Vulnerable Lagos East Residents Get N130Million Abiru COVID Support Scheme In 20 Months

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Kunle Adelabu A total of N130million has been paid as COVID – 19 Financial Relief Scheme to about 2500 residents of Lagos East Senatorial District by Senator Mukhail Adetokunbo Abiru, FCA. Vulnerable residents who are widows, people with physical disabilities, aged, unemployed youths and women have been receiving direct credit transfers of N5,000 each into their respective bank accounts every other month in the 20 months that the lawmaker introduced the scheme. In a statement issued on Thursday by the Special Adviser to the Senator on Media and Publicity, Mr…

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Sanwo – Olu Plans Dedicated Trust Fund For Lagos Varsities, Receives LASU Visitation Panel Report

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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…

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Ikorodu Residents, Students Commend Pepc Foundation’s ‘Back To School’ Initiative

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Kunle Adelabu -Parents offer special prayers It was commendations and prayers galore from parents and students in Ikorodu, for the Pepc Foundation which distributed educational items to about 2000 students as support for their resumption back to school. The distribution exercise, tagged, ‘Back to School Initiative’, and involving given out of educational materials: School bags, Sucks, Branded Exercise Books, Calculators, Pencils, Pens, Erasers and Sharpeners, kicked off at Lekki Local Council Development Area (LCDA), Lagos, on Tuesday, August 30, and a total of 5000 students across the State is expected…

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Top Corporate Executives Tour Senator Abiru Innovation Lab, Laud Initiative

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Kunle Adelabu The initiative of the Senator representing the Lagos East Senatorial District, Mukhail Adetokunbo Abiru, FCA, aimed at equipping and empowering youths in his district with technological, business and digital skills, has received commendations from boardroom gurus and top corporate executives. The banks and corporate executives who visited the Senator Abiru Innovative Laboratory (SAIL) in Ikorodu on Monday, August 29, 2022, to assess the quality of training, faculty and facility for possible partnership and employment opportunities for participants, gave the commendations. SAIL, an initiative of the Tokunbo Abiru Constituency…

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Igbogbo 2022: Adeboruwa Hosts Lads, Lasses Brigade Officers

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Mariam Akinloye Officers of The African Lads and Lasses Brigade, Lagos State Command, have paid a courtesy call on the Adeboruwa of Igbogbo, His Royal Majesty, Alaiyeluwa (Oba) Semiudeen Orimadegun Kasali, Emugoriade II, in his palace in Igbogbo. The visit was part of the 2022 8-day Biennial Leadership Training Camping of the Command which took off last Sunday at the Lagos State Civil Service Model College, lgbogbo. The training is themed, ‘Engaging The Youths For A Maximum Productivity’, and tagged, ‘Igbogbo 2022’. While receiving them in his palace, the royal…

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Pepc Foundation Supports Students With Educational Materials In Lagos

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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…

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African Church Brigade Converge On Igbogbo For 8 – Day Training Course

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Mariam Akinloye This year’s biennial Leadership Training of The African Lads and Lasses Brigade has commenced today in Igbogbo, Ikorodu Division of Lagos State, Southwest, Nigeria. The 8 – day camping holding at the Lagos State Civil Service Model College, Igbogbo, was officially declared opened by the Honourable Commissioner for Agriculture, Lagos State, Ms Abisola Ruth Olusanya. The training, which is themed, ‘Engaging The Youths For A Maximum Productivity”, is tagged, ‘Igbogbo 2022’. Also at the opening of the camp were His Royal Majesty, Oba Semiudeen Orimadegun Kasali, the Adeboruwa…

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No One Is Exempted From Paying Waste Bills – LAWMA

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Our Editor The Managing Director/CEO of Lagos Waste Management Authority (LAWMA), Mr. Ibrahim Odumboni, has called on residents to support efforts of the Authority to rid the environment of filth by paying their waste bills promptly. Odumboni said payment for waste services is very crucial to achieving the State’s vision of establishing a cleaner and liveable environment, adding that no one is exempted from paying waste bills, regardless of occupation or societal status. “We want to appeal to all residents to make it a duty to pay their waste bills.…

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Lagos Business Woman, Socialite, Alhaja Sukurat ‘Shine Shine’ Sanni, Donates Ultra – Modern Health Centre To Commemorate 60th Birthday

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Wale Jagun & Mariam Akinloye -Friend supports with an ambulance, medical facilities The Primary Healthcare sector in Ikorodu received a massive boost on Friday, August 26, 2022, as a popular Ikorodu – Born socialite and successful business woman, Alhaja (Chief) Shukurat Modupeola Abimbola Sanni, popularly called ‘Shine Shine’, donated a fully equipped ultra – modern health care building at the Ita – Elewa Primary Health Centre, Ikorodu. The medical facility was commissioned by the Governor of Lagos State, Mr Babajide Sanwo – Olu and Ayangbure of Ikorodu, His Royal Majesty,…

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Massive Turnout As Ikorodu Hosts Fitness Festival Season II

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Kunle Adelabu It was yet another opportunity for residents of Ikorodu Division, especially the youths, as they converged and engaged in fitness exercises to keep their mental alertness and physical body in shape. Hundreds of residents, some of whom were elderly persons, had great time exercising their bodies with good music at the seaside of lagoon. The occasion was the second edition of the Ikorodu Fitness Festival held at the Metro Ferry Terminal, Ebute – Iga, Ikorodu West Local Council Development Area (LCDA) of Ikorodu Division, Lagos State, Southwest, Nigeria.…

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