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    POVERTY ALLEVIATION: LASG TO ASSIST NAPEP WITH N100m

    The Lagos State Government has said that it will assist the National Poverty Eradication Programme with N100m to revitalize small scale industries in the state. The governor was said to have made the commitment when the state NAPEP paid him a courtesy visit on Wednesday. According to a statement made available by the Lagos state [...]

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featuredimage ONIGBONGBO OBSERVES MONTHLY ENVIRONMENTAL SANITATION AT OLAREWAJU STREET

•residents association is one of the powerful element in governance It is the custom of the present administration in Onigbongbo Local ...

featuredimage MECHANICS NEED STANDARD AUTO REPAIR VILLAGES

Many of our automobile mechanics prefer to operate on our roads today because they need to be allocated government designated ...

LAGOS INAUGURATES LOCAL GOVERNMENTS HEALTH AUTHORITIES

Lagos State has inaugurated the Local Governments Health Authorities in an effort aimed at ensuring the coordination and integration of ...

featuredimage GLOBALISATION AND THE ISSUES OF MORALITY ON THE NIGERIAN YOUTH

We live in a great but dangerous time, and it is quite auspicious for us, in times like this, to ...

TEST FOR CIVIL SERVANTS TO HOLD

The re-sit of the competency test for directorate level officers in the Civil Service will still hold as scheduled despite ...

featuredimage PUBLIC SCHOOL STUDENTS IN LAGOS JET OUT FOR LEADERSHIP TRAINING IN SOUTH AFRICA

  [caption id="attachment_4010" align="alignleft" width="297" caption="HON. (MRS.) ADEJOKE ORELOPE-ADEFULIRE (M), MRS. RISIKAT AKIYODE AND MEMBERS OF CHILDREN PARLIAMENT BEFORE THEIR DEPARTURE ...

ONIGBONGBO EXECUTIVES EMBARKS ON PROJECT TOUR AT OPEBI, OREGUN

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featuredimage LAGOS STATE FIRE SERVICE ADDRESSES ONIGBONGBO L.C.D.A STAFF ON FIRE OUTBREAK MANAGEMENT

THE HUMAN RESOURCES OFFICER,ONIGBONGBO L.C.D.A.,MR. LAI GIWA, PRACTICALIZING HOW TO PUT OFF FIRE WITH THE FIRE EXTINGUISHER

IKEJA MODEL CITY REPORT READY

In a bid to tackle the challenges of rapid urbanisation in Lagos State, the Ministry of Physical Planning and Urban Development has finished the report of the Ikeja Model City Plan Report (2010-2015). According to the state Commissioner for Physical Planning and Urban Development, Mr. Francisco Abosede, who spoke to journalists on Friday, the report [...]

FG MOVES TO TACKLE UNEMPLOYMENT

Determined to check the high rate of unemployment across the nation, the Federal Government on Thursday set up a private sector committee on job creation. The Minister of Finance and Chairman of the National Economic Management Team, Mr. Olusegun Aganga, who identified unemployment as one of his cardinal areas of intervention, also said that 12 [...]

LAGOS BARS TRANSFER INTO MODEL COLLEGES

The Lagos state ministry of education has reminded  the public that the ban on transfer of students from both public and private secondary schools into Lagos state model colleges is still on. The decision to ban transfers into model colleges was taken by the state executive council during the 2009/2010 admissions due to over population [...]

ENVIRONMENTAL SANITATION: LAGOS SUSPENDS RESTRICTION

The Lagos State Government on Wednesday announced that there would not be any restriction of movement during this month’s environmental sanitation exercise on Saturday, August 28. A statement by the Press/Public Relations Officer, Ministry of the Environment, Mr. Adesegun Ogundeji, quoted the Commissioner for the Environment, Dr. Muiz Banire, as saying that the exercise would [...]

