Recently, the Agbowa Secretariat of Ikosi-Ejinrin Local Council Development Area (LCDA), Lagos, wore a convivial look. Excitement was boldly written on the face of everyone at the secretariat. The occasion was the presentation of travelling documents to three brilliant pupils of two public primary schools in the area to enable them participate at an International Art Exchange Programme in South Africa.
The three pupils were sponsored by the council boss, Hon. Ganiu Olusegun Adetola.
The lucky pupils were: Omotayo Jamiu Adegbuyi of the Local Government Primary School, Agbowa, Akinsola Segun of Methodist Primary School, Agbowa and Charles Mumbor Maria of Anglican Primary School, Sala. Read More..
http://www.sunnewsonline.com/webpages/features/citysun/2009/july/08/citysun-08-07-2009-004.htm
By Moyo Fabiyi
Special Assistant to Lagos State Governor Babatunde Fashola on Transportation, Mr. Kayode Opeifa, has disclosed that the state government will soon implement the ban on commercial motorcyclist, known as Okada operators, from plying highways.
Opeifa said commercial motorcyclists are not expected to operate on highways like Ikorodu road, Agege Motor Road, the Third Mainland bridge, Lagos-Badagry express road and other expressways in the state.
The Special Assistant on Transportation, who was speaking on a programme on Television Continental (TVC), explained that the ban on Okada operators on the state’s highways is not a new law but an existing one which government is determined to enforce very soon.
According to Opeifa, there are other laws which Okada operators must obey like other road users. As against their practice of maneuvering through any available space on the road, they must not ride against the traffic.They must obey traffic lights and other traffic rules, both rider and commuter must wear safety crash helmets and must not carry more than a passenger.
However, before these and other traffic rules are enforced, Opeifa said, the Lagos State government plans to invite the Okada riders by organising seminar for them and all other stakeholders.
“Many of them don’t have riders cards that should serve as drivers’ liceence which qualifies them to move about with the motorcycle. Also, they have no identity cards of associations or unions they claimed to belong to,” he said. Read more
http://thepmnews.com/2009/07/06/lagos-to-enforce-ban-of-okada-on-highways?version=print
Federal Institute of Industrial Research, Oshodi, Nigeria. Staff photo
Fashola At 46: Celebrates Birthday With Underprivileged Children
• “We have dedicated the whole of this year to children, youths and women”, he says
Jun 28, 2009 - Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola (SAN), Sunday celebrated his 46th birthday with a visit to the Missionaries of Charity Babies’ Home in Ikosi, Ketu just as he also donated a new building to the Chief Michael Oyemade Ogunjobi Children’s Home in Surulere.
Governor Fashola, who was accompanied by his wife, Abimbola, the Commissioner for Sports and Youth Development, Prince Ademola Adeniji-Adele, among other top government functionaries, also said his administration has dedicated the whole of this year to children, youths and women in the State.
Speaking at the Missionaries of Charity Motherless Babies Home, Governor Fashola, who donated items ranging from food and beverages to babies’ things as well as other items to the inmates, praised the dedication of the proprietors of the Home saying the visit has given him the opportunity to experience the challenges under which the children had to grow up.
The Governor, who was received later cut his birthday cake with the support of the inmates, advised the children to be of good behaviour while promising that his administration would do all it could to support the institution. Read more...
http://thenationonlineng.net/web/articles/8425/1/Fashola-marks-46th-birthday-with-orphans/Page1.html
LOS ANGELES — Michael Jackson, the sensationally gifted child star who rose to become the "King of Pop" and the biggest celebrity in the world only to fall from his throne in a freakish series of scandals, died Thursday. He was 50.
Jackson died at UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles. Ed Winter, the assistant chief coroner for Los Angeles County, confirmed his office had been notified of the death and would handle the investigation.
The circumstances of Jackson's death were not immediately clear. Jackson was not breathing when Los Angeles Fire Department paramedics responded to a call at his Los Angeles home about 12:30 p.m., Capt. Steve Ruda told the Los Angeles Times. The paramedics performed CPR and took him to the hospital, Ruda told the newspaper.
Jackson's death brought a tragic end to a long, bizarre, sometimes farcical decline from his peak in the 1980s, when he was popular music's premier all-around performer, a uniter of black and white music who shattered the race barrier on MTV, dominated the charts and dazzled even more on stage.
