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The Lagos State government has announced 18 roads it will close ahead of President Muhammadu Buhari’s Presidential campaign on Saturday. According to plans, the All Progressives Congress (APC), Presidential campaign would hold at the Teslim Balogun stadium in Surulere on Saturday, 9th February. Disclosing this at a press conference in Ikeja, the former Minister of […]
In the face of real and obvious threat to safe flight operations, the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) and the Lagos State Government (LASG) have elected to work together to curb the danger posed by unauthorized high rise structures scattered around Lagos metropolis. This collaboration was a resolution from a bilateral meeting between the NCAA […]
The Lagos state government has said about 67,763 persons are currently undergoing Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) treatment care in the state as against the 64,000 it had as of June last year. The state Commissioner for Health Dr. Jide Idris, who revealed this at the on-going ministerial briefing in Lagos State, said its Malaria, HIV […]
The Lagos DNA and Forensic Centre in the last three months has resolved 35 cases out of the over 150 requests for forensic analysis it received from within and outside Nigeria. This is as the state government said it had awarded the contract for the expansion of the operations of the Centre to include a […]
The Lagos State government,with funding from the its Lotteries Board, on Tuesday donated a total of 30 power bikes to security agencies operating in the state, in an exercise it said was in line with the commitment of Governor Akinwunmi Ambode to boost security and enhance safety of lives and property. The power bikes were […]
Photo Caption: Governor of Lagos State, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode (3rd right), his wife, Bolanle (2nd right); General Overseer, Redemeed Christian Church of God worldwide, Pst. Enoch Adejare Adeboye (m) & his wife, Pst. Folu (3rd left); Rev. (Mrs.) Mercy Ezekiel (2nd left); Pst. Paul Adefarasin (L); and Bishop Mike Okonkwo (r), during the 2018 annual Thanksgiving Service, with the theme; […]
Tayo Olanipekun Three former governors of Lagos State were honoured on Wednesday by governor Akinwunmi Ambode of the state with a recreational park named after them. The ex governors so honoured were Brigadier Mobolaji Johnson (Rtd.), who was the first governor and Military Administrator of the state; Alhaji Lateef Jakande, the state’s first civilian governor […]
The Lagos State Employment Trust Fund, LSETF, has announced “Lagos Innovates”, a series of programs designed for the benefit of technology- and innovation-driven startups in Lagos State. By providing access to high quality infrastructure, learning, capital and networks, Lagos Innovates hopes to cement Lagos’ position as the leading destination for startups in Africa. Lagos Innovates […]
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 […]
A Lagos High Court, sitting in the Ikeja Judicial Division, has ruled that the Freedom of Information (FOI) Act, 2011 is applicable to the Government of Lagos State and does not require “domestication” by the State to have effect. Dismissing a preliminary objection raised by the Lagos State Ministry of Health in a suit instituted […]