Orile Agege Chairman Shares What He Has Done in One Year

(Chairman, Orile-Agege LCDA, Akinola Idowu. Photo by Punch News)

Orile Agege Local Council Development Area Chairman Akinola Idowu says his administration inherited 21 ongoing infrastructure and construction projects when he took office in July last year, and has chosen to finish them rather than abandon them.

He made the claim at a media parley where he presented his one-year scorecard.

On infrastructure, Idowu listed road works in Egbatedo, Dada Akapo Street and Bade Abiona.

The council has also built covered drainage on Dada Akapo Street to tackle flooding, desilted 12 drainage channels, built a primary healthcare centre on Gbadamosi Street, renovated three health centres and drilled a borehole on Adebayo Johnson Street.

Other projects include an area office at Oyewole, an entrance arch at Olakrokun Street and the rehabilitation of the INEC office on Arigbanla Street.

Bids for rehabilitating two more streets were opened on 12 October.

In education, the council provided chairs, desks and learning materials to public primary schools.

With the Apata Humanitarian Foundation, it gave out 500 school uniforms and writing materials, and it paid for free JAMB and GCE forms for some students.

Twenty beneficiaries are set to get overseas training through a partnership with a Chinese renewable energy agency.

Idowu also said a two-week free skills boot camp trained young people in photography, graphic design, drone piloting, coding, renewable energy and AI animation, with some top performers offered further training abroad or at the Nigerian Institute of Journalism.

On health, the council backs measles-rubella vaccination, routine immunisation, maternal and child care, and Vitamin A and deworming programmes.

On sanitation, it pays N2 million a month to eight waste contractors, bought two compactors and waived old waste bills from 1999 to 2022, while halving arrears from 2023 to August 2025.

For empowerment, 200 residents receive N100,000 a month, and an N12 million interest free loan scheme has been set up for waste contractors.

The council has also installed 4,000 streetlights and is talking about CCTV.

Idowu said more work remains and invited feedback from journalists and residents.