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  • Why we returned Agunbiade – APC Youths

    Ahead of next year State Assembly election in Lagos State, some faithful of the state chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) have thanked the party’s leaders and members for ensuring the re-nomination of lawmakers who are discharging their legislative duties excellently as flag-bearers of the ruling party during the just concluded primary elections across the state.

    The party’s faithful mainly from Ikorodu division of the state specifically commended the nomination of the Majority Leader of the Lagos State House of Assembly (LAHA), and member representing Ikorodu Constituency 1 in the Assembly, Hon. Sanai Oyeniran Bolanle Agunbiade, to seek another term in office during the 2019 general election, on the platform of the ruling party.

    While speaking to The Nation in Ikorodu, the APC youth leader in Ikorodu Local Government, Owolabi Jaiyesinmi, said the effectiveness Agunbiade brought to bear on his duties as the representative of the people since he was voted into the House of Assembly, has endeared him to the good people of Ikorodu. According to him, it came as no surprise that he won with such a huge margin.

    Jaiyesinmi added that the Majority Leader enjoyed the support of the people of Ikorodu because of the desire of the division to continue to occupy a place of pride in the politics of Lagos State. “By virtue of his being a ranking member of the House, he is the Majority Leader. We cannot afford to lose such plum position, so the idea of sending a fresher to the House didn’t fly among our people,” he said.

    While celebrating the nomination of Agunbiade as the party’s House of Assembly candidate for the constituency recently, Wale Amuda, the APC youth leader for Ikorodu North Local Council Development Area (LCDA), said the lawmaker has touched the lives of the people of the area so much that the people decided to reciprocate his good gesture with another term. “It is a fact that one good term deserves another. Agunbiade deserves to be re-elected,” he said.

    The APC youth leader in Igbogbo/Baiyeku Local Council Development Area (LCDA), T.O.D Oyesanya, described the emergence of Agunbiade as the flag-bearer of the party in Ikorodu constituency 1 as the best thing to happen to the division ahead of the 2019 general election. “Ikorodu will lead again. With S.O.B still in the assembly, we will remain a force to reckon with in the politics of Lagos state,” he said.

     

  • Independence Day: 300 athletes for marathon

    Of the 420 students of public and private schools in Ikorodu Division of Lagos state who applied to participate in this year’s edition of Oba Kabir Shotobi Independence Day Mini Marathon, sponsored by the Majority Leader of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Hon. Sanai Agunbiade, two hundred and seventy student runners and an addition of about thirty guest athletes, have been cleared by the screening committee to run in the race scheduled to take place in Ikorodu town on Monday, 1st October.

    The event, according to Hon. Agunbiade, who is also the Opomulero of Ikorodu, is meant to commemorate the annual Independence Day as well as discover sporting talents in Ikorodu Division.

    The event which was firstly staged in 2015 and since then had been a yearly competition, with this year’s edition

    According to the organisers of the race, this year’s event will span about 7.3km. Committee chairman, Akeem Bello said since it started in 2015, the event has been moving from strength to strength. He revealed that most of those disqualified were excused from the race on health grounds. He said the screening exercise also helped some students and parents to discover and treat some life threatening health challenges hitherto unknown to them.

    Bello added that the marathon is aimed at creating healthy rivalries among students of private and public schools in Ikorodu division, contributing to the development of sports in Lagos State and Nigeria as a whole, discovering and developing athletes that will represent Lagos State and Nigeria in national and international long distance races in future as well as commemorate Independence Day celebration in the division.

    The DG of Team SOB, Kabir Ajalogun said the 4th edition of the race was unveiled on Tuesday, September 18, 2018, by His Royal Majesty, Oba Engr. Kabir Adewale Shotobi, the Ayangburen of Ikorodu Kingdom at his palace to kickstart this year’s event.

    “For four years now, the Independence Day celebration is marked in Ikorodu with the Oba Shotobi Independence day Mini Marathon. The people have come to know and appreciate the race as the main event of the day in our division. Apart from the runners, people come from far and near to watch the marathoners as they run through major areas of our towns.

    “Seventy athletes took part in the race when we started in 2015, but of the Four Hundred and Twenty applicants that were screened medically by medical personnel from Lagos State Sports Commission this year, Two Hundred and seventy athletes will be taking part in the competition.

    “This is an indication that the competition is waxing stronger by the year. Also, past Winners like Olayinka Boluwatife, won Bronze in Ibile games, are being groomed to reach great heights in sports.”

    He further revealed that the list of qualified athletes will be published. “The officials drawn from Body of games master of primary and secondary schools in the Division and the State Sports commission will be briefed on Friday, September 28, 2018, on route alongside with the athletes on the rules of the competition.

    CityScenes gathered at on Sunday September, His Royal Majesty, Oba Sotobi will light the torch of the race and hand it over to a team of past winners who run all the way through the route to the finishing line at Igbogbo road police barracks.

