Category: State

The Ministry of Youth and Social Development on Thursday flagged off a sensitisation initiative on Ending Violence Against Children (ENDVAC). Briefing members of the Press on the initiative at the Ministry’s conference room in Alausa Ikeja, the Commissioner for Youth and Social Development, Mr. Olusegun Dawodu stated that the exercise is going to take place in Ikeja, Alimosho, Ikorodu and other parts of the State. He stated that in line with the T.H.E.M.E.S Agenda, the present administration has declared zero-tolerance for Sexual and Domestic Violence as well as Child Abuse…

Read More

The Lagos State Government has announced that 39 companies within and outside the country have expressed interests in the construction of the proposed Lagos 4th Mainland Bridge. The Lagos State Government had called for expression of interest on the Fourth Mainland Bridge some weeks ago Proposals received by the government were opened at the Bagauda Kaltho Press Center, Secretariat, Alausa, Ikeja, on Wednesday. The Special Adviser to Governor Sanwo-Olu on Works and Infrastructure, Engineer Aramide Adeyoye Stated while addressing journalists that the present administration is resolute to deliver the 4th…

Read More

Lagos State Deputy Governor, Dr. Obafemi Hamzat, has urged the beneficiaries of the State’s Agro-Processing Productivity Enhancement And Livelihood Support (APPEALS) project to put their training and subsequent support from the project into productive agricultural use. Hamzat stated this at the graduation ceremony of 350 beneficiaries comprising of 165 in Poultry, 35 in Rice and 150 in Aquaculture value chains as batch 1 of the APPEALS project empowerment programme were graduated. The Deputy Governor, who spoke at the ceremony held at Lagos Agriculture Institute, Araga, Epe, also advised the beneficiaries…

Read More

The integrated mass transportation initiative of the Lagos State Government has recorded a huge progress with the successful completion of an elevated sea-crossing track of the Lagos Blue Line Rail Mass Transit project. Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu, on Tuesday, led members of the State Executive Council to inspect the five-kilometre long Continuous Beam Bridge constructed from Iganmu to Marina, which is part of the fourth phase of the Blue Line Rail project and inaugurate the final phase of the project. The ceremony also marked the commencement of construction activities on the…

Read More

Lagos State Government on Sunday gave account of the progress recorded in the last 200 days of the Babajide Sanwo-Olu administration. The Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Mr. Gbenga Omotoso, during an interactive session with journalists said the State Government will be hosting a live ceremony on Wednesday, to open the bids from prospective firms that expressed interests in the construction of the Fourth Mainland Bridge. Omotoso added that “the Government will be announcing the bids at the ceremony, which will officially set process in motion to realise the project.”…

Read More

Wale Jagun Young innovators in Lagos State now have the opportunity to push their entrepreneurial skills to the next level courtesy of the initiative of the governor of the State, Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu, who launched the Lagos State Science Research and Innovation Council (LASRIC) on Thursday, December 5, 2019. The government also set aside $687,000 (about N250 million) start-up funds for investment in research and development of tech-focused solutions across the six pillars of the administration’s development agenda. The newly inaugurated Council is to be chaired by the Vice Chancellor…

Read More