Category: Community

Kunle ADELABU Residents of Odogunyan in Ikorodu North Local Council Development Area (LCDA) in Ikorodu Division area of Lagos State, Southwest, Nigeria, have lamented the state of insecurity in the area. They called on the government and elected representatives in Ikorodu to intervene and help in addressing  the matter. The community,which host the largest industrial estate in West African, has recently been experiencing frequent violence, mostly occasioned by rivalry among cult groups and the situation is gradually turning the area into a den of cultists and other criminals. A resident,…

Wale JAGUN The community policing efforts of the Onyabo Vigilance Group in Ikorodu continue to yield results as another two suspected robbers who specialize in attacking and robbing residents early in the morning were arrested recently. The suspects are Wasiu Okeowo, 23 year-old resident of Olowonishaye street in Ikorodu and Rasheed Lawal, 19 year-old resident of Cyan area of Ladega Street, also in Ikorodu. They both confessed to THE IMPACT  that they are members of Eiye cult in Ijebu-Igbo. They were arrested by members of the Onyabo while attacking Abass…

several people were reported injured when violence broke out in Alara area of Ikorodu Local Government area of Lagos State, Southwest, Nigeria, on Wednesday The cause of the violence is yet to be ascertained Our source informed that guns and dangerous weapons were being used by the hoodlum in the attack Details later…

Kunle ADELABU & Mariam AKINLOYE -Inaugurates development association Fun seekers in Ikorodu will soon have another opportunity to smile if plans by the Sekumade of Ipakodo, His Royal Majesty , Oba (Engr.) Bashiru Aremu Sotonwa, the Ipakodo Development Association and residents of Ipakodo Community in Ikorodu West Local Council Development Area of Ikorodu Division, Lagos State, Nigeria, to bring back the Easter Monday picnic gathering at Ebute see the light of the day. The festival is an age-long gathering of Christians in Ikorodu at the Ebute beach in fulfillment of…

Kunle ADELABU Youths in Ikorodu, on Friday, March 22,2019, paid a condolence visit to Mrs Janet Anifowoshe, the mother of late Adijat Sikiru , the 17 years old SS1 student of Ansar-Ul-Deen Secondary School, Imota, who was killed by a stray bullet allegedly shot by a Police officer ,  Sergeant Mudi Emmanuel, on March 18. Comrade Samson Bisiriyu , the Convener/Executive Director, Ikorodu Division Youths Movement, led other members of the group to the number 11, Akaun Street, Adamo residence of the bereaved mother and family of the deceased. While…

 Kunle ADELABU The Divisional Police Officer(DPO) in-charge of Imota Police Division, has been alleged of wrongdoing by the mother of the girl killed by the stray bullet allegedly shot by a police officer, Sergeant Mudi Emmanuel, in Adamo, Ikorodu, on March 18,2019.  Mrs Janet Anifowoshe, the bereaved mother of late Adijat, while recounting the sad incident that led to the untimely death of her daughter, explained that the DPO and his men treated her and her sympathizers badly when they went  to the station to protest the gruesome murder of…

Kunle ADELABU -As Hon. Agunbiade appeals to family to allow  proper investigation, prosecution to be carried out The Lagos State Police Commissioner has assured the family of late Adijat Sikiru, the 17 years old Senior Secondary School girl killed by a stray bullet shot by a police Raider, Sergeant Mudi Emmanuel, on Monday, March 18, 2019, at Adamo in Ikorodu. Lagos Police Command visited the family at 11, Akaun Street, Adamo, on Friday, March 22, to commiserate with the family of the deceased. The Police Commissioner was represented by the…