Category: Legislative Report

Wale jagun The Chairman, Senate Committee on industries, Distinguished Senator Mukhail Adetokunbo Abiru, FCA, as part of his representative duty to support the development of the Micro, Medium and Small Enterprises (MSMEs) in the Lagos East Senatorial District, on Monday (yesterday), organized a capacity development training for 1000 constituents. Abiru, who identified that lack of capacity had been the bane of MSMEs, said that the training was aimed at enhancing the beneficiaries’ capacities and prevent them from failing. The training, tagged, ‘MSME Clinic /Workshop / Business Aid for 1000 Business…

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Kunle Adelabu Residents of Ijomu community behind the Ikorodu Divisional Police Headquarters, along lgbogbo Road, Ikorodu, have commended the representative of Ikorodu Federal Constituency, Rep. Babajimi Benson for considering roads in three streets in the area for construction. The lawmaker has been facilitating several federal projects like roads, medical facilities, street lighting, schools and other projects to the Ikorodu Federal Constituency in the recent time. One of such road projects facilitated by the young lawmaker is located in three connecting streets (Dosunmu Alashe/Ademoye/Igbamitayo Streets) and it is meant to serve…

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Kunle Adelabu The representative of the Ikorodu Federal Constituency, Rep. Babajimi Adegoke Benson, on Tuesday, November 2, 2021, laid the foundation for the construction of an 80-Bed space Mother and Child Healthcare facility in Imota. The medical facility, which is going to be fully equipped, is coming 48 years after some plots of land had been acquired by the government for the purpose of constructing a befitting medical centre in the ancient town. According to the Site Engineer, the duration of the contract for the construction of the facility is…

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Kunle Adelabu Within about two months of his  inauguration as Councillor representing Ward F in the legislative arm  of the Ikorodu local government, Hon. Oluwakemi Buraimoh has displayed a strong commitment as a local representative who is prepared for the job he was elected to do. He patched the deplorable roads in Olayemi and Osholigbehin streets with rubbles while he updates his constituents on his activities in the Ikorodu Local Government Legislative House from time to time among other activities. Over the weekend, the young lawmaker facilitated a borehole water…

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Kunle Adelabu The representative of the Ikorodu Federal Constituency and Chairman of the House Committee on Defense, Rep. Babajimi Adegoke Benson has revealed that his iCare Foundation’s Foodbank scheme has provided food support for over 30, 000 households since inception. He made the statement to commemorate the 5th anniversary of the laudable food programme which has impacted on the people of the lkorodu division. At the special edition of the monthly programme held on Saturday, October 16, 2021, at the lawmaker’s Constituency Office located along the Ipakodo-Igbogbo road, about 1000…

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Kunle Adelabu 600 students across the Lagos East Senatorial District were, on Thursday, October 14, 2021, presented with N50, 000 each as bursary award by the Senator representing the Lagos East Senatorial District, Sen. Mukhail Adetokunbo Abiru. The gesture of the former bank executive turned Senator was applauded by the beneficiaries, government functionaries and other guests at the presentation ceremony held at the School of Agriculture auditorium, Lagos State Polytechnic (LASPOTECH), Ikorodu main campus. In his address at the event, Abiru said that the bursary award was designed to support…

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Jare Babatunde  The Senator representing the Lagos East Senatorial District in the National Assembly, Senator Mukhail Adetokunbo Abiru, FCA, has said that there is need for a new law that will protect intellectual property of Nigerians in film, book and works from other creative sectors against exploitation. Senator Abiru made the assertion in Abuja on Tuesday (yesterday) at a one-day Public Hearing on the two bills, “The Bill For An Act To Repeal The Copyright Act CAP C28 LFN 2004” and re-enact “The Copyright Act 2021 And Other Connected Matters…

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Kunle Adelabu  Following a motion moved by the Chairman, House Committee on Defense and the representative of the Ikorodu Federal Constituency, Rep. Babajimi Adegoke Benson, concerning the abandoned Federal Medical Centre, Igbogbo (FMC), the House of Representatives has directed the National Primary Health Care Development Agency to include the funding for the completion of  the project in the 2022 budget estimate. The House also urged its Committee on Appropriation to make fund available for the medical centre completion and, also, mandated the House Committee on Legislative Compliance to ensure the…

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Kunle Adelabu  Beneficiaries across the 98 Wards in the Lagos East Senatorial District have been given their financial support for the month of September by Senator Tokunbo Abiru, the Senator representing the District in the Upper Chamber of the National Assembly in Abuja. The support, tagged, ‘Senator Tokunbo Abiru COVID-19 Financial Relief’, has been on since January this year with 1, 079 beneficiaries receiving N5000 monthly. According to a statement today by Mr Enitan Olukotun, the Special Adviser to the Senator on Media & Publicity, he said that beneficiaries from…

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Kunle Adelabu The Majority Leader of the Lagos State House of Assembly and representative of the Ikorodu Constituency I, Hon. Sanai Agunbiade has stated that the legislative arm, in its efforts to make the Lagos State Property Protection Law of 2016, otherwise known as Landgrabbing law, more effective, would embark on a review exercise. He said that the law will be reviewed to make the State’s Special Taskforce on Land Grabbers more effective and responsive to land matters. “The law on land grabbing is under review and what we intend…

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