Lagos State Governor, Babatunde Fashola has urged individuals, clubs and corporate bodies to partner with the government to provide facilities that could aid quality education. He made the call on Wednesday at