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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

…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 [...]

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 [...]