Author: Adekunle

•Governor Rolls Out Empowerment Scheme for Lagos Farmers, Assists 300 Trainees with N245 Million Machinery Support The food sufficiency programme of Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu has been taken a notch higher. The Governor, on Thursday, rolled out massive agricultural investment that empowers 3,000 urban and rural farmers in key sectoral value chains. Women, youths and peasant farmers were the main beneficiaries of the 2021 Agricultural Value Chains Enterprise Activation Programme through which the State Government is supporting agripreneurs with modern equipment and inputs that would help them make significant difference and scale up their agricultural practices. Various groups of…

Ahead of the July 31 commencement of ward, local government and state congresses of the All Progressives Congress (APC), National Youth Leader of the party, Ismael Ahmed has advocated the robust inclusion of the youth in various positions at all levels in the party hierarchy. Stressing the imperative of active youth involvement in national polity, Ahmed urged stakeholders of the party across the country to engage the youth in driving the activities of the party. The National Youth Leader made these assertions on Tuesday at the virtual inauguration of national and zonal lobby committees for youth inclusion in ward, local…

The Lagos State Environmental and Special Offences Unit (Taskforce) on Monday issued a three-day Removal Notice to all owners of makeshift structures, shanties, kiosks and vehicles at Maroko and Lekki Coastal Road, Lekki, Lagos. The Chairman of the Taskforce, CSP Shola Jejeloye, who issued the removal notice during his team’s visit to the area, stated that the order became necessary for road construction along the coastal road, which serves as an alternative route for the Lekki-Epe Expressway. He said the road leads to Lekki Free Zone and is presently dotted by illegal structures, shanties, abandoned vehicles, containers and trading activities…

Now, let’s come back to them, the politicians, who obviously would love to set the Ilorin emirate in flames just to prove a point. One of them is Mr Wahab Oba, the spokesman to ex-governor AbdulFatah Ahmed. We need to beg him to spare our beloved emirate from their macabre politics. This treatise becomes apposite, after he released the latest of his dolorous articles on Sunday, and he passed all the lines of decency. It is such that can undermine the peace and unity of the Ilorin emirate and throw the city down the dark, gloomy days of the Gbosa…

The Lagos State Government has announced restriction of movement across the State between the hours of 8a.m and 3p.m on Saturday, 24th July, 2021. The restriction is to enable the Lagos State Independent Electoral Commission (LASIEC) conduct hitch-free elections into positions of Chairmen and Councillors in all the 57 Local Governments and Local Council Development Areas. The restriction will facilitate the ease of movement of the electorate, election materials and LASIEC officials for the sanctity of the election, effective monitoring and enhanced security. All eligible voters are urged to participate in the elections, which require the cooperation of all residents.…

By Bala Ibrahim. Less than a month after the DSS has declared him wanted, a local newspaper in the neighboring Benin Republic, by name Banouto Reporters, announced the arrest of Sunday Igboho, the self acclaimed campaigner for Yoruba self-determination, or the champion for the actualization of the Oduduwa Republic. The paper said Igboho was arrested in Cotonou, while trying to flee to Germany. “Mr Igboho was nabbed at Cardinal Bernardin International Airport in Cotonou. He was disembarked from his plane, arrested by the Beninese police while he was trying to travel to Germany and then transferred to the Cotonou Criminal…

The Lagos State government invites online registration and applications from suitable candidates for the position of secondary school classroom teachers. Applicants must be Nigerians who have Lagos State Resident Registration Agency (LASRRA) Number, they must not be less than 18years of age, they must have at least 5 credits in O’Level and possessa degree in Education registerable with the Teachers’ Registration Council of Nigeria. Candidates must also possess a degree in relevant subject, plus a post graduate diploma in education from a recognized university for those who are not education graduates They must have a testimonial of good conduct from…

“We’ll tap every opportunity to make workers happy.”~ Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq. Kwara State Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq on Monday flagged off the presentation of cheques to 463 beneficiaries of home renovation loan scheme of the Federal Mortgage Bank of Nigeria. “This home renovation loan scheme is basically an initiative of the Federal Mortgage Bank of Nigeria that many of you have enrolled in. You have played your own role by enrolling in the scheme. That is you trusting the system to work for you. That is you playing your own role as patriotic citizens and as workers. For you to benefit…

Fellow Lagosians, It has become imperative to once again provide you an update on the Coronavirus pandemic situation in Lagos State, and our ongoing response as a State Government. Starting around the end of March 2021, the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in Lagos State began to wind down, and we began to enjoy some reprieve from the worst effects of the virus. This allowed us to further open-up the economy to allow the start of the journey towards full normalcy in our lives and the pursuit of livelihoods, after what has been a very difficult year. Regrettably, in…

by M. Oluwatobi Ahead of the forthcoming congress of the All Progressives Congress (APC), it is important to stress the need for party-men to place more premium on the exercise, especially in states where the party is playing the opposition card which is the case in Oyo State. It is no time to take things with levity as getting the acts right in the congress will shape the possibility of power returning to the Progressive fold. Events of the recent times where a number of political arrowheads who supported the gubernatorial bid of Governor Seyi Makinde dumped the Peoples Democratic…