Category: Community

Ikorodu Youths Set To Get Hub

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Kunle Adelabu Ikorodu Division Youth Initiative Movement (IDYIM) is close to achieving one of the major resolutions at its 2nd youth summit as it is set to establish vocational centres across Ikorodu Division with facilities to enable youths acquire skills. According to report gathered, the first quarter of this year has been set for the completion of the project which will be tagged, ‘Ikorodu Division Youth Hub’. THE IMPACT also gathered that IYDM has been able to secure an abandoned building within the Etunrenren Primary School in Ikorodu Local Government…

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iCare Lecture Series Designed For Youths, Ikorodu Developments – Hon. Benson, Others

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Kunle Adelabu Organisers of the iCare Lecture Series have stated that the annual training is aimed at developing Ikorodu Division with ideas that will help her develop to her capacity by bringing residents together for training and discussing developmental issues. The second edition of the Lecture Series kicked off at the Regal Hall, Olu-Odo, Igbogbo in Ikorodu division of Lagos State, Southwest, Nigeria, on Monday, January 27, 2020. The opening of the 2-day lecture is themed, “Community First Initiative: A Selfless Service’. The lawmaker representing Ikorodu Federal Constituency at the…

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Council, CDC Officials Escape Lynching As Thugs Disrupt CDA Election

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Kunle Adelabu It was sad experience for the supervisor for the Zone B, GRA Phase 2, Alogba Estate Community Development Association (CDA) election, Mr Ibrahm Abuanakra, who is the Head of Agricultural Department of Ikorodu West Local Council Development Area, as he escaped being lynched by thugs and some residents who disrupted the election of the CDA held on Saturday, January 25, 2020. The election became inconclusive after the disruption of the recounting process of the ballot papers for the three chairmanship candidates in the election. The electoral committee chairman,…

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7 Suspected Cultists Killed, 10 Arrested In Renewed Gang War In Ijede

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Kunle Adelabu -Police ready to deal with cult menace in the state – State Police Command Seven suspected members of three rival cult groups – Eiye (Airlords), Ku Klux Klan (KKK) and Aye (Axe) confraternities were reportedly killed between Monday, January 20 and Tuesday, 21, 2020, in a renewed gang crisis in Ijede Local Council Development Area of Ikorodu Division. The fight broke out on Monday between Eiye and KKK confraternities at a joint where young men in Ijede usually gathered to drink local gin commonly known and called ‘Paraga’…

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Ikorodu West LCDA Faceoff: Lagos Assembly, Leaders, Others Intervened As Hon. Ademehin Agrees To Meet Councilors’ Demands

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Kunle Adelabu The Lagos State House of Assembly Committee on Local Government & Community Affairs, leaders of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and Conference of 57 Council Chairmen on Monday intervened in the face-off between the Chairman of Ikorodu West Local Council Development Area, Hon. (Princess) Jumoke Ademehin, and the Council’s legislators. The Council lawmakers had on Monday, January 20, 2020, sealed off the Chairman’s office and blocked the entrance into the council premises with their official vehicles to prevent movement in and out of the council. It was, however,…

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MegaExpresion Publisher Distributes Educational Materials To Pupils To Mark 46th Birthday

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Kunle Adelabu In his quest to give back to his community, especially in the area of helping young ones have a great future, the Publisher of Megaxpression, an Igbogbo based community news and the Special Adviser to the Chairman of Igbogbo/Bayeku Local Council Development Area on Media & Strategy, Mr Shakiru Seidu, has distribute educational materials to the pupils in his former primary school, Ansar- Ul – Deen (A.U.D) Primary School, Igbogbo, in Igbogbo/Bayeku LCDA of Ikorodu Division, Southwest, Nigeria. He visited the school on Monday, January 20,2020, to motivate…

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Millennium Housing CDA Commissions Secretariat, Sets To Implement Development Road Map

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Kunle Adelabu Few weeks after new Community Development Associations (CDAs) Executive Committees were constituted across Lagos State, the Millennium Housing CDA in Ibeshe axis of Igbogbo/Bayeku Local Council Development Area (LCDA) in Ikorodu Dvision, Lagos, Southwest, Nigeria, has commissioned its Secretariat. The secretariat, which according to report, is the first step towards the implementation of a road map to developing the Estate by the Comrade Wasiu Tijani led executive, was commissioned by the Chairman of the Igbogbo/Bayeku LCDA, Builder (Comrade) Sesan Mayokun Daini, on Sunday, January 12, 2020. The CDA…

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Traders Defy Govt. As Illegal Trading Thrives Unabated At Ikorodu Sabo Market

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Kunle Adelabu Traders at the Ayangbure modern market, popularly known and called Sabo market, have continued to defy the directive of both the Lagos State Government and Ikorodu Local Government against illegal trading. On daily basis, hundreds of traders display their wares and goods in the middle of the road in the market preventing human and vehicular movements. Many of the traders display their goods and wares right from the main entrance of the market and spread across all the roads within the market. They operate on the road unhindered,…

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Pa Owolabi’s Death: Community Journalists In lkorodu Pay Condolence Visit To Family Of Late Veteran Broadcaster

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Kunle Adelabu Community media practitioners under the aegis of the Ikorodu Community Media Practitioners (IKOCOMP) on today, Tuesday, January 14, 2020, visited the widow of the late veteran journalist, Pa Tunji Owolabi, who died on Sunday, January 5, 2020. Pa Owolabi, 82, was a reporter with Radio Lagos/Eko FM, covering Ikorodu Division, Epe and Ibeju-Lekki axis of Lagos State. Speaking on behalf of the group, Kunle Adelabu, the Coordinating Scribe and the Reporter-in-Chief, THE IMPACT Newspaper, expressed IKOCOMP’s condolence to the widow, Mrs Modupe Owolabi and other family members and…

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Imota Youth Leader, Odumosu Abiodun Elected CDC Chairman.

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Kunle Adelabu Comr. Odumosu Rafiu Abiodun, a foremost youth leader, community activist and mobiliser in Imota Local Council Development Area (CDA), has been elected as the Chairman of the council’s Community Development Committee (CDC). He was returned unopposed during the election held at Imota LCDA Council Secretariat, Ebute-Ajebo Road in Imota, on Friday, December 20, 2019. Other members of the CDC returned at the election, which was supervised by Mr Al-Ameen, who led the delegation from the Ministry of Local Government & Community Affairs (LG & CA), and Mr Tito…

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