Category: Community

Kunle ADELABU A man, identified as Ayomide (a.ka. ‘Dublin’), who is an indigne of Ijebu -Mushin in Ogun State and the alleged ring leader of the gang that specializes in breaking into rice shops in Lagos and Ogun States, has been arrested in an hotel in Ibadan.   THE IMPACT gathered that his location was revealed by the F-SARS tracker.   We gathered that the man, who is said to be very handsome, confessed to all the operations his boys had confessed to when they were nabbed in Ikorodu.  …

Kunle ADELABU It was end of the road for two suspected rice thieves who were, on Thursday (yesterday), nabbed by the local vigilante group in Ikorodu, Onyabo.   The suspects, Tope Faleye, a.k.a ‘Eniba’, married man with a kid and an indigene of Osun State and Gbenga Osibanjo, 21, a.k.a ‘Biggie’ , from Ijebu-Igbo, Ogun State, are residents of Owutu and Ladega in Ikorodu respectively.   Both suspects were nabbed for breaking into a shop at Ajina in Ikorodu around 3am on Sunday, January 20, 2019, and carted away over…

A total of 43,000 households and businesses in rural communities across Nigeria will be electrified by mini grid power systems and solar home systems (SHS) to be built with the N1, 952,583,434 billion sourced by the Rural Electrification Agency (REA), from the monies that had accumulated in the Rural Electrification Fund (REF). The REA which disclosed this in Abuja recently, explained when it handed over the REF awards to beneficiary operators, that the projects to be implemented by 14 indigenous firms for SHS, and 14 for mini grids, would have…

Wale JAGUN Businessmen and residents of Odogunyan community in Ikorodu North Local Council Development Area of Ikorodu Division of Lagos State, Southwest, Nigeria, yesterday (Sunday),  suffered a huge loss as rain destroyed goods worth several millions of naira and rendered many streets impassable for the inhabitants.   THE IMPACT gathered that the rain,  which was the first to fall in Ikorodu in 2019, caused heavy flood which made the main road and many streets in the community a no-go area for human and vehicular movements while many shops were equally…

Kunle ADELABU -Grades community access road Adegbose Phase 2 Community Development Association in Igbogbo/Bayeku Local Council Development Area of Ikorodu Division, Southwest, Nigeria, on Wednesday, January 16, took delivery of a new 500 KVA, 33/0.415 KV transformer.   The purchase of the new transformer cost the community the sum of N2.5milion.   The transformer was purchased from the money contributed by the residents of the community who decided to address their epileptic power challenge since intervention from the government and electric company was not forthcoming.   Chairman of the CDA,…

The family of the late Mutiat Okanlawon, who had been thrown into mourning after she got electrocuted by a high tension wire that fell off the pole in the Solebo area of Aga in the Ikorodu Local Government Area of Lagos State, has demanded justice for the victim. PUNCH reported that that Okanlawon, who was escorting a friend, Funmi, who visited her on Sunday, December 9, 2018, when the tragedy struck, spent over three weeks at the Gbagada General Hospital before she gave up the ghost on Tuesday, January 1, 2019.…

Kunle ADELABU -Candle procession banned in the Council It would no longer be business as usual for cultists and other criminals in Igbogbo/Bayeku Local Council Development Area (LCDA) as the council’s Chairman, Comrade Sesan Daini, led the traditional institution, police and other security agencies in reading riot act to the people engaging in violent acts.   Speaking at a stakeholders’ meeting on Security, Environment and 2019 Budget of the Council held at ICT Centre Igbogbo, on Thursday, December 13, 2018, the council chairman stated that “enough is enough”.   This…

Kunle ADELABU -Asiwaju Basorun, High Chief Salis, Hon. Benson, Hon. Solaja, 15 others honoured with awards The traditional ruler of the ancient Igbogbo Kingdom, Oba (Barr.) Semiudeen Orimadegun Kasali, Emugoriade I and the Adeboruwa of Igbogbo Kingdom in Ikorodu division of Lagos  State, has charged sons, daughters and residents alike to use the enormous human and material potentials of the community to influence developments into the town.   The First Class monarch made the charge during the grand finale of the 2018 Igbogbo Day Celebration which also marked the 30th…

Yetunde ANIPOLE Members of the Ikorodu Ambassadors Group, a socio-political and humanitarian group, on Saturday, November 24, 2018, again visited the Lagos State Rehabilitation and Training Centre at Owutu in Ikorodu West Local Council Development Area (LCDA) to donate clothes and other relief materials to the inmates.   Speaking during a brief ceremony, the leader of the Group, Ambassador, Mr Abdulateef Sholanke, stated that it is part of the yearly activities of the group to visit the centre and donate materials as their support for the centre.   “We are…