Kosofe Reporters

  ·         Matter partially resolved as Police calls for an amicable resolution. ·         Another transformer to be given to Adebare Community by Kosofe LG   The erstwhile Chairman of Kosofe Local Government Hon. Afolabi Sofola has blown the lid off a statement made to the Police by Kosofe Local Government Area CDC Chairman, Mr. Segun Babatunde, that he gave the directive for the relocation of a transformer belonging to Adebare Development Community to Oko Cole Community in 2019 while he was in office.   Hon. Sofola was reportedly at the Zone II Command Headquarters, Onikan on Tuesday to clear himself of any wrongdoing or involvement in the alleged fraudulent relocation of the transformer following his invitation last week by Zone II Command Headquarters.   Kosofe Reporters reliably gathered that the former council chairman was visibly enraged over the allegation levelled against ...

    The Police at Zone II command Headquarters, Onikan has now fixed the interrogation of former Chairman of Kosofe Local Hon. Afolabi Sofola and other people implicated in the illegal relocation or sale of a transformer belonging to Adebare Development Community to Oko-Cole community, Oworo to Tuesday September, 28.   A reliable source in Zone II told Kosofe Reporters that the former council boss was expected at its Community Police Department yesterday to explain his involvement in the shady deal but pleaded for the interrogation to be shifted to next week Tuesday as he was unable to visit the command headquarters due to his tight schedule.   The invitation of Hon. Sofola by the Police followed the statement made by Kosofe Local Government Area Community Development Committee (CDC) Chairman, Mr. Segun Babatunde to the Zone II Community Police Department that the former council chairman was the person that directed him to “relocate” the transformer to Ok...

The former Executive Chairman of Kosofe Local Government, Hon. Afolabi Sofola, has reportedly refuted the claim made by Kosofe Local Government Area Community Development Association (CDC) Chairman Mr. Segun Babatunde that he ordered the relocation of a transformer belonging to Adebare Community Development Association to Oko Cole Community, both located in Oworoshoki area of the local government, in 2019. Kosofe Local Government Area CDC Chairman, Mr. Segun Babatunde, had claimed in a statement he posted on social media on Saturday that the former council boss was the one that instructed him in 2019 to relocate the transformer after he was alleged to have illegally sold the transformer to Oko Cole Community in a petition written to the Nigeria Police Force Zone Il Onikan by a community leader, Mrs. Adebare But a source very close to Hon. Sofola who do not want his name mentioned told Kosofe Reporters that contrary to the statement made by the CDC Chairman, the former counc...

* Warned To Stop Addressing Himself As Honourable Kosofe Local Government Area CDC chairman Mr. Segun Babatunde has reportedly been arrested by the men of Nigeria Police Force, Zone Il Onikan Lagos, for allegedly relocating a transformer belonging to a community in Oworoshoki in Kosofe Local Government Area of Lagos State fraudulently. Kosofe Reporters gathered that the CDC chairman was arrested on Friday evening at around 5pm and was accused of conspiring with others of relocating a transformer belonging to Adebare Community Development Association, Oworoshoki to an affluent community in the same area fraudulently. Mr. Babatunde, who an amorphous political group in Kosofe, known as "Kandahar" is secretly pushing for to become the next APC LGA Chairman of Kosofe Local Government Area , was reported to have forcefully and fraudulently taken away the 500KV transformer belonging to the community sometime in 2019. The transformer was reported to have been ...

A new political group, known as "Kandahar", has emerged in Kosofe Local Government area of Lagos State, Kosofe Reporters can authoritatively report. The new group which is gradually taking proper shape and form is reported to be an alignment of some notable political actors of the ruling All Progressives Congress in the local government Area and is spearheaded by one of the GAC Members in Lagos state. Although, the group is yet to be officially known as "Kandahar", political watchers and analysts in the local government have, however, started to use the word "Kandahar" - the name of a city in Afghanistan and the name of a pen used in olden days - to describe the group of party members aligning with one of the GAC members in the local government. Investigation by Kosofe Reporters, reveals that the group surreptitiously came into existence by a stroke of chance during the All Progressives Congress local government primary elections as aspirants a...

