Category: Community

The Lagos State Government has announced that the Easter edition of the emergency neighbourhood food markets will hold on Thursday, April 9. The State Commissioner for Agriculture, Prince Gbolahan Lawal, who disclosed this on Tuesday, noted that the neighbourhood food markets will be open in 27 of the selected public schools within 14 Local Government Areas of the State. He explained that that the neighbourhood food markets were set up to provide Lagosians access to food supplies during the restriction period, in order to prevent panic buying as a result…

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Kunle Adelabu Pepc Foundation, a developmental and humanitarian non-governmental organization, has positively responded to the unfortunate CONVID – 19 pandemic that is threatening the global village and which has led to the lockdown in Lagos and Ogun States as well as the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), thereby inflicting social and economic hardship on the citizenry. The foundation, which was launched in December 2019 at Adegbose, Igbogbo/Bayeku Local Council Development Area (LCDA) of Ikorodu Division of Lagos State, Southwest, Nigeria, is aiming to provide food items for 400 households in Ikorodu…

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Kunle Adelabu -Residents call for financial, food support to stay indoor It was mixed reactions on Friday, April 3, 2020, when the Lagos State Emergency Market situated at the Government Technical College, Ikorodu, was opened for the second time for trading activities. The market, which was officially opened on Sunday, March 29, 2020 and scheduled to be held every three days as an intervention for the current lockdown to enable residents replenish their foodstuffs, was unable to hold last Wednesday as scheduled. The trading activities in the market on that…

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Kunle Adelabu The Chairman of the Igbogbo Muslim Community and the Aare Adinni of the Igbogbo Central Mosque, Alhaji Abdul-Ganiu Kehinde Olubodun, on Thursday (yesterday) distributed food items to 200 families to assist in cushioning the effects of the current COVID-19 lockdown on residents of Igbogbo/Bayeku  Local Council Development Area (LCDA). The exemplary social scheme was done in conjunction with the Igbogbo Muslim Community. Food items such as rice and garri were distributed to the beneficiaries who were 60 years and above and cut across members of Community Development Associations,…

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Kunle Adelabu The Adeboruwa of Igbogbo Kingdom, His Royal Majesty (Oba) Barr. Semiudeen Orimadegun Kasali, has urged privilege individuals in the society to be their brothers’ keepers by providing social aid, in form of food and other assistance, to those that cannot afford to fend for themselves and their families during the lockdown necessitated by the Coronavirus pandemic. The monarch, while stating that government cannot share money, as being demanded by some people, to cushion the effects of the lockdown which has taken serious toll on the economic and social…

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Kunle Adelabu The Lagos Emergency Food Market in Ikorodu will be operational on Friday (tomorrow), a senior State government official has reliably informed THE IMPACT. The official, who is a soft-spoken and respectful woman, spoke with our reporter on phone late on Wednesday. She pleaded for the understanding of residents of Ikorodu, especially those that trooped to the venue (Technical College, Oke Ota- Ona, Ikorodu) in the early hours of Wednesday (yesterday) to make purchase of food items but were left disappointed as the market could not take off as…

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Kunle Adelabu Residents of Ikorodu, on Wednesday (yesterday) continued their lamentation over their inability to get food items as the COVID-19 inspired lockdown of Lagos State entered the second day. Some of the residents that were at the Government Technical College, Ikorodu, venue of the proposed Lagos State Emergency Food Market, were left disappointed as the market could not take off as scheduled. They expressed anger over the absence of the officials of the State government in charge of the market at the venue for the takeoff despite placing a…

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Kunle Adelabu & Jare Babatunde -Residents clamour for social aid It was a massive compliance across Ikorodu division on the first day of the 14 days total lockdown ordered in Lagos State and Abuja by the Federal Government in a bid to effectively contain the spread of CONVID – 19 (Coronavirus) as shops, markets, banks, palaces and other public and private establishments that usually enjoy large traffic of human patronages and presence were completely shut down. Our reporter monitored the compliance level in four local council areas in Ikorodu division.…

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