Akinwunmi Ambode, governor of Lagos state, has described Aliko Dangote, billionaire businessman, as the best solution to public infrastructure.The governor said this at the commencement of the reconstruction of the Apapa-Oshodi expressway.Dangote and the federal government had entered an agreement for the businessman to construct the road.Ambode said the reconstruction of the would bring permanent relief to motorists and residents.“Whatever [...]
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Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo has launched the Government Enterprise and Empowerment Programme (GEEP) otherwise known as TraderMoni in three more markets in Lagos state.The vice president, on Monday, launched the free loan scheme to traders at the Ikotun, Igando and Ile Epo markets.Osinbajo, accompanied by Akinwumi Ambode, governor of Lagos state, and Babajide Sanwo-Olu, governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress [...]
The Southern and Middle Belt Leaders Forum has accused Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo of buying votes ahead of the 2019 general election.The group said this in a communiqué released after meeting in Abuja.The document was jointly signed by Yinka Odumakin for the south-west, Bassey Ewa-Henshaw for south-south, Isuwa Dogo for the middle belt and Chigozie Ogbu for the south-east.The vice-president was [...]
BY AYO-BANKOLE AKINTUJOYEI recently tweeted that ‘While Ambode’s performance is arguable, it is quite embarrassing that the choice about his 2nd term has been snatched completely from the hands of the electorate. While I respect Tinubu and appreciate his role in our democratic evolution since ‘99; this,in 2018,is authoritarianism’. I got many varying opinions about this tweet, lots of them [...]
Business and political leaders will on Thursday discuss the way forward for Nigeria at the Financial Times Nigeria Summit.The event, which is scheduled to hold at the EKO Hotel and Suites, Lagos, will examine the various threads that make up the fabric called Nigeria.Topics to be discussed include art, technology, agriculture, banking and finance, currency policy, oil and gas, banking, [...]
Femi Otedola, chairman of Forte Oil, says he is not interested in running for the office of Lagos state governor in 2019.In tweets on his Twitter page, the billionaire said Akinwumi Ambode, Lagos state governor, is doing well and should be praised for it."My attention has been drawn to a news piece where false information from a parody account was [...]
The Lagos state government says it is now translating bills that have been passed into Pidgin Yoruba and Egun three languages.Benjamin Olabinjo, special adviser to the governor on civil engagement, told journalists on Friday that this is to ensure easy understanding and voluntary compliance.Already, he said eight bills had been translated and an additional six bills were in the process [...]
The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Ikeja branch, has rejected the upward review of the land use charge by the administration of Akinwunmi Ambode, governor of Lagos.The law wants a property solely occupied by the owner for a residential purpose to be charged at a rate of 0.076 percent per annum.Also, a property occupied by the owner and tenant(s) or third [...]
Akinwumi Ambode, governor of Lagos state, says his administration is ready to dialogue on the land use charge.The state government recently replaced the land use charge law with a new one.According to the new law, a property solely occupied by the owner for a residential purpose will be charged at a rate of 0.076 percent per annum.A property occupied by the owner [...]
Akinwunmi Ambode, governor of Lagos state, on Monday signed the 2018 appropriation bill of the state into law with a total budget size of N1.046 trillion.This is the first time that Lagos state will have a budget of N1 trillion.The total budget size comprises of N347 billion to be funded from the consolidated revenue fund and N699 billion from the [...]
The Lagos state government says the removal of six roundabouts along the Lekki-Epe Expressway has saved residents and motorists N240 million daily and about N87 billion annually.Habib Haruna, chief press secretary to the Lagos state governor, said this in a statement."The Lekki-Epe road, as at the time it was reconstructed, was designed to accommodate about 30,000 vehicles per day, but [...]
Akinwumi Ambode, governor of Lagos state, has presented the 2018 budget before the state house of assembly.The N1.046 trillion budget is N254 billion less than Cross Rivers' 2018 budget. The south-south state estimated N1.3 trillion; the highest by any Nigerian state.Tagged budget of progress and development, it has a capital expenditure of N699 billion and a recurrent expenditure of N347billion.The [...]
Steve Ayorinde, Lagos state commissioner for information and strategy, says only 600,000 Lagosians have paid their taxes up to date.The state has a population of over 18 million people.In a statement on Monday, the commissioner said the Lagos state government had directed all its revenue agencies to enforce tax payments.Ayorinde said Akinwumi Ambode, governor of the state, has expressed concern over [...]
Akinwumi Ambode, governor of Lagos, says the state will have its first female governor in no distant time.Ambode made this statement on Wednesday when he received Zuffon Bukola, an SS2 student who became one-day governor of the state after winning the annual Spelling Bee competition.In a statement shared with TheCable, Ambode said the emergence of two female students as one-day [...]
Akinwunmi Ambode, Lagos state governor, has said the first set of 5,000 commercial buses under the 'bus reform initiative' will be flagged off within the next six months.Ambode disclosed this on Thursday when students of Harvard Kennedy School of Government, US, paid him a courtesy visit at the Lagos House in Ikeja.The governor said his administration was working round the [...]
Akinwumi Ambode, Lagos state governor, says in the next three or six years, the state will generate 3,000 megawatts of electricity through its embedded power programme.The programme involves direct intervention in the power value chain for the purpose of achieving 24-hour power supply for Lagos.Speaking at a meeting with officials of the Nigeria Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) in Abuja on [...]
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