Category: Education

LASU Deputy Vice Chancellor Charges Ikorodu Students To Follow Founding Fathers’ Steps

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Kunle Adelabu -As new executive, legislative arms inaugurated for NAIDS The Deputy Vice Chancellor, Lagos State University, Prof Olumuyiwa Noah, have charged students from Ikorodu Division area of Lagos State, Southwest, Nigeria, to bring back the lost glory of the division when it dominated the social, economic, political and other spheres of the state. The University Don gave the charge at the inauguration of the new National Association of Ikorodu Division Students (NAIDS) executive council led by Comrade Soyiga Samuel Adeshina Abdulazeez. The event was held at the Ikorodu Local…

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Igbogbo Youth Coalition Guides Students In Career Decision, Gives Bursary

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Kunle Adelabu The Igbogbo Youth Claition, the umbrella body of youth groups in Igbogbo, has organized career talk for students of Senior Secondary School three (SSS3) in the community with the aim of guiding them in choosing the right careers. At the event, which was held at the Oba Abdul-Semiu Orimadegun Kasali Hall, Rotary Centre, Igbogbo, on Wednesday, February 19, 2020, bursary awards, sponsored by Mr Azeez Adeyinka, were also disbursed to five beneficiaries. Speakers at the career talk themed, ‘Choosing the right career: A step to fulfilling purpose’, were…

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Group Distributes Books To Schools In Ikorodu

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Jare Olukotun Members of Kings & Queens Palace, a charity organization on Friday, February 7, 2020, distributed 500 pieces of 60 leaves exercise books to secondary and primary schools in three councils of Ikorodu Division in commemoration of the group’s second year anniversary. Oriwu Senior Model College, Ikorodu, in Ikorodu Local Government (LG) and Ipakodo Secondary School in lkorodu West Local Council Development (LCDA) are the only two secondary schools that benefited from the gesture while U.A.M.C (Eleja), Igbogbo, in Igbogbo/Bayeku LCDA, African Primary School, Ikorodu, and Methodist Primary School,…

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LASG Begins Issuance Of Letters To Newly Recruited Teachers

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The Lagos State Government has commenced the issuance of appointment letters to newly recruited secondary school teachers in the State. Speaking during the exercise, the Chairman, Lagos State Teaching Service Commission, Mrs. Elizabeth Olabisi Ariyo expressed profound appreciation to the present administration for the recruitment, saying that it will contribute immensely to the education sector in the State. She explained that the new entrants have shown the desire and zeal to join the pool of productive and efficient teachers across the State, observing that “this set of successful candidates have…

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Ikorodu Youths Set To Get Hub

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Kunle Adelabu Ikorodu Division Youth Initiative Movement (IDYIM) is close to achieving one of the major resolutions at its 2nd youth summit as it is set to establish vocational centres across Ikorodu Division with facilities to enable youths acquire skills. According to report gathered, the first quarter of this year has been set for the completion of the project which will be tagged, ‘Ikorodu Division Youth Hub’. THE IMPACT also gathered that IYDM has been able to secure an abandoned building within the Etunrenren Primary School in Ikorodu Local Government…

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iRead Afrika Set Out To Bridge Gap Between Africa And Rest Of The World – Bayode, Guinness Record Holder

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Mr Olubayode Treasure Olawunmi read for 120 hours non-stop to win the Guinness World Record in the Longest Marathon Reading Aloud two years ago and he is still the world record holder. He funded the iRead Afrika foundation, a platform which he plans to use in advocating reading culture in Africa. He spoke with the Publisher/Reporter-in-Chief of THE IMPACT, Kunle Adelabu, after presenting 10 laptops and offered to train staff and students of Oriwu College in Ikorodu in virtual reality. He represented Labster.com, the Danish company sponsoring the project. He…

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Wurabridge Schools Engage In Cleaning, Sensitisation Of Host Community

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Kunle Adelabu Staff and students of Wurabridge Schools located on Henry Ohanugo street, Macaulay area of Bayeku in Igbogbo/Bayeku Local Development Area (LCDA), Ikorodu Division of Lagos State, Southwest, Nigeria, on Wednesday, January 29, 2020, engaged in sanitation exercise to make their host community clean. The exercise, themed, ‘Operation make Macaulay clean’, and led by the founder and Proprietor of the Wurabridge Group of School, Mrs Racheal Fapounda, saw students of the Senior Secondary section of the school going round major streets in the area to pick dirt and to…

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Govt. Should Allow LGEAs Employ Non-Teaching Staff – Oduloye, former Ikorodu Education Secretary

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Hon. (Lion) Austen Taiwo Oduloye served as the Education Secretary of the Local Government Education Authority (LGEA) in Ikorodu between January 2010 and January 2020. In this interview with Kunle Adelabu, the Publisher/Reporter-in-Chief, THE IMPACT, conducted in his office on the eve of the completion of his second term in office, he bore his mind on various issues among which are Ikorodu LGEA’s achievements under his administration, his relationship with teachers, infrastructural development in schools and expectations from his successor among others. Excerpts:  IMPACT – For the record sir, kindly…

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Labstar Donates Laptops, Trains Oriwu College Staff, Students On Virtual Reality

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Kunle Adelabu Labstar.com, a virtual laboratory simulation company based in Denmark, on Tuesday,January 29, 2020, donated 10 laptops to the premier college in Ikorodu Division and one of the best public schools in Nigeria, Oriwu Senior Model College, Ikorodu. The premier College is first to benefit from the gesture of the Danish company out of the ten  schools across Nigeria selected for the laudable project. Oriwu College and other schools benefitting from the gesture are also expected to enjoy free 6-month access to Labstar.com facilities in the cloud and training…

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Ohun Ikorodu Education Support Targets 5 University Graduates By 2024

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Kunle Adelabu -Presents JAMB/UTME forms to beneficiaries, The initiator of ‘Ohun’ Ikorodu Education Support, a platform which distribute JAMB/UTME forms to indigent students in Ikorodu, Mr Hamza Jimoh, Bsc, Acipmn, LLB, has stated that the target of the project is to produce five University scholars in Ikorodu by 2024 through the gesture. He made this revelation on Monday, January 27,2020, after presenting free JAMB/UTME forms to the first set of the beneficiaries who were screened by a committee. Six beneficiaries, who are indigent students, were presented with the forms at…

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