Wale Jagun A new Olisa of Ipakodo, High Chief Oludayo Shotomiwa, has been installed by the Sekumade of Ipakodo, His Royal Majsety, Oba Bashir Sotonwa. He was installed at the Sekumade palace, Ipakodo, Ikorodu West Local Council Development Area (LCDA), Ikorodu Division, Lagos, on Saturday, February 8, 2020. Chief Sotomiwa is succeeding the the former Lisa, late High Chief A.R. O Shitta who died in 2018.
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Kunle Adelabu The Chairman of Ijede Local Council Development Area (LCDA), Comrade Fathiu Salisu Jimoh, and the Secretary, Alajede-in-Council and the Odofin of Ijede, High Chief Babatunde Ogunmuyiwa, have both assured indigenes and residents of Ijede that another traditional ruler will soon be crowned in the community. They made this assurance while speaking with THE IMPACT recently on the rehabilitation of the Alajede palace and the tussle over the vacant Alajede stool. Oba Fatai Oresanya, the last Alajede, joined his ancestors 7 years ago and efforts to pick a successor…
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Kunle Adelabu -Announces availability of CBN loan facilities for 100 lkorodu youths. His Royal Majesty, Oba Kabiru Shotobi, the Ayangbure of Ikorodu, has faulted many steps taken so far in tackling youth restiveness and cultism menace in the society, especially in Ikorodu Division, stating that those steps lack the needed impetus to work. The royal father called for a meaningful job creation and empowerment for the youths to effectively stop them from cultism and other criminal acts. Ob Shotobi made this statements during the visit by members of the Ikorodu…
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Kunle Adelabu Residents of Igbogbo/Bayeku Local Council Development Area (LCDA) have been charged to see themselves as stakeholders responsible for ensuring security of lives and properties in the community. Chairman of the Council, Builder Sesan Daini, and other speakers gave this charge at the inauguration of Odusanya Abdulateef Omotayo as the Coordinator of the Humanitarian Voluntary Association for Community Development (HUVACOD) and his executive council for the chapter of the group in Igbogbo/Bayeku LCDA. The event was held at the Adeboruwa palace on Monday, January 3, 2020. The event, which…
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Kunle Adelabu Special Adviser On Agriculture, Olusanya To Partner IDYIM On Youth Development The Special Adviser on Agriculture to the Governor of Lagos State, Ms Bisola Ruth Olusanya, and chieftains of the Ikorodu Division Youth Initiative Movement (IDYIM) have reached agreement on programmes to execute towards positively engaging the youths in Ikorodu division of Lagos State, Southwest, Nigeria. Chieftains of the umbrella body for the youths in the division met with the Special Adviser in her office at the Ministry of Agriculture, Lagos State Secretariat, Alausa, Ikeja, at the weekend.…
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Wale Jagun Members of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) today protested across Ikorodu Division to call the Federal government’s attention to the rising spate of killings across the nation. The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) had earlier called on all Christians across the country to embark on a ‘prayer walk’ on Sunday to protest the gruesome killing of the CAN Chairman in Michika Local Government Area of Adamawa State, Lawan Andimi, by Boko Haram terrorists. CAN President, Samson Ayokunle, during a briefing with journalists in Abuja on Thursday…
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Kunle Adelabu Ikorodu Division Youth Initiative Movement (IDYIM) is close to achieving one of the major resolutions at its 2nd youth summit as it is set to establish vocational centres across Ikorodu Division with facilities to enable youths acquire skills. According to report gathered, the first quarter of this year has been set for the completion of the project which will be tagged, ‘Ikorodu Division Youth Hub’. THE IMPACT also gathered that IYDM has been able to secure an abandoned building within the Etunrenren Primary School in Ikorodu Local Government…
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Kunle Adelabu Organisers of the iCare Lecture Series have stated that the annual training is aimed at developing Ikorodu Division with ideas that will help her develop to her capacity by bringing residents together for training and discussing developmental issues. The second edition of the Lecture Series kicked off at the Regal Hall, Olu-Odo, Igbogbo in Ikorodu division of Lagos State, Southwest, Nigeria, on Monday, January 27, 2020. The opening of the 2-day lecture is themed, “Community First Initiative: A Selfless Service’. The lawmaker representing Ikorodu Federal Constituency at the…
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Kunle Adelabu It was sad experience for the supervisor for the Zone B, GRA Phase 2, Alogba Estate Community Development Association (CDA) election, Mr Ibrahm Abuanakra, who is the Head of Agricultural Department of Ikorodu West Local Council Development Area, as he escaped being lynched by thugs and some residents who disrupted the election of the CDA held on Saturday, January 25, 2020. The election became inconclusive after the disruption of the recounting process of the ballot papers for the three chairmanship candidates in the election. The electoral committee chairman,…
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Kunle Adelabu -Police ready to deal with cult menace in the state – State Police Command Seven suspected members of three rival cult groups – Eiye (Airlords), Ku Klux Klan (KKK) and Aye (Axe) confraternities were reportedly killed between Monday, January 20 and Tuesday, 21, 2020, in a renewed gang crisis in Ijede Local Council Development Area of Ikorodu Division. The fight broke out on Monday between Eiye and KKK confraternities at a joint where young men in Ijede usually gathered to drink local gin commonly known and called ‘Paraga’…
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