Category: Legislative Report

Ikorodu Youths Want Commissionership, Separate Department

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Kunle ADELABU – Appeal For Revival of Moribund Vocational Centre -Our programmes have been youths inclined – Hons. Benson, Agunbiade Ikorodu youths, under the auspices of the Coalition of the Ikorodu West Youths in Ikorodu West Local Council Development Area (LCDA), have demanded that youths should take charge of the Ministry of the Youths Affairs in the state cabinet when the new government takes over.   They also requested for a separate department for the youths in local governments and local council development areas across the state.   They made…

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Lagos Assembly To Amend State Audit Law

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The Lagos State House of Assembly has concluded arrangement to strengthen the Audit Law in the state. Speaking during a day public hearing on A Law to Amend the Lagos State Audit Law on Friday, Speaker of the House, Rt. Hon. Mudashiru Obasa said that a government must be transparent. Obasa, who was represented at the event by the Majority Leader, Hon. Sanai Agunbiade said that the government needed to generate revenue to serve the people and that government’s money must be spent for the purposes it is meant for.…

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2019 Budget: Lagos Assembly Ready To Receive Gov. Ambode For Proper Presentation

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Members of the Lagos State House of Assembly have stated that they are ready to receive the governor of the state anytime the executive is ready to properly present the 2019 budgetary proposal. The lawmakers, on Thursday, January 10, 2019, cleared the air on news making the rounds in the state alleging their delay in the passage of the year 2019 budget. Rt. Hon. Mudashiru Obasa, the Speaker, during the plenary session of the House said that there was no reason for anybody to shift blame on the Parliament over…

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Ikorodu Federal Constituency: Hon. Benson Flags Off Second Term Campaign Today

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Wale JAGUN Hon. Babajimi Adegoke Benson, the representative of the Ikorodu Federal Constituency at the Federal House of Representatives in Abuja, is flagging off his second term bid campaign in Ikorodu, Lagos state, Southwest, Nigeria, today (Saturday). Hon. Benson is recontesting for the sole Ikorodu Federal seat on the platform of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC. The lawmaker was elected in 2015 to represent constituents in the six Local Government and Local Council Development Areas (LCDAs) in Ikorodu Division Preparations have started at the Ikorodu Local Government Open Ground…

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Lawmaker’s Wife Charges Women To Vote For APC Candidates

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Jare OLUKOTUN Mrs Olajumoke Benson, the wife of Hon. Jimi Benson, the representative of the Ikorodu Federal Constituency at the Federal House of Representatives, has charged all women to vote for all the candidates of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the 2019 General Elections.   She made this call at the December edition of her husband’s iCare Foundation’s monthly distribution of food items to another  set of constituents who are in need.   A total of 500 less privileged, vulnerables people, elderly people, disables, widows and others benefitted at…

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Pursue Image of What You Want To Become In Future While In School, Lagos Majority Leader, LASPOTECH Rector Charge Students

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Kunle ADELABU The Majority Leader of the Lagos State House of Assembly and the representative of the Ikorodu Constituency I, Hon. Sanai Agunbiade,  and the Rector of the Lagos State Polytechnic, Mr Samuel Sogunro, have charged students of the Polytechnic to start seeing themselves in the mirror of what they want to become in future.   The Rector and the lawmaker made this statement at the Inauguration/Orientation Progranmme of the 2018/2019 Legislative Session of the Students’ Representative Council (SRC), Students Union Government of the Lagos State Polytechnic, held at the…

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Hon. Agunbiade To Sponsor Bill On Lagos State Polytechnic University

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Kunle ADELABU -Proposed institution to offer ND, HND, Degree Efforts of the management of the Lagos State Polytechnic to change the status of the institution to a University has received the support of one of the most ranking lawmakers of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Hon. S.O. B. Agunbiade who is also the Majority Leader of the Assembly.   The three-term lawmaker, representing the Ikorodu Constituency I,  gave his support to the move when he visited the institution as a guest of honour and guest speaker at the inauguration…

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House of Reps approves June 12 as Democracy Day

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The House of Representatives on Thursday approved June 12 as Democracy Day in Nigeria and abrogated May 29. Previously, May 29 is always observed as Democracy Day since 1999. But President Muhammadu Buhari, last year declared that June 12 would now be marked as Democracy Day and a day to handover power. However, the House of Reps’ approval followed the adoption of a report on a bill seeking to amend the Public Holidays Act 2004. The lawmakers approved the amendments to three clauses ‎in the Act, as recommended in the…

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Why I Support The Removal of Age Barrier In Federal Service Bill – Hon. Benson

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Kunle ADELABU The Ikorodu Federal Constituency representative at the Lower Chamber of the National Assembly, Hon. Babajimi Adegoke Benson, has stated his reason for supporting the Bill on the removal of age barrier for applicants seeking employment into the Federal Government service.   He revealed this when he appeared as a guest on THE IMPACT WhatsApp platform recently to discuss the Bill.   On July 4, 2018, the young lawmaker had moved the motion for the “Urgent Need To Review The Age Barrier In Vacancies Announced By Nigeria Police Force,…

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Lagos Assembly To Stem Rising Spates of Drug Abuse

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The Lagos State House of Assembly on Monday called on Gov. Akinwunmi Ambode and all relevant stakeholders to embark on aggressive campaign against drug abuse. The call was contained in a resolution following a motion titled “Need to Curb the Menace of Drug Abuse Among Youths in Lagos State” moved by Mr Desmond Elliot (APC- Surulere I) and seconded by Mr Segun Olulade (APC- Epe II) on the floor of the House. According to the lawmakers, the adverse effects of hard drugs on the youth and the society is huge,…

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