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Comrade Makanjuola Takes Over As President Ikorodu North Students’ Union

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Wale Jagun It was an historic moment as a new executive council for the Ikorodu North Students’ Union, was inaugurated to steer the affairs of the teeming students in the council. At the inauguration ceremony, which took place at the Isiwu Town Hall, Comrade Makanjuola Haddy Adekunle took oath of office as the second President of the union. Members of his excos are: Ajetomiwa Taiwo Awolesi (Vice President), Tijani Ikimot Adebisi (General Secretary), Mabodu Hazeezat Opeoluwa (Assistant General Secretary), Atunrase Omotoyosi, (Welfare director) Oladunni Halimah, (Financial Secretary) and Ogunlaru Stephen…

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Sanwo – Olu Reappoints Gawat, Ajetunmobi As Media Aides

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Wale Jagun Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu has reappointed two media aides, Jubril Gawat and Wale Ajetunmobi. The duo’s appointments were approved by the Governor in separate letters to them and signed by the Head of Service (HOS), Mr. Hakeem Muri-Okunola. According to the HOS, the two appointments take immediate effect. Gawat, a celebrity digital media influencer and strategist, served as the Governor’s Senior Special Assistant (SSA) on New Media during Sanwo-Olu’s first term. He returned to the senior role. Ajetunmobi, a versatile and decorated reporter with The Nation newspaper,…

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IDPIL Sets To Give LG Primary School, Oreta, Facelift

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Kunle Adelabu -Describes state of school appalling Disturbed by the terrible state of structures which accommodate about 350 pupils in Local Government Primary School, Oreta in Igbogbo/Bayeku Local Council Development Area (LCDA) of Ikorodu Division, Lagos State, Southwest, Nigeria, the Ikorodu Division Peace Initiative Limited/GTE (IDPIL/GTE), has decided to step in and give the school a facelift. THE IMPACT gathered that the main structure in the school was built in the 1970s, while the other was constructed in 1948, when the school started operation. While the former’s roof is in…

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LASU Will Be Admitting Students Into 20 New Programmes – Prof. Omobitan, DVC

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Wale Jagun The new Deputy Vice-Chancellor of the Lagos State University (LASU), Ojo, Lagos, Prof. Olufunsho Abayomi Omobitan, has revealed that the prestigious institution will be admitting students into 20 new programmes recently approved by the National University Commission (NUC). He explained that the newly approved programmes provided the opportunity to offer admissions to qualified students from Igbogbo and other interested candidates with prerequisite O’level qualifications, and urged that prospective students should take advantage of the new courses which, according to him, are not on the JAMB portal. Prof. Omobitan…

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Sanwo – Olu Unbundles Lagos Health Sector, Creates Six Primary Care Districts For Improved Coverage

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Wale Jagun  -Appoints 11 Permanent Secretaries, deploys 7 to healthcare Newly established Primary Health Care (PHC) districts in Lagos State now have administrative powers to roll out universal health services to the residents, with the appointment of seven Permanent Secretaries by Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu to supervise their operations. These appointments were the single largest in the State’s health care system and reflected the Governor’s unprecedented move to expand health coverage for Lagosians in low-income communities. For the first time, medical practitioners in the public service sector were elevated to the…

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Igbogbo Community Honours One Of Its Own, Prof Omobitan, On His Election As LASU DVC

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Kunle Adelabu -Adeboruwa charged honoree, other scholars to mobilise academics from Igbogbo towards development The Igbogbo community has honoured one of its own, Prof. Olufunsho Abayomi Omobitan, on his recent emergence as the Deputy Vice Chancellor (Academics), Lagos State University (LASU), Ojo, Lagos. The royal father of the ancient Igbogbo community, His Royal Majesty, Oba Semiudeen Orimadegun Kasali, the Adeboruwa of Igbogbo, and other eminent of sons and daughters of the community, gathered on Sunday, July 9, 2023, to celebrate the scholar who is the second indigene of Igbogbo, that…

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Tinubu Plans N8k Monthly As Palliative For 12m Nigerians

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President Bola Tinubu has asked the senate to approve a borrowing request of $800 million. The president’s request was in a letter read by Godswill Akpabio, senate president, during plenary on Thursday. Tinubu, in the letter, explained that the loan will be used to scale up the national social safety net programme. He said the new borrowing will be sourced from the World Bank. He assured that the federal government will transfer the sum of N8,000 monthly to 12 million poor and low-income households for six months. He said the…

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Renew Your Commitments Towards Community Development, Adeboruwa Charges Igbogbo People

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kunle Ade;labu The Adeboruwa of Igbogbo Kingdom, His Royal Majesty, Oba (Barr.) Semiudeen Orimadegun Kasali, Emugoriade 1, has charged indigenes of ancient Igbogbo community in Ikorodu division of Lagos State, Southwest Nigeria, to renew their commitments to the community. The revered royal father expressed his dissatisfaction over the involvement of Igbogbo indigenes in the affairs of the community, and charged sons and daughters of Igbogbo, in various positions of authority to use such for the development of the community. Adeboruwa made the clarion call at the Rotary Centre in Igbogbo,…

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Market Street Construction: Igbogbo/Bayeku LCDA Boss Assures Completion As Contractor Moves Back To Site Months After

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Kunle Adelabu -Work begins on Geregere ‘death trap’ The Chairman, Igbogbo/Bayeku Local Council Development Area (LCDA) of Ikorodu Division area of Lagos State, Builder Sesan Daini, has assured that the Market Street project will be completed in the next one or two months. Work resumed on the project a few days back, after it stopped months back. Daini gave the assurance at the Igbogbo/Bayeku LCDA Secretariat office, on Monday, while responding to questions by our reporter. He said that the council is fully prepared to complete the project after suffering…

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Sanwo – Olu Congratulates Soyinka At 89

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Mariam Akinloye The Lagos State Governor, Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has congratulated literary giant and Nobel Laureate, Prof. Oluwole Soyinka, on the occasion of his 89th birthday. Governor Sanwo-Olu in a congratulatory message issued on Wednesday by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr Gboyega Akosile, described Prof. Soyinka as “a quintessential scholar and literary icon who has used his position and experience to contribute positively to literature, academics and governance globally.” Prof. Soyinka, a 1986 Nobel Prize in Literature winner and the first sub-Saharan African to be honoured in that category, will…

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