COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT

Badagry Marks Slave Abolition Day

Aug 24th, 2010 | By Ayo Peters | Category: COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT, FRONT PAGE STORY, TOURISM DEVELOPMENT, Uncategorized

Badagry Local Government, under the leadership of Hon. Husitode Moses Dosu, on Sunday, 22nd of August, began the weeklong celebration of the International Day for the Remembrance of Slave Trade and its Abolition. The flag-off of the programme started around 4:30pm, with Hon. Husitode Moses Dosu reading the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization’s [...]



Health Centre handed over to Community

Aug 5th, 2010 | By Ayo Peters | Category: COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT, FRONT PAGE STORY, HEALTH, LOCAL GOVERNMENT NEWS

Good times are certainly here for the people of Badagry. Henceforth, they will get adequate preventive and curative healthcare at the Primary Health Centre at Ajara Mangoro in Ajara, Badagry. This much was made known to the press by the project manager of the scheme, Dr. Agboolagorite at the handing over of the facility to [...]



House Suspends Vice Chairman

Jul 2nd, 2010 | By Ayo Peters | Category: COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT, FRONT PAGE STORY

The Vice Chairman of Badagry Local Government, Mrs. Victoria Kehinde Togbeola has been suspended by the legislative arm of government of Badagry Local Government. The suspension came on Thursday 1st of July inside the House Chamber of the House. According to House sources that include the Chairman of the House on Works and Housing and [...]



Fashola Commissions Projects in Badagry

May 30th, 2010 | By Ayo Peters | Category: COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT, FRONT PAGE STORY, PROJECTS

Like a blitzkrieg, the Governor of Lagos State, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, on Thursday, the 20th of May, combed the whole of Badagry and commissioned a flurry of projects. Projects were commissioned in Badagry, Badagry-West and Olorunda local council development area. The Governor, who has set a benchmark for governance at the state level, arrived Agelaso, [...]



Badagry Local Government Presents Budget

May 18th, 2010 | By Ayo Peters | Category: COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT, FRONT PAGE STORY, LOCAL GOVERNMENT NEWS, Uncategorized

A consortium of local government chairmen in Badagry, led by the Executive Chairman of Badagry local government, Hon. Husitode Moses Dosu, recently presented to the legislative arm of Badagry local government, the second draft of the proposed 2010 appropriation bill. The bill, presented inside the legislative chambers of Badagry local government, to the Leader of [...]



Badagry Local Government Chairman Bags Chieftaincy Title

Apr 25th, 2010 | By Ayo Peters | Category: Awards and Honours, COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT, FRONT PAGE STORY, LOCAL GOVERNMENT NEWS

It was unexpected; it was unheralded; it was not prepared for; yet it happened. Hon. Husitode Moses Dosu, the incumbent chairman of Badagry local government, has now become a Chief – the Jlathoto of Ajido land. The Chieftaincy title was accorded him by the king of Ajido, Aholu Gbedite II of Ajido, Aholu S.P. Idowu, [...]



Black Heritage Festival Ends Amid Colourful Display

Apr 10th, 2010 | By Ayo Peters | Category: COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT, FRONT PAGE STORY, LOCAL GOVERNMENT NEWS, TOURISM DEVELOPMENT

The weeklong Lagos-Badagry Black Heritage Festival on Friday the 9th of April came to a wonderful end. The grand finale, which held at Marina, Badagry saw the Governor of Lagos State, Mr. Babatunde Raji Fashola and Nobel laureate, emeritus professor, Wole Soyinka grace the occasion. In his address to the teeming fun-seekers and tourists, Mr. [...]



Black Heritage Festival Begins in Badagry amid Fanfare

Apr 7th, 2010 | By Ayo Peters | Category: COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT, FRONT PAGE STORY, LOCAL GOVERNMENT NEWS, TOURISM DEVELOPMENT

The much talked about Lagos-Badagry Black Heritage Festival kick-started on Lagos Island and in Badagry on the 3rd of April, 2010. In Lagos Island, the governor of Lagos State, Barrister Babatunde Raji Fashola led a long line of procession where Lagosians exhibited various cultures in colourful attires. In the same vein, the executive chairman of [...]



Badagry is the hub of Tourism – Asiwaju Bola Tinubu

Mar 29th, 2010 | By Ayo Peters | Category: COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT, FRONT PAGE STORY, LOCAL GOVERNMENT NEWS, POLITICAL NEWS, TOURISM DEVELOPMENT

It was Palm Sunday. The Sunday, like previous Sundays, was routine with the liturgy of going to Church and coming back at midday to resign to where your interest lay – either staying glued to different viewing centres heralding a Sunday English Premier League game or seeing a movie at home. The only exception to [...]



Badagry Local Government Celebrates One Year in Office as Hon. Husitode Moses Dosu Renders Stewardship

Dec 29th, 2009 | By Ayo Peters | Category: COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT, FRONT PAGE STORY

It was a day of joy; a day in history; and a day in which history was made. It was a day that the Executive Chairman of Badagry Local Government, Hon. Husitode Moses Dosu, not only wrote his name in history, but etched his name in gold. The setting was Badagry Local Government Secretariat while [...]