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Wale Jagun  -Appoints 11 Permanent Secretaries, deploys 7 to healthcare Newly established Primary Health Care (PHC) districts in Lagos State now have administrative powers to roll out universal health services to the residents, with the appointment of seven Permanent Secretaries by Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu to supervise their operations. These appointments were the single largest in the State’s health care system and reflected the Governor’s unprecedented move to expand health coverage for Lagosians in low-income communities. For the first time, medical practitioners in the public service sector were elevated to the…

Kunle Adelabu -Adeboruwa charged honoree, other scholars to mobilise academics from Igbogbo towards development The Igbogbo community has honoured one of its own, Prof. Olufunsho Abayomi Omobitan, on his recent emergence as the Deputy Vice Chancellor (Academics), Lagos State University (LASU), Ojo, Lagos. The royal father of the ancient Igbogbo community, His Royal Majesty, Oba Semiudeen Orimadegun Kasali, the Adeboruwa of Igbogbo, and other eminent of sons and daughters of the community, gathered on Sunday, July 9, 2023, to celebrate the scholar who is the second indigene of Igbogbo, that…

President Bola Tinubu has asked the senate to approve a borrowing request of $800 million. The president’s request was in a letter read by Godswill Akpabio, senate president, during plenary on Thursday. Tinubu, in the letter, explained that the loan will be used to scale up the national social safety net programme. He said the new borrowing will be sourced from the World Bank. He assured that the federal government will transfer the sum of N8,000 monthly to 12 million poor and low-income households for six months. He said the…

kunle Ade;labu The Adeboruwa of Igbogbo Kingdom, His Royal Majesty, Oba (Barr.) Semiudeen Orimadegun Kasali, Emugoriade 1, has charged indigenes of ancient Igbogbo community in Ikorodu division of Lagos State, Southwest Nigeria, to renew their commitments to the community. The revered royal father expressed his dissatisfaction over the involvement of Igbogbo indigenes in the affairs of the community, and charged sons and daughters of Igbogbo, in various positions of authority to use such for the development of the community. Adeboruwa made the clarion call at the Rotary Centre in Igbogbo,…

Mariam Akinloye The Lagos State Governor, Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has congratulated literary giant and Nobel Laureate, Prof. Oluwole Soyinka, on the occasion of his 89th birthday. Governor Sanwo-Olu in a congratulatory message issued on Wednesday by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr Gboyega Akosile, described Prof. Soyinka as “a quintessential scholar and literary icon who has used his position and experience to contribute positively to literature, academics and governance globally.” Prof. Soyinka, a 1986 Nobel Prize in Literature winner and the first sub-Saharan African to be honoured in that category, will…

Wale Jagun Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu has renewed the tenure of Lagos State Council of Obas and Chiefs for another term, raising the membership of the council from 48 to 84. The Governor also approved the continuation of tenure of Oba of Lagos, Oba Riliwanu Aremu Akiolu, as the body’s permanent chairman, just as he re-appointed the incumbent divisional vice chairmen of the council for another term. The inauguration was held at the Banquet Hall in the State House, Alausa. The monarchs were appointed and installed by the Governor in June…