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Kunle Adelabu 17 beneficiaries of the Ikorodu Division Resources Development Group (IDRDG) Scholarship award will get their cheques on Sunday, September 4, 2022. The list of the beneficiaries was made public by the IDRDG last week. Sen. Adeseye Kingsley Ogulewe, Chairman, IDRDG and former Minister of Works confirmed the presentation of cheques to THE IMPACT in a phone call on Saturday. “As you are aware that the Group approved the award of scholarship to seventeen (17) undergraduate students of Ikorodu Division as one of its core objectives to the development…

Our Editor The Deputy Governor of Lagos State, Dr. Obafemi Hamzat, has stated that the present administration’s massive investment in the education sector is aimed at ensuring that all school children in the State are adequately equipped with skills for a productive future. Hamzat, speaking virtually on the second day of the 2022 Lagos Education Summit held at the Eko Convention Centre, Eko Hotels and Suites with the theme: “Creating a Sustainable Fit-For-Purpose Education Model”, added that the implementation of the State government’s ‘Project Zero’ has ensured the re-enrollment of…

Kunle Adelabu Successful applicants for the Ikorodu Division Peace Initiative Limited/GTE (IDPIL/GTE) Scholarship and Bursary Schemes will be presented with cheques on Saturday, September 10, 2022. It is no longer September 3, as earlier reported. The Executive Secretary of the IDPIL/GTE, Otunba Ganiyu Abiru who confirmed the new date to THE IMPACT, also restated that the presentation of N20, 000, 000. 00 worth cheques to beneficiaries will hold at the Adeboruwa palace in Igbogbo. It would be recalled that screening and examinations for about 400 applicants was held at the…

Kunle Adelabu The Salvation Army Primary School, Ikorodu, has received another individual intervention with another block of classrooms fully rehabilitated for the use of students who are due for resumption soon. The rehabilitation of the block which has been abandoned for several years, THE IMPACT gathered, was done by a United Kingdom – based Ikorodu indigene, Dr Junaid Sholebo. It was gathered that the classrooms with ceiling fans and white boards, are going to be supplied with chairs and tables. The intervention was coming after Asipa Kaoli Olusanya, a former…

Wale Jagun The Governor of Lagos State, Mr Babajide Olushola Sanwo – Olu, has announced its administration’s plan to set up Lagos State Tertiary Education Trust Fund, in a move that will creatively revolutionise the model for the funding of tertiary education in the country. According to the government, the funding mechanism, when it is eventually executed, will keep all the three Lagos State’s tertiary institutions on the path of sustainability. Governor Sanwo-Olu made the revelation on Thursday, when he received members of the Visitation Panel to the Lagos State…

Kunle Adelabu The much awaited ‘Back to School’ initiative of the Pepc Foundation, a Non – Governmental Organisatiion (NGO) based in Nigeria and United States of America (USA), which has been impacting across councils in Lagos State with its humanitarian gestures for about five years, kicked –off on Tuesday, August 30, 2022. The team has been distributing educational items such as school bags, socks, branded exercise books, calculators, pencils, pens, erasers and sharpeners, as part of the foundation’s educational support for school children’s resumption annually. About 400 students were presented…