Kosofe Reporters

The Executive Chairman of Kosofe Local Government, Barrister Moyosore Ogunlewe, on Wednesday paid a courtesy visit to the Oloworo of Oworonshoki Kingdom, HRM Oba Babatunde Saliu.  During the visit, the duo had a lengthy discussion on the infrastructural development of Oworonsoki Kingdom and the needs of the people in the area.  Chief among the proposed projects is the construction of a standard Market Square in Oworonsoki to foster community development, provide values to local businesses, support local vendors, petty traders and also stimulate foreign investment within the Local Government.

Less than a week after empowering 200 youth and women with a total package of N10,000 million for catering the Lawmaker representing Kosofe Federal Constituency, Hon. Prince Rotimi Agunsoye has again empowered another set of 150 constituents with a total amount of 18 million naira as start-up capital on Fisheries. This followed the completion of two-day intensive training on Fisheries Value Chains Aquaculture by 150 indigent constituents at the Federal College of Fisheries and Marine Technology Victoria Island Lagos on Tuesday. The empowerment programme was facilitated by the Lawmaker to create employment and develop the human capacity of his teeming youth in Kosofe Federal Constituency. And at the end of the practical aspect of the training on Tuesday, 150 beneficiaries were presented certificates and cheques of N120,000 each.

No fewer than 150 constituents of Kosofe Federal Constituency are presently undergoing a two-day training on Fisheries Value Chains Aquaculture at the Federal College of Fisheries and Marine Technology, Lagos. The training was facilitated by the Lawmaker representing the Constituency at the Federal House of Representatives Hon. Prince Rotimi Agunsoye under the auspices of Federal College of Fisheries and Marine Technology, Lagos. The programme came three days after he had empowered 200 Youth and Women of the constituency with N50,000 each as start-up capital on Catering. The beneficiaries of the empowerment programme on Fisheries were selected from the three local council areas in the Constituency namely Kosofe Local Government, Agboyi/Ketu LCDA and Ikosi/Isheri LCDA. And at the two-day training, participants will undergo training on various aspects of the acquaculture value chain including food fish products, breeding, feed formulation, ornamental f...

*To Empower Another 150 Next Week In his bid at alleviating poverty and reducing the rate of unemployment in Kosofe Federal Constituency, the Lawmaker representing the Constituency at the House of Representatives, Hon. Prince Rotimi Agunsoye, on Friday, engaged 200 Youth and Women of the Constituency in Catering. The Lawmaker also at the end of the training doled out 50,000 Naira as start-up grants to each of the beneficiaries of the empowerment programme. The empowerment programme was held at Galaxy Events Centre Emmanuel High Street Ojota Lagos in conjunction with Docellar Company Nigeria Limited  Speaking at the event, the Chairman House committee on Sustainable Development Goals, represented by Mr. Durotimi Adeboye, urged beneficiaries to utilize the experience garnered at the one-day training program and also make judicious use of the start-up grants given to them. While expressing satisfaction with the organization and the large out of cons...

The All Progressives Congress Secretary of Ward D Kosofe Local Government Area Mr. Samuel Olakanla has made the list of APC Presidential Campaign Council (PCC). In the reviewed list of PCC recently released, Samuel Olakanla is listed in number 33 as member of the Public affairs unit headed by Barrister Festus Keyamo. Congratulations Samuel Olakanla 

Last week Thursday, a Facebook page, Kosofe Headline, posted a write-up titled: "Kosofe Local Government Chairman and His Rubber stamp excos/Cabinet" where it alleged among other things, that the executive chairman of Kosofe local government Barrister Moyosore Ogunlewe had been paying his executives salaries below the amount stipulated by the Lagos State Government. According to the Facebook page, the council Chairman had been paying a monthly salary of N300,000 instead of N328,666:82 stipulated by the Lagos State Government. Then on Saturday, to substantiate its claim, it published a document showing the approved salary scales for public office holders in each local government in Lagos state. In the document dated 4th May, 2022 addressed to all the council Chairmen, titled: "Re Welfare Package For Political Office Holders Across The LGAs/LCDAs In Lagos State and signed by the Permanent Secretary Ministry of Local Government and Community Affairs,...

A monarch in Kosofe Local Government Area of Lagos State Oba Alami Oloyede Onikosi, the Onikosi of Ikosi was on Tuesday arraigned by the Federal Government before the Federal High Court in Abuja over his alleged complicity in the forgery and falsification of a judgement of the Supreme Court. Oba Onikosi was docked alongside three others on a seven-count charge that also contained an allegation of perjury. The other defendants in the charge marked FHC/ABJ/CR/242/2022, were Muyideen Fabunmi, Alademehim Samuel and High Chief Michael Adesegun Onikoro. Specifically, it was alleged in the charge signed by Police Prosecutor, CSP Joe Nwadike, that the defendants had sometimes in 2018, forged a Supreme Court judgement in suit No. 117 of 1936, “with spurious inscriptions as A739972 and 7/6/75, purported to have been delivered by one Justice C. W. V. Carcey, dated February 1, 1937, knowing it to be false, or with the intent that it may in any way be used or acted upon as genuine Supre...

Kosofe Local Government has described a publication of an online Facebook page which was titled: "Kosofe Local Government Chairman and His Rubber-stamp Exco/Cabinet Members" (sic) as fallacious and a deliberate attempt to tarnish the image of its executive chairman Barrister Moyosore Ogunlewe. The Local Government made the statement on Friday in an interview granted by its Secretary to the Local government, Prince Fatai Gbadebo, at the local government Secretariat. Prince Gbadebo who expressed shock and disgust over the publication told newsmen that there was no scintilla of truth in the statement of executive high-handedness, contract inflation, short payments of executive members' salaries and running of the affairs of the local government as a personal property made against the local government chairman by the Facebook page. He explained that the local government chairman, contrary to the statement of the Facebook page, had been running an open and inclusiv...

~LANRE CAREW ASSURES OLOWORO OF WORLD CLASS RECREATIONAL PARK The paramount traditional ruler of Oworonshoki Kingdom HRM Alayeluwa Oba Babatunde Saliu has thrown a challenge to a popular hospitality business Mogul, Hon. Olanrewaju Carew, to establish a world-class recreational centre in his community. Oba Babatunde Saliu made the request when the Chairman of Farm City group of companies r paid him a courtesy visit at his palace on Thursday. Oba Babatunde Saliu while welcoming Hon. Carew and his entourage to his palace stated that his vision was to transform Oworonshoki into a smart city like Dubai and expressed disappointment that the community has no single recreational centre of high repute. He, therefore, charged the well-known philanthropist who returned to the country after a long vacation in Dubai to establish a farm city in Oworonshoki. "We have known you for quite a while. And we know your impact most especially in Kosofe politics. ...