Impact: Since you have been elected the CDC Chairman, what have been challenges and your observations? Alhaji Shonibare: the challenges have been so enormous because on coming on board there was nothing to build on. The former CDC executive did virtually nothing to elevate the CDAs in Ikorodu. For us to achieve anything, we try to give the CDAs sense of belonging and levying ourselves so as to have something to start with. Immediately after our elections, we have fashioned out a year plan of action which is going…
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ARK, A HUMANITARIAN & DEVELOPMENTAL INITIATIVE SET TO IMPACT ON THE SOCIETY
ARK, an initiative of Mrs Adekanbi Remilekun Kafayat, a Radiographer with a private hospital in Lagos is set to embark on humanitarian and developmental activities in Ikorodu and environs. It is poised to impact on the grassroots people through public enlightenment, youth engagement, empowering individuals and organizing health activities to educate and assists common people and give a hand of friendship to the less privilege. According to the initiator, “ARK is an idea that is committed to Ikorodu development through embarking on different humanitarian, medical and other developmental…
Read MoreCONFUSION STILL TRAILS ELETU STOOL
-Family agrees on Odujumo branch to produce next Eletu – Ikorodu traditional council endorse Adeniyi -Sogba may take advantage of persistent crisis Kunle Adelabu One year after the demise of Eletu of Oke-Eletu, Chief Surajudeen Kasumu from Shogba Ruling House, principal members of Ayanlu Asetaloye Ruling House of Oke-Eletu in Ijede Local Council Development Area may have agreed on Odujumo branch to present the next candidate to occupy the stool. In a letter dated 21st March, 2014 (a copy which is in IMPACT possession), and signed by three out of…
Read MoreSAVE US FROM OBATERU, FEDERAL GOVERNMENT’S SETTLERS CRY OUT
-Settlement under siege for two days -Several people wounded, properties worth millions destroyed -Resettled residents, ijede calls for fencing, government’s white paper Kunle Adelabbu Over 20 years ago, the Federal Government acquired large acres of land in Ijede suburb of Ikorodu in Lagos State to build a thermal electricity power generating plant that would serve the entire nation. But years after the land acquisition by the Federal Government, peace have eluded the residents whose lands were acquired and had been earlier relocated to another land by the government.…
Read MoreWHO GETS IKORODU GOVERNORSHIP TICKET?
– Three Aspirants Screened, Two failed to Show up Only three Governorship aspirants appeared before the Screening Committee, the Liaison Group of Eminent Persons and Residents of Ikorodu Division (EPID) on Wednesday, 4th June, 2014 at the Ikorodu Town Hall for screening, out of the five that signified interests by writing letters of intent to the body. The IMPACT gathered that only five of about ten aspirants for the exalted position showed their interests in the governorship race to the Screening Committee of the Liaison Group of Eminent Persons…
Read MoreRedevelopment of Old Maternity By Future Pride is Illegal, Says Ibramod Lawyer
– Denied Allegation Of N10million Settlement, To Seek Legal Action – Apex Leader Pull Down Structure Alhaji Sheriff Anipole led Ikorodu Local Government may be drawn into a legal battle over the redevelopment of Old Maternity site as Ibramod Nigeria Limited is threatening legal action over the re-award of the contract to Future Pride Consortium. Ibramod Nigeria Limited has through its lawyer; Barrister Ganiu Lookman declared that the redevelopment and ongoing construction of the controversial Old Maternity site along Oriwu Road, opposite Post Office, Ikorodu is illegal and a…
Read MoreIKORODU CONSTITUENCY II WAS DESIGNED TO SIDELINE IMOTA, OTHERS BY THE IKORODU ELITE – RANODU
HRM Oba Ajibade Agoro, the Ranodu of Imota has declared that the change of Imota, Igbogbo and Ijede Constituency to Ikorodu Constituency II is a design by Ikorodu elite to side-line and make them subordinate against the principles which created Ikorodu Division. Oba Ranodu told The Impact in an exclusive interview at his palace in Ijede recently, while reacting to various questions. “The name Ikorodu Constituency II is never what was designed for the three major towns that made up what is today known and called Ikorodu Constituency II,…
Read MoreEDITORIAL: IKORODU 2015 AGENDA: BEYOND GOVERNORSHIP PURSUIT
It is difficult to understand a situation, let alone change it, when the opportunity for serious study of it had not first been understood. This axiom aptly describes the present political crossroads of Ikorodu community. Ikorodu has been shouting of marginalization since the inception of this democratic dispensation in 1999, especially as regards political patronage and distribution of values which is simply because, unlike other parts of the state, Ikorodu has not been strategically positioned. Thus, the period between 1999 and 2011 when the late Alhaji Mufutau Ajisebutu dictated the…
Read MoreTHE IMPACT NEWSPAPER: MISSION & VISION STATEMENTS
MISSION STATEMENT Our MISSION is to make lasting effects on the society by beaming the searchlight on every aspect of human lives; commending deserving individuals, groups, bodies and exposing actions, conducts and activities that are not in conformity with societal norms with aim of reforming such. It is also to bridge the gap between the government and the governed. We are also to galvanize public opinions towards bringing development, first, to our immediate environment, Ikorodu, Lagos State and humanity in general. VISION STATEMENTImpact VISION is evolving as a virile media…
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