Lagos State First Lady, Dr. Ibijoke Sanwo-Olu, has made a passionate appeal to all stakeholders in the education sector to work towards resolving the prolonged strike embarked upon by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), describing the situation as a ticking time bomb that must be urgently addressed. She made the appeal on…
President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday commissioned the new 3 million Metric Tonnes capacity per annum state-of-the-art Dangote Fertiliser Urea Plant, with an emphatic assurance that the project would give a huge fillip to Nigeria’s agricultural sector, which revitalisation has been a focal point of his administration’s economic policy. The new plant, which he commissioned in the…
The Lagos State Ministry of Tourism, Arts and Culture, is set to celebrate Nigeria’s Independence with the “Eko on Show” festival slated for Friday, 15th October 2021, at Muri-Okunola Park, Victoria Island. The event is one of the strategies adopted to showcase and revive the entertainment scene in Lagos. Commissioner for Tourism, Arts and Culture,…
Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu has won an endorsement for the way he has positioned Lagos State on the path of growth, despite the State being hit by inadvertent crises in the past year. The validation came from the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila, who extolled the competence and leadership style of the…
Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu has gone into self-isolation as one of his close aides tested positive for COVID-19 on Thursday, 10th of December. The Governor, alongside other members of his team will be tested by the Lagos State biobank but will remain in isolation until the results of the tests are available. This…
Lagos state Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu yesterday affirmed that since his resumption to office as the governor, he has never acquired for himself an official vehicle. The Governor who said it is not necessarily fanciful that Governors must buy brand new vehicles when there is no need for them, charged governors to look into their expenditure…
Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu has promised to assist the tenants and shop owners at Circle Mall in Lekki to enable them to bounce back to business following recent looting and burning of the mall by hoodlums who hijack the EndSARS protests. Speaking on Sunday during a condolence visit and meeting with tenants and…
The Lagos state governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu has approved the full reopening of markets across the state. The commissioner for Local Government and Community Affairs, Dr Wale Ahmed, made this known in a statement on Tuesday, October 27. The statement reads, “The Lagos State Governor, Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has approved the full resumption of operations of…
Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu, yesterday said the CCTV footage at the Lekki Toll Gate would be available for the State Judicial Panel of Enquiry to review as part of the investigation into the Lekki Toll Gate shootings. Speaking during an interview session with a CNN journalist, Becky Anderson’s “Connect the World” on Monday,…
The Governor of Lagos State, Babajde Sanwo-Olu has directed the Ministry of Physical Planning and Urban Development to carry out integrity tests on both public and private schools with buildings of three floors and above. Sanwo-Olu gave the order due to the collapse of a school building in Ejigbo in the early hours of Saturday.…