Day: November 24, 2024

OPINION: Commentary on the Proposed Lagos State Local Government (Amendment) Bill

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By S. O. K. Shillings Esq Following the Supreme Court judgment declaring Local Governments as financially autonomous, there is need for adjustments. And Lagos State that started the ‘Local Council Development Area’ idea is blazing the trail once again. Let us refresh our minds on the status quo. Lagos State started the process of creating new Local Governments during the tenure of Senator Ahmed Bola Tinubu as Governor. At the critical stage of adoption by the National Assembly, the exercise failed as it should. If Lagos was allowed to create…

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4000 Educators Equipped With Digital Knowledge Through SAIL Teachers Fellowship Program

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Kunle Adelabu The SAIL Innovation Lab has graduated 4000 teachers equipped with knowledge and skills towards bringing about positive disruption in the teaching methods in classrooms.According to report, the lucky graduands were picked from a pool of 15,000 applicants that put in for the training across the country, after a rigorous selection process. The training, which was organised in partnership with the MTN Foundation, was aimed at improving the human capital development which is the focus of the co – founders of the lab, Senator Tokunbo Abiru and wife, Mrs…

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Hon. Aro Abiodun Receives Institute’s Community Leadership Award

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Kunle Adelabu & Bolu Orebajo The Chairman, House Committee on Public Private Partnership (PPP) and representative of Ikorodu Constituency II, Hon. Aro Moshood Abiodun (AMA), has been honoured with the 2024 Community Leadership and Youth Empowerment Award by the Chartered Institute of Leadership and Governance (USA), Nigeria Chapter. The award was presented during the 10th annual gathering of the prestigious institute in Abuja, on Friday. The event was attended by dignitaries from various sectors, including AMA Smile Foundation Team, government officials, business leaders and members of civil society. Hon. Aro…

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Conference Of Igbogbo Indigenes In Public Service Gets New Executives

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Kunle Adelabu -Honours former GM Lagos Printing Corporation, 9 others The Conference of Igbogbo Indigenes In Civil and Public Service (COIICPS) has elected and inaugurated a new executive council to oversee its affairs for the next two years. The new executive council, led by Dr. Wole Ogunyemi, FCIB, an Associate Professor with the Department of Agricultural Economics, Lagos State University of Science and Technology (LASUSTECH), took over from Prince Gbenga Ogunlewe led executives that completed its term on Friday. Other COIICPS executive members that were inaugurated during the Public Service…

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