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Hope Brightens For Completion Of Ikorodu- Shagamu Road As Senate Passes 2022 Supplementary Appropriation Bill

December 29, 2022December 29, 2022 Impact Newspaper

Wale Jagun The hope for the completion of the 30-km Ikorodu-Sagamu Road, brightened on Wednesday, December 28,2022, as the Nigerian Senate passed the 2022 Supplementary Appropriation Bill, 2022. The economically important road that links the Lagos East Senatorial District to the rest of the country was among the priority projects captured in the supplementary budget. Funding augmentation required to complete the road before the end of the tenure of President Muhammadu Buhari, had been provided in the bill. In a statement by Mr Enitan Olukotun, Special Adviser to Senator Tokunbo…

Ikorodu – Shagamu Road Gets Additional Funding For Completion In 2023

December 21, 2022December 21, 2022 Impact Newspaper

Kunle Adelabu The representative of the Ikorodu Federal Constituency in the House of Representatives, Rep. Babajimi Adegoke Benson, has announced that he has been able to secure additional funding for the completion of the Ikorodu – Shagamu Road which he played a major role in its ongoing rehabilitation. According to the federal lawmaker who is the Chairman, House Committee on Defense, President Buhari made request for the additional funding in a Supplementary Budget presented at the plenary session on Wednesday, December 21, 2022. He made the revelation in a statement…

Smiles As Hundreds Of Residents Get Rep. Benson’s Xmas Food Packages

December 18, 2022December 18, 2022 Impact Newspaper

Jare Babatunde & Mariam Akinloye The iCare Foundation of Rep. Babajimi Benson, the representative of the Ikorodu Federal Constituency, on Saturday made hundreds of residents across the Ikorodu division, smiled as they were provided with food items for the yuletide season. A total of 1000 residents across the Ikorodu Central Local Government, Ikorodu West Local Council Development Area (LCDA), Ikorodu North LCDA Igbogbo/Bayeku LCDA, Ijede LCDA and Imota LCDA, benefitted from the Rep. Benson’s Foodbank programme tagged, ‘Apo Anu’. The distribution took place at the lawmaker’s constituency office along the…

Lagos Assembly Passes ₦1.768Trn 2023 Budget

December 12, 2022December 12, 2022 Impact Newspaper

Wale Jagun The Lagos State House of Assembly has passed a total of ₦1,768,014,155,285 as the budget for 2023. The budget was passed during the plenary session presided over by Speaker, Rt. Hon. Mudashiru Obasa on Monday, December 12, 2022. Obasa after the passage commended the lawmakers for their collective sacrifice and the swiftness with which the Appropriation Bill was handled. A breakdown of the approved budget size shows the sum of N748,096,508,571 as Recurrent expenditure and N1,019,917,646,713 as Capital expenditure for the year ending 31st December, 2023. A part…

Ikorodu- Itoikin Road: Full Rehabilitation Commences January 2023

December 8, 2022December 8, 2022 Impact Newspaper

Wale Jagun The Chairman, Senate Committee on Industries and the Senator representing Lagos East Senatorial District, Senator Mukhail Adetokunbo Abiru, FCA, on Thursday,(today) revealed that full rehabilitation of the 32km Ikorodu- Itoikin Road will commence in January 2023. A statement released and signed by the Special Adviser to the Senator on Media & Publicity, Mr Enitan Olukotun, said that the Senator got assurances from the Minister of Works and Housing, Mr Babatunde Raji Fashola, SAN, during a courtesy visit to the minister in his office in Mabuchi, Abuja on Wednesday.…

2023: Erunwen Community Assure Rep. Benson, APC Candidates Of Support

December 5, 2022December 6, 2022 Impact Newspaper

Kunle Adelabu -As Lawmaker flags off 3.3km road Party leaders and residents of the Ikorodu North Local Council Development Area (LCDA), on Saturday, December 3, 2022, pledged their total support for the re – election of Rep. Babajimi Benson as the representative of the Ikorodu Federal Constituency. They also pledged to give maximum votes in the coming elections to the APC Presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Governorship candidate, Mr Babajide Sanwo – Olu, Lagos East Senatorial candidate, Sen. Tokunbo Abiru and the Ikorodu Constituency I candidate, Mr Gbolahan Ogunleye.…

iCare, Kimberly Clark Support Mothers, Students With 10, 000 Diapers, Pads

November 9, 2022November 10, 2022 Impact Newspaper

Jare Babatunde As part of her community outreach activities, iCare Foundation, the working machinery of Rep. Babajimi Benson, Member, Federal House of Representatives, has partnered with Kimberly Clark, manufacturer of Huggies diapers and Kotex sanitary pads, to distribute 10, 000 diapers and pads to mothers and students. A total of 5000 Huggies diapers were distributed to mothers in primary health facilities and another 5,000 Kotex sanitary pads to secondary school students in Ikorodu Federal Constituency between last week and Monday, November 8, 2022. While nursing mothers at Ita-Elewa Primary Health…

Rep. Benson Gets Party Nod To Kick – Off 2023 Campaign

November 5, 2022November 6, 2022 Impact Newspaper

Kunle Adelabu -As constituents pledge highest votes for Asiwaju from Ikorodu In his attempt to carry every structure of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ikorodu Federal Constituency along and achieve maximum votes come 2023, Rep. Babajimi Adegoke Benson, the representative of the Ikorodu Federal Constituency who is seeking re – election for a third term, has met with the executives of the party at the Divisional, Local Government and Ward levels. Benson, at the consultative meeting with about 1000 party excos, sought and got overwhelming approval from those he…

BOI, SMEDAN, ITF Defend 2023 Budget Proposals Before Senate Committee On Industries

November 3, 2022November 3, 2022 Impact Newspaper

Kunle Adelabu The Senate Committee on Industries has received presentations from the Industrial Training Fund (ITF), Bank of Industries (BOI), Standard Organization of Nigeria (SON) and Small and Medium Enterprises Development Agency of Nigeria (SMEDAN), on their 2023 budget proposals. The critical agencies appeared before the committee to defend their budgets on Wednesday before the Senator Mukhail Adetokunbo Abiru, FCA, led committee. While the ITF presentation was done by its Director General, Sir Joseph Ari, its counterpart from SMEDAN, Mr Olawale Fasanya made a presentation on the budget proposal of…

Rep. Benson Hands Over Ultra – Modern Hall To Ibeshe Community

October 30, 2022October 30, 2022 Impact Newspaper

Mariam Akinloye Representative of the Ikorodu Federal Constituency, Rep. Babajimi Benson, has handed – over the Town Hall that he facilitated to the Ibeshe community in Igbogbo/Bayeku Local Council Development Area of Ikorodu Division, Lagos State, Southwest, Nigeria. The hall which is close to the lagoon, was equipped with official and modern plastic chairs and was commissioned and handed – over by the former chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asipa Kaoli Olusanya, during the week. The construction of the hall, which was financed by the Federal Ministry of…