Category: Lagos State

Chairman of the panel, Justice Doris Okuwobi, retired, submitting the panel’s report to Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu on November 15 A member of the Lagos #EndSARS panel, Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa, SAN, and a former Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) Vice President, Monday Ubani, have opposed Minister of State for Labour, Festus Keyamo, SAN, over the legality […]

Financial experts say the N1.3 trillion budget of Lagos State government for 2022 has capacity to turn around the fortunes of the state. At the presentation of the Appropriation Bill titled ‘Budget of Consolidation’, last week, Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu said it would focus “obsessively on completing ongoing projects, while also expanding our social intervention programs […]

Activist lawyer Femi Falana, SAN, said yesterday that the Federal Government lacked the legal competence to reject the report of the Panel of Enquiry constituted by the Lagos State Government. He said Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu is legally obligated to implement the recommendations of the Justice Doris Okuwobi Commission of Enquiry on EndSARS and Police Brutality. […]

Governor Sanwo-Olu presents N1.39t 2022 budget proposal to State House of Assembly Education, infrastructure top priorities After a review of last year’s Budget of Rekindled Hope before the Lagos State House of Assembly, Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu yesterday proposed a N1.39 trillion Budget of Consolidation to the lawmakers as 2022 Appropriation Bill. The governor announced a […]

Following latest proactive advice from health authorities over imminent fourth wave of COVID-19 pandemic, Lagos State Goverment has suspended all activities earlier announced for the planned “Greater Lagos Fiesta” 2021 edition. This came as Europe, the epi-centre of the COVID-19 pandemic, reintroduced restrictions to tackle the fourth wave of the pandemic. The state government announced […]

Falade Oyekan, GM of LNSA demonstrating the different cameras available and their setbacks “Have they started wearing body cameras? Yes, they have started wearing it. Now, are they everywhere? The answer is no, they are not everywhere just yet?” As part of the efforts of the Lagos State Government to improve the professionalism and accountability […]

Justice Doris Okuwobi, retired, submitting the report to Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu Analysts commend panel Lagos State government in its first reaction to the viral report of the Judicial Panel of Inquiry on Restitution for Victims of SARS Related Abuses and Other Matters, which leaked on Monday, said yesterday that it had noted the various reactions […]

A police orderly climbs to search for his boss in the rubble of a 21-storey building under construction that collapsed at Ikoyi district of Lagos, on November 1, 2021. – Several people have been trapped while unspecified number of people mostly construction workers were feared dead as the building suddenly collapsed in the Ikoyi district […]

A scene of the gas explosion at Ladipo Spare Part Market, Lagos on Tuesday. Photo: NAN The Liquefied Petroleum Gas Retailers (LPGAR), branch of the National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG), says Tuesday’s explosion at Ladipo Spare Part Market, Lagos was caused by acetylene gas. Its National Secretary, Mr Olukayode Solomon, made […]