Category: Education

Kunle Adelabu The presentation of cheques to successful candidates of the first edition of the Ikorodu Division Peace Initiatives Limited/ GTE (IDPIL/GTE) Scholarship and Bursary Schemes will hold on Saturday, September 3, 2022. While 112 applicants attended screening for the Bursary I interview last Wednesday, 48 applicants were screened for the Bursary II scholarship on Thursday, while 55 applicants sat for the Scholarship examination and interview that took place last week Friday. Otunba Ganiyu Olusegun Abiru, Executive Secretary, IDPIL/GTE, in an interview with THE IMPACT, informed that the presentation of…

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Mariam Akinloye As pledged, 19 students have emerged as beneficiaries of the free GCE forms provided by the Ikorodu-Oga Development Association (IKODASS). The initiative, which is part of the annual IKODASS Scholarship Scheme, was sponsored by Late Jimoh Owode Longe Education Fund. But the beneficiaries were not just provided with the GCE forms, they were also registered for the examinations through the Unique Grace Educational Services. The registration, which was handled by the Director of the educational outfit, Mr Adeyemi Benson, took place at IKODASS Secretariat, Ikorodu Town Hall, on…

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Wale Jagun Students in Igbogbo, under the aegis of the Igbogbo Students’ Union (ISU), have parleyed with the Lagos State Government in addressing the deficit in educational facilities in the community. In a statement signed by Comr. Ewulogbo Temilade and Comr. Ogunlana Romoke, ISU President and General Secretary respectively, on Thursday, August 18, 2022, the students said that they met with top government officials in the Office of the Permanent, Ministry of Education. The ISU President, Comr. Ewulogbo Temiloluwa, who spoke briefly about the Union, also solicited for intervention in…

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IDPIL /GTE Bursary Award: 11 The Ikorodu Division Peace Initiative Limited/GTE (IDPIL/GTE), today, took a further step in the disbursement of its N20million Scholarship/Bursary awards to students of Ikorodu Division with the commencement of screening exercise for candidates for the Bursary I category of the scholarship. A total of 112 students attended the screening which was held at the Leo Regal Event Hall, Olu – Odo in Igbogbo/Bayeku Local Council Development Area (LCDA). A total of 100 successful applicants would be selected for the Bursary I. The screening panel, led…

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Jare Babatunde The Igbogbo Students’ Union (ISU) has called for applications for scholarship (full tuition payment) from pupils passing out of the Primary Schools and moving into the Junior Secondary Schools. In a statement signed by Ewulogbo Temiloluwa and Ogunlana Romoke, President and General Secretary of ISU respectively, the interested applicants must be indigenes of Igbogbo. The statement said further that candidates who are to appear for screening on Saturday, August 20, must come with proof of indigeneship and last report paper. “In the quest to create a better literate…

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Kunle Adelabu A centre of the National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN) is set to berth in Ikorodu Division, Lagos State, Southwest, Nigeria, soon. THE IMPACT gathered that the centre would take off in September or the last quarter of the year within one of the properties donated by the HOMAT Group of Schools in Igbogbo, Igbogbo/Bayeku Local Council Development Area (LCDA). It was also gathered that NOUN has secured a landed property beside the Primero Limited along the Ikorodu – Lagos Road for its permanent site. When it eventually…

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Mariam Akinloye Are you interested in writing the GCE this year and fund seems to be impeding that plan? There is a way out as the Ikorodu – Oga Development Association (IKODASS), under its Scholarship Scheme, is making free GCE forms available to indigent students. The scheme is being sponsored by the late Jimoh Owode Education Fund through the IKODASS Scholarship Scheme. Interested candidates are expected to visit the IKODASS website: https://www.ikoroduoga.com.ng/free-gce-form/ According to IKODASS, applicants must be indigent students in Ikorodu and such must provide proof of residence to…

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Kunle Adelabu Over 400 students across the Ikorodu Division of Lagos State, Southwest, Nigeria, have successfully applied for the scholarship and bursary initiatives of the Ikorodu Division Peace Initiative Limited (IDPIL)/GTE. A total of 266 successful applicants would get educational support at the end of the exercise: 12 successful scholarship and 254 bursary candidates. IDPIL/GTE, through its Executive Secretary, Otunba Ganiyu Olusegun Abiru, had about two months ago announced the schemes endowed by the Chairman of the IDPIL/GTE and Chairman, MultiChoice Nigeria, Odofin Adewunmi Ogunsanya who is also the Odofin…

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Kunle Adelabu -Principal receives 2022 African Outstanding award. The premier college in Ikorodu Division of Lagos State, Southwest, Nigeria, Oriwu Senior Model College, Ikorodu, is not resting on its oars as the school has continued with its excellence performances in academics and other activities. Oriwu College performances in the recent time have culminated into the school winning the  Presidential Award as  the Best Public School in Nigeria in 2020 and Presidential Excellence Award for Best School Administrator in Nigeria in 2015 under the immediate past Principal of the school. But…

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