Browsing: Akinwunmi Ambode

But the residents in areas close to Bus Rapid Transit, BRT, routes have cause to cheer the Governor given the satisfaction passengers patronizing the scheme derive in getting to their respective destinations. For them, Sanwo-Olu deserves all the accolades to mark the birthday, though nothing may have been lined up for such purpose due to COVID-19 pandemic.

It will appear however from the standpoint of logic, that when a man lays imperishable treasures in the hearts of his fellow man, since man is the creation of God, he is laying his treasures in heaven. Going by this logic, if former governor of Lagos State, Akinwunmi Ambode’s four-year strides as the governor of the state are a measure of humanist philosophy, then he has laid his treasures in heaven and has achieved immortality in the hearts of the people of Lagos State.

Ambode’s reaction to his selection to be a part of the 61-member committee was made via his Twitter handle on Tuesday.

Tinubu said this in the video that was recirculated following the commissioning of the Agege-Pen Cinema flyover bridge, adding the ship of the state was going in the wrong direction between 2017 and 2018, when Ambode was in power

Ambode who was governor from 2015 to 2019 participated in the ongoing revalidation exercise at his ward in Epe.

Jakande passed on in the early hours of Thursday at a ripe age of 91.

Government’s intention was to ensure that the country developed the agriculture sector to a point where it will complement crude oil receipts with huge exportation of agricultural products. The idea was for the country to boost agricultural production and for Nigeria to reverse its negative balance of payment on food.

Chief Kaoli Olusanya, Vice-Chairman of the party in Lagos East Senatorial District, made the plea at a meeting with supporters of former Gov. Akinwunmi Ambode, on the platform of the Ambode Movement Support Group (AMSG) and other aggrieved members.

The state’s Commissioner for Transportation, Dr. Frederic Oladeinde, who described the inauguration as monumental, urged Nigerians to take ownership of the facilities at the terminal to ensure none was vandalised.

MURIC also raised the issue of many qualified Muslim teachers on grade level 17 who are still marking time when they should have been appointed principals

The revised LUC was introduced by the government of former Governor Akinwunmi Ambode

Ajimobi’s death was announced on Thursday at the age of 70 while battling COVID-19 complications at a private hospital in Lagos

Even his detractors would grudgingly admit in Yoruba about his tenure: “Jẹ ki à sọ otitọ, Ambode ṣiṣẹ.” Meaning: “Let’s say the truth, Ambode worked.”

An online medium had reported on May 23 that at least 64 bank accounts have been discovered and linked to the Bank Verification Number of the speaker

The lawmakers suspended the probe after Ambode secured a court order, which directed parties to the suit to maintain status quo

Justice Yetunde Adesanya of an Ikeja High Court on Thursday struck out a suit filed by Ambode seeking to stop his probe by the state Assembly over purchase of 820 buses for the state’s Bus Reform Project

Adesanya gave the ruling on Thursday

There is no doubt that the Babajide Sanwo-Olu Government underrated the effects and attendant drawback of the ban on Okada and tricycle and the controversy it has generated in the past few days. And even though the ban was seen as not a bad idea, many have said the government should have put in place measures to ameliorate suffering people would go through.

Since the return of the country to democratic rule in 1999, Ambode was the first governor of the state who did not serve a second term

Taiwo was sacked on May 15, 2017 without any query or official reason stated in the sack letter.