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Action Congress of Nigeria, Headlines, Lagos, Party Politics, State News
Tuesday, June 14th, 2011
In order to avoid the confusion that attended the search for successor to former Lagos state governor, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the Lagos chapter of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) has commenced a search for who succeeds the incumbent governor, Mr. Babatunde Raji Fashola (SAN). Political drama that attended the search for Tinubu’s successor […]
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Headlines, Lagos, State News
Monday, June 13th, 2011
Residents want enforcement of use of public toilets to promote good health, sanitation ONE of the traits some Lagosians had been associated with was their penchant to ease themselves almost anywhere. Be it in gutters, on refuse heaps, behind bus shelters even beside parked cars, some Lagosians were known not to have bothered where […]
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Headlines, Lagos, State News
Thursday, June 2nd, 2011
Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola (SAN), on Thursday expressed sadness over the killing of policemen in Badagry. Fashola, therefore, tasked the Federal Government to decentralise the Nigeria Police Force in order to make them more effective and easier to manage. He also said if soldiers must live in society, they should be ready […]
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Headlines, Lagos, State News
Sunday, May 29th, 2011
The Lagos State Government has warned residents of areas prone to flooding to look for alternative accommodation on higher grounds from June to January next year. The warning, according to it, is necessary because of the anticipated unusually heavy rainfall that the state is likely to witness this year. Some of the flood prone […]
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Governors, Headlines, Lagos, State News
Friday, May 27th, 2011
The children in Lagos are in for a swell time this Children’s Day celebration as the Lagos State governor, Mr Raji Fashiola, SAN, has concluded plans to host over 500 of them in the Rafiaji area of Lagos. The event scheduled to hold on Saturday, May 28, 2011 at the Community Center, Onikan aims among […]
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Governors, Imo, Lagos, Ministries, Nasarawa, State News, Top Stories
Monday, May 23rd, 2011
Attempts by some defeated governors and governorship candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party to become ministers may have hit a brick wall. Top among them are Imo State Governor Ikedi Ohakim, his Nasarawa State counterpart, Akwe Doma, and the governorship candidate in Lagos State, Dr. Ade Dosunmu. Their names were said to have been […]
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Headlines, Lagos, State News
Thursday, May 19th, 2011
THE Lagos State Commissioner for Healh, Dr Jide Idris, has said at least 9,253 people, about 8.9 per cent of the population in the state, tested positive to the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) in the last one year. He also said the three most prevalent diseases managed in the 7,211 patients attended to during the […]
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Headlines, Lagos, NYSC (National Youth Service Corp), State News
Thursday, May 19th, 2011
THE Director-General of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Brigadier-General Maharazu Tsiga, has said that the NYSC scheme will not be scrapped but will remain to unite the people of the country together. Speaking at the 2011 Annual Management Conference entitled “Reviving and Strengthening Discipline in the NYSC Scheme,” held in Ilorin, Kwara State, on […]
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Akwa Ibom, Governors, Headlines, Lagos, National Politics, State News
Saturday, May 14th, 2011
Ahead of his inauguration for a second term in office, Lagos State governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola (SAN), has pressed forward to continue work on the state’s light rail programme as he undertook a pre-shipment inspection of the trains in Canada to be used by Ekorail, the operators of the programme. The 27 kilometre light metro […]
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Headlines, Lagos, State News
Sunday, May 8th, 2011
Tears flowed freely in a Lagos suburb, at the weekend after two persons were killed in a street fight over a girlfriend. The problem allegedly began as a minor quarrel at a social party held in Apapa, which later degenerated into street fight back home in Ajegunle. Pandemonium broke out when the youths living at […]