    The clamour for All Progressives Congress National Leader, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu to vie for 2023 presidential election grew in intensity on Thursday with a Pro- Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu for President group known as “Hope 2023 Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu for President 2023” launching its Alimosho Local Government Area Chapter in Lagos State.   The nationwide sensitization and awareness group created to mobilize support for the actualization of the former Lagos State Governor’s presidential ambition was launched by its Lagos state Chapter Coordinator, Hon. Abdul Rashid Okanlawon Olokodana at Success Event Centre Old Ota Road, Abule Egba, Alimosho LGA.   The launching of the group in Alimosho took place amidst great excitement and euphoria with party leaders, community leaders, royal fathers, non-indigenes and party faithful storming the venue of the event to give their support to the course.   While launching the Chapter of the group in Al...

·         Urges Stakeholders To Collaborate With Government To Tackle Drug Abuse   ·         Promises Facilitation of More Projects, Empowerment Programmes         The Lawmaker representing Kosofe Constituency 1 in the Lagos State House of Assembly, Hon. Sanni Okanlawon, on Thursday, August 19, engaged some key Stakeholders in his Constituency in an interactive session on how to tackle the menace of drug abuse, leveraging on the gains of the previous year, assessing level of infrastructural development in the area and gathering of memoranda from the stakeholders for onward transmission to the executive for implementation.   The interactive session which was tagged: “7 th Annual Constituency Stakeholders’ Meeting” was held at Mende Town Hall, Mende Maryland following the directive of Lagos State House of Assembly for his members to hold the interactive sess...

Kosofe Local Government has debunked the claim made by an online community media that its Executive Chairman, Hon. Afolabi Sofola made an inappropriate payment of over 2.5 million naira under duress to the Lawmaker representing Kosofe Constituency 1 in the Lagos State House of Assembly, Hon. Sanni Okanlawon after he was pressured by the Lagos State House of Assembly. The Local Government debunked the story of the online media through a press statement signed by the Chief Press Secretary and Senior Special Adviser on Press Matters to the council chairman, Taiwo Fadipe which was made available to Kosofe Reporters,  It described the news publication as “totally apocryphal, mischievous and figment of imagination”, stressing that the local government had never owed the lawmaker any money and neither had the lawmaker been receiving a monthly allowance which was stopped by the executive chairman. It therefore appealed to the residents of the local government to ignore the stor...

    Commercial activities in Agboyi-Ketu area were almost grinded to a halt yesterday as Agboyi-Ketu All Progressives Congress Kicked off its electioneering campaign for the chairmanship flagbearer, Mayor Dele Osinowo, and other councillorship candidates for the fast approaching July 24 Local Government elections.   The Agboyi-Ketu All Progressives Congress party secretariat situated at 42 Doyin Omololu Street, Ketu was yesterday’s afternoon agog and resplendent as thousands of party loyalists, Artisans, Traders, other ethnic nationalities and physically challenged thronged the venue of the campaign Kick-off to give their supports to the incumbent executive chairman of the council for another term in office.   The atmosphere at the party secretariat was also electrifying with razzmatazz and fanfare as the mammoth gathering were treated to delightful music and entertainment by various local musicians and Hillary Jackson ...

  *Urges Political Leaders To Eschew Imposition of Candidates   *Enjoins Constituents To Sustain assimilation of Islamic Tenets.     As All progressives congress Local Government primary elections in Kosofe Local Government Area and other Local councils in Lagos state draws near, the lawmaker representing Kosofe Constituency 1 in Lagos State House of Assembly Hon. Sanni Ganiyu Okanlawon has urged the leadership of the party in the area to allow aspirants to test their popularity in free and fair primary elections devoid of imposition.   Hon. Sanni Okanlawon made the statement in his special Eid-el-Fitr message to his constituents on Thursday at his residence.   Hon. Okanlawon noted that allowing the chairmanship and councillorship aspirants to go to the field and put their popularity to the test in accordance to the tenet of democracy would go a long way in forestalling election violence or mayhem.   He stressed that the leaders...