Category: Community

Mariam Akinloye -New Coordinator calls for library, rehabilitation of Vocational Centre in the council The National Youth Council of Nigeria (NYCN), Ikorodu West Local Council Development Area (LCDA) chapter, has inaugurated its 4th Executive Council. Comrade Asoro Abubakri Olatunji, the new Coordinator, took over from the outgone Coordinator, Comrade Muhydeen Yusuf Olatunji, after taken oath of office with other elected officers at the Ikorodu West LCDA Secretariat hall on Thursday, June 11, 2020. Other officers that were inaugurated included Comr Ahmed Sokunbi (Deputy Coordinator), Comr Tony Afolayan (Secretary), Hon Shefiu…

Kunle Adelabu & Jare Olukotun A water project has been commissioned by the Unique Lions Club of Ikorodu for the use of the residents of the Tuagaga Community as part of the club’s annual humanitarian development programme. The water project, which was commissioned on Saturday, May 6, 2020, by the District Governor of Lions International, Engr. H.O.B Lawal, was facilitated by the Alhaji Kola Akinsanya – led Tuagaga Community Development Association (CDA). The event also witnessed the presentation of a post humous award to Late Chief Olushola Dixon (Tuagaga) and…

Kunle Adelabu Residents of Ikorodu Division have called on the Lagos State Government to ensure that more roads are fixed across the six Local Government and Local Council Development Areas (LCDAs) in the division. They also requested that Gov. Bababjide Sanwo-Olu should ensure that inner roads are given attentions while also commending his government’s efforts so far in renewing the infrastructure and other aspects of the councils across the Ikorodu division. They spoke on THE IMPACT WhatsApp platform during a discourse on the performance of the Governor Sanwo-Olu’s administration in…

Lagos State has taken an audacious step towards improving security in all communities across the State, with the inauguration of State Community Policing Advisory Committee (SCPAC) and its operations arm, State Community Policing Committee (SCPC). Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu, on Wednesday, inaugurated members of the two committees at a ceremony held at the State House in Alausa, pointing out that the event marked a turning point in the Government’s deliberate effort to re-strategise and rethink the security architecture using Community Policing Initiative as proposed by the Inspector General of Police (IGP),…

Wale Jagun The recent resurgence of wanton killings by rival cult groups across the six councils in Ikorodu Division has continued to create palpable tension as residents could no longer sleep with their two eyes closed. The residents are also afraid that the latest killings by the cult groups may go unabated if not urgently curtailed by the security men. After last week’s massacre during which about ten cultists and others were killed, the killings resumed this week with another round of gruesome murders. A suspected Eiye member was on…

Kunle Adelabu The deadly engagements among rivalry cult groups may have taken a more extreme and fearsome dimension as a video showing cultists killing an opponent has gone viral on various social media platforms. In the shocking video, about four suspected Eiye cult group, whose faces are not shown in the video, shot an alleged Axe cult group member with locally made pistols one after the other. The victim, who was wearing black t-shirt and sitting on the floor helplessly during his interrogation by his assailants and spoke mostly in…

Kunle Adelabu The resurgence of killings among rival cult gangs in Igbogbo area of Igbogbo/Bayeku Local Council Development Area, Ikorodu Division, Lagos, Southwest, Nigeria, has claimed about ten lives in about eight days. A suspected notorious killer and member of the Axe cult group, Anuoluwapo Mogaji, a 27 year-old indigene of Ikorodu popularly called ‘Dada Kettle’, and who has been on the wanted list of the Police Command in Ikorodu and the local vigilance team, Onyabo and other community policing outfits, was apprehended on Thursday, May 21,2020. He was arrested…