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Mariam Akinloye Transforming Nigerian Youths Program, a training and capacity building program being organized by the Enterprise Development Centre, Pan Atlantic University, in conjunction with the Ikorodu – Oga Development Association (IKODASS), kicked – off on Monday, January 29, 3024, with a large number of female residents of Ikorodu, participating. The training, holding at the Ikorodu Town Hall main auditorium, will close on Wednesday. The laudable initiative istargeted at empowering 300 young women between 18 and 35 years old, in scaling up their businesses. Participants are being tutored in Accounting,…

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Kunle Adelabu -Revalidates Chief Bamisedun as Baale Odoroko The Ayangbure of Ikorodu, His Royal Majesty, Oba (Engr.) Kabir Adewale Shotobi, Adegorushen V, on Saturday, January 27, 2024, confirmed and installed High Chief Obasegun Oladunni Ogbe (the Araba of Ikorodu kingdom) as the Olootu ORODOKO LADI/ ODUJUMO ARABA FAMILY OF IKORODU. The ceremony, which was performed at the Ayangbure pavilion, Ayangbure palace, Ikorodu, witnessed a large turnout of Odujumo Araba family chieftains and members. Similarly, the revered monarch also revalidated Chief Babatunde Tajudeen Bamisedun as the Baale ORODOKO community of Ikorodu.…

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Kunle Adelabu The Board of Trustees (BOT) of the Oriwu College Old Students’ Association of Nigeria (OCOSAN), has congratulated the new national officials of the old students’ association of one of the foremost schools in Nigeria, Oriwu College, Ikorodu. Alhaji Chief Labi Ishola Lemomu, Chairman, OCOSAN BOT, in a statement on Saturday, felicitated the National President, Alhaji Muhammed Busari Soyebo Arole, FCA, and former Council Manager, and other executives who were elected last week. Also elected are Mr. Oshodi Olakunle (Deputy President), Hon. Olambiwonnu Olakunle Semiu (Vice President), Mr. Tijani…

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Kunle Adelabu Although, the death of former Commissioner for Finance, Lagos State, Prince Tajudeen Adedapo Odofin, FCA, KCOC, came to many as shock and surprise, it was, however, generally believed that he lived a fulfilled and accomplished life. Odofin, who served as Member of the Lagos State Executive Council under the administration of the late Captain Gbolahan Mudashiru administration from 1984 to 1986, died at the age of 83, at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH), Ikeja, Lagos, on Tuesday, January 23, 2024, and was buried same day at…

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Kunle Adelabu Ceaseless commendations have trailed the flag – off of Shodara and Adeyanju Streets that connect the Bola Ahmed Tinubu Way and Ogunlewe Crescent, the streets that hosted the Nigerian Immigration Office (Passport Office), Igbogbo, on Friday. One of such is from a Chairmanship aspirant for the Igbogbo/Bayeku Local Council Development Area (LCDA) for the 2025 Council elections, Mr Hammed Olalekan Aroyewun (HOA). Aroyewun lauded the federal lawmaker in a statement released on Friday, titled, ‘Happy for One, Happier for Two; Thanks Aplenty, JB’. “We are overjoyed and happy…

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Wale Jagun The Yeye Otun of Ikorodu Kingdom and wife of frontline Lagos politician, Chief (Mrs.) Jumoke Benson, has been described as an exemplary woman whose conducts as the wife of a leading public office holder should be emulated by others. Otunba ‘Dare Odufowokan, the Senior Special Assistant (SSA) on Public Communications to Governor Dapo Abiodun of Ogun State, stated this today in his birthday greeting to Mrs. Benson. According to Governor Abiodun’s spokesperson, Jumoke Benson, who shares the same acronyms, JB, with her husband, has shown that importance of…

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Wale Jagun Mr Babajide Sanwo – Olu, Governor of Lagos State has revealed plans by the state to establish airline for passenger operations. Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu disclosed this on Thursday, at the Lagos West Senatorial District People’s Town Hall Meeting, where he rendered stewardship and presented a catalogue of achievements recorded by his administration in the West of Lagos. He also revealed that the state is preparing for the construction of its own airport in Lekki. At the no-holds-barred meeting, Sanwo-Olu and his Deputy, Dr. Obafemi Hamzat, mounted the stage…

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