Category: Legislative Report

Kunle aDELABU -Lawmaker gets party chieftains, residents’ commendations Lagos State Governor, Mr Babajimi Sanwo – Olu will be returning to Ikorodu in the next one month to commission another landmark project which would impact positively on the social and economic lives of the people. Rep. Babajimi Benson, the representative of the Ikorodu Federal Constituency, revealed this on Saturday, June 19, 2021, while inspecting the five connecting roads that he facilitated around Sabo/Shams – el – Deen area of Ikorodu. The road, which connects Ayanbadejo, Ajoke Oduyebo, Nike Olubodu and Kas…

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Wale Jagun The Lagos State House of Assembly has ordered its Committee on Tertiary Education headed by Hon. Ajani Owolabi to investigate the cause of the delay in the selection of a new Vice Chancellor for the Lagos State University (LASU) and report back in a week. The matter was raised under ‘Matter of Urgent Public Importance’ by the Leader of the House, Hon. Sanai Agunbiade, during plenary on Tuesday. The Speaker of the House, Rt. Hon. (Dr) Mudashiru Obasa, in a statement made available to THE IMPACT, while giving…

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Wale Jagun The Lagos State House of Assembly on Tuesday called on the federal government to engage agitators across the country rather than employ the use of force. Speaker of the House, Rt. Hon. (Dr) Mudashiru Obasa, said that the use of the military in an attempt to quell agitations for secession would not yield the desired result since it is part of democracy for a people to speak out concerning how they are governed. Obasa, who noted that the 22 years of unbroken democracy being enjoyed by Nigeria is…

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Wale Jagun The Senate on Tuesday (today) passed for second reading a Bill by the Senator representing the Lagos East Senatorial District, Senator Mukhail Adetokunbo Abiru, FCA, which seeks to protect copyrights in Nigeria. The bill, titled ‘The Copyright Act Repeal And Re-Enactment Bill, 2021’, will replace the extant Copyright Act Cap C28 LFN 2004 when finally passed into law. According to a statement released by Mr Enitan Olukotun, Special Adviser to Senator on Media & Publicity, the bill widens protection to include digital contents among others which were not…

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Mariam Akinloye The Senator representing Lagos State Senatorial District, Sen. Tokunbo Abiru, has expanded the number of people benefitting from his COVID-19 Relief Financial Assistance in the 98 wards of the 16 Local Council areas in the Lagos East Senatorial district. 170 new constituents were among the beneficiaries that received direct credit in their respective bank accounts on Friday, May 28, 2021. About 1000 beneficiaries have been benefitting from the assistance scheme that kicked off in January, 2021 is the fulfilment of the promise made by the Senator during the…

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-Lawmaker honoured with outstanding/merit award by Lagos East youths Kunle Adelabu It was a commendation galore for the representative of the Ikorodu Federal Constituency at the House of Representatives and the Chairman, House Committee on Defense, Hon. Babajimi Benson, as chieftains of the All Progressives Congress (APC) took time to shower praises on him for his representation. The commendations came at this month’s edition of the distribution of ‘Apo – Anu’ (Bag of Mercy) which the federal lawmaker has been sponsoring for six years and through which he has been…

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Kunle adelabu Disturbed by the discontinuation of the rehabilitation of the Ikorodu – Shagamu road, the Senator representing Lagos East Senatorial District in the Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Sen. Adetokunbo Mikhail Abiru, FCA, on Wednesday, April 28, 2021, charged the Ministry of Works to urgently provide necessary funding for the completion of the road rehabilitation. The Senator, who is also worried by the state of Ikorodu – Itoikin – Epe road, urged the Ministry on the need to also reconstruct the road as well. He decried the…

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Wale Jagun with Cicilia A. Okiye and Aderonke O. Ayodele (SIWES Students) Prospective candidates for the 2021 Joint Admission Matriculation Board (JAMB) examination for Universities, Polytechnics and Colleges of Education, who benefited from the Free JAMB Forms and Computer Based Test training initiated and sponsored by the representative of Ikorodu Constituency I and the Majority Leader of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Hon. Sanai Agunbiade, have commended the lawmaker for the exemplary gesture. They also charged him not stop the annual educational support initiative for his constituents because, according …

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