A renowned economist, Bismarck Rewane, has stated that the number of lunatics and mentally unstable people on the streets of Lagos State has increased due to the poverty and hardship inflicted by the Bola Tinubu-led Nigerian government and Babajide Sanwo-Olu’s administration in the state. Rewane added that Nigerians had been pushed to the wall and…
Lagos State Governor, Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu, on Wednesday, swore in 37 Commissioners and Special Advisers, charging them to engage collaboratively and work together to build on the successes of the incumbent administration’s first four years in office. The state executive council, which is a mixture of politicians and technocrats with 29 male and eight female,…
Ijo Orunmilla Adulawo Worldwide has commended the Lagos State governor and other South West governors for yielding to the calls to officially recognise and declare officially August 20 every year as Isese Day holiday in their various states, saying the move was in keeping faith with their roles as government that listens. Making the…
Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has caused a stir online with his exotic collection of a Patek Philippe wristwatch estimated to sell for N160 million. Truetells Nigeria reports that this comes amidst the poverty and soaring inflation biting hard on many residents of Lagos and other Nigerians due to the fuel subsidy removal. According to…
Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos, on Saturday, visited the Emirates Stadium in North London to watch Arsenal defeat Nottingham Forest in the English Premier League. In a video shared on Twitter by the founder of Ovation Magazine, Dele Momodu, Governor Sanwo-olu watched as the North London club won their first match of the 2023/2024…
The Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC), an Islamic group, has stated that the list of commissioners unveiled by Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State failed to pass inclusivity and integrity tests. Sanwo-Olu had transmitted 39 names for screening and confirmation as Commissioners and Special Advisers designated to the State’s House of Assembly. According to a…
Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos state has begged members of the Nigerian Labour Congress not to embark on a strike over removal of fuel subsidy as announced by President Bola Tinubu during his inaugural speech. Recall that the NLC on Friday, June 2, issued a five-day ultimatum to the federal government to revert to the…
By Jeddy Omisore* It is no longer news that Public Servants in Lagos State have started receiving increased salary. With this development, Lagos has scored yet another first as the first state to increase workers pay in the country at a time when some Governor have not even started paying the new minimum wage of…
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has announced Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, as the winner of the governorship election held in the state on Saturday, March 18, 2023. Sanwo-Olu dusted off competition from his two major challengers; Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour of the Labour Party and Abdul-Azeez Olajide Adediran of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to record a landslide…
A Lagos State High Court, sitting in Epe, has barred the Lagos State Governor, Mr Babajide Sawo-Olu, from installing or recognising the Alaketu-elect, Adelaja Akeem, as a monarch in the Ketu area of the state. The court also ordered Akeem to stop parading himself as the traditional ruler of the Ketu town in Ikosi-Ejirin Local…
