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Gbolahan Ogunleye, Jokomba, Bolowotan, Bolaji Isikalu, Others Set To Challenge Agunbiade For Ikorodu Constituency I Assembly Seat Ticket

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Kunle Adelabu & Wale Jagun Another political season is here when politicians jostle for offices at the National and State levels, with promises that they would give adequate and impactful representation to the people. Although the General Election is still about a year away, the fight to get party tickets, which many see as the most important task, has commenced. As expected, politicians started converging, aligning, re – aligning, plotting, networking and maneuvering to outdo each other and emerged as the ruling party’s, All Progressive Congress (APC) candidate. The perception…

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State APC Expresses Shock, Disbelief Over Party Chieftain’s Death

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Wale Jagun The Lagos State All Progressives Congress (APC), has expressed shock and disbelief over the death of one of the party’s Chieftains in Ikorodu, Chief Adenrele Reuben Olowu. Chief Olowu passed on early Friday at a medical facility abroad where he was receiving treatment. In a statement signed by Hon. Olanrewaju Sunmi Odesanya and sent to THE IMPACT on Sunday, the party described Chief Olowu as a committed party man. The statement also said that the late party Chieftain contributed to the deepening of democracy. “It’s with complete shock…

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Update On LG Administration: Igbogbo/Bayeku, Ijede Screen, Swear in Cabinet Members

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Kunle Adelabu – Ikorodu, Imota LGs to constitute own cabinets Tuesday Igbogbo/Byaeku and Ijede Local Council Development Areas (LCDAs) emerged as first set of councils in lkorodu division to swear – in newly appointed Secretaries to the Local Government (SLGs), Supervisory Councilors and Special Advisers. The new political appointees were screened by the members of the Legislative Arm of the two councils after which approval was given for their swearing in. The appointment list was released by the state body of the All Progressives Congress (APC) on Thursday, April 7,…

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AMA’s House Beat Pep C, Wake Up, Edybang, Others To Win Fatom School Inter House Sports

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Kunle Adelabu -School gets new Prefects Fatom School located in Igbogbo in Igbogbo/Bayeku Local Council Development Area of Ikorodu Division, Lagos State, Southwest, Nigeria, held its 3rd Inter – House Sports on Friday, April 7, 2022, with the Blue House emerging the champions. The House, named in honour of a young politician, community developer and entrepreneur, Mr Aro Moshood Abiodun, popularly called ‘AMA’, emerged winners of the sporting events held at the Police Barracks Playing Ground, along Igbogbo Road, Ikorodu. At the end of the sporting events which involved several…

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LG Administration: APC Releases SLG, Supervisors, Advisers Lists

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Kunle Adelabu -Ade Ayeni, Olambiwonninu, Niyi Odugbesi, Anifowose Femi, others make SLG list At last, the All Progressives Congress (APC) at the state level has approved and released a list of cabinet members of the 20 local Government and 37 Local Council Development Areas (LCDAs) across Lagos State. The lists, signed by Hon. Cornelius O. Ojelabi, Lagos  State APC Chairman, were released on Thursday, April 7, 2022. In Ikorodu Division, the six councils, we gathered, picked the lists of their Secretaries to the Local Government , Supervisory Councilors and Special…

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Why Not HOA?

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By Abiodun (REX) Awosanya I hardly come out for politicians during electioneering period. This will be the first. However, I do aggressively come out against them when they eventually clinged the position and the expectations and needs of the people are not met. This has been part of me since 2003. The reason for my careful personal style is because it is evidently believed that an average Nigerian politician vies for elective position to garner massive governmental resources for himself and family. Hence, I elected to not canvass for any…

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Odumosu, MC Oluomo To Oversee Lagos Parks, Garages

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Wale Jagun The Lagos State Government has set up a committee to oversee the affairs of all motor parks and garages in the state. The retired Assistant Inspector General of Police, Mr. Hakeem Odumosu (AIG Rtd), has been appointed as the Government Liaison Officer of the committee while the embattled Chairman of the Lagos NURTW, Alhaji Musiliu Ayinde Akinsanya, popularly called ‘MC Oluomo’, will chair the committee. In a statement signed by Gbenga Omotoso, State Commissioner for Information & Strategy, the statement said that the setting up of the committee…

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Ijede Must Produce Next Assembly Member, Ikorodu Constituency II Royal Fathers, Council Chairmen Declare

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Kunle Adelabu that the incumbent Member, Lagos State House of Assembly, Hon. Nurudeen Saka Solaja, will now have to contend with more than what he bargained for in his quest to seek a third term in office. In what could be described as a major blow to the lawmaker’s aspiration, the entire royal fathers in the constituency on Wednesday, April 6, 2022, made a statement that they are in support of the continuity of the rotational agreement that has been in existence for decades. The position of the three council…

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IKORODU CONSTITUENCY II (IREPODUN) AND MATTERS ARISING

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By Omolaja Kehinde Abayomi May be we should allow our pre-1999 political history in IREPODUN a peaceful REST or maybe not. May be we should remind ourselves for the records the 4th Republic political arrangement in CONSTITUENCY II specifically as regards our ‘unwritten’ zoning arrangement in arriving at the choice of our Representatives at the State House of Assembly. May be we should state in clear terms that it has been IJEDE, IGBOGBO and IMOTA turn-by-turn arrangement. May be we should add for the benefits of enlightenment and any other…

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