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Wale Jagun The Lagos Waste Management Authority (LAWMA), has stated that it cares and is concerned about the welfare and condition of the street sweepers because the sweeping programme plays a vital role in maintaining a clean and healthy environment. The LAWMA management made the declaration in a statement issued following public reactions that followed a viral video last week in which a sweeper accused the management of denying the sweepers N85, 000 allegedly approved for them as street sweepers since August 2024 and lack of working tools. The agency…

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Kunle Adelabu The youth and youth associations in Ikorodu Division are no longer taking chances on the development of Ikorodu Division and have decided to take active roles by strategically keying the division into the Lagos State Development Plan 2052. This is what young leaders under the aegis of the Ikorodu Division Youth Assembly, will be discussing at a summit slated for 10:00am at Aquilla Event Centre, opposite General Hospital Ikorodu, TOS Benson Avenue, Ikorodu on Saturday, April 26, 2025. The summit which has Comrade Olalekan Biliamin-Oba, Senior Special Assistant…

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Wale Jagun Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has commissioned the first medical syringe manufacturing facility in the state, O-Care Disposable Syringes, to provide essential medical supplies, reduce dependence on imports and creates employments. Speaking at the commissioning, Governor Sanwo-Olu, represented by his Deputy, Dr. Obafemi Hamzat, reiterated his administration’s commitment to industrialisation and economic growth through strategic investments in infrastructure, power supply, and policy reforms. The company established by Transgreen Nigeria Limited is located at Odofin Park Estate, Ijesha, Apapa-Oshodi, Lagos. “As we celebrate this achievement today, let us remember…

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Kunle Adelabu A Lagos Waste Management Authority (LAWMA) worker has called out her bosses for allegedly underpaying staff, and not providing good working conditions. The woman who made the allegations in a viral video on social media said that she was compelled to call her bosses out because of their inventiveness to the sweepers’ plights. She said that they were being paid N30, 000 despite that their salary had been increased to ₦85,000, every month, adding that they are the ones that buy their work instruments without any support from…

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Kunle Adelabu From all indications, the embattled Speaker of the Lagos State, House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Mudashiru Ajayi Obasa’s job as the number one lawmaker in the state’s legislature may have been saved by the intervention of President Bola Tinubu. The President, following the meeting with the lawmakers at the Villa in Abuja on Wednesday, pleaded with the lawmakers to give Obasa a second chance and gave approval for his removal if he failed to change his ways. We gathered that President Tinubu also said that he did not…

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Kunle Adelabu -Calls on LASG, Nigeria Police to unravel his death An opposition party, African Action Congress (AAC), Lagos State, has called on the state government and the Nigerian Police, to commence a thorough investigation into what they alleged was a politically motivated killing of a stalwart of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ijede Local Council Development Area (LCDA), Mr Tosin Onamade. Onamade who was the Chief Executive Officer, Western Funeral Home, Ijede and a former aspirant for the Ikorodu Constituency II seat in the Lagos State House of…

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Kunle Adelabu In its quest towards achieving its aim of building an Islamic Cemetery, the Nasrul – Lahi – Il – Faith Society (NASFAT), Ikorodu Chapter, has solicited for financial support from members of the public. As part of activities lined up for 2025 Ramadan period, chieftains of NASFAT, made the appeal during the 2nd Ramadan Public Lecture hosted by Rep. Babajimi Benson, representative of Ikorodu Federal Constituency at the weekend. It was gathered that three acres of land have been procure by the Islamic organization at Agboa in Epe…

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Our Reporter Lagos State, under the Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu-led administration, has cemented its position as one of Africa’s economic powerhouses, with its Gross Domestic Product (GDP) reaching an impressive $259 billion based on Purchasing Power Parity (PPP). The incredible achievement, revealed on Wednesday during the official launch of the Lagos Economic Development Update (LEDU) 2025, now places Lagos as the second-largest city economy on the continent, behind only Cairo in Egypt. The report noted that the milestone can be attributed to the strategic initiatives of the State Government to increase…

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