Resource Group Presents N1.7m Scholarship To Students

Kunle Adelabu -Honours Best Schools, Students in Maths Competition The Ikorodu Division Resources Development Group (IDRDG) has presented the sum of N1.7million to 17 students from Ikorodu in various higher institutions as part of the group’s educational support initiative. At the presentation of cheques during the IDRDG meeting held at the Gbadamosi Conference Room, Ikorodu Ultra – Modern Town Hall, Ikorodu, on Sunday, September 4, 2022, awards were also presented to schools and students who emerged winners in the Mathematics competition organized by the group. Keme Balogun Senior College, Ibeshe…

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Lagos Assembly Passes Bill On DNA, Forensic Centre

Our Editor A bill for a law establishing the Lagos State Deoxyribo-Nucleic Acid (DNA) and Forensic centre to support criminal investigations, law enforcement, preservation of evidence for the judicial system and for other connected purposes has been passed by the Lagos State House of Assembly. The bill was passed by the House after it scaled the third reading at plenary on Monday with all lawmakers in attendance giving their approvals. The report on the bill had been adopted at an earlier sitting presided over by Speaker Mudashiru Obasa. A part…

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Lagos Physical Planning Commissioner Resigns

Wale Jagun The Governor of Lagos State, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has accepted the resignation of the Commissioner for Physical Planning and Urban Development, Dr. Idris Salako. A statement by the Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Gbenga Omotoso, confirmed the development. “This is a prelude to the restructuring of the Ministry and its agencies. “Governor Sanwo-Olu thanks the Commissioner for his services to the state and wishes him success in his future endeavours. “The Governor warns all players in the sector to respect the law or face the consequences of any…

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IDRDG Disburses Scholarship Cheques To 17 Beneficiaries Tomorrow

Kunle Adelabu 17 beneficiaries of the Ikorodu Division Resources Development Group (IDRDG) Scholarship award will get their cheques on Sunday, September 4, 2022. The list of the beneficiaries was made public by the IDRDG last week. Sen. Adeseye Kingsley Ogulewe, Chairman, IDRDG and former Minister of Works confirmed the presentation of cheques to THE IMPACT in a phone call on Saturday. “As you are aware that the Group approved the award of scholarship to seventeen (17) undergraduate students of Ikorodu Division as one of its core objectives to the development…

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LASG To Endow School Children With Skills For Productive Future – Hamzat

Our Editor The Deputy Governor of Lagos State, Dr. Obafemi Hamzat, has stated that the present administration’s massive investment in the education sector is aimed at ensuring that all school children in the State are adequately equipped with skills for a productive future. Hamzat, speaking virtually on the second day of the 2022 Lagos Education Summit held at the Eko Convention Centre, Eko Hotels and Suites with the theme: “Creating a Sustainable Fit-For-Purpose Education Model”, added that the implementation of the State government’s ‘Project Zero’ has ensured the re-enrollment of…

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Presentation Of Cheques To Successful IDPIL Scholarship, Bursary Candidates Now Sept 10

Kunle Adelabu Successful applicants for the Ikorodu Division Peace Initiative Limited/GTE (IDPIL/GTE) Scholarship and Bursary Schemes will be presented with cheques on Saturday, September 10, 2022. It is no longer September 3, as earlier reported. The Executive Secretary of the IDPIL/GTE, Otunba Ganiyu Abiru who confirmed the new date to THE IMPACT, also restated that the presentation of N20, 000, 000. 00 worth cheques to beneficiaries will hold at the Adeboruwa palace in Igbogbo. It would be recalled that screening and examinations for about 400 applicants was held at the…

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Another Individual Rehabilitates Block Of Classrooms At Salvation Army School

Kunle Adelabu The Salvation Army Primary School, Ikorodu, has received another individual intervention with another block of classrooms fully rehabilitated for the use of students who are due for resumption soon. The rehabilitation of the block which has been abandoned for several years, THE IMPACT gathered, was done by a United Kingdom – based Ikorodu indigene, Dr Junaid Sholebo. It was gathered that the classrooms with ceiling fans and white boards, are going to be supplied with chairs and tables. The intervention was coming after Asipa Kaoli Olusanya, a former…

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Vulnerable Lagos East Residents Get N130Million Abiru COVID Support Scheme In 20 Months

Kunle Adelabu A total of N130million has been paid as COVID – 19 Financial Relief Scheme to about 2500 residents of Lagos East Senatorial District by Senator Mukhail Adetokunbo Abiru, FCA. Vulnerable residents who are widows, people with physical disabilities, aged, unemployed youths and women have been receiving direct credit transfers of N5,000 each into their respective bank accounts every other month in the 20 months that the lawmaker introduced the scheme. In a statement issued on Thursday by the Special Adviser to the Senator on Media and Publicity, Mr…

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Sanwo – Olu Plans Dedicated Trust Fund For Lagos Varsities, Receives LASU Visitation Panel Report

Wale Jagun The Governor of Lagos State, Mr Babajide Olushola Sanwo – Olu, has announced its administration’s plan to set up Lagos State Tertiary Education Trust Fund, in a move that will creatively revolutionise the model for the funding of tertiary education in the country. According to the government, the funding mechanism, when it is eventually executed, will keep all the three Lagos State’s tertiary institutions on the path of sustainability. Governor Sanwo-Olu made the revelation on Thursday, when he received members of the Visitation Panel to the Lagos State…

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Ikorodu Residents, Students Commend Pepc Foundation’s ‘Back To School’ Initiative

Kunle Adelabu -Parents offer special prayers It was commendations and prayers galore from parents and students in Ikorodu, for the Pepc Foundation which distributed educational items to about 2000 students as support for their resumption back to school. The distribution exercise, tagged, ‘Back to School Initiative’, and involving given out of educational materials: School bags, Sucks, Branded Exercise Books, Calculators, Pencils, Pens, Erasers and Sharpeners, kicked off at Lekki Local Council Development Area (LCDA), Lagos, on Tuesday, August 30, and a total of 5000 students across the State is expected…

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