Category: Legislative Report

Kunle Adelabu The lawmaker representing Ikorodu Federal Constituency, Rep. Babajimi Adegoke Benson, has toured some of the projects he attracted to his constituency. Rep. Benson and his team inspected projects in 4 councils out of the six in his constituency – Ikorodu Local Government, Ikorodu North Local Council Development Area (LCDA), Imota LCDA and Ijede LCDA on Saturday, July 23, 2022. The inspection tour, which commenced from Oshin Ladega Street (Agbala) went through Amudat Jokomba, Olokunola, Oladunjoye Oriola, (better food) in Ikorodu North LCDA. The network of roads link Oguntuga,…

Kunle Adelabu Two bills sponsored by the Chairman, Senate Committee on Industries and the Senator representing Lagos East Senatorial District, Senator Mukhail Adetokunbo Abiru, FCA, were part of the seven Bills considered by the Senate Committee on Judiciary, Human Rights and Legal Matters during a public hearing Wednesday (yesterday). The two Bills considered by the Sen. Opeyemi Bamidele (APC, Ekiti State) led Senate Committee: High Court Act (Amendment) Bill, 2021, and The Franchise Regulation Bill, 2022, were among the seven bills presented to stakeholders at the hearing. The President of…

Kunle Adelabu The Senator representing Lagos East Senatorial District and the Chairman, Senate Committee on Industries, Sen. Mukhail Adetokunbo Abiru, FCA, has stated that there is need for the Industrial Training Fund Act and Related Matters to be in tune with the realities of today’s industrial and allied matters. Abiru made the statement on Tuesday when he chaired the public hearing on a bill for an Act to amend the Industrial Training Fund Act and related Matters (SB. 608) at the Senate New Building, National Assembly Complex, Abuja. The former…

Wale Jagun -Supports rural farmers ; commissions stadium, market-His programmes has been life-changing – Gov. Sanwo – Olu The Governor of Lagos State, Mr Babajide Sanwo – Olu, has described projects and empowerments by the Senator representing the Lagos East Senatorial District, Sen. Mikhail Adetokunbo Abiru, FCA, in the last 18 months that he had assumed office, as life changing. Residents of the ancient town of Epe and others from Councils under the Lagos East, defied the torrential rains on Thursday, June 30, 2022, to welcome the Senator and Governor,…

Kunle Adelabu -Only 640, 774 registered voters in Lagos – INEC With the low turnout in the number of registration for the Permanent Voters’ Card (PVC) in Lagos State, the Majority Leader, Hon. Sanai Agunbiade, has appealed to residents of the State that are yet to register to do so in good time. The fourth term state lawmaker also charged those that had registered but yet to collect their PVCs to also ensure that they go to the INEC office to for collection. Hon. Agunbiade, who is also the Chairman,…

Kunle Adelabu The House of Representatives has passed for the second time, Bill seeking to amend the Discrimination against Persons with Disability (Prohibition) Act, 2018 for upward review of retirement age of persons with disability. Hon. Babajimi Benson (APC, Lagos) sponsored the amendment legislation titled, “Discrimination Against Persons with Disability Prohibition (Amendment) Bill, 2022”. The representative of the Ikorodu Federal Constituency who is the Chairman, House Committee on Defense, announcing the development on his social media handles Thursday night, said: “The bill I sponsored for the upward review of age…

Kunle Adelabu The two term Federal lawmaker representing the Ikorodu Federal Constituency in the House of Representatives, Rep. Babajimi Benson, has explained how he intends to complete the remaining one year in his second term strong. Benson, who just won his party’s primary election for a chance to win a third term, was re-elected in 2019 to serve a term of four years which ends in 2023. The lawmaker, said that the remaining year of his second term will not just be for campaigning alone but also for execution of…

Wale Jagun There is no stopping for the iCare Foundation, the operational team for Rep. Babajimi Benson, the representative of Ikorodu Federal Constituency in the National Assembly, Abuja, in its monthly food package distribution, as another set of 500 constituents received ratio for the month of June. The FoodBank program which has been on for …years, has been making food items and provisions such as rice, beans, garlic, milk, semovita, beverage and groundnut oil among others, available to vulnerable Constituents on monthly basis nonstop, since the emergence of Rep. Benson…

-As first set of his Innovation Lab graduates in style kunle Adelabu Participants of the first set of the Senator Abiru Innovation Lab (SAIL), graduated on Friday, June 3, 2022, with the best three given about 3million naira grant by the #Doing Good Senator. The three best participants are: John Olisa, Jessica Nwobodo, Esther Ogundare, respectively They were selected based on their pitch presentations and were awarded the sum of N1.5milion, N1milllion and N500, 000, respectively, by Sen. Abiru, the Chairman, Senate committee on Industries, and the Senator representing Lagos…