purchase of the equipment at the firdaus prayer for late Andu Sokefu, last December at the Igbogbo Central Mosque. The Andu Family led by Alhaji Yahya Andu, the Bobaselu of Igbogbo kingdom, donated the equipment December 27, 2024. They were received by Dr Taiwo Hassan, Medical Doctor/Chief Executive Officer, General Hospital Ikorodu, with…

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Rep. Benson To Ikorodu Constituents: More Roads, Other Projects Coming To Ikorodu

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Kunle Adelabu & Mariam Akinloye -Commissions 3.6km Erunwen Road The Ikorodu Federal representative in the House of Representatives, Rep. Babajimi Adegoke Benson, is not showing any sign of tiredness at all on his quest to develop Ikorodu infrastructurally, especially in terms of road networks. Rep. Benson, who said that there are over 20 projects that he has facilitated which are ongoing aside from the completed ones that his constituents have lost counts of, also listed more projects including a flyover bridge from Ogolonto, completion of Agbede to Ita – Oluwo…

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