The Lagos All Progressives Congress Deaf Group on Thursday commended Governor Akinwunmi Ambode for his administration’s strides in the state and his support for the less-privileged.
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The Lagos State Governor, Akinwunmi Ambode, on Thursday urged everyone to take a common stand against sexual and gender-based violence by advocating for the review of our laws to provide stiffer punishments for offenders given the serious threat the evil act poses to safety and security of women and the girl-child.
The Lagos State Governor, Akinwunmi Ambode, has approved the LagosReads Competition geared towards boosting the reading culture among Lagos residents.
Residents of Badagry, Lagos State have cried out over four years power outage in the coastal town and accused Eko Electricity Distribution Company of “total neglect” of the area.
Nike Okundaye, Managing Director, Nike Art Gallery, Lekki, Lagos has called for private, public partnership to enable the Gallery build a mega gallery, worth N3.4billion in Abuja.
Chidi Okezie, a bronze medalist at the 2018 Confederation of African Athletics, organised Africa Senior Athletics Championships in Asaba, says he hopes to feature at the International Association of Athletics Federation World Championships.
The body of a middle-aged man, who reportedly slumped and died, was found at Orile Iganmu bus stop in Lagos on Tuesday.
Maj.-Gen. Sanni Yusuf on Tuesday formally took over as the General Officer Commanding 81 Division of the Nigerian Army in Lagos, the News Agency of Nigeria reports.
After being caught in the act for defiling his two-year-old pupil, a 27-year-old teacher, Afeez Balogun, is to cool his heels in prison in the next 24 days, an Ikeja Chief Magistrates’ Court ruled on Tuesday.
A 45 year-old woman, Hadijat Muraino, has been arrested by police in Lagos State for allegedly conniving with her lover, Lukmon Ahmed, to fake her own kidnap and demand for N15 million ransom from her husband, Alhaji Kabiru Muraino.
The Lagos State Governor, Akinwunmi Ambode (centre) in the midst of ecstatic managers, chefs and staff of the Rhapsody Restaurant and Lounge at Shoprite-Ikeja Mall
The Lagos state chapter of the Action Democratic Party has called on the three Senators representing Lagos State at the National Assembly not to allow themselves to be used as sabotage against the interest of Lagosians over their move to block the Asset Management Corporation chairmanship slot for Lagos.
The Commissioner of Police in Lagos State, Edgal Imohimi, told newsmen that one Augusta Omo-Osaigbovo had contracted the suspect to kill her sister, Gladys Omo-Osaigbovo, over a dispute bordering on human trafficking.
Folashade Ojikutu, the market’s women leader (Iyaoloja), told the News Agency of Nigeria that the market has not been upgraded since it was built by the then Governor Lateef Jakande in 1990.
The Lagos State Governor, Akinwunmi Ambode, on Sunday flagged off the expansion of the ABAT Truck Terminal in Orile Iganmu, assuring that work would be accelerated on the 1,000-capacity terminal to take trucks parked indiscriminately on the roads and bridges.
Thirteen days to the end of registration for Permanent Voter Card, the Ohaneze Ndigbo has appealed to Nigerians to register to be able to elect leaders of their choices.
The Catholic Archbishop of Lagos, Most Rev. Adewale Martins, on Saturday called on the Independent National Electoral Commission to do its best to ensure credible and transparent general elections in 2019.
Akiolu said: “If you watch the life of President Buhari, he is not materialistically minded like the other people.”
Ambode said this when he declared open the Second Quarterly General Meeting of Conference of Speakers of State Legislatures in Nigeria, held at Lagos House in Alausa, Ikeja.
A former Minister of Works, Senator Adeseye Ogunlewe, on Friday described the gale of defections into Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in recent days as a measure of the growing confidence in the party.