Category: Community

– Gesture receives commendations from council chairman, residents Kunle Adelabu CALEB University, a privately owned tertiary institution located in Imota Local Council Development Area (LCDA),  has exploited  the relationship between the ‘town’ and ‘gown’ in identifying with the residents of its host community during the current lockdown order by the government aimed at containing the spread of the COVID – 19 in Lagos State. The institution management on Friday, April 10, 2020, distributed over 3,000 food packs and countless number of loaves of breads produced by the institution to the…

Kunle Adelab -Facilitates food donation to aged, physically challenged Residents of Ikorodu division have been warned on the importance of staying at home and observe every measure stipulated by the government in containing the spread of the COVID-19 which has now affected more people and spreading to new states in the country. This warning was coming from the revered royal father, His Royal Majesty, Oba Semiudeen Kasali, the Adeboruwa of Igbogbo. He said that the entire world is currently being ravaged by the deadly disease and warned that residents should…

Kunle Adelabu The Ayangbure of Ikorodu, His Royal Majesty, Oba Kabir Adewale Shotobi has charged residents of Ikorodu to fully obey the government order asking them to stay at home in order to effectively contain the Coronavirus. The monarch, who is the first Permanent Vice Chairman, Lagos State Council of Obas and Chiefs, stated that the lockdown is temporary and that adherence would help in containment of the deadly Coronavirus as soon as possible. Oba Shotobi made this statement while addressing selected pressmen at his palace on Tuesday, April 8,…

The Lagos State Government has announced that the Easter edition of the emergency neighbourhood food markets will hold on Thursday, April 9. The State Commissioner for Agriculture, Prince Gbolahan Lawal, who disclosed this on Tuesday, noted that the neighbourhood food markets will be open in 27 of the selected public schools within 14 Local Government Areas of the State. He explained that that the neighbourhood food markets were set up to provide Lagosians access to food supplies during the restriction period, in order to prevent panic buying as a result…

Kunle Adelabu Pepc Foundation, a developmental and humanitarian non-governmental organization, has positively responded to the unfortunate CONVID – 19 pandemic that is threatening the global village and which has led to the lockdown in Lagos and Ogun States as well as the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), thereby inflicting social and economic hardship on the citizenry. The foundation, which was launched in December 2019 at Adegbose, Igbogbo/Bayeku Local Council Development Area (LCDA) of Ikorodu Division of Lagos State, Southwest, Nigeria, is aiming to provide food items for 400 households in Ikorodu…

Kunle Adelabu -Residents call for financial, food support to stay indoor It was mixed reactions on Friday, April 3, 2020, when the Lagos State Emergency Market situated at the Government Technical College, Ikorodu, was opened for the second time for trading activities. The market, which was officially opened on Sunday, March 29, 2020 and scheduled to be held every three days as an intervention for the current lockdown to enable residents replenish their foodstuffs, was unable to hold last Wednesday as scheduled. The trading activities in the market on that…