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Story by Toyo C. Ngem; culled from January 6 (Agbaje's) edition of Civics Weekly magazine AFTER a long waiting by the people of Idimu Kingdom, a sleepy town in the Alimosho Federal Constituency of Lagos State, the new King was eventually installed with formal crowning of HRM, Oba Noah Olayiwola Surakat Adefimihan (Madarikan II) Abinupagun. The event to follow this was the installation of the former Executive Chairman of Egbe-Idimu Local Council Development Area and Civics Council Chairman of the Year 2024, Hon Kunle Sanyaolu Olowoopejo (KSO) as the new Baba Oba of Idimu Kingdom. To those who know the history, it is all about the making of a memorabilia of the new Chief from his legacies of performance feats while in office. This is what this passage aims to put in perspective record about The Man KSO yet in discourse. A part of legacy identity of man is the making of a memorabilia of his time in heroic episode. In a time he was asked to tell his best legacy left behind in ...

SPONSORED The Onisheri of Isheri Olofin Kingdom has said that he was delighted with the claims credited to the Executive Chairman of Egbe-Idimu LCDA, Hon (Prince) Idris Balogun, that he was ready to "dialogue" with the Palace over the disturbing issues of the Powerline land, which has been putting the innocent artisans plying their trades there in needless apprehensions. The monarch said this as his repartee to a recent release from the Council Chairman's Office with a wave of an olive branch. In the same breadth, the official release from the Palace, a copy of which was exclusively received by this magazine, also said Oba Ibrahim Olasunkanmi Lawal-Bello (COP) however took exceptions to the offer of dialogue amidst Chairman's premises of unfounded claims with statements of falsehoods that could at best be seen as unbecoming of the exalted office of Executive Chairman of a local council. Accordingly, the monarch advised the Council Chairman to be more "caution...

WHY WE SHALL BE INVESTING MORE ON ROADS AND TRANSFORMER IN THE NEW YEAR By Razaq Adedeji Jimoh The supply of ten 500 KVA Transformers as your project in the energy sector, how did you do their distribution: was it by equity or there was a way you did it? It begins that every listening leader will not be doing things in isolation. You need to go through consultations. When the idea to invest in the Energy Sector project came to me as a direct support for our President Bola Ahmed Tinubu's Renewed Hope Agenda (RHA), I had to call a stakeholders meeting with the Community Development Committee (CDC) to inform them of our intention to distribute ten transformers. These stakeholders comprise or let me say include all the CDAs in Ayobo/Ipaja. There, I disclosed the intension and requested that any interested CDA should write a letter to the Council Chairman through the CDC Chairman. After that, we set up a committee to determine the beneficiaries. But we knew the basis of their a...