Category: Legislative Report

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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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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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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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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The Lagos State House of Assembly has decried the congestion at Sekumade Road in Ikorodu area of Lagos caused by heavy duty trucks. The House has therefore called on Governor Akinwunmi Ambode to call on the Commissioner for Transport, officials of the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA), management of Ipakodo Lighter Terminal to put a stop to indiscriminate parking of long vehicles on the road. The Assembly also called on the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) to provide a place where long vehicles would park before they load goods from…

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Wale JAGUN & Azeez MATANMI The Federal lawmaker representing the Ikorodu Federal Constituency at the Lower Chamber of the National Assembly, Hon. Babajimi Olagoke Benson, has indeed shown that his Foodbank program, initiated about a year ago through his iCare foundation, is here to stay.   The program, since its inception in 2017, has been giving succor to the less privileges, disables, elderly persons and other people  in needs through the monthly distribution of food items nonstop.   This November, 500 residents across the six council areas that made up…

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