The operatives of the Lagos State Environmental and Special Offences (Enforcement) Unit (Taskforce) on Thursday demolished over 150 illegal shanties, kiosks and shop extension around Arewa Community Central Mosque popularly called (Mosalashi Alhaja) in Agege area of Lagos. Speaking on the exercise, the Chairman of the Agency, Olayinka Egbeyemi, a Chief Superintendent of Police stated […]
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Gboyega Akosile, Chief Press Secretary to Lagos Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu and his wife have now recovered from COVID-19 after one month. in isolation. He gave an explicit narration of his experience from how he contracted the virus down to the survival. Read below his full account: “Thank God I am back at my duty post! […]
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Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State says worship centres in the state will reopen effective August 7, 2020. Worship centres had been shut in the state since March as part of measures to curtail the spread of the novel coronavirus disease. The Presidential Task Force on Covid-19 had okayed the reopening of churches and mosques […]
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Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu has approved the increase of the fare of the government owned bus service, Lagos Bus Services Limited, LBSL, by about 46 per cent. A statement by the Assistant Director, Corporate Communication, at the Lagos Metropolitan Transportation Authority (LAMATA), Kolawole Ojelabi, said the increase would take effect from August 1. The […]
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Police Constable attached to Ikoyi Division, Risikat Balogun and two children were on Saturday killed while nine other persons were in critical condition after two buildings collapsed in Lagos. The incident occurred at 16 and 17 Freeman Street, Lagos Island around 2am. Witnesses said a defective three-storey building was the first to cave-in, adding that […]
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Lagos State House of Assembly has passed the 2020 Appropriation (Amendment) Bill of N920,468,589,337. The lawmakers okayed the re-ordering after taking the report of the Joint Committee on Economic Planning and Budget and Finance. Chairman, House Committee on Economic Planning and Budget Hon. Gbolahan Yishawu noted that the approval of the House for re-ordering of […]
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Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has given reasons for the continued closure of schools and tertiary institutions in the state. He gave the reasons two weeks after announcing that guidelines for reopening schools would be made public in the state. He spoke during the 15th press briefing held at the State House in Marina to […]
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Lagos State Government has suspended indefinitely the re-opening of churches and mosques from this weekend as earlier proposed two weeks ago. Also to remain shut indefinitely are social and event centres as well as social clubs. Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu stated these on Tuesday at the 15th update on Coronavirus at the Lagos House, Marina, Lagos. […]
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as probe panel submits report Lawmakers at the Lagos state House of Assembly at plenary on Monday passed a vote of confidence on Speaker Mudashiru Obasa. This followed the presentation of the report of a 9-man fact-finding adhoc committee of the House on allegations of corruption levelled against the speaker by SaharaReporters. The committee, headed […]
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Lagos State Governor, Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu, on Sunday, installed Oba Abdulwasiu Omogbolahan Lawal, Abisogun II, as the 15th Oniru of Iruland, in Eti-Osa Local Government Area of the state. Until his recent resignation, the new monarch was the Lagos State Commissioner for Agriculture. Lawal succeeds Late Oba Idowu Abiodun, who passed on in September 2019, […]
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