MegaExpression Magazine

Governor-Elect, Mr Babajide Sanwoolu, his wife, Mrs Sanwoolu, wife of the deputy governor elect,  Mrs Hamzat, APC State Chairman, Alhaji Tunde Balogun, Deputy Chairman, Dr Sunny Ajose, Lagos East Vice Chairman, Asipa Kaoli Olusanya, Hon Okoya-Thomos, Yeye Fausat Gbadebo and other members of the State Exco. Chairman Sanwoolu Independent Campaign Group, Mr Tayo Ayinde, Cardinal James Odumbaku, Hon Babajimi Benson, MHR, Hon Adebimpe Akinsola and Chief Adenrele Olowu were among the top dignitaries who came to Police College Ikeja, to celebrate Sanwoolu/Hazmat mega victory party. The event which was anchored by the Chairman, Igbogbo/Bayeku LCDA, Comrade Olusesan Daini, was a ceremony like a funfair, as thousands of All Progressive Congress (APC) members thronged in from all the 57 council areas of Lagos State to locate the Ikeja venue of the victory party. The Director General of Babajide Olusola Sanwo-Olu Campaign Organization (BOSCO), Mr. Tayo Ayinde, while responding to quest...

It was another moment of joy on Saturday, May 25, 2019, for the elderly, widows, needy and vulnerable people in Ikorodu Division, when Hon Babajimi Benson, MHR, representing Ikorodu federal constituency, repeated his kind gesture, by doling out food items, at his constituency Office, Igbogbo, Lagos State. The laughter on the faces of the beneficiaries cannot be over emphasised as they were showering prayers on Hon. Babajimi Benson, his amiable wife, Mrs Jumoke Benson and members of iCARE Foundation. Today's gesture was more extended to the Muslim Community in observing the Ramadan period of this year. An insightful message was rendered by the Ikorodu West Coordinator of iCARE Foundation, Alhaji Oriare, who affirmed the importance of giving and further bestowed abundant blessings upon Hon. Babajimi Benson. While addressing the over 500 beneficiaries, Hon. Babajimi Benson enjoined the Party faithfuls to celebrate a peaceful Ramadan festival and solicits for their continuo...

Omirin Opeyemi, a student of Zumratul Islamiyyah Grammar School (Junior), Igbogbo, on Wednesday, May 22, 2019, at the Council Secretariat of Igbogbo/Bayeku LCDA, emerged the winner of this year's Spelling Bee Competition in the LCDA.   Opeyemi, a JSS 3 student competed with other contestants from various Schools in Igbogbo/Bayeku LCDA, while Solomon Esther of Lagos State Girls Model College Agunfoye and Omosanya Noimot of Lagos State Civil Service Model College Igbogbo, took the second and third positions respectively.   In the Primary School Category, the overall winner goes to Isreal Ubong Daniel of L.G Primary School, Oreta, while Adebeshin Yetunde of A.U.D Primary School, Igbogbo and Asare Kehinde of Anglican Primary School, Offin went took the 2nd and 3rd Positions. The programme which was organized in commemoration of the 2019 Children's Day celebration saw the winners receiving cash prizes and the first position being assured of "A Day Chairman".   ...

Senator Kinsley Adeseye Ogunlewe, a former Minister of Works and Chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has dumped the Party for the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). He made this declaration on Wednesday, at the APC Caucus meeting, 'The Mandate Movement' (TMM), of Ikorodu Division, held at Chief Adenrele Olowu's house, Igbogbo, Lagos State.   Ogunlewe was elected a Senator on the platform of the Alliance for Democracy (AD) in 1999, representing Lagos East constituency, before he defected to the PDP, where he has remained a key figure ever since before joining APC. While in PDP, he was appointed Minister of Works by former President Olusegun Obasanjo, lasting in office from July 2003 to March 2006.   He has however joined his son, Moyosore in moving from the PDP to the APC. Moyo, a lawyer, contested on the platform of the PDP to represent Kosofe 1 Constituency in the Lagos State Assembly in the just concluded general election, but lost and eventually...

Oba Mufutau Olatunji Hamzat, the father of the Deputy Governor-elect of Lagos State, Obafemi Hamzat is dead. The monarch died on the evening of Sunday, May 12, 2019, and the funeral prayer was said to hold on Monday, May 13, 2019, at his Yaya Abatan Ogba residence in Lagos. While announcing the death of the monarch on Facebook, the incoming Deputy-Governor of Lagos state, Dr. Obafemi Hamzat thanked his father for giving him gift of courage and believing in his children. The father of the deputy governor-elect was the Olu of Afowowa Sogade in Ogun State. The deceased was a member of Lagos State assembly and Commissioner for Transportation between 1979 and 1983. He was also the former National Vice Chairman of the Alliance for Democracy (AD) before it metamorphosed into Action Congress (AC), Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) and now APC. Oba Olatunji Hamzat was the traditional ruler of Afowowa Sogade in Ogun State. SHAKIRU SEIDU Publisher, MegaXpression Community Magazine.

As the holy month of Ramadan progresses, an erudite legislator and majority leader, Lagos State House of Assembly, representing Ikorodu Constituency 1, Hon. S.O.B Agunbiade, has again held another historic annual Ramadan lecture in Ikorodu. The lecture tagged with the theme, ‘THE GREATNESS OF ALLAH’ and emphasized on the reasons why we should not allow anything to apprehend our good character and fear of Allah.   The lecture which had in attendance thousands of fasting Muslim faithfuls, was held at Hon Agunbiade's constituency office and had the Islamic scholar, Dr. Abdul-Lateef Abdul-Akeem as the guest speaker, while the premises was filled to the brim.   The guest lecturer, Chief Imam, Lagos State Central Mosque, who also doubled as the Commissioner for Home Affairs, Hon. Dr. Abdul-Lateef Abdul-Akeem, enjoined all not to compromise the fear of Allah and to obey His commandments.   "All Powers belongs to Allah, it's only Him that can determine someone's d...