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Members of the Lagos State House of Assembly on Monday opposed the total scrapping of the Public Office Holder (Payment of Pension Law 2007), which ensures payment of pensions and other benefits to former Governors Bola Tinubu, Babatunde Fashola and Akinwunmi Ambode and their deputies.

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Dr. Adulhakeem Abdulateef Exactly 16 days after the commemoration of the third year in office of his innovative and aggressively modernizing administration on May 29, 2018, the Lagos State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode, celebrated his 55th birthday on June 14. As expected, there was widespread commendation and approbation from within and beyond Lagos State of the remarkable strides his administration …

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The Lagos State government on Tuesday said its internally generated revenue for the first quarter of 2018 was N103.476billion. This is as against the N96.7billion recorded in the previous year, accounting for 81 per cent of the total revenue of N141billion generated in the quarter this year. Commissioner for Economic Planning and Budget, Mr. Segun Banjo, made this known in …

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Tayo Olanipekun Governor Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos State has said his government will ensure that leadership in the state’s civil service become influential. The governor made this remark at a training workshop organised by the Lagos state government at Citi-Height hotel in Ikeja, tagged: “Leadership and Management Training for Senior Civil Servants in Lagos state In a keynote address by …

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Tayo Olanipekun Governor Akinwunmi Ambode on Monday presented to the Lagos State House of Assembly a total of N1,046,121,181680 as the proposed 2018 budget for the state. The budget,tagged Budget of Progress and Development, will be used to consolidate on infrastructure, education, transportation/traffic management, security and health,according to the governor.  This is as he also noted it would also place …

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Tayo Olanipekun Lagos State Governor, Akinwunmi Ambode, on Monday praised the workers of the sate for their suport for his administration in the last two and a half years, saying the feats achieved would have been impossible without their support. He said this at the State Executive Chambers in Alausa, Ikeja, while swearing-in five newly-appointed Permanent Secretaries, as he also …

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Tayo Olanipekun Lagos State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode, on Monday, has revealed that for the the maga city required one million housing units yearly between the next five to 10 years to fix the deficit in providing shelter for the residents. This is as he also said instead of the less than 2,000MW of electricity currently being supplied in the …

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The Lagos State Government on Wednesday announced a ban on the operations of inter-state vehicles along Ikorodu Road, ordering operators to restrict their activities to Ojodu-Berger and Ojota Motor Parks. The government said this should be complied with in seven days,  after which stiff sanctions would be applied to defaulters. Speaking after embarking on a joint inspection tour of ongoing …

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Gov. Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos State has assured residents that his administration is doing everything within its power to put an end to the spate of serial killings by  the notorious cult group known as ‘Badoo’ in the Ikorodu axis of the state. Ambode, who  gave the assurance on Thursday while commissioning a rehabilitated fire service station in the Epe …

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  Tayo Olanipekun It was a scene of sorrow on Wednesday morning as parents of kidnapped students of the Lagos State Model College, Igbonla, Epe, stormed the office of Governor Akinwunmi Ambode to demand for the release of their children 14 days after they were abducted by gunmen. The parents said the kidnappers told them on Tuesday that four of …

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