EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Graduating With First Class Is All The Assurances That I Need To Know That I Am Ready To Take On The Real World And Excel Anywhere I Find Myself Around The Globe – Fasanya Hamzat

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Master Fasanya Hamzat, is another indigene of Ikorodu in Ikorodu Division of Lagos State, who graduated with First Class. He studied Sociology and graduated with 4.63 CGPA, at the recently held 24th Convocation ceremony of the Lagos State University (LASU). He is not just a studious person, but a footballer who played in the institution’s team. He was also students’ sports administrator, while in LASU. His online interview with Kunle Adelabu, Publisher/Reporter – in – Chief, THE IMPACT newspaper, is part of our coverage of the laudable feats achieved by…

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Residents Mobilizing For Action Against LASG Over Abandoned Igbogbo/Bola Tinubu/Afa/Gintin Road

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Kunle Adelabu Residents in over 100 communities along the Igbogbo – Bola Ahmed Tinubu Way – Oreyo – Afa River Valley – Igbe Laara – Ginti road in Igbogbo/Bayeku Local Council Development Area (LCDA), in Ikorodu Division of Lagos State, Southwest, Nigeria, seems to have been totally fed up with the abandoned road projects and its attendant problems which have become daily nightmare. The important road links the six council areas (one Local Government and five LCDAs) in the division, together. The road project, which started about seven years ago,…

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Comrade Makanjuola Takes Over As President Ikorodu North Students’ Union

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Wale Jagun It was an historic moment as a new executive council for the Ikorodu North Students’ Union, was inaugurated to steer the affairs of the teeming students in the council. At the inauguration ceremony, which took place at the Isiwu Town Hall, Comrade Makanjuola Haddy Adekunle took oath of office as the second President of the union. Members of his excos are: Ajetomiwa Taiwo Awolesi (Vice President), Tijani Ikimot Adebisi (General Secretary), Mabodu Hazeezat Opeoluwa (Assistant General Secretary), Atunrase Omotoyosi, (Welfare director) Oladunni Halimah, (Financial Secretary) and Ogunlaru Stephen…

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Sanwo – Olu Reappoints Gawat, Ajetunmobi As Media Aides

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Wale Jagun Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu has reappointed two media aides, Jubril Gawat and Wale Ajetunmobi. The duo’s appointments were approved by the Governor in separate letters to them and signed by the Head of Service (HOS), Mr. Hakeem Muri-Okunola. According to the HOS, the two appointments take immediate effect. Gawat, a celebrity digital media influencer and strategist, served as the Governor’s Senior Special Assistant (SSA) on New Media during Sanwo-Olu’s first term. He returned to the senior role. Ajetunmobi, a versatile and decorated reporter with The Nation newspaper,…

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IDPIL Sets To Give LG Primary School, Oreta, Facelift

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Kunle Adelabu -Describes state of school appalling Disturbed by the terrible state of structures which accommodate about 350 pupils in Local Government Primary School, Oreta in Igbogbo/Bayeku Local Council Development Area (LCDA) of Ikorodu Division, Lagos State, Southwest, Nigeria, the Ikorodu Division Peace Initiative Limited/GTE (IDPIL/GTE), has decided to step in and give the school a facelift. THE IMPACT gathered that the main structure in the school was built in the 1970s, while the other was constructed in 1948, when the school started operation. While the former’s roof is in…

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LASU Will Be Admitting Students Into 20 New Programmes – Prof. Omobitan, DVC

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Wale Jagun The new Deputy Vice-Chancellor of the Lagos State University (LASU), Ojo, Lagos, Prof. Olufunsho Abayomi Omobitan, has revealed that the prestigious institution will be admitting students into 20 new programmes recently approved by the National University Commission (NUC). He explained that the newly approved programmes provided the opportunity to offer admissions to qualified students from Igbogbo and other interested candidates with prerequisite O’level qualifications, and urged that prospective students should take advantage of the new courses which, according to him, are not on the JAMB portal. Prof. Omobitan…

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Sanwo – Olu Unbundles Lagos Health Sector, Creates Six Primary Care Districts For Improved Coverage

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Wale Jagun  -Appoints 11 Permanent Secretaries, deploys 7 to healthcare Newly established Primary Health Care (PHC) districts in Lagos State now have administrative powers to roll out universal health services to the residents, with the appointment of seven Permanent Secretaries by Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu to supervise their operations. These appointments were the single largest in the State’s health care system and reflected the Governor’s unprecedented move to expand health coverage for Lagosians in low-income communities. For the first time, medical practitioners in the public service sector were elevated to the…

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Igbogbo Community Honours One Of Its Own, Prof Omobitan, On His Election As LASU DVC

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Kunle Adelabu -Adeboruwa charged honoree, other scholars to mobilise academics from Igbogbo towards development The Igbogbo community has honoured one of its own, Prof. Olufunsho Abayomi Omobitan, on his recent emergence as the Deputy Vice Chancellor (Academics), Lagos State University (LASU), Ojo, Lagos. The royal father of the ancient Igbogbo community, His Royal Majesty, Oba Semiudeen Orimadegun Kasali, the Adeboruwa of Igbogbo, and other eminent of sons and daughters of the community, gathered on Sunday, July 9, 2023, to celebrate the scholar who is the second indigene of Igbogbo, that…

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Tinubu Plans N8k Monthly As Palliative For 12m Nigerians

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President Bola Tinubu has asked the senate to approve a borrowing request of $800 million. The president’s request was in a letter read by Godswill Akpabio, senate president, during plenary on Thursday. Tinubu, in the letter, explained that the loan will be used to scale up the national social safety net programme. He said the new borrowing will be sourced from the World Bank. He assured that the federal government will transfer the sum of N8,000 monthly to 12 million poor and low-income households for six months. He said the…

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Renew Your Commitments Towards Community Development, Adeboruwa Charges Igbogbo People

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kunle Ade;labu The Adeboruwa of Igbogbo Kingdom, His Royal Majesty, Oba (Barr.) Semiudeen Orimadegun Kasali, Emugoriade 1, has charged indigenes of ancient Igbogbo community in Ikorodu division of Lagos State, Southwest Nigeria, to renew their commitments to the community. The revered royal father expressed his dissatisfaction over the involvement of Igbogbo indigenes in the affairs of the community, and charged sons and daughters of Igbogbo, in various positions of authority to use such for the development of the community. Adeboruwa made the clarion call at the Rotary Centre in Igbogbo,…

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