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Osu Festival: Oba Shotobi Urges Ikorodu People To Promote Culture

March 20, 2019March 20, 2019 Impact Newspaper

Wale JAGUN The Ayangbure of Ikorodu and Permanent Vice Chairman, Lagos State Council of Obas and Chiefs, His Royal Majesty, Oba Kabiru Shotobi, on Saturday, March 16, 2019, asked sons and daughters of Ikorodu at home and abroad to join hands in promoting and uplifting the town’s cultural heritage. The monarch made the clarion call during the grand finale of 2019 edition of Odun Osu (Osu festival) held at the Ayangbure palace. The festival is the first traditional festival to be celebrated in Ikorodu annually before any other traditional festival…

Photos: Baby Thrown Into Drain In Ikorodu Dead

March 15, 2019March 15, 2019 Impact Newspaper

Mariam AKINLOYE A dead baby was discovered in a drain yesterday at Ladega market in Ikorodu. According to eye witness account, the baby was thrown into the drain around 3pm. Our reporter stated that the discovery of the dead baby attracted a crowd of onlookers and sympathizers to the scene. The question on the lips of most people at the scene was why would a mother be so cruel to an innocent baby? As at the time of filing this report, the wicked mother of the dead baby was yet…

Network Mast Vandal Suspects Nabbed In Ikorodu, One Confesses To Theft At Agbede, Radio

February 10, 2019 Impact Newspaper

Kunle ADELABU A 41 year old resident of Ori-Okuta in Agric, Ikorodu, and a native of Abeokuta, Ogun State, Fatai Jimoh, who was nabbed by the local vigilance group in Ikorodu, Onyabo, has confessed to vandalising the network provider mast. The suspect, who is married with three children and whose gang specializes in stealing mast batteries, confessed to his involvement in two operations at Agbede and Radio areas in Ikorodu. He was arrested in the early hours of February 1, 2018, by members of Onyabo and Mr Taiwo…

Man Shot , Stoned To Death By Assailants In Ikorodu

February 9, 2019February 9, 2019 Impact Newspaper

Jare OLUKOTUN A young man in his 40s was yesterday’s afternoon shot dead by two men that trailed him to Asasa Lamberu Street, off Obafemi Awolowo Way, Ikorodu. The IMPACT gathered that his assailants shot at him three times at a close range and thereafter, stoned him severally. He was left in the pool of his blood in front of the First Atlantic School while the assailants immediately left the scene on the motorbike they brought for the operation leaving the residents of the area in panic.l …

SARS Arrest Rice Thieves Gang Leader In Ibadan

February 8, 2019 Impact Newspaper

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. …

Onyabo Nabs 2 Suspected Rice Thieves Who Operate In Lagos, Ogun States

January 25, 2019 Impact Newspaper

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…

43,000 Rural Homes, Businesses to Benefit from N1.95 Billion REF

January 23, 2019 Impact Newspaper

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…

Rain Destroys Goods Worth Several Millions Of Naira In Ikorodu

January 21, 2019 Impact Newspaper

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…

Adegbose Community Purchases Transformer, Seeks Igbogbo/Bayeku LCDA, Representatives Supports For Installation

January 18, 2019 Impact Newspaper

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,…

Family Blames Power Firm As Fallen Wire Electrocutes Lagos Businesswoman

January 8, 2019 Impact Newspaper

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.…