Lagos State governor, Akinwunmi Ambode, has commissioned a newly reconstructed Police Station in Ikosi-Isheri area of the state, saying that no investment in the protection of lives and properties of Lagosians is too great regardless of the resources spent in achieving such feat. The governor said the construction and delivery of the modern Police Station…
Lagos State governor, Akinwunmi Ambode, on Thursday said that the era of unnecessary bureaucracy hampering the delivery of public services was no longer acceptable, saying that ensuring quality service to the people must be the paramount consideration of civil servants at all times. The governor who spoke at the Adeyemi Bero Auditorium in Alausa Secretariat,…
Lagos State Commissioner for Agriculture, Toyin Suarau on Tuesday reiterated the resolve of the State Government to increase the aggregate food supply of the State from less than 15 per cent to 25 per cent within the next four years through various projects and programmes. Suarau who said this at the ongoing ministerial press briefing…
The immediate past Chief Judge of Lagos State, Justice Ayotunde Philips, has been nominated as replacement for the retired Chairman of the Lagos State Independent Electoral Commission, LASIEC, Justice Fatai Adeyinka. Phillips’ name was put forward to the Lagos State House of Assembly by Governor Akinwunmi Ambode for confirmation. The Governor, in a letter addressed…
Two persons who claimed to be cocoa dealers were on Wednesday arraigned by the Department of State Security, DSS, before an Isolo Magistrate Court for allegedly cloning the mobile line of Lagos State Governor, Akinwunmi Ambode, in order to perpetuate a N50 million fraud. The suspects, Rilwanu Jamiu and Balogun Stanley Oyewole, were said to…
Governor Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos State has stressed the need for the state government to collaborate with the Nigerian Air Force to checkmate activities of vandals and other criminals on the waterways. Ambode made this known on Tuesday when he received the Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Sadiq Baba Abubakar, at the Lagos House,…
Lagos State Governor, Akinwunmi Ambode on Tuesday evening said the Ajasa-Command Road in Agbado Oke-Odo Local Council Development Area (LCDA) area of the State would be completed in the next five weeks, just as he assured that the Abesan Estate link road connecting Aboru from Agbelekale would equally be completed before the end of the…
Governor Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos State on Thursday said that for Nigeria’s economy to improve, its leaders must have the courage to take difficult and tough decisions. Ambode, who spoke at the 1st National Forum on Economy organised by Vintage Press Limited, publishers of The Nation Newspapers, said the nation’s economy was at a critical…
Lagos State governor, Akinwunmi Ambode, has ordered the reopening of the Mile 12 Market, which was closed about two weeks ago. It would be recalled that 14 days ago, the governor directed the closure of the market due to a violence that broke out in the area. Several persons were killed during a riot that…
…says he’s in the race to serve The governorship candidate of the All Progressive Congress, APC, in Lagos State, Akinwumi Ambode, has explained why he is interested in becoming the governor of the state. The renowned Accountant, speaking over the weekend at an event held at the MUSON Centre in Onikan, Lagos, stressed that his…