Category: Community

Kunle Adelabu It was a great spectacle on Saturday, July 30, 2022, when male residents of the ancient kingdom of Igbogbo converged on the Igbogbo Night market to celebrate the 2022 Oro Abosan festival. The grand finale of the festival, which started on Thursday July 20, was held  on that Saturday and it reassured residents that the festival would continue to be part of the culture and tradition of the ancient Igbogbo town. A major feature, of this year’s celebration was the emergence of a new Masquerades – Panpa Lantan …

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Kunle Adelabu One of the most important annual traditional festivals in Ikorodu kingdom, Agemo/Eluku festival will start on Tuesday, August 23, 2022. The festival would be staged for seven days according to the Ayangbure of Ikorodu, His Royal Majesty, Oba Kabor Adewale Shotobi. The revered royal father revealed this at the 25th anniversary celebration of Kith & Kin Educational Schools which took place at the Ikorodu Town Hall on Friday, July 29, 2022. “For your information, we are going to celebrate Agemo/Eluku festival this year. We are starting Agemo August…

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Jare Babatunde The Igbogbo community has announced that this year’s Oro Abosan festival will hold on Saturday, July 30, 2022. The traditional festival started with pre- activities on Thursday, July 20 with necessary rites by the Oro Abosan group and will climax on Saturday, July 30, when women are expected to stay indoor from 12am on Friday, July 29, till morning on Sunday, July 31. In a statement by the community at the weekend, residents of Igbogbo and environs: Agunfoye, Offin, Oreta, Selewu, Bayeku and other surrounding communities, will be…

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Kunle Adelabu Two prominent individuals in Ijede community of Ijede Local Council Development Area (LCDA), Ikorodu Division of Lagos State, Southwest, Nigeria, have been honoured by their community for attaining height in their chosen careers and bringing honour to Ijede. They were described as outstanding achievers whose giant strides would impact on the youths and propel them to strive for greatness and also give the community good image. The two achievers were honoured at an event organised by the Starlight newspaper held at the TBT Event Cente in Ijede, on…

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Kunle Adelabu It has been tales of sad experiences as flood continue to ravage communities across the Ikorodu Division due to the incessant rainfall in the recent times, but the heavy downpour of Saturday, July 9, 2022, which prevented many Muslims from celebrating the Ileya festival, has worsen the situation as the agonies have spread to other communities. Many were forced to remain indoors on the Sallah day because roads in their areas were made impassable by flood while many had their homes taken over by flood. This sad incident…

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Kunle Adelabu His Royal Majesty, Oba (Engr.) Kabir Adewale Shotobi, the Ayangbure of lkorodu, has assured those agitating for the scrapping of annual Oro festivals in Ikorodu Kingdom on the ground that women’s movement is  usually being restricted during the festival, to accept the culture of Ikorodu which its people has seen as a way of life. Oba Shotobi, while addressing the State Chairman of the National Youth Council of Nigeria (NYCN), Comrade Lekan Biliamin Oba, members of the state executives and Coordinators across the 20 Local Government Areas and…

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Kunle Adelabu -24 residents to get free cataract removal surgery, 102 get glasses A total of 24 cataract cases have been discovered out of the 239 residents of Ikorodu at the two-day free eyes screening held between Tuesday, June 21 and 22, 2022. The exercise, which was sponsored by the Rhoda Youth Centre, Ikorodu, in partnership with the Eye Foundation Hospital and Relief for Human Suffering Foundation, took place at the Rhoda Youth Centre Multiple- Purpose Hall, Abiodun Ogunleye Street, Solomade, Ikorodu. At the programme tagged, “Free Eye Test and…

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Kunle Adelabu -Council chairman, palace appeal to aggrieved residents Victims of the house demolition at the Oke – Ira area of Igbogbo/Bayeku Local Council Development Area (LCDA) of Ikorodu Division, Lagos State, Southwest, Nigerian, on Thursday, June 2, 2022, protested to the Adeboruwa palace and the Council Secretariat in Igbogbo, to seek redress for the houses demolished on Tuesday. It was alleged that over 500 houses were demolished on the order of the governor, with the aid of armed soldiers, mobile police and thugs, allegedly led by a known thug…

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Kunle Adelabu The Ayangbure of Ikorodu Kingdom, His Royal Majesty, Oba Kabir Adewale Shotobi, has conferred on Otunba Ganiyu Olusegun Abiru, former Clerk/Permanent Secretary, Lagos State House of Assembly, an honorary title of Otunba Fuwagbuyi of lkorodu, in recognition of his immense contributions to Ikorodu, Lagos and humanity in general. Otunba Abiru, who is the Executive Secretary, Ikorodu Division Peace Initiative Limited/GTE, was conferred with the royal title alongside his wife, Chief (Mrs) Olubunmi Abiru, who bagged the honorary title of Yeye Otunba Fuwagbuyi of Ikorodu Kingdom, at the Ayangbure…

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