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From Editor's Desk This week, Civics Weekly decided to join the entire people, especially the ancestral sons and daughters of Idimu Kingdom in Alimosho Federal Constituency to mourn the passing away of an illustrious one of their own, Crown Prince Apena Oladega Akintunde Kassim – a potential Onidumu of Idimu divined never to wear the crown were the ongoing court process to resolve the selection impasse to go in his favour. His Fridaus prayer service is scheduled to come up this Sunday, January 26, 2025. Were the botched COP’24 event to hold on December 12, 2024 as scheduled, he was to be our essential guest to hold forth the front desk for the royal cadre. And in context of the “Cultural Exchange”, he voluntarily pioneered the idea of dedication of a page to each of all the kingdoms making up the conurbations of the landmass called Alimosho Local Government in the classification as a Federal Constituency in the event’s Programme Book. It is meant to tell a brief about each of t...

Story by Razaq A. Jimoh, Toyo C. Ngem and Hakeeb Omoyosi When a dancer continues to dance after the stop of drum beat, it is time for insanity check. In core agenda of the story – “Secret of the Shindig” -- we set in serial a while back, the destination was supposed to be ‘why Obasa may face impeachment’ in conclusion. This informed the parable intoned in the last serial entitled “…The Drum Beat for Obasa’s Dance”. The embedded code expected to be revealed in the conclusive serial is that Obasa could ‘still be dancing when the beat has stopped’. This is because evidence, as gathered by this magazine, would appear to show that he had worked wholesomely in breach of the sacrosanct rules spanning across the governance, politics and integrity of government structure of Lagos. The convergence of all these offences had come to make the defining moment for his impeachment as his comeuppance. While his eventual impeachment may have stolen the show on the order of this serial, the core o...

Story by Razaq Adedeji Jimoh, Toyo C. Ngem & Hakeeb Omoyosi COULD SANWO-OLU BE PLANNING A REPEAT OF 2015 INCUMBENT FACE OFF WITH TINUBU OVER THE CHOICE OF NEXT GOVERNOR IN LAGOS In the previous part of this story, posers were raised as to why Hon Mudasiru Obasa, Speaker of the Lagos House of Assembly, would want to kill the Lagos local council development areas (LCDAs)? This was because, as also acknowledged in that piece, he seemed to be the one wholesomely blamed for the intrigues that played out with the Assembly Bill prospecting to stop elections of chairman and councilors into the political offices of the LCDAs. The LCDAs have been roundly acknowledged to be among the interesting legacies President Tinubu left behind as governor of Lagos State he pioneered in this democracy. In a series of rejoinders Civics Weekly received as perspective answers to the question of Obasa’s game with the LCDAs, the varying opinions converged on the prospect of his (Obasa’s) interest to cont...