Ilaje marks national day
LAGOS—THE National Stadium, Surulere Lagos came alive, weekend, when the Egbe Omo Ilaje, the umbrella body of Ilaje’s worldwide held its median Ilaje national Day celebration.
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Ilaje non-violent, yet most deprived N-Delta ethnic group – IYC president
NEWLY elected President of Ilaje Youth Congress, IYC, Delta State chapter, Edema Johnson, has said that Ilaje ethnic nationality, which he described as the most peaceful tribe in the Niger Delta region, was the most marginalized by government.
Read More Itsekiri, Ijaw, Ilaje graduates reject contract extension for 151 VTP trainees
Leadership of Itsekiri, Ijaw and Ilaje graduates under the aegis of the 3i Coalition, has rejected the three months contract extension allegedly offered to 151 graduate trainees of VTP 5/OTP 2 and VTP 6 by Chevron Nigeria Limited, CNL, insisting that Chevron “must convert all 151 trainees who have been under slave labour for over three years.”
Read More Ilaje communities accuses Ondo govt of marginalisation, injustice
STAKEHOLDERS in Ilaje, the oil-producing area of Ondo State, weekend, raised alarm over alleged marginalisation and injustice to their communities by the present administration.
Read More The history of Lagos, Ilaje and the aboriginal tribes
WRITING on the Ilaje situation in Lagos, Ajose Kudehinbu, former Head of Service of Ondo State and prince of the Ilaje Aheri kingdom who spent his early childhood in Lagos, recalled that one of the several places Ilaje had occupied and which he visited with his father, growing up then, in the city was ‘Agege-Odo’, now Akoka and present site of the University of Lagos from where the original Ilaje occupants were evacuated to establish the University.
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