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Top Corporate Executives Tour Senator Abiru Innovation Lab, Laud Initiative

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Kunle Adelabu The initiative of the Senator representing the Lagos East Senatorial District, Mukhail Adetokunbo Abiru, FCA, aimed at equipping and empowering youths in his district with technological, business and digital skills, has received commendations from boardroom gurus and top corporate executives. The banks and corporate executives who visited the Senator Abiru Innovative Laboratory (SAIL) in Ikorodu on Monday, August 29, 2022, to assess the quality of training, faculty and facility for possible partnership and employment opportunities for participants, gave the commendations. SAIL, an initiative of the Tokunbo Abiru Constituency…

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Igbogbo 2022: Adeboruwa Hosts Lads, Lasses Brigade Officers

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Mariam Akinloye Officers of The African Lads and Lasses Brigade, Lagos State Command, have paid a courtesy call on the Adeboruwa of Igbogbo, His Royal Majesty, Alaiyeluwa (Oba) Semiudeen Orimadegun Kasali, Emugoriade II, in his palace in Igbogbo. The visit was part of the 2022 8-day Biennial Leadership Training Camping of the Command which took off last Sunday at the Lagos State Civil Service Model College, lgbogbo. The training is themed, ‘Engaging The Youths For A Maximum Productivity’, and tagged, ‘Igbogbo 2022’. While receiving them in his palace, the royal…

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Pepc Foundation Supports Students With Educational Materials In Lagos

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Kunle Adelabu The much awaited ‘Back to School’ initiative of the Pepc Foundation, a Non – Governmental Organisatiion (NGO) based in Nigeria and United States of America (USA), which has been impacting across councils in Lagos State with its humanitarian gestures for about five years, kicked –off on Tuesday, August 30, 2022. The team has been distributing educational items such as school bags, socks, branded exercise books, calculators, pencils, pens, erasers and sharpeners, as part of the foundation’s educational support for school children’s resumption annually. About 400 students were presented…

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African Church Brigade Converge On Igbogbo For 8 – Day Training Course

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Mariam Akinloye This year’s biennial Leadership Training of The African Lads and Lasses Brigade has commenced today in Igbogbo, Ikorodu Division of Lagos State, Southwest, Nigeria. The 8 – day camping holding at the Lagos State Civil Service Model College, Igbogbo, was officially declared opened by the Honourable Commissioner for Agriculture, Lagos State, Ms Abisola Ruth Olusanya. The training, which is themed, ‘Engaging The Youths For A Maximum Productivity”, is tagged, ‘Igbogbo 2022’. Also at the opening of the camp were His Royal Majesty, Oba Semiudeen Orimadegun Kasali, the Adeboruwa…

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No One Is Exempted From Paying Waste Bills – LAWMA

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Our Editor The Managing Director/CEO of Lagos Waste Management Authority (LAWMA), Mr. Ibrahim Odumboni, has called on residents to support efforts of the Authority to rid the environment of filth by paying their waste bills promptly. Odumboni said payment for waste services is very crucial to achieving the State’s vision of establishing a cleaner and liveable environment, adding that no one is exempted from paying waste bills, regardless of occupation or societal status. “We want to appeal to all residents to make it a duty to pay their waste bills.…

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Lagos Business Woman, Socialite, Alhaja Sukurat ‘Shine Shine’ Sanni, Donates Ultra – Modern Health Centre To Commemorate 60th Birthday

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Wale Jagun & Mariam Akinloye -Friend supports with an ambulance, medical facilities The Primary Healthcare sector in Ikorodu received a massive boost on Friday, August 26, 2022, as a popular Ikorodu – Born socialite and successful business woman, Alhaja (Chief) Shukurat Modupeola Abimbola Sanni, popularly called ‘Shine Shine’, donated a fully equipped ultra – modern health care building at the Ita – Elewa Primary Health Centre, Ikorodu. The medical facility was commissioned by the Governor of Lagos State, Mr Babajide Sanwo – Olu and Ayangbure of Ikorodu, His Royal Majesty,…

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Massive Turnout As Ikorodu Hosts Fitness Festival Season II

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Kunle Adelabu It was yet another opportunity for residents of Ikorodu Division, especially the youths, as they converged and engaged in fitness exercises to keep their mental alertness and physical body in shape. Hundreds of residents, some of whom were elderly persons, had great time exercising their bodies with good music at the seaside of lagoon. The occasion was the second edition of the Ikorodu Fitness Festival held at the Metro Ferry Terminal, Ebute – Iga, Ikorodu West Local Council Development Area (LCDA) of Ikorodu Division, Lagos State, Southwest, Nigeria.…

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Ikorodu Tourism Offers Free Travel Training For Residents

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Mariam Akinloye A free travel and tourism training has been offered by the Ikorodu Tourism Group (ITG), under the Chief Associate Foundation, to develop new set of travel tourism professionals. A total of nine participants who have a minimum of National Diploma (ND), benefited from the one week training which was organised in collaboration with Forthmove Travels and Zeezah Travels. The training was held at the ITG office at the Ikorodu garage, where participants were engaged in intense classes by seasoned professionals in the industry. Facilitator of the training and…

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Opinion: A Formula for Democracy 4: The Executive

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By S. O. K Shillings The executive arm articulates and implements the policies and programmes of government. In the parliamentary system, it is the Prime Minister and the cabinet that is called ‘Government’. The people must decide the amount of power to invest in the ‘prime’ ruler and also the mode of choosing him. These two factors determine the kind of person who could emerge and the strength of enforcement of state policy directions. In the presidential system, it is the President that has both powers of the head-of-state (a…

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HR Professionals Critical To Business Survival- Expert

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Wale Jagun Mr Victor Adebayo, Chief Operations Officer, CIG Group, has described Human Resources (HR) personnel as change agents critical to the survival and sustainability of businesses and organisations in the country. Adebayo made the assertion at the 46th Induction Ceremony of the Chartered Institute of Personnel Management of Nigeria (CIPM) in Lagos on Thursday. Speaking on “Optimal Performance: HR as a Change Partner”, Adebayo noted that the 21st-century human resource professional must be able to anticipate change and come up with practical solutions. This change initiative, he said, was…

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