Igbogbo/Bayeku LCDA Councilors Set To Probe Executive Arm

Kunle Adelabu -Unseal Works Department -We are ready to change the narrative, check executive excesses – Council Leader The Igbogbo/Bayeku Local Council Development Area in Ikorodu Division, Lagos, Southwest, Nigeria, may be in for an interesting time as the Council legislators are bent on probing the activities of all the departments from January, 2020. The local lawmakers, who passed resolution to this effect in their plenary sitting of November 19, 2020, proved their seriousness in exercising their legislative power when they sealed the Works Department on Monday, November 23, 2020,…

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Igbogbo/Bayeku LCDA Councilors Seal Works Dept

Kunle Adelabu An unusual drama unfolded in Igbogbo/Bayeku Local Council Development Area  (LCDA) of Ikorodu Division, Lagos, Southwest, Nigeria, on Monday (today) as Councilors sealed the Works Department of the council. THE IMPACT gathered that the lawmakers took the decision due to non – compliance of the department with the resolution of the Legislative Arm of the council. We also gathered that the Works Department was sealed because of the Head of the Department (HOD), has failed to provide the Councilors details of project within the council. According to sources,…

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Igbogbo Youth Leader Charges Daini On State Of Roads, Engagement

Kunle Adelabu -Plans are underway to fix roads, healthcare, schools, engage youths – Igbogbo/Bayeku LCDA The President of the Igbogbo Youth Coalition (IYC), Mr Gbenga Odunniyi, has charged the Chairman of Igbogbo/Bayeku Local Council Development Area (LCDA), Builder Olusesan Daini, on the need to fix roads that are in deplorable state within the council. Odunniyi said that information available to him revealed that the council has the resources to make some of the bad roads within the council motorrable, hence, he urged the Chairman to ensure that these roads are…

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Lagos Sets To Enumerate Vulnerable Residents In Ikorodu

Kunle Adelabu A process to identify vulnerable and less privilege for the purpose of creating a reliable data for social intervention for residents in Ikorodu has commenced. The six- man committee of the Ikorodu Local Government Operation Coordinating Unit, headed by Mr Balogun Jelili Sesan , a Level14 officer in the Agriculture  Department in the council, is expected to begin the exercise this week. THE IMPACT gathered that the exercise will officially kick-off at Poro – Ojugbo, Ward G, Ikorodu Local Government on Saturday, June 6, 2020. The State Coordinating…

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Lockdown Extension: Imota LCDA Chairman Distributes Food Items, Facemasks To Residents

Kunle Adelabu The Chairman of Imota Local Council Development Area (LCDA), Hon. Wasiu Adekunle Agoro, has again distributed relief items to about 3,000 residents in the second phase of the council’s intervention programme to cushion the effects of the COVIID – 19 lockdown in the council area. Also at the programme held at the Imota LCDA Secretariat, 5,000 facemasks were distributed to beneficiaries of the food relief, council officials and residents, while relief materials and cash were also presented to some elderly residents at their various homes. Some of the…

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Ikorodu West LCDA Crisis: Council Chairman, Legislators Set To Work For Council’s Development

Kunle Adelabu -Council to engage consultant, PPP to raise fund, developmental projects -We resolved on the ground that projects would be embarked upon in various wards – Council leader Two months after the legislative arm of the Ikorodu West Local Council Development Area (LCDA), led by the Council Leader, Hon. Wasiu Agbaje Olomu, had a face-off with the executive arm of the council which led to the purported impeachment of the Council Chairman, Hon. (Princess) Jumoke Jimbo – Ademehin, on Monday, March 9 2020, the estranged legislators are back and…

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Ikorodu LG Begins Reconstruction of Collapsed Itunmaja Bridge

Jare Babatunde The Ikorodu Local Government authority at the wekend, commenced the reconstruction of the collapsed bridge at Itunmoja area of the council. Part of the bridge, which connects the centre of tradition in Ikorodu Kingdom – Ajina/Itunmoja to Alhaji Street and other parts of the town, caved in during the week. The bridge also links the people of Itunmoja and other sections of Ikorodu community to the traditional markets in the ancient town. In a statement released on Saturday (yesterday) and signed by the Chief Press Secretary (CPS) to…

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COVID-19 – Igbogbo/Bayeku Authority, Police Seal Off New Covenant Church For Violation Of Gathering Rule

Kunle Adelabu The Igbogbo/Bayeku Local Council Development Area (LCDA) today, Sunday, May 3, 2020, sealed off the New Covenant Church located at Aridegbe Street in Adegbose area of Igbogbo/Bayeku LCDA, Lagos Southwest, Nigeria, for violating the government’s directive on COVID-19 regarding social gathering. THE IMPACT gathered that the council authority stormed the church premises around 11.30am with police from the Ipakodo Police Station, based on information received from a whistleblower. It was gathered that the Church has been engaging in its usual Sunday service and vigil despite government’s directive against…

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Igbogbo/Bayeku LCDA To Use Taskforce in Dealing With Insecurity

Kunle Adelabu The Chairman of the Igbogbo/Bayeku Local Council Development Area (LCDA), Builder Sesan Daini has announced that the council is planning to setup a security taskforce to combat insecurity in the council. He made the revelation while addressing pressmen after an executive council meeting held at the council secretariat on Monday, April 27,2020. The exco meeting had the presence of the Divisional Police Officer, Igbogbo Road Police Division, Mr Balogun , who was invited to give  a briefing on the security situation in the council. Hon Daini stated that…

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COVID-19 : Our Council Will Produce Facemasks To Support Govt’s Efforts – Builder Daini

Kunle Adelabu -Charges residents to go for Coronavirus test The Executive Chairman of the Igbogbo/Bayeku Local Council Development Area, Builder Sesan Daini has stated that the ‘MaskUpLagos’ directive is paramount to the fight against the Coronavirus pandemic that has brought social and economic lives of the state to standstill for about a month. The Lagos State Governor, Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu, had last week announced that the use of facemask in the state would be made mandatory for residents as part of the state government ‘s measures in curtailing the spread…

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