Category: Personality

Residents, LASPOTECH Alumni Celebrate Peoples’ Rector, Ayodeji Iginla On Birthday

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Kunle Adelabu It’s another birthday for a renowned educationist and former Rector of the now defunct Lagos State Polytechnic (LASPOTECH), Chief Ayodeji Babatunde Iginla, the Akomolede of Ikorodu Kingdom, as he added another year today. In celebrating the celebrant who was very popular among staff and students during his time as the administrator of the former Polytechnic which, today, has changed to the Lagos State University of Science and Technology (LASUSTECH), associates, friends, well – wishers and former students of LASPOTECH, have been felicitating him on THE IMPACT, LASPOTECH Alumni…

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INTERVIEW: If Well Administered, Challenges Confronting Nigeria Like Food Crisis, Insecurity And Others Can Be Solved Through The 774 LGs – Basorun Rotinwa, fmr. Chairman, LG Service Commission

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Bashorun Babatunde Tajudeen Rotinwa, was a former Chairman, Lagos State Local Government Service Commission between 2015 to 2019, under the administration of Mr Akinwunmi Ambode as the Executive Governor of the state. This was after he served as the Head of Service (HOS) for nine months under the military administration of Col. Buba Marwa in Lagos State, before the commencement of this democratic dispensation. Rotinwa had, on returning to Nigeria in 1976, got enlisted into the service of the Lagos State Government as an Inspector of Education Grade Level 1…

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Accolade, Encomium Galore As THE IMPACT Publisher Marks Birthday

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Wale Jagun & Mariam Akinloye It was an endless but well deserved accolades and encomiums for the Publisher/Reporter- in – Chief of THE IMPACT newspaper, Kune Adelabu, as he added another year on Sunday, August 4. The entire WhatApp platform of the community news medium was filled with goodwill messages from eminent personalities and others. It was the same on the Facebook and other social media platforms of the community media outfit as hundreds of commentators and friends celebrated the young journalists who, according to the wellwishers, has made invaluable…

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Celebrating An Icon, Role Model and Mentor: His Royal Majesty, Alaiyeluwa Oba (Dr.) Salaudeen Afolabi Adekoya Oyefusi, the Oguntade II, Former Ayangbure of Ikorodu

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At 83, His Royal Majesty, Alayieluwa Oba (Dr) Salaudeen Afolabi Adekoya Oyefusi Oguntade II, a monarch whom history would recognise as the 18th traditional ruler of Ikorodu, joined his ancestors on Saturday, 2nd of August 2014, drawing the curtain on an eventful and colourful 44 years reign on the Royal throne of Ikorodu. Born on the 8th of July 1931, Oyefusi took his final bow from the stage of life, having played his part in an epic drama of life that spanned four decades and three years – a ripe…

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Meet ASORO, the most talked about candidate for NYCN Lagos East Vice Chairman

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On Thursday 4th April 2024, the entire stakeholders of NYCN Ikorodu West declared their interest in the Vice Chairman of Lagos East. The seat which put the responsibility of overseeing youth activities in the 16 LG/LCDAs under the leadership of the VC East they said require a capable hand. According to the State Chairman NYCN Lagos; Lekan Biliamin Oba, “if a ranking of the best performing coordinators is done today and Asoro is not among the top 2, there is a fraud”. Asoro capability was reechoed by the Executive Chairman…

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Meet Lamina Azeez (Waves): A Pride Of His Generation

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Lamina Azeez Abolaji is the CEO, Waves Media Limited. He is a serial entrepreneur with over 17 years hands-on experience toiling in the Nigerian media space. Kunle Adelabu of THE IMPACT newspaper sat with him for a brief interview and here are the excerpts: THE IMPACT: Good afternoon, Mr. Waves, can you do a proper introduction of yourself for some of our audience who would be reading about you for the first time? Waves: My name is Lamina Azeez Abolaji. I would like to describe myself as a serial hustler,…

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Congratulations Galore As LASUSTECH Broadcast Teacher, Steven Adesemoye Bags Doctoral Title

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Wale Jagun It has been celebration galore on THE IMPACT loop, as a very popular broadcast teacher with the Mass Communication Department of the Lagos State University of Science and Technology (LASUSTECH), Dr. Steven Anu’ Adesemoye, completed his Doctorate at the University of Malaya, Malaysia. Dr. Adesemoye, who is the Chief Administrator on the IMPACT platform where we have many other lecturers, students and staff from the LASUSTECH (formerly Lagos State Polytechnic), has been away for about two years in pursuit of his academic laurel. Steve is a broadcast educator,…

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Asiwaju Olorunfunmi Basorun: Profile Of A Titan And Pathfinder Of Many Parts At 85

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By Kunle Adelabu Indeed, the better parts of the last 85 years for His Eminence, Asiwaju Reuben Olorunfunmi Basorun has been that of immense service to his family, community, state, country and humanity in general. Today, Baba Aladura, as he is fondly called by admirers, clocked 85 years andstill functional, active and impacting within his capacity. Unknown to some, especially some of the younger generations, engagements of the celebrant who is a chieftain of the Governance Advisory Council (GAC) in Lagos State, and one of the leaders of All Progressives…

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Kunle Matti, Former Assembly Aspirant Turns 50

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Mr Matti Olakunle Alliasau, a chartered accountant, administrator, teacher, senior council official, grassroots mobiliser and community leader per excellence, today, turned 50. The celebrant who is the General Secretary, Ijede Development Foundation (IDF), was the former aspirant for the Ikorodu Constituency II, Lagos State House of Assembly, in the last general election. He is the Chief Accountant, Iru Victoria Island LCDA.

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LeAP Celebrates Seasoned Journalist, Kunle Adelabu On Birthday

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Mariam Akinloye A political and developmental platform, the Lekan Aroyewun Project (LeAP), has identified with the Publisher/Reporter – in – Chief, THE IMPACT, Kunle Adelabu, on his birthday anniversary today, stating that he is a worthy ambassador of Ikorodu Division. LeAP acknowledged the dedication of the ace community reporter to journalism which it said has been giving voice to the common people in the grassroots. The group felicitated the young journalist in a statement signed by Executive Director, LeAP Team Management, Mr Olugbenga Odunniyi who also described the celebrant as…

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