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To enhance the ease of doing business, the Lagos State Government on Thursday said it was adopting various reforms to boost physical planning services and public confidence. The state’s Commissioner for Physical Planning and Urban Development, Dr Idris Salako, said this during the annual ministerial press briefing to mark the first anniversary of the Babajide Read More…
National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) coordinator in Lagos, Mr Eddy Megwa, says 68 corps members in the 2019 Stream I Batch B would have to repeat their service year in the state. The state coordinator made this known on Thursday, at the Ikeja Local Government Secretariat, one of the venues for the passing out ceremony Read More…
The Lagos State Government has unfolded various agricultural projects to shore up food security status and ensure sustainability. The state Commissioner for Agriculture, Mr Gbolahan Lawal, made the disclosure on Thursday while rendering accounts of activities undertaken by the ministry in the last one year. The event was to commemorate the first year anniversary of Read More…
The operator of the Lagos Bus Rapid Transit (BRT), Primero Transport Services Ltd., says it will restore services on Friday, following talks with the Lagos State Government over withdrawal of its services. The BRT operator had withdrawn its services since Monday over losses due to COVID-19 new transport guidelines that mandated it to commute only Read More…
The Lagos State Government says it has carried out a comprehensive assessment of no fewer than 329 Primary Health Care centres (PHCs), to ascertain their functionality. The Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi disclosed this on Wednesday, at a Ministerial Press Briefing to commemorate Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu-led administration’s first year in office. Abayomi said that Read More…
The Lagos Civil Society Coalition Against COVID-19 says it has embarked on a perception study to ascertain the success, impacts and unintended consequences of responses deployed by the Lagos State Government toward containment of COVID-19 pandemic. Its Executive Director, Humanity Family Foundation, Mr Razaq Olokoba, made this known at a press briefing on Wednesday in Read More…
Consumer Awareness and Financial Enlightenment Initiative (CAFEi) has urged government to take seriously the issue of financial literacy and inclusion during post-COVID-19 by educating Nigerians on importance of savings. The President of CAFEi, Mrs Debola Osibogun made the call in Lagos on Tuesday. Osibogun said that Financial Literacy was paid less attention to, than Financial Read More…
Mrs Folashade Adefisayo, Commissioner for Education, Lagos State, said the state government was training 18,000 teachers in partnership with Microsoft to enhance computer literacy towards achieving a world best teaching and learning practices. Adefisayo said this while discussing plans of the Gov. Babajide Sanwo-Olu administration for education on an online show, Covinspiration, moderated by Special Read More…
MTN Nigeria says it has provided its customers with a range of free services to help make communication easier during the COVID-19 pandemic in the country. Its Company Secretary, Uto Ukpanah, also said the company has provided an update on the utilisation so far of its network initiatives to provide its customers and partners with Read More…
The Nigerian Navy says it will inaugurate an Isolation Centre in Lagos State to support the Federal Government’s fight against COVID-19 pandemic, during its 64th anniversary. Chief of the Naval Staff (CNS), Vice Adm. Ibok-Ete Ibas, disclosed this during a news conference on Friday in Abuja, to outline activities lined-up to mark the service’s 64th Read More…