Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu has announced plans to institute a health insurance scheme for theatre practitioners in the State. Sanwo-Olu announced the health insurance scheme during a dinner with veterans in the Yoruba Nollywood industry at the Lagos House Marina on Monday night. The announcement Sanwo-Olu was commended by the Nollywood actors and…
Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu has ordered a probe into the July 8, Mile 2-Ibeshe boat accident in which lives were lost. Seventeen passengers were reported drowned when a boat sailing from Mile 2 to Ibeshe, a suburb of Lagos, on Saturday capsized. The Lagos State Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Mr. Gbenga Omotoso in…
The Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu and business leader and philanthropist, Tony O. Elumelu, led other real estate stakeholders over the weekend in the groundbreaking ceremony for the new Falomo Towers development in Ikoyi, Lagos. The project is being developed by joint venture partners, Afriland Properties Plc, Investee Company of the Heirs Holdings Group, and…
Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, in the company of Governors Dapo Abiodun (Ogun) and Abdulrahman Abdulrasaq (Kwara) on Tuesday, visited Ondo State to sympathise with Akeredolu and the people of Owo and Ondo State in general. The Governors also donated N75 million to the people of Owo, who were affected by the recent gunmen attack,…
Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu on Tuesday said the State Government will go ahead with its proposed ban on motorcycles, known as Okada on highways and six local governments and nine Local Council Development Areas (LCDAs) from June 1, this year. He said security services and Lagos State Government are on the same page…
Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu, on Tuesday, submitted the Expression of Interest and Nomination Forms for his re-election on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC). Governor Sanwo-Olu, who submitted the forms to party officials at the International Conference Centre, Abuja, was accompanied by a large crowd, which included members of the Lagos…
An amalgamation of Igbo traders across 58 major markets in Lagos State, on Thursday, passed a vote of confidence on the leadership of Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu, endorsing the Governor’s second term bid. The traders, under the aegis of Ndigboamaka Progressive Markets Association, said although Sanwo-Olu had not formally informed them of his second term bid,…
Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu said the State is a financially credible government to financial institutions, noting that Lagos State Government has never defaulted in terms of repayment and other responsibilities. Sanwo-Olu made the statement on Wednesday when the management of Parallex Bank Limited led by its Managing Director, Olufemi Bakre, paid him a…
Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu, on Sunday reassured the residents that the State Government is on track with its efforts to complete works on both the Blue and Red lines rail projects, which are intra-city, to strengthen the intermodal transportation system. He said work on the Blue Line rail project was at 90 per…
Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has unveiled the Adopt-a-Bin programme with an initial 40,000 standard bins deployed to households and commercial entities. Sanwo-Olu spoke during the launch of the programme at Simpson Transfer Loading Station on Lagos Island, saying the gospel of waste sorting at source is now gaining ground as individual pickers of…