Our policies designed to reduce unemployment – Lagos

Lagos State government said its polices are designed to reduce high unemployment rates. Speaking in Lagos, the Commissioner, Ministry of Wealth Creation and Employment, Hon Mrs Yetunde Arobieke said the approach was to preserve jobs and skills. Represented by the Director for Employment,Mrs Iyabo Seriki-Bello, the commissioner said government was determined to raise the state […]

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No massacre at Lekki Toll Gate during #EndSARS protest – Lagos Government

Lagos State Government yesterday rejected the report of the Judicial Panel of Inquiry that there was a massacre in Lekki Toll Gate during the 2020 #EndSARS protest. To the government, the Justice Doris Okuwobi-led Lagos State ‘Judicial Panel of Inquiry on Restitution of Victims of SARS-Related Abuses and Other Related Matters’ failed to establish arbitrary […]

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Lagos releases white paper on #EndSARS panel report

Lagos State Governor, Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu (middle); Deputy Governor, Dr. Obafemi Hamzat (right); and Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Mr Gbenga Omotoso during a media briefing on the State Government’s position on the recommendations of the Judicial Panel of Inquiry on #EndSARS in Lagos House, Ikeja…yesterday Accepts 11 of 32 recommendations, to forward 14 to […]

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#EndSARS panel legally constituted — Sanwo-Olu

Holds peace walk in December, invites Falz, Seun Kuti, Mr Macaroni, farotimi, CP, others Describes leaked panel report as “unauthorised” Yet to release White Paper despite assurance Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has said that the State Judicial Panel of Inquiry on Lekki Till Gate shooting and Restitution for Victims of Special Anti Robbery Squad, […]

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Falz, Mr Macaroni reject Sanwo-Olu’s peace walk invitation

Musician Folarin Falana (Falz) and comedian Debo Adebayo (Mr Marcaroni) have rejected the invitation of Lagos Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu to a peace walk for “the healing of Lagos”. The duo, in their separate reactions, rejected the invitation. Mr Marcaroni said genuine peacemaking should begin by first implementing the recommendations of the panel. Falz, on his […]

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Sanwo-Olu invites Falz, Mr Macaroni, Seun Kuti to join peace walk

Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu has called on leading entertainers Falz, Mr Macaroni and Seun Kuti to join him for a walk for peace in Lagos. He made the call on Tuesday in his speech to the people of Lagos State on the Lekki tollgate incident. The Governor called on the entertainers, who joined other […]

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#EndSARS: Sanwo-Olu leads peace walk December

Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu will, in December, lead ‘A Walk for Peace’ to herald the healing and restoration of the land following aftermaths of the EndSARS protest and leaked panel report. His administration, he said, is ready to facilitate better communication between the youths and the state’s security machinery to resolve issues before they […]

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#EndSARS: Lagos to release White Paper on panel report today – Sanwo-Olu

Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, says the government will release its White Paper on the report submitted by the #EndSARS Judicial Panel of Inquiry on November 15, 2021. The governor in a speech on Tuesday on the Lekki shootings of October 20, 2020, said, “As an administration, are determined that the next steps that will […]

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Sanwo-Olu to release white paper on Lagos #EndSARS report today

Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu has said the state will release a white paper on the report of a judicial panel set up to investigate the shooting of unarmed protesters by Nigeria soldiers and police at the Lekki Toll Gate on the evening of October 20, 2020. The judicial panel said what happened at to […]

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