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Rep. Benson Holds Mega Empowerment For Constituents Today

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Jare Olukotun The representative of Ikorodu Federal Constituency, Rep.Babajimi Benson will today stage another massive empowerment programme to support hundreds of constituents in Ikorodu. The empowerment items which were basically household and business items will be distributed to hundreds of people today at Musical Village, Ikorodu. Some of the items include Mini buses, Tricycles, Motorcycles, Deep Freezers, Generators, Gas Cookers, Sewing Machines, Kiosk with freezer for SMES and Household Solar Packages. The programme is one of the diverse initiatives Hon. Babajimi Benson has implemented across the years in Ikorodu Federal…

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Lagos Deputy Gov, Presidential Aide To Chair 2024 Igbogbo Day Grand Finale

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Kunle Adelabu The Deputy Governor of Lagos State, His Excellency, Dr Obafemi Hamzat, will be returning back to Ikorodu in the next few days to chair another community day event after his coming last week for the grand finale of the Ikorodu – Oga Carnival. Come Saturday, November 30, 2024, the date for the grand finale of the Igbogbo Day, Dr Obafemi will also co – chair the ceremony alongside the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and former Deputy Governor of Lagos Her Excellency,…

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Lagos GAC To Assess National, State Assemblies Lawmakers’ Performances Too – Pastor Ojelabi, APC Chair

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Kunle Adelabu The State Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Pastor Cornelis Ojelabi, has stated that the Governance Advisory Council (GAC), the highest decision making body of the party in Lagos State, will soon embark on assessment of elected representatives at the State and National Assemblies. Pastor Ojelabi made the revelation at the graduation ceremony of 4000 educators at the SAIL Teachers Fellowship Program at Ipakodo, Ikorodu, on Friday. The party Chairman also added that the report of the Local Government assessments conducted by the body, would be made…

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OPINION: Commentary on the Proposed Lagos State Local Government (Amendment) Bill

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By S. O. K. Shillings Esq Following the Supreme Court judgment declaring Local Governments as financially autonomous, there is need for adjustments. And Lagos State that started the ‘Local Council Development Area’ idea is blazing the trail once again. Let us refresh our minds on the status quo. Lagos State started the process of creating new Local Governments during the tenure of Senator Ahmed Bola Tinubu as Governor. At the critical stage of adoption by the National Assembly, the exercise failed as it should. If Lagos was allowed to create…

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4000 Educators Equipped With Digital Knowledge Through SAIL Teachers Fellowship Program

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Kunle Adelabu The SAIL Innovation Lab has graduated 4000 teachers equipped with knowledge and skills towards bringing about positive disruption in the teaching methods in classrooms.According to report, the lucky graduands were picked from a pool of 15,000 applicants that put in for the training across the country, after a rigorous selection process. The training, which was organised in partnership with the MTN Foundation, was aimed at improving the human capital development which is the focus of the co – founders of the lab, Senator Tokunbo Abiru and wife, Mrs…

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Hon. Aro Abiodun Receives Institute’s Community Leadership Award

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Kunle Adelabu & Bolu Orebajo The Chairman, House Committee on Public Private Partnership (PPP) and representative of Ikorodu Constituency II, Hon. Aro Moshood Abiodun (AMA), has been honoured with the 2024 Community Leadership and Youth Empowerment Award by the Chartered Institute of Leadership and Governance (USA), Nigeria Chapter. The award was presented during the 10th annual gathering of the prestigious institute in Abuja, on Friday. The event was attended by dignitaries from various sectors, including AMA Smile Foundation Team, government officials, business leaders and members of civil society. Hon. Aro…

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Conference Of Igbogbo Indigenes In Public Service Gets New Executives

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Kunle Adelabu -Honours former GM Lagos Printing Corporation, 9 others The Conference of Igbogbo Indigenes In Civil and Public Service (COIICPS) has elected and inaugurated a new executive council to oversee its affairs for the next two years. The new executive council, led by Dr. Wole Ogunyemi, FCIB, an Associate Professor with the Department of Agricultural Economics, Lagos State University of Science and Technology (LASUSTECH), took over from Prince Gbenga Ogunlewe led executives that completed its term on Friday. Other COIICPS executive members that were inaugurated during the Public Service…

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Igbogbo Day Celebration’s Focus This Year Is The Civic Centre – Planning Committee

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Kunle Adelabu -Our administration’s span is unprecedented – Chairman The Planning Committee of the Igbogbo Day Celebration has said that the major focus of the annual event this year is to lay the foundation for the Igbogbo Ultra – Modern Civic Centre at its proposed site at Offin/Oreta junction, Igbogbo. Mr Balogun Titlope, Chairman, Igbogbo Day Planning Committee 2021-2024 and Mr Sulaimon Ayokunle, Treasurer of the committee, informed THE IMPACT at the Iwure ceremony which signaled the official commencement of the celebration at the Adeboruwa palace on Thursday. The Chairman,…

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2024 Igbogbo Day Kicks – Off With Special Traditional ‘Iwure’

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Kunle Adelabu The 2024 Igbogbo Day Celebration officially kicked – off today with special traditional prayer ‘Iwure’ by the traditional institution and blessings by the Adeboruwa of Igbogbo, His Royal Majesty, Oba (Barr.) Semiudeen Orimadegun Kasali, Emugoriade I. At the event organized by the Planning Committee of the Igbogbo Day Celebration at the Adeboruwa Palace were Awopa, Eleluku, Alagemo, Oloro -Abosan, Oloro -Merin, Oloro Olu – Odo, Onigunuko, Orisha -Nla, Igunfolabi Olorisha Yewa, Olorisha Oshuntade (Agunfoye) and Olorisha Obaluaye (Igbe) Others were Aborishade Olomitutu, Olorisha Oshundemilade, Elegun, Oniyewa, Ologun, Alasha,…

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Lagos’ N3 Trillion 2025 Budget Prioritises Growth In Tour, Economic Affairs Sectors

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Our Reporter -30 newly completed road projects, bridges scheduled for commissioning December – Governor Tourism and creative sector is about to take a huge leap forward in Lagos. The sector, with other key economic areas, will gulp a chunk in the State’s expenditures in the 2025 fiscal year. Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu laid bare what would be priorities of the Lagos State Government in the coming year as he presented the State’s 2025 budget to the House of Assembly, on Thursday. The Governor proposed a total of N3.005 trillion budget estimates,…

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