Category: Legislative Report

Our Reporter…Gives Governor Power To Suspend Erring Chairmen, Vice Chairmen The Lagos State House of Assembly is set to replace the current 37 Local Council Development Areas (LCDAs) in the state with Administrative Areas. This is contained in a Bill for a Law to provide for Local Government’s System, Establishment And Administration And to Consolidate All Laws On Local Government Administration And Connected Purposes, which went through public hearing on Thursday. The bill specifies that the system of Local Government will be by democratically elected Local Governments. According to the…

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Kunle Adelabu The representative of Ikorodu Federal Constituency, Rep. Babajimi Benson, has announced a new educational initiative.The initiative, tagged, ‘Ikorodu Federal Constituency Law School Mobilization Support Programme’, is targeted at assisting future lawyers. The scheme, THE IMPACT gathered, was designed to address the inability of law students from Ikorodu, who were unable to proceed to the Law School due to financial constraints. The grant will be offered twice a year. Rep. Benson, who is the Chairman, House Committee on Defense, announced the initiative in a statement on Wednesday, stating that…

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Kunle Adelabu After successfully sponsoring their trainings in various vocational centres, Hon. Aro Moshood Abiodun (AMA) has empowered 60 successful trainees with equipment of their vocations. The lawmaker, while presenting the equipment to the beneficiaries at the 2024 Constituency Stakeholders’ Meeting held at the Golden Event Centre, Oke – Eletu in Ijede Local Council Development Area (LCDA), also announced that the vocational centres that trained the beneficiaries will also be presented with equipment for each of the vocations. Some of the vocations engaged in by the beneficiaries are Hairdressing, Barbing,…

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Kunle Adelabu Youths and land owners in Ikorodu, have been challenged on the need to play their roles in ensuring food sufficiency in Ikorodu and the state at large. Hon. Aro Moshood Abiodun, member of the Lagos State House of Assembly representing Ikorodu Constituency II, gave the challenge at his first Constituency Stakeholders’ Meeting which was held at the Golden Event Centre, Oke – Eletu, Ijede Local Council Development Area (LCDA) in Ikorodu Division. This year’s stakeholders’ meeting was the ninth in the series and was themed: ‘Ensuring Food Security…

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Wale Jagun with Bolu Oresajo & Taiwo Kudirat Oluwatoyin (SIWES Students)-As former Majority Leader added voice to home – grow farming The representative of Ikorodu Constituency I at the Lagos State House of Assembly, Hon. Ogunleye Gbolahan Adetokunbo, has urged constituents, especially youths, to participate in agriculture to boost food security. He said this when he hosted the ninth edition of the Constituency Stakeholders’ Meeting at the his constituency office in Ipakodo in Ikorodu West Local Council Development Area (LCDA) on Friday. The event, themed, ‘Enabling Food Security for a…

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Kunle Adelabu The Governor of Lagos State, Mr Babajide Sanwo – Olu, has approved the construction of two buildings of 36 classrooms for Lajo Secondary School, Offin in lgbogbo/Bayeku Local Council Development Area (LCDA). This was revealed by the representative of Ikorodu Constituency II, Hon. Aro Moshood Abiodun (AMA), at his first Constituency Stakeholders’ Meeting held at Golden Event Centre, Oke – Eletu, Ijede Local Council Development Area (LCDA).The project also includes construction of perimeter fencing and other facilities The lawmaker also said that he has presented a list of…

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Kunle Adelabu with Simire God’sgift Oluwatobiloba, Olaleye Taiwo Deborah & Ayoola (SIWES Students) The representative of Ikorodu Constituency II in the Lagos State House of Assembly, Hon. Aro Moshood Abiodun (AMA), has said that he has delivered on 60% of the promises he made to his constituents that gave him the mandate to represent them, within the first 13 months. Speaking at the Constituency Stakeholders Meeting held at Golden Event Centre, Oke – Eletu in Ijede Local Council Development Area (LCDA), Hon. Aro, who is the Chairman, House Committee on…

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Kunle Adelabu The infrastructural regeneration of the Ikorodu Federal Constituency representative, Rep.Babajimi Benson, across the Ikorodu Division, has continued to generate reactions from stakeholders within the Division and Lagos State in general. The latest was coming from the State Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Dr. Adeola Muhydeen Jokomba, who, in a statement, commended the three – term lawmaker for his efforts in facilitating developmental projects to Ikorodu, especially the construction of the Lambo – Lasunwon Road in Ward E in Ikorodu North Local Council Development Area (LCDA). Jokomba,…

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Kunle Adelabu & Mariam Akinloye -Deputy Gov Hamzat flags – off centre in Ikorodu The Medical Director/Chief Executive Officer, General Hospital, Ikorodu, Dr Taiwo Kamorudeen Hassan, has stated that 16, 000 out of the over 23, 000 patients that go for treatment in hospitals in Lagos State, are trauma victims. He disclosed this at the flag – off of a 40 – bed trauma centre by the Deputy Governor of Lagos State, Dr Obafemi Akadiri Hamzat, at the General Hospital, Ikorodu, on Monday, adding that the facility, when completed, would…

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Wale Jagun Barely 48 hours after he announced planned construction of certain roads and schools in Ikorodu, the Senator representing Lagos East Senatorial District, Senator Mukhail Adetokunbo Abiru, FCA, on Monday, embarked on inspection of the SAIL Innovation Lab and Sport Centre which are currently under construction at Orimedu, Ibeju-Lekki area of Lagos State. In a statement by Mr Enitan Olukotun, the Special Adviser to the Senator on Media and Publicity, he said that the impressive facility is being built on a sprawling 6,000 square metre prime land, along the…

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