Tag: LAGOS STATE

H’Reps pass Bill to increase Lagos LGAs from 20 to 57

Aminu Imam
H'Reps pass Bill

The 10th House of Representatives has approved a bill seeking to recognise the 37 development area councils in Lagos as full-fledged local government areas, (LGAs). If signed into law, the Bill will raise the number of LGAs in Lagos from 20 to 57. The legislation, titled: “A Bill for an Act to Alter the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 (as amended), to Accommodate the Thirty-Seven (37) Development Area Councils of Lagos State as Full-Fledged Local Government Areas’, was among 42 Constitution amendment Bills passed by the lower…

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Noise Pollution: Lagos to seal churches, mosques, bars

Aminu Imam

The Lagos State Government has announced that it will close down bars, churches, clubs, mosques and companies causing environmental nuisance in the State. The Commissioner for the Environment and Water Resources, Tokunbo Wahab, disclosed this on Tuesday in Lagos, while speaking at a management meeting with the newly appointed General Manager of the Lagos State Environmental Protection Agency (LASEPA) Babatunde Ajayi, and directors in the agency. He urged the management team of LASEPA to review its operations strategies in line with international best practices and charged them to review their…

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Subsidy removal: FG distributes solar systems to Lagos communities

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As a way of cushioning the effects of fuel subsidy removal on citizens, the Federal Government has commenced installation of solar systems in rural communities in Lagos. Solar systems have been installed in schools and public health facilities at Makoko, in the Yaba area of the metropolis by the Rural Electrification Agency, (REA). According to the news medium, the Managing Director of the Rural Electrification Agency (REA), Ahmad Salihijo Ahmad, made the disclosure on Saturday while on an inspection tour of some of the schools and hospitals where some of…

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No Mans Land: Lagos Assembly to make laws favourable to indigenes Speaker

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Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Mudashiru Obasa, has said that the assembly will focus on making laws that will protect the interest of the indigenous people of the State. In his acceptance speech after his re-election as speaker of the house for a record third consecutive time on June 6, the states number three citizen said lawmakers would go to any length in protecting the state indigenes even if it meant reversing existing law. Obasa noted that laws passed by the Lagos assembly would be translated into…

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2023: Tinubu presents action plan to business community leaders in Lagos

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.Pledges to improve security, revive dead industries The presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has pledged that his administration, if elected in 2023, would revive Nigerias comatose industries, among others. Tinubu stated this during his Town Hall meeting with the business community and Organised Private Sector yesterday, in Lagos. At the meeting, the APC presidential candidate laid out his action plan before the business leaders, while he noted that his administration will target double-digit gross domestic product (GDP) growth. In a statement by Tunde Rahman,…

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2023: “Ill be first Lagos independent governor”, Jandor predicts

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Ahead of the 2023 general elections, the governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Lagos State, Abdul-Azeez Adediran, popularly called Jandor, has said that he will be the 16th governor of Lagos State, as well as the first independent governor of the State. He stated this at the formal presentation of the PDP governorship candidate in Akwa-Ibom State, Umo Eno, in Lagos yesterday at the Nigerian Air Force Conference Centre, Victoria Island where Jandor noted that Eno would build on the achievements of Governor, Udom Emmanuel of Akwa-Ibom…

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Lagos Govt. issues flood alert

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…Warns residents of Lekki, V/I, Ikoyi The Lagos State government has issued a fresh flood advisory to residents of Ikoyi, Victoria Island, Lekki and the coastal areas of Badagry and Epe to be cautious of the backflow of flood which is due to the high tide in the Lagos lagoon. Stating this, the commissioner for Environment and Water Resources, Tunji Bello, made this known in an issued statement on Monday. Bello said, The high tide of the Lagos lagoon has made it difficult for storm run-off from the various channels…

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RTEAN begs Lagos governor to reopen Lagos office

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The national leadership of the Road Transport Employers Association of Nigeria, (RTEAN), has made a passionate appeal to the Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, to reopen its Lagos office, following the crisis in two out of the over 320 chapels of the association. Recall that Sanwo-Olu had reportedly sealed the state office, suspended the entire Lagos state branch of RTEAN and appointed a 35-member caretaker committee to run the affairs of the branch, shortly after the isolated incidents in two chapels. Speaking with newsmen on Saturday in Abuja, the Deputy…

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NDLEA uncovers cocaine warehouse, seizes N194bn worth of crack in Lagos

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…Presumed biggest in agencys history In what appears to be the biggest singulardrugs seizure in the history of Nigerias premier anti-narcotic agency, operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, (NDLEA), have busted a major warehouse in a secluded estate in Ikorodu area of Lagos State. This was made known in an issued statement by the agency’s Director of Media and Advocacy, Femi Babafemi, yesterday. According to Babafemi, 1.8 tons (1,855 kilogrammes) of the illicit drug worth more than $278,250,000, which is about N194.775 billion in street value, were seized.…

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INEC debunks invasion, carting away of enrollment machines by thugs in Lagos

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The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), in Lagos State, has said that thugs did not cart away its voter enrollment machines in Surulere area, as reported in some sections of the media. Some online media yesterday reported that thugs invaded INEC Continuous Voter Registration (CVR) centre, situated at St. Bridget Catholic Church Ijesha, in Surulere, and carted away INEC enrollment machines. However, reacting to the development, INECs Public Relations Officer in Lagos State, Mrs. Adenike Oriowo, told newsmen that though the exercise was disrupted because of the surge, no machine…

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