IMPLEMENTATION OF CRITICAL POWER PROJECTS MUST START IN LAGOS,FASHOLA TELLS FG

Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola (SAN) on Thursday called on the Federal Government to ensure that the implementation of critical power projects is practical and should start from Lagos in order to enable the nation achieve the greatest impact with minimum effort and resources. Governor Fashola who spoke at Eko Hotels, Victoria Island venue [...]

“EMBER MONTHS”: COMMISSIONER OF POLICE ASSURES LAGOSIANS OF SECURITY OF LIFE AND PROPERTY

As the nation enters the last four months of the year, popularly termed “Ember Months”, the Lagos State Police Commissioner, Mr. Marvel Akpoyibo, Wednesday assured Lagos residents of the security of life and property saying all the security agencies in the State are prepared to make the State crime free during the period. Akpoyibo, who [...]

CHINA STILL FLOODS NIGERIAN MARKET WITH SUBSTANDARD PRODUCTS- CHUANZHOUG

We Chuanzhoug, Chinese minister of quality supervision, inspection and quarantine, on Monday said that Nigerian and Chinese businessmen have been colluding to import substandard products from China. Mr. We said this when he visited Josephine Tapgun, minister of state for commerce and industry, at her office in Abuja. He said the Chinese government is already [...]

HELP SAVE THE ENVIRONMENT BY PLANTING A TREE TODAY

In the face of accelerating climate change, the Onigbongbo Local Council Development Area on wednesday embarked on a tree planting campaign with the theme “One man-One tree”.This is in line with Governor Fashola’s target of planting three million trees before the end of his  administration. The treeplanting campaign  took place at Opebi link road, to commemorate the second anniversary of the yearly [...]

FASHOLA, TINUBU, OSHIOMOLE URGE NIGERIANS TO EMBRACE POSITIVE CHANGE

Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola (SAN) on Monday joined leaders of the Action Congress (AC) like his Edo State counterpart, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, National Chairman, Chief Bisi Akande, former Governors, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu of Lagos, Chief Olusegun Osoba of Ogun State, Chief Niyi Adebayo of Ekiti State, Alhaji Lam Adesina of Oyo State, [...]

LASG WARNS ON OCEAN SURGE, TIDAL WAVES

Owing to adverse weather conditions globally and disasters in Pakistan and the Caribbeans, Lagos State Government yesterday warned residents over their activities along coastal lines. At a press briefing in Ikeja, the Commissioner for Waterfront and Infrastructural Development, Adesegun Oniru, said the warning became necessary in the face of the current unpredictable weather variations worldwide. [...]

NIGERIAN ENTREPRENEURS ENJOINED TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF GROWTH ACT

Entrepreneurs in Nigeria and other sub-Saharan African countries have been urged to take advantage of membership of the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) USA, to increase the quantity of their current level of exports to the US, which has been described as far below expectation. Sandra Edviebie, manager, AGOA Resource Centre, while speaking at [...]

DISASTER MANAGEMENT: NEMA ADMONISHES STATES, LGs TO ESTABLISH AGENCIES

National Emergency Management Agency has called on states and local governments to establish emergency management agencies to handle cases in their respective jurisdictions during disasters. Speaking at a press conference in Lagos on Saturday, NEMA’s Acting Director-General, Dr. Charles Agbo, decried the general misconception about NEMA’s role in emergency management in the country. He said [...]

LASG FLAGS OFF SAFETY CAMPAIGN FOR OKADA OPERATORS

…as order on Okada takes off The Lagos State Government on Monday launched a 21-day campaign to enlighten commercial motorcycle (Okada) operators and other stakeholders on the need to ensure the observance of law and order in the Transport Sector. The campaign aimed at sanitizing commercial motorcycle operation in the State, will run till the [...]

NEW MINIMUM WAGE LEGALIZATION- NLC GIVES FG TWO MONTHS ULTIMATUM

Leaders of Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, have given the Federal Government a two-month time frame to legalize the new minimum wage, if not, it would not guarantee industrial peace across the country. At the end of its National Executive Council, NEC, meeting in Akure, Ondo State, the NLC called on the Federal Government to fast [...]