Category: Legislative Report

Kunle Adelabu The House of Representatives has passed for the second time, Bill seeking to amend the Discrimination against Persons with Disability (Prohibition) Act, 2018 for upward review of retirement age of persons with disability. Hon. Babajimi Benson (APC, Lagos) sponsored the amendment legislation titled, “Discrimination Against Persons with Disability Prohibition (Amendment) Bill, 2022”. The representative of the Ikorodu Federal Constituency who is the Chairman, House Committee on Defense, announcing the development on his social media handles Thursday night, said: “The bill I sponsored for the upward review of age…

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Kunle Adelabu The two term Federal lawmaker representing the Ikorodu Federal Constituency in the House of Representatives, Rep. Babajimi Benson, has explained how he intends to complete the remaining one year in his second term strong. Benson, who just won his party’s primary election for a chance to win a third term, was re-elected in 2019 to serve a term of four years which ends in 2023. The lawmaker, said that the remaining year of his second term will not just be for campaigning alone but also for execution of…

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Wale Jagun There is no stopping for the iCare Foundation, the operational team for Rep. Babajimi Benson, the representative of Ikorodu Federal Constituency in the National Assembly, Abuja, in its monthly food package distribution, as another set of 500 constituents received ratio for the month of June. The FoodBank program which has been on for …years, has been making food items and provisions such as rice, beans, garlic, milk, semovita, beverage and groundnut oil among others, available to vulnerable Constituents on monthly basis nonstop, since the emergence of Rep. Benson…

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-As first set of his Innovation Lab graduates in style kunle Adelabu Participants of the first set of the Senator Abiru Innovation Lab (SAIL), graduated on Friday, June 3, 2022, with the best three given about 3million naira grant by the #Doing Good Senator. The three best participants are: John Olisa, Jessica Nwobodo, Esther Ogundare, respectively They were selected based on their pitch presentations and were awarded the sum of N1.5milion, N1milllion and N500, 000, respectively, by Sen. Abiru, the Chairman, Senate committee on Industries, and the Senator representing Lagos…

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Jare Babatunde Vulnerable residents in Lagos East Senatorial District have continued to receive COVID – 19 Relief Financial Assistance from the senator representing the District, Sen. Mikhail Adetokunbo Abiru, FCA. The direct payment to the 2,500 beneficiaries on Wednesday, June 1, 2022, made it the 17 consecutive months of such payment to electorates by Abiru as part of his support for vulnerable constituents of cushioning the effect of the pandemic. According to Mr Enitan Olukotun, the Special Adviser to the Senator on Media and Publicity, beneficiaries of the scheme were…

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Kunle Adelabu Construction work has resumed on the Paul Palmer Street, two years and six months after it was abandoned. The road, which is a major link road that connects several streets within the Ife Oluwa Community Development Association (CDA) in Igbogbo area of Igbogbo/Bayeku Local Council Development Area (LCDA) of Ikorodu Division, Lagos, Southwest, Nigeria, to Igbogbo Road, was abandoned by the contractor. But work is not just resuming on the 330metre road project facilitated by the representative of the Ikorodu Federal Constituency and Chairman, House Committee on Defense,…

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Kunle Adelabu The Representative of the Ikorodu Federal Constituency and Chairman, House Committee on Defense Committee, Rep. Babajimi Adegoke Benson, has assured members of his party, All Progressives Congress (APC), that he would stage a mega empowerment proramme in June. Benson, who is the Otun of Ikorodu Division elect, also pledged to empower all the LGA and Ward executives during the programme which he said would hold in first week of June. The young lawmaker made the revelation at a meeting he called to present gifts to LGA and Ward…

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Kunle Adelabu The Chairman, Nigerian Majority Leaders Forum and the Majority Leader, Lagos State House of Assembly, Hon. Sanai Agunbiade, has empowered 10 residents with mini – buses as part of his empowerment programmes. Another 10 skilled residents were also given 10 sewing machines while five others got POS machines with N50, 000 each to start their businesses. The empowerment tools were presented at a programme held at the four term lawmaker’s constituency office on Wednesday, May 4, 2022, and was attended by party and community leaders, party members and…

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Kunle Adelabu -Declares for another term The Majority Leader of the Lagos State Assembly and representative of Ikorodu Constituency I, Hon. Sanai Agunbiade has said that he has made Ikorodu proud with his representations at the State, Southwest and across the federation. The ranking legislator said this while declaring his intention to run for the fifth term as the representative of the Ikorodu Constituency I in the State House of Assembly come 2023. The fourth – term lawmaker, who is the Chairman of the Nigeria’s State Majority Leaders Forum and…

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