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Photos: Ikorodu North Chairman Throws Birthday Bash For Ex-Council Chairman

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Kunle ADELABU Friends, associates and well-wishers were gathered on Wednesday, April 17, 2019, at the pool side of Dabat Spring hotel, Owode-Ibeshe, to celebrate the immediate past chairman of Ikorodu North Local Council Development Area (LCDA), Hon. Adeola Muydideen Jokomba , as he added another year. The bash was organized by the sitting chairman of the council, Hon. Adeola Banjo. At the event were members of the council executive and legislative arms, ward chairmen in Ikorodu and other political figures. Also at the event were aspirants for the Ikorodu Constituency…

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Dangote, Port Authority Heavy Duty Vehicles Pose Dangers To Motorists, Other Road Users On Sekumade Road

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Kunle ADELABU These photographs were taken on Saturday, April 13, 2019,and they captured the imminent dangers pose by Dangote and Port Authority’s heavy duty vehicles  being parked indiscriminately along Sekumade road or what is known to some as Port Authority road in Ikorodu West Local Council Development Area in Ikorodu Division of Lagos State, Southwest, Nigeria. Aside the dangers,  the  indiscriminate parking is also causing terrible traffic challenge on daily basis in that axis which was not the case until recently.

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State of Sekumade/ Port Authority Road In Ikorodu Calls For State, FG’s Attention

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Kunle ADELABU Failure of the three arms of government to show concern and sense of responsibility to the dilapidated condition of this strategic road has resulted in the traffic nightmare being experienced by  motorists and other road users on daily basis . What used to be small potholes on the road, which connects Ikorodu to Lagos-Ikorodu road, has now degenerated into big ditches which vehicles, motorcycles and tricycles and this find  difficult to manoeuvre thereby causing heavy traffic at all time and this underscore the need for the road to…

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No Queue, Lack of Fuel At Filling Stations In Ikorodu

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Kunle ADELABU Against reports by some news mediums that many filling stations in Lagos shutdown on Friday (April 12)  while the few that operated had long queues as motorists waited to fill their tanks, THE IMPACT can authoritatively report that there was no such situation in Ikorodu. THE IMPACT went round major roads in Ikorodu on Saturday and Sunday (today) and we bring you these pictures as evidence of our findings regarding situations at petrol stations visited by our reporters. Motorists were seen driving into most filling stations and  got…

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Photos: Ambode Decorates RRS Commander With New Rank

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The Lagos State Rapid Response Squad (RRS) Commander, ACP Olatunji Disu was today decorated with a new rank of Deputy Commissioner of Police by the Lagos State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode and the Lagos State Commissioner of Police, CP Zubairu Muazu at the State House, Ikeja, Lagos. Olatunji Disu who before his transfer to Lagos in 2015 as Commander, Rapid Response Squad had served as the Assistant Commissioner of Police, Criminal Investigation Department, Rivers He was OC – SARS in Rivers, Oyo and Ondo states at various times and served…

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INEC Issues Certificates of Return To 40 Lagos Assembly Members-Elect

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The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Friday presented Certificates of Return to the 40 members-elect of the Lagos State House of Assembly, who emerged victorious during the March house of assembly elections. Speaking at the event at the INEC office in Yaba, Lagos, Mr Sam Olumekun, the Resident Electoral Commissioner in the state, reminded the members-elect that the principal task ahead of them was that of making the lives of the people better.  “Distinguished members, we want to urge you that the principal task ahead of you is the…

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Photos: Hon. Agunbiade, Solaja, Others Receive Certificates of Return

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Wale JAGUN The Majority Leader of the Lagos State House of Assembly and the representative of the Ikorodu Constituency I, Hon Sanai Agunbiade, his counterpart in Constituency II, Hon. Nurudeen Solaja and other Assembly members-elect on Friday received their certificates of return Hon. Agunmbiade, who contested on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC), secured 23, 488 votes to win the March 9 election and would be representing the Ikorodu Constituency from 2019 to 2023. Hon Agunbiade was first elected to represent the people of Ikorodu between 2007 and…

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Photos: Sanwo-Olu, Hamzat Receive Certificates of Return from INEC

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Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu Lagos State Governor-elect and Dr Khadiri Hamzat, the Deputy Governor-elect, on Friday received Certificates of Return from the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), for winning the March 9 governorship election in the state. Sanwo-Olu and Hamzat polled a total of 739,445 votes to beat his closest rival Jimmy Agbaje of the PDP who polled a total of 206,141 votes in the recently held Lagos Gubernatorial election

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Photos: Adijat’s Killing In Ikorodu: Lagos CP Pays Condolence Visit To Deceased Family

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Kunle ADELABU The Lagos Police Commissioner, CP Muazu Z.H, Friday, paid a condolence visit to the family of Late Adijat Sikiru, the 17 years old SS1 student of Ansar-ul-Deen Senior Secondary School, Imota, who was allegedly hit by a stray bullet allegedly fired by a police Raider, Sergeant Mudi Emmanuel while at her mother’s shop at Adamo, Ikorodu He was represented by the Deputy Commissioner of Police in-charge of State Criminal Intelligence Investigation (SCIIB), DCP Panti, Yetunde Longe In the entourage were the Area N Commander and other senior police…

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