    The route for this year’s marathon is; Ayangburen palace -Living stone college – Etunrenren street – Late Ayangburen Residence – Water Works Station – Lagos Road – Round About – Sabo Market – Kokoro Abu Street – Ikorodu Grammar School along Awolowo Road – Ota On a – Oriwu Road -Ita Elewa – Ireshe Road – Sheriff Junction – Finish point at Police Barracks Ikorodu.

    “The race will be flagged off by 7:00am at the palace of the Ayangburen of Ikorodu by the Oba himself assisted by other eminent personalities.

    For their efforts, the winners in both male and female categories, will win trophies and medals for their respective schools and cash gifts of fifty thousand naira. Also, thirty thousand naira and twenty thousand naira in addition to trophies are available for first and second runner up in both categories respectively. Similarly, contestants up to the 20th position in both categories will go home with consolation prizes.

  • With relevant books, Agunbiade calls for inclusive education for children

    Ima-Mariam Nike Agunbiade is not just a writer, a creative artiste, legal practitioner and educationist, her ideals at the moment is using a new method of inclusive education with the relevant books and documents to enhance the learning and education process of children, Edozie Udeze writes

    Ima-Mariam Nike Agunbiade is no doubt a woman of many ideas.  Apart from being an artiste, a prolific writer, legal practitioner and educationist, she has chosen to use her God-given talents to improve children in more ways than one.  With her HIIMA International Education Network located both here in Nigeria and in the United Kingdom, she has been able to reach out to children who are not so gifted or fortunate in their educational pursuits and careers.

    Addressing reporters on the essence of HIIMA and what it stands for, Agunbiade who once organized and ran the Miss Tourism Pageant in Nigeria, said, “In the first place, HIIMA stands for high love.  Essentially carved out of an Efik word the essence is to use the network to empower individuals who are prepared to help students to learn as a career and to develop such careers in education. In essence, HIIMA aims also to teach education with love and respect.  This will help them equally to unleash their potential for greater heights so as to make positive difference and impact in the wider society”.

    A renowned creative artiste and committed educationist, Agunbiade took her time to research into what she termed “a child with Special Educational Needs(SEN).  It is a special way of educating such children and the role the government needs to play to ensure that this approach is not only made plausible but attainable and achievable.  “Yes, a child has a special need if he or she has disabilities that make it difficult or near impossible for her to perform tasks children of her age can perform”, she noted.

    Calling on governments at all levels to practice or be part of this whole essence of inclusive education to give equal rights to all children, Agunbiade who also runs the Silversands International Schools, Lekki, said, “children indeed need special education.

    This comes in when that child has significant learning difficulties that often make it more challenging for him to learn like others same age.  This process actually includes behavioral, social and emotional difficulties, sensory/physical needs, intellectual disabilities, medical or health conditions where a child needs serious attention to strengthen his or her life”.

    As an artiste, who has written topical and relevant books to back up her research crusade. She drew attention to the United Kingdom where the government really comes in to help a kid who is found in this condition. “The Nigerian government has to emulate such example”, she noted.  For her those books are tailored towards this HIIMA methodological approach to inclusive education where no one is discriminated against or excluded due to one disability or the other.  “The government  here has to join in to practice this model.  Yes it can be expensive to do so, but that’s the only way to ensure that all children, all students attain their best in the world”, she insisted.

    For now, Agunbiade whose book, Survival and the Role of Detachment, which made waves years back has been using her resources to teach teachers and willing instructors the tenets of HIIMA and the impactful nature of inclusive education.  Clearly, inclusive education is the panacea.  It is why HIIMA is a global concern inculcated to provide equal education that recognizes individual differences.  Having been in education for over twenty years, it is apparent that this method has been permissible and has been result-oriented.  “Yes it has been made possible using the child’s attributes and capacity to learn.  In this way, the application of the child’s absorbent mind and the sensitive periods become relevant to ensure the workability of this methodology”.

    Insisting that if the teaching methods in Nigeria are based on these, a lot of children would soon be the greatest beneficiaries, Agunbiade who is also involved in writing motivational books on instructions and others, explained thus: “HIIMA seeks to build a network of career minded, caring individuals.  These are individuals wanting to choose the education sector as their life calling.  Therefore, HIIMA shows those various opportunities that can be tapped into which includes the education of members on how to operate successfully in this education sector to make a decent living or better career and acquire riches”.

    To make HIIMA ideology and concept all encompassing and globally more relevant, the CEO is calling on more Nigerians to be involved in the espousal of this concept.  With abundance of books to explain this model and methodology, Agunbiade said that it is ideal for those involved to acquire the franchise.  This franchise is already modeled after the HIIMA high love approach.   “People can also get commissions when they bring in customers”,  she point out.  “All network members must work actively to give members per quarter minimum to maintain commission.  However, profit can only be made on volumes. Even then our early years franchise and learning support come with teaching methodology and learning sets”.  She however made it clear that the business aspects of HIIMA ideals is to empower more Nigerians economically.  “More teachers can key into this”, she observed.  “This is why this partnership is cogent; it is to enhance levels of Mathematics and English and then encourage children to captialise in the areas where they have comparative advantage”, she said, matter-of-factly.

  • Osinbajo, Agunbiade bag Lagos Judiciary awards

    Osinbajo, Agunbiade bag Lagos Judiciary awards

    Vice President of Nigeria, Professor Yemi Osibajo, has once again urged the judiciary to stand for truth and justice at all times. He made the call last weekend in his acceptance speech at an award dinner held as part of activities to mark the opening of the 2016/2017 Legal year of the Lagos State Judiciary.

    The event, which was held at the banquet hall of the Nigerian Law School, Victoria Island, Lagos, saw Osibajo and the Majority leader of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Honourable Sanai Bolanle Agunbiade, being honored with awards of excellence in recognition and appreciation of their individual contribution to the judicial process in the state.

    According to the  the Chief Judge of Lagos State, Justice Oluwafunmilayo Atilade, the two awardees, both legal practitioners, have helped tremendously in various capacities, to promote and advance the cause of the legal and judicial sectors of the state. She expressed the heartfelt appreciation of the Lagos State Judiciary to Osinbajo and Agunbiade.

    “The Vice President has always been keenly interested in the cause of justice as a legal practitioner and as a public office holder. His contribution to the growth of the Judiciary in Lagos cannot be brushed aside. On his part, Hon. Agunbiade, who is the first legislator to be so honored by the Judiciary here in Lagos, has made remarkable contribution to the Judiciary as a lawyer and as a legislator,” she said.

    The Vice President, who was represented by former Attorney-General of the state, Ade Ipaye, thanked the leadership of the Judiciary and vowed to continue to support the cause of justice anywhere in the country. According to him, justice must not only be done, it must be seen and perceived by all, as actually done.

    Speaking after he was presented with the prestigious award, Hon. Agunbiade thanked the leadership of the Judiciary for finding him worthy of the recognition. He expressed happiness that his effort as a lawmaker representing the good people of Ikorodu is being appreciated within and outside the state.

    According to him, the award is a further call on him not to rest on his oars in the pursuit of legislations that will impact positively on the lives of the people of Lagos State. “We cannot afford to be contented yet. There is still so much to be done as we strive to make life more worth living for our people. I thank you for this award and I promise to do more,” he said.

    The Ikorodu-born lawmaker also thanked Governor Akinwunmi Ambode for providing the enabling environment for the State House of Assembly to function effectively. “Here in Lagos, we have a Governor that is willing tom allow the legislature to doom its job and do it well. I am sure the Judiciary will say the same thing of him. We must give him credit for the enabling environment which made the many successes we recorded possible,” he said.

    Dignitaries at the event include the Attorney-General of Lagos State,    , who represented the Governor, former Chief Judge of the state, Justice Ayotunde Ayomide Phillips, ex-Commissioner for Health, Dr. Leke Pitan, Chairman, House Committee on Judiciary, Funmi Tejuosho, amongst others.

  • Agunbiade joins the race

    Agunbiade joins the race

    As the race for who becomes the Speaker of the 8th Assembly of Lagos State gathers steam, the representative of Ikorodu 1 Constituency at the Assembly, Hon. Sanai Agunbiade, has signified interest in the coveted seat. The lawmaker who is a lawyer by profession is a ranking officer who will be coming in for a third term in the next Assembly.

    He is without doubt the major star of the 6th and 7th Assembly. Agunbiade made a mark right from his first term as a member in the 6th Assembly and has continued to maintain that mark in the out-going dispensation.

    Before now, a group of legal practitioners under the auspices of Lagos Lawyers for Good Governance (LLGG) called on the lawmaker to vie for the seat saying he is a tested and trusted lawmaker.

    A lawmaker in the Assembly said “he is calm, cool headed, composed and organised, and is not temperamental; he is also a very friendly lawmaker and relates with all and sundry. He has demonstrated a kind of maturity and understanding of issues that has earned him the respect and admiration of his colleagues.”

    He is somebody who has displayed so much passion for the job of lawmaking and other legislative duties, and is recorded as the lawmaker who has moved the highest number of motions in his eight years in the Assembly. Agunbiade is a versatile lawmaker and has earned the respect of his colleagues in the Assembly; he is generally acclaimed as the best performing lawmaker at plenary.

    As a student’s union president at the university, Agunbiade proved to be a very good crisis manager. Speaking on what Lagosians should expect from the 8th Assembly if he emerges as the Speaker, Agunbiade said, “a leadership that would be able to convince Lagos residents that the 8th Assembly is an improvement over the 7th Assembly in the quality of the laws we make, in the human capital development in terms of training, transformation of the institution to a point of reckoning in the state; The leadership of the House that would be passionate about the manifestoes of the party and give democratic dividends to the people of Lagos State.

    “I look forward to a leadership that would bring about the enabling environment to the governor that would be taking over in the state.”

    Agunbiade, who is from the two ruling families in Ikorodu, that is, the Rademo and Lasunwon ruling families, is one lawmaker who has demonstrated an unusual passion for his constituents and constituency, always presenting issues and moving motions targeted to the well-being and welfare of his constituents at plenary.