The Lagos State Commissioner for the Environment and Water Resources, Mr Tokunbo Wahab, has issued a seven-day contravention notice to owners of buildings on Orchid Road, Agungi, Ajiran, Conservation Road, Osapa all along the Ikota River. This is contained in a statement obtained from the X handle of...
Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Lagos State says it has resolved to challenge the Appeal Court’s ruling, affirming Gov. Babajide Sanwo-Olu as winner of March 18 governorship election. The Lagos State PDP Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Hakeem Amode, disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria...
The Lagos State Government has cancelled the 50% transport fare discount on all Public Transport System which was implemented in response to Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu’s directive on August 2, 2023. In a public notice on Saturday, the Lagos Metropolitan Area Transport Authority (LAMATA) announced a reversion to...
The Lagos State House of Assembly has said that anyone that is found culpable in the case of the missing intestine of Adebola Akin-Bright would be prosecuted in due course. The Chairman of the Ad Hoc Committee, Mr Noheem Adams, made this disclosure to newsmen at the visit of...
By OLA MUDOPE, Lagos – The Commissioner of Police in Lagos State, Mr Idowu Owohunwa, has constituted a special team to unravel the cause of death of Nigerian Musician, Ilerioluwa Aloba, aka Mohbad. The command’s spokesperson, SP Benjamin Hundeyin, said in a statement on Saturday that the...
Traditional rulers in Epe Division, Lagos state, have appealed to all the tiers of government not to hoard food palliatives but distribute them accordingly by targeting the downtrodden or needy. They made the plea in separate interviews with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Epe on Thursday....
The Lagos State House of Assembly has rejected 17 commissioner nominees of Gov. Babajide Sanwo-Olu, including former commissioner for health, Prof. Akin Abayomi and former commissioner for information, Mr Gbenga Omotosho. The lawmakers, however, confirmed 22 other commissioner nominees of the governor. The exercise, which was done through a...
By OLA MUDOPE, Lagos – Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu has declared Monday as a work-free day for public servants in the state to commemorate the 2023 Isese Day. The Isese Day in Lagos is set aside to celebrate the indigenous Yoruba culture and traditions as...
The Labour Party (LP) in Lagos State on Thursday sympathised with the family and colleagues of late Dr Vwaere Dia who died in a faulty Lagos hospital elevator. Diaso, a female medical house officer died on Tuesday due to injuries sustained after she was trapped for more than...
Hundreds of National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) members deployed to Lagos, on Tuesday, defied heavy rainfall to participate in marching at the closing of their orientation programme. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the corps members are in the 2023 Batch B stream. They completed...
By OLA MUDOPE, Lagos – Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu , has congratulated the Lagos State University (LASU) best graduating student, Aminat Yusuf. In a post on Friday on his Facebook page, Governor Sanwo-Olu commended Ms. Yusuf, a law student, for achieving a remarkable feat, being the first undergraduate in...
The Lagos State Government says it is committed to guaranteeing better future for children in the state. Gov. Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State made the pledge at a special Jumat to mark his inauguration for a second term, at the Lagos Central Mosque, Lagos Island, on Friday. The News Agency...
Mr Cisse Abdullahi, father of quadruplet- (two boys and two girls) on Thursday appealed for financial assistance from Lagos State Government for the children’s upkeep. Abdullahi, 38, a native of Ilorin, who lives at Kumapayi, Baale Bus Stop, Oko-Afo, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that he needed...
The Minister of Works and Housing, Mr Babatunde Fashola, on Saturday expressed satisfaction at progress of work on all three sections of the ongoing Lagos-Badagry Expressway reconstruction and rehabilitation project. Fashola, during inspection of the highway, said tremendous progress had been recorded beyond where the project was in 2015....
Labour Party’s Governorship candidate in Lagos State, Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, has lost his polling unit. Rhodes-Vivour lost to incumbent Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu after the results from his polling unit were counted. According to the Punch report, Labour Party got 18 votes while Governor Sanwo-Olu polled a total of 29 votes...
April last year, I wrote an article, titled, “Didn’t Tinubu Just Goof On MC Oluomo?” The piece did a post-mortem on the crisis rocking the Lagos State chapter of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW). Long story short, Musiliu Akinsanya, alias “MC Oluomo,” was issued a query by...
The Nigeria Railway Corporation (NRC) on Thursday sympathised with victims and families affected in the rail track accident in Lagos early in the day. This is contained in a statement by NRC’s Deputy Director, Public Relations, Mr Yakub Mahmood, in Lagos on Thursday. He also reiterated the need for...
By OLA MODUPE, Lagos – The Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) on Monday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Lagos Internal Revenue Service (LIRS) where the two tax authorities would collaborate on joint tax audit, investigation and automatic exchange of information. The MoU signing ceremony which took place...
The 2023 governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Lagos State, Olajide Adediran, popularly known as Jandor has vowed to end what he described as the 24-year monopoly of a former governor of the state, Bola Tinubu. “We will come in and do things differently. The problem...