Category: Community

Wale Jagun The local vigilance group in Ikorodu, ‘Onyabo’, on Thursday, March 5, 2020, made a major breakthrough in containing the menace of cultism and killings that have eaten deeply into the fabric of Ikorodu Division of Lagos State, Southwest, Nigeria, as a kingpin of one of the cult groups, Saka Gbegira, was arrested. He was arrested at Itunpate after he allegedly killed one Moses Eromosele, 25, from Edo State. Gbegira was allegedly arrested with a gun used in killing Moses at Kokoro-Abu on Thursday. Cult activities have been disturbing…

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Kunle Adelabu It has been revealed that the dream of the founding fathers of the Ikorodu Division Resource Development Group (IDRDG) was to replicate the same edifice built as the Ikorodu Town hall in other major towns in the division. This was revealed by the immediate past Secretary of IDRDG and the Chief Executive Officer of the HOMAT Group of Schools, Alhaji Amusa M.T Olawale, in an exclusive interview with THE IMPACT. While speaking on plans of the IDRDG for the development of the division, Alhaji Amusa stated that the…

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Kunle Adelabu The Deputy Leader of the Onyabo Vigilance Command in Ikorodu and the Akogun of Batoroland, Akogun Olanrewaju Olabinjo, has alleged that police and residents’ attitudes are promoting cultism and other criminal acts in Ikorodu Division. He also described the forthcoming security summit being proposed by the Ikorodu Division Youth Initiative Movement (IDYIM) in conjunction with the Nigeria Bar Association (NBA), as too elitist for failing to carry along major stakeholders. Akogun Olabinjo spoke with THE IMPACT at his Ireshe road office in Ikorodu recently While reacting to the…

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Kunle Adelabu Two suspected members of Eiye cult group were brutally killed in Ikorodu on Sunday (yesterday) during a bloody clash between rival cult groups in Ikorodu. According to eyes witnesses, Fast Money and Eti (nicknames), two suspected notorious Eiye members were lying in the pool  of their blood after the surprise attack by the Axe cult group, also called ‘Aye’ on Sunday. It was also gathered that in a counter-attack launched in the evening on Sunday by the Eiye group, one suspected Ake member was killed. THE IMPACT gathered…

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Kunle Adelabu Paul Iwapele, 35 years, a painter and native of Ondo State who resides at Igbe Lara, Igbogbo, has confessed to raping his wife’s daughter, (name withheld), aged 3, four times since January 2020. While speaking with THE IMPACT at the Onyabo Vigilance Group Command Headquarters in Ikorodu, the suspect, who is now in the police custody, claimed that he did not know what came over him when he engaged in the heinous act. According to Kemi, 35, mother of the victim, she started relationship with the suspect about…

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Kunle Adelabu The Lagos State Police Relations Officer (PPRO), Mr DSP Bala Elkana, has revealed to THE IMPACT that a special unit within the Police Force has taken over the matter involving missing 4year old Pamilerin Babatunde. The missing child, who reside at N0 3, Agboola Street, Lambo– Lasunwon community, popularly called LASPOTECH First Gate, was declared missing on Sunday, February 16, 2019, and has not been seen since then while the matter has been reported at Shagamu Road Police Station in Ikorodu. It was gathered that the transferring of…

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