Category: Community

Kunle Adelabu -Community to host summit Members of the Ijede Development Foundation (IDF ) has stated that the group received the sum of ten million (N10million) in the last six years for improvement  of the quality of education and human capital development in Ijede Local Council Development Area (LCDA) of Ikorodu Division of Lagos State, Southwest, Nigeria. It was also revealed that over 129 students of Ijede were awarded bursary awards of N50, 000 each during the period under review. At the ceremony in honour of the IDF’s sponsors, it…

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Kunle Adelabu – Unveil official fabric (Ankara) for the weeklong event Massive mobilization has commenced towards a successful 2021 Igbogbo Day Celebration as the Adeboruwa palace and chieftains of the Igbogbo Day Planning Committee engaged Small and Medium Businesses operating in Igbogbo, towards mobilising them for this year’s celebration. At the meeting held at the Adeboruwa palace in Igbogbo on Tuesday, October 12, 2021, business owners were charged to be fully part of this year’s celebration through financial and moral support. This year’s celebration, which is the 33rd edition of…

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Kunle Adelabu The Adeboruwa of Igbogbo, His Royal Majesty, Oba (Barr.) Semiudeen Orimadegun Kasali, and his Council – of – Chiefs, have enjoined women to stay indoors from the night of Monday, September 20, 2021, till the morning of Tuesday, September 21, 2021, as part of the arrangements for ‘Oro’ Meri  festival. The Igbogbo community usually observes Oro festivals – ‘Abosan’ and ‘Meri’, twice a year with the first one held about a month ago. The traditional festivals are part of the age – long rites which the people of…

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Kunle Adelabu Chieftains and members of the Lantan Onanusi Chieftaincy family of Igbogbo in Ikorodu Division of Lagos State, Southwest, Nigeria, on Friday, July 9, 2021, installed High Chief Tajudeen Alade Duduyemi Onasanya, the Odofin of Igbogbo, as their head. Chief Onasanya hails from the Saaogun branch of the Lantan Onanusi chieftaincy family. He was installed at the home of the former head of the Lantan Onanusi family at Itun – Abosan (Chief Osho – Ashafa) in the presence of chieftains and members of the three major branches of the…

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Kunle Adelabu & Mariam Akinloye Mr Rotimi Erogbogbo, Chairman of the Ikorodu – Oga Development Association (IKODASS), has stated that the need to reconnect with the lost societal values, tradition and culture is the major reason for the introduction of the monthly ‘Time – Out with Octogenarians’ in Ikorodu by his leadership. The programme, which is the initiative of IKODASS, commenced on Saturday, June 20. 2021, and is being powered by the EROZ Place, a Bar and Wellness Centre located on Borokinni Street, Aga, Ikorodu. At the gathering, the 30…

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Kunle Adelabu 60 communities located along the Itamaga – Ijede road which is currently under reconstruction by the Lagos State government, have cried out to Governor Babajide Sanwo – Olu, and the Majority Leader, Lagos State House of Assembly and the representative of the Ikorodu Constituency I, Hon. Sanai Agunbiade, for urgent intervention in the project. In a ‘Save Our Souls’ letter by over 60 Community Development Committee (CDAs) addressed to Hon. Agunbiade, the CDAs, under the aegis of Committee on Ijede Road Rehabilitation (COIR), said that they are bringing…

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