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WHAT GOD HAS JOINED TOGETHER

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By Razaq Adedeji Jimoh At the appropriate time, it came to awareness of Civics Weekky that the Executive Chairman of Egbe-Idimu LCDA, Alimosho LGA, Prince Idris Balogun was the first to congratulate Alhaja Awulat Omoboriowo upon her emergence as the APC LGA Party Chairman for the LCDA. Though this was a scooping by this magazine. It did not come in officialdom of a press release or news from the office of the Council Chairman. The source revealed that minutes after Awulat was officially pronounced the elected Party Chairman, Balogun sent a congratulatory message to her. That singular act was a note of friendship being welcomed. It denotes a toast to something significant when a man approaches a woman. In Yoruba culture, it is the man that toast a woman. And when that move is made, the ultimate end as the beauty side is the bliss of marriage. Implicit that by his congratulatory message, the Oluomo Kaafata, as the Council Chairman is fondly called by admirals, had sent to Madam Awulat...

WAR IN OKERUBE AS REIGN OF NEW BAALE BRINGS TERROR TO TOWN

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A FEUDING PARTY ALLEGES POLICE BIAS IN HANDLING THE AFFRAY Story by Toyo C. Ngem The peace ambience of Okerube was chartered into chaos this past Sunday as rival ruling houses duel in gun and machete fracas. Many family members of the feuding parties sustained serious injuries even as no fatality was recorded. A member of Oladitan Family Who spoke to our correspondent at the State Command Headquarters of the Police, GRA, Ikeja, however expressed disaffection with the manner the Police handled the quelling of the affray, alleged conducts of bias against the Police personnel drafted to the community to maintain peace and order. It has been no love lost affairs between the rival ruling houses of the Eshindana and Oladitan families over the recent coronation of new Baale in Okerube. To this effect, it has been a fragile peace pervading the sleepy community, an extremity town to the West of Ikotun Kingdom in Igando/Ikotun LCDA in Alimosho Local Government of Lagos State. The gun and ...

APC LGA PARTY CHAIRMAN ADVISES COUNCIL CHAIRMEN TO TAKE THEIR FERFORMANCE RECORDS DIRECTLY TO THE PEOPLE

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SAYS LASISI AKINSANYA OF IGANDO/IKOTUN LCDA IS A SILENT ACHIEVER IN NEEDS OF AMPLIFIER TO SHOW HIS PERFORMANCES WHILE COMMENDING CIVICS WEEKLY FOR DOING GOOD WORK FOR PUBLIC AWARENESS Story by Ololade Barakat The new Igando/Ikotun LGA Party Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Pastor Ojo Samuel ("Sadol"), has advised the council chairmen across Lagos State to take their performance records directly to the public via orthodox media trusted by the people. He observed that the idea of revolving information about their performances within the party groups' platforms alone had not helped to propagate the right mileage local government administrations have attained under the APC, "especially with regards to the purpose of creating additional local governments by the administration of then Governor Bola Ahmed Tinubu -- now the President and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Nigeria", he noted. He made this observation during interactions with...