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from the Editor's Desk OUR ATTENTION HAS JUST BEEN CALLED TO THE ERROR OF IDENTITY IN OUR RECENTLY PUBLISHED STORY ENTITTLED ASM KNOCKS OUT AMM AS EJIGBADERO RUNS FOR OLUOMO AT AJIGBOTAFE NATIONAL STADIUM. WE WANT TO CORRECT THAT THE SPORT CORRESPONT REFERRED TO WAS MEANT TO BE " AKA ALAM STRINGA " NOT "AKA ALASINGAPORIALISTIC". WHILE THE ERROR WAS AN OVERSIGHTED PRINTERS DEVIL, WE APOLOGISE FOR ANY INCONVENIENCE THIS MIGHT HAVE CAUSED ANYONE . AGAIN, WE WOULD LIKE TO SAY WE HAVE WRITTEN THE STORY TO LIGHTEN UP THE MOOD OF ALIMOSHO PEOPLE AND RELIEVE TENSION FROM THE STRESS IN THE IN THE LAND. AND SOCCER AS THE UNIVERSAL SPORT FOR SUCH THERAPY IS THE REASON WE APPLY THAT.

Story by Razaq Adedeji Jimoh To one with heart of humanity, politics is a sport, not the act of brigandage some people of beastly instinct have always made it. In a tango of two, it is like a boxing bout or wrestling match in which a knockout or pinfall as respectively applicable gives the victor a desirable ovation while the villain licks his wounds of defeat expectedly in the spirit of sportsmanship. In team, it could run like a game of soccer to the enthusiasm of liberal spectators as much as to the respective fans of the teams. This latter one makes the allegorical sporting event of soccer match between the Asiwaju Solidarity Movement (ASM) of the SDG Nationals and Alimosho Mandate Movement (AMM) of the Lagos Gavel. It was held at the main bowl of Akinyemi Ajibotafe ‘National’ Stadium in Omole Phase II, Ojodu, Berger. Being a neutral venue sufficient to guarantee the safety and unbiased outcome of the match outside Alimosho made the qualifying ‘National’ for the Stadium. A freel...

-- 'WE DON'T MOCK OUR DEAD ONES', AWORI ELDERS DECLARE AS ASM LEADERS PAY CONDOLENCE VISIT TO JIMOH AJAO FAMILY Story by Toyo C. Ngem, Barakat Ololade and Omotoyosi Hakeeb Thousands of Alimosho residents have condemned the leader of a political group, Alhaji Abdullahi Enilolobo, for the sponsor of yet unabated “malicious” publications aimed at setting rifts within the Awori clan in the Local government. Civics Weekly gathered this as the public reactions to a story recently published in an online media, entitled “Orelope Celebrates as Alimosho Mourns the Death of Ajao”. This also came as the leadership of Asiwaju Solidarity Movement (ASM) paid a condolence visit to the family of the late veteran progressive politician, Hon Jimoh Ajao, who passed away on Saturday October 21, 2023. He had since been buried according to Islamic rite. In the alleged malicious publication, the story directly accused the former Deputy Governor of Lagos State, an Awori Princess, Adejoke Ore...

Salisu Magaji Consolidates AASG, Weeds Out Suspected Anti-Tinubu Elements Story by Ololade Barakat ALIMOSHO may have recorded another silent feat of victory in the post 2023 general elections. This came as one of the veteran politicians in the Local Government emerged as the Southwest Zonal Coordinator of a national political body, Association of Amalgamated Support Groups (AASG). The AASG is a coalition of the over 2000 presidential supports groups that worked for the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the 2023 general elections. The unification election which was held on September 16, 2023 produced Engr Salisu Magaji (COREN) as the Director General (DG). Emerging developments within the AASG report that the DG Madgaji may have made a move to further consolidate the firmness of the new potential organ of APC by nipping in the bud, the attempt to create internal rift that may undermine the stability of the group in its yet early life of one month old. In a release to the effect...