Ikorodu Division Youth Voice

The food sufficiency programme of Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu has been taken a notch higher. The Governor, on Thursday, rolled out massive agricultural investment that empowers 3,000 urban and rural farmers in key sectoral value chains.  Women, youths and peasant farmers were the main beneficiaries of the 2021 Agricultural Value Chains Enterprise Activation Programme through which the State Government is supporting agripreneurs with modern equipment and inputs that would help them make significant difference and scale up their agricultural practices.  Various groups of farmers, in their numbers, thronged the parade ground of the Police College, Ikeja to personally receive the material support from the Governor, accompanied by the Deputy Governor, Dr. Obafemi Hamzat, and members of the State Executive Council.  The scheme is also a component of the Sanwo-Olu administration’s five-year Agricultural and Food System Development Roadmap recently launched to chart a...

The Incumbent Vice Chairman of Ijede LCDA and the Chairmanship Candidate of the All Progressives Congress in the forthcoming Local Government Elections in Ijede Local Council Development Area of Lagos State, Hon (MRS) Motunrayo Gbadebo- Alogba has said she would make Ijede LCDA the Miami of Lagos. In her interactive session with the Ikorodu Division Youth Initiative (IDYI) over the weekend, the candidate stated the need to maximize the coastal prowess of Ijede which according to her can make Ijede a tourist centre in Lagos State and in Nigeria at large. Q: What motivated you to join politics and what is your political ideology? For me politics was something I was born into because my late mum was a frontrunner when it comes to mobilisation. Her activities of selfless caring motivated me to study political science in the University and I can say today that my political ideology is social-welfarism. By this, the interest of the the people in my immediate environment is of...