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500, 000 Households To Benefit From Lagos Food Bank Programme

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Wale Jagun The Governor of Lagos State, Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu, on Sunday flagged off the distribution of food items for vulnerable households through the Lagos Food Bank Programme, to cushion the effects of the removal of fuel subsidy by the Federal government on Lagos residents. The food distribution programme is part of the social and economic intervention programmes by the Lagos State Government to ameliorate the pains some Lagosians are experiencing due to the increase in transportation costs and food prices across the State as direct effect of the policy…

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Parents, Stakeholders In Odogunyan Kick Against LASG’s Plan To Move Junior Secondary School To Another Community

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Kunle Adelabu -We have lost many children since moving them to High School – Parents lament Stakeholders and parents of students of the Odogunyan Community Junior Grammar School, have kicked against the decision of the Lagos State Government to move the school to the Ikorodu High School, following the demolition of some of the defective structures in the school aftermath of the declaration of state of emergency in the school by the Lagos State House of Assembly, in September 2020. The Assembly had directed the Tutor – General/Permanent Secretary, Education…

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Sanwo-Olu Takes Over Medical Care Of 13-Year-Old Boy With Missing Intestine

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Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has taken over the medical care of Adebola Akin-Bright, a 13-year-old boy, whose small part of his intestines was allegedly missing at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH), Ikeja. Governor Sanwo-Olu made the promise on Sunday when he paid an unscheduled visit to Adebola and his mother, Mrs. Deborah Abiodun at the Pediatric Ward of LASUTH. The Governor pledged to take over his medical care by pulling all medical expertise from LASUTH and other resources to save the boy’s life. It would be…

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Hon. Arowolo’s Facilitated School In Ibeshe Ready For Opening Monday

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Kunle Adelabu Hon. Arowolo Mathew Kolawole, Councilor representing Ward C4, Igbogbo/Baiyeku Local Council Development Area (LCDA) has continued to prove why he is the number one representative, not only in Igbogbo/Bayeku LCDA, but also in the entire Ikorodu Division area of Lagos State, Southwest, Nigeria, as the junior secondary school that he facilitated is ready to commenced operation. Arowolo announced that, he and the Joint Community Development Association will tomorrow, Monday, September 4, performed the grand opening of the Ibelefun Junior Secondary School with six blocks of classrooms, while 200…

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72 Students Complete Resource Group’s Summer Computer Training

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Wale Jagun A total of 72 students have been taught about Computer Appreciation and Application in the Summer Boot Camp organized by the Ikorodu Division Resource Development Group (IDRDG), in conjunction with Always Building IT Experts, as part of the group’s programmes at empowering Ikorodu youths and students with ICT knowledge, in order to make them competitive. At the graduation ceremony held at the Barr. SAB Oteju ICT & Innovation Hub of the Ikorodu Ultra – Modern Town Hall, Ikorodu, on last Friday, the participants were issued certificates of participation.…

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Pastor Adelakun Returns As CDC Chairman, Igbogbo/Bayeku LCDA

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Mariam Akinloye The former Chairman of Igbogbo/Bayeku LCDA Community Development Committee (CDC), Pastor Abayomi Adelakun has been returned in the same capacity. Pastor Adelakun was elected at the elections held at the Igbogbo/Bayeku LCDA Secretariat in gbogbo, on Thursday. Others elected officers were: Alhaji R.B. Ibiyeye (First Vice Chairman), Alhaja Salisu Iyabo (Second Vice Chairman), Mr. Yahaya Ogunsowo (General Secretary), Mr. Adewale F. Gbadamosi (Treasurer), Com. Ayo Ajayi (Assistant Secretary), Mr. Mumuni A. Eshinlokun (PRO) and Alhaji Fatai Aremu (Financial Secretary) Also elected were Mr. Samson Olayinka (Welfare), Alhaja Khafijat…

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Ijede Residents Call On Govt To Revive, Preserve Odoro Waterfront

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Kunle Adelabu -It is a shame to us as a people – Odofin Alajede -We are working on it – Council Chairman Three years after the Odoro Beach at Ijede in ljede Local Council Development Area (LCDA) in lkorodu division of Lagos State, was developed by the youths of the community, and consequently launched as a relaxation and tourism centre, the beach has now been covered with weeds, a situation which has been described as very disappointing by residents, tourists and other fun seekers who had fell in love with…

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LASUSTECH Deputy VC Decries Erosion Of Yoruba Cultural Values In Child Upbringing, Calls For Change

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Mariam Akinloye Professor Basirat Oladipupo-Folarin, the Deputy Vice-Chancellor Administration of Lagos State University of Science and Technology (LASUSTECH), Ikorodu, has raised concern over the growing trend of parents raising their children in Western cultural values at the expense of Yoruba heritage. She called for a reversal of the trend so as to protect the Yoruba cultural values. In a thought-provoking address during the second edition of the “Epe Leja Wa” event at the LASUSTECH, Ikorodu Campus, themed, “Cultural Heritage in Shaping National Identity, Dignity, and Promoting Unity”, organized by the…

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NASS TETFUND Committee Inspects Projects In LASUSTECH

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Mariam Akinloye The House Committee on Tertiary Trust Fund (TETFUND), House of Representative during the week, visited the Lagos State University of Science and Technology (LASUSTECH), to inspects projects being executed by the Trust Fund. The visit was part of the committee’s inspection tour of TETFUND projects across universities in the South West region. The committee inspected some of the completed and the ongoing projects at the Ikorodu Campus of the university. According to the committee, the purpose of the visit was to assess the TETFUND projects in universities so…

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LG Pry School, Oreta: IDPIL’s Rehabilitated Structure Ready For Pupils, Teachers’ Resumption

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Kunle Adelabu -Community requests for more state, council interventions In less than two months, after the intervention by the Ikorodu Division Peace Initiative Limited (IDPIL) to rebuild the two dilapidated structures at the Local Government Primary School, Oreta in Igbogbo.Bayeku Local Council Development Area (LCDA) of Ikorodu Division, Lagos State, Southwest, Nigeria, the main structure in the school, which is a block of six classrooms and 12 toilets, has been fully rehabilitated and ready to accommodate the pupils when they resume for session in few days time. IDPIL had announced…

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