The Lagos State House of Assembly has decried the congestion at Sekumade Road in Ikorodu area of Lagos caused by heavy duty trucks. The House has therefore called on Governor Akinwunmi Ambode to call on the Commissioner for Transport, officials of the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA), management of Ipakodo Lighter Terminal to put a stop to indiscriminate parking of long vehicles on the road. The Assembly also called on the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) to provide a place where long vehicles would park before they load goods from…
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Hon. Babajimi Benson’s iCare FoodBank Initiative: 500 Families Receive Monthly Rations
Wale JAGUN & Azeez MATANMI The Federal lawmaker representing the Ikorodu Federal Constituency at the Lower Chamber of the National Assembly, Hon. Babajimi Olagoke Benson, has indeed shown that his Foodbank program, initiated about a year ago through his iCare foundation, is here to stay. The program, since its inception in 2017, has been giving succor to the less privileges, disables, elderly persons and other people in needs through the monthly distribution of food items nonstop. This November, 500 residents across the six council areas that made up…
Read MoreLagos Assembly Passes Bill To Establish Tourism Promotion Agency
The Lagos State House of Assembly on Monday passed a Bill for a Law to Provide for the Establishment of the Lagos State Tourism Promotion Agency and for Connected Purposes. The Agency is being put in place to promote the state’s tourism industry and achieve international best practices in the delivery of tourism products and services. The 54-section bill, sponsored by 13 lawmakers, was read for the third time on the floor of the House before passage after a voice vote. Mr Mudashiru Obasa, Speaker of the…
Read MoreLagos Lawmakers Set To Review Environmental Law, Nine Others
The contentious consolidated Lagos State Environmental Law and nine others are currently being reviewed by lawmakers in the Lagos State House of Assembly. Speaker of the Assembly, Rt. Hon. Mudashiru Obasa, spoke to journalists at Park Inn By Radisson Hotel, Kuto, Abeokuta, Ogun State venue of a 3-Day Retreat. Obasa stated that the essence of coming together to review the laws of the state was to serve the interest of members of the public and create opportunities for them. He added that the review would give the lawmakers an opportunity…
Read MoreLagos Assembly Urges Ambode To Clear Blocked Drainages
The Lagos State House of Assembly has called on Governor Akinwunmi Ambode to reactivate the office of drainage in the State so that they could be alive to its responsibility, saying that evacuation of the major canals across the State should be intensified. The House also called on the Commissioner for Physical Planning and Urban Development, Prince Rotimi Ogunleye to clear illegal structures built on setbacks of canals across the state. It also called on the 20 Local Government Areas and 37 Local Council Development Areas (LCDAs) in the state…
Read MoreLagos Assembly Calls For Caution On Operation Velve
-Urges Ambode To Empower PWC To Begin Palliative Works On Roads The Lagos State House of Assembly has called for caution on the implementation of “Operation Velvet” through which the Nigerian Police and other agencies are checking vehicle particulars and enforcing traffic laws on Lagos roads. Raising the issue under Matter of Urgent Public Importance on !Monday, the Majority Leader of the House, Hon. Sanai Agunbiade stated that the House commended the Nigerian Police and others for the decision to curtail traffic recklessness on Lagos roads. He however, urged the…
Read MoreNBA Calls For More Judges, Court Rooms In Ikorodu High Court
Wale JAGUN The Nigeria Bar Association (NBA), Ikorodu branch, has called the attention of the Lagos State Government through the office of the Majority Leader of the Lagos State House of Assembly and the representative of Ikorodu Constituency I, Hon. Sanai Agunbiade, to the challenges being faced in the Lagos Judicial Division sitting in Ikorodu. The association made this call when Hon. Agunbiade, who is equally a lawyer and former Chairman, House Committee on Judiciary and Human Rights, visited the High Court Complex on Wednesday, October 24, to assess…
Read MoreStudents’ Representatives From LASPOTECH, UNILAG, Other Institutions Visit Lagos Assembly Leader
Jare OLUKOTUN More students representatives across Lagos State are identifying with Hon. Sanai Agunbiade, the Majority Leader of the Lagos State House of Assembly, as another sets of students’ representatives from Lagos State Polytechnic (LASPOTECH), University of Lagos (UNILAG),Yaba College of Technology (YABATECH), Micheal Otedola College of Primary Education (MOCPED) and other institutions on Monday, October 22, paid him courtesy and solidarity visits. The visits were coming barely a week after the solidarity visit by the officers and members of the LASPOTECH Students’ Union Representative Council to the lawmaker. The…
Read MoreLagos Assembly Denies Planning To Impeach Ambode
Our Reporter The Lagos State House of Assembly has denied the rumour going round, both in the social media and regular media, that it was planning to impeach Governor Akinwunmi Ambode of the state. Speaking at the beginning of plenary on Monday, the Speaker of the House, Rt. Hon. Mudashiru Obasa said that there was no truth in the rumour. Obasa revealed that he had received telephone calls and enquiries from prominent members of the public over the alleged impeachment moves against Governor Akinwunmi Ambode. According to him, Solidarity Group…
Read MoreLASPOTECH Students’ Union Representatives Council Pays Solidarity Visit To Hon. Agunbiade
Kunle ADELABU -Hon. Agunbiade to visit school in November The Lagos State Polytechnic (LASPOTECH) Students’ Union Representatives Council Speaker, Rt. Hon. Balogun Babatunde Temitayo (representative of Mechanical Engineering Department) on Wednesday, October 17, led honourable members of the council on a solidarity visit to the Majority Leader of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Hon. Sanai Agunbiade. At the brief meeting held at the Hon. Agunbiade’s Constituency Office in Ikorodu, the students’ representatives stated that they had come to identify with the recent success of the former students’ leader…
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