Category: Lagos State

Lagos State House of Assembly, on Wednesday, again rejected two commissioner-nominees, while confirming 15 of the 18 other nominees recently sent by Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu. The Speaker, Mudashiru Obasa, who presided over yesterday’s sitting, lauded the Chief Whip Fatai Mojeed-led committee for a thorough job. The rejected nominees are former Commissioner for Energy, Olalere Odusote […]

Sanwo-Olu at the hospital yesterday Lagos State Government has taken over the medical care of Adebola Akin-Bright, a 13-year-old boy, whose small part of his intestines was allegedly missing at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH), Ikeja. Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos made this known when he visited Akin-Bright and his mother, Mrs Deborah […]

Lagos State governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu embarks on inaugural ride of Lagos blue train line on Monday. At exactly 9:07 a.m. Lagos State Governor, Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu, on Monday entered one of the Blue Line Rail coaches to flag off the commencement of commercial operations on the Lagos intra-state train service. Six minutes later, at 9:13 […]

Lagos Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu and Speaker Mudashiru Obasa have met with the State Governor’s Advisory Council (GAC). GAC is the highest decision-making body of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Lagos. The meeting which was held at Lagos Assembly, attracted former Deputy Gov Mrs. Adejoke Adefulire, Cardinal James Odunmbaku, Dr Yomi Finnih, Ganiyu Olarenwaju Solomon, […]

Despite the plea from Lagos State governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, for non-state-owned bus drivers to reduce transport fares by 25 percent and state-owned buses to reduce it by 50 percent, a monitoring tour by a team from the Lagos Ministry of Transportation yesterday revealed only partial compliance across all routes to the governor’s directive. During the […]

Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu has ordered the immediate suspension of the General Manager of Lagos State Infrastructure and Asset Management Agency (LASIAMA), Mrs. Adenike Adekanbi. Mr. Olumide Sogunle, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Information and Strategy, made the disclosure in a statement on Sunday in Lagos. Sanwo-Olu approved the suspension based on the outcome of […]

Lagos State government yesterday sacked and blacklisted the facility managers at the General Hospital, Odan where a medical doctor, Vwaere Diaso, died from an elevator accident. The state government in a statement by the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Information and Strategy, Olumide Sogunle, on the report of the panel of inquiry set up on the […]

A lawyer Dele Farotimi has accused the Lagos State Government of suppressing the evidence of killings that occurred during the #EndSARS protest in October 2020. He said this while reacting to a leaked memo that the Lagos government has approved the mass burial of 103 corpses recovered in the aftermath of the #EndSARS protest. “It […]

Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu Lagos State Government has debunked a report going viral of its purported plan to give casualties of the 2020 #EndSARS killings at Lekki Toll Gate a mass burial. It urged the public to disregard the report which it described as the handiwork of mischief makers. The government reacted through a […]

Olayemi Street, Oriade LCDA Constitutionally, the local councils are meant to construct and maintain roads, streets, drains, parks, and open spaces, naming of roads, and streets, as well as provision and maintenance of public transportation and refuse disposal. It is also the duty of councils to establish and maintain cemeteries, burial grounds, and homes for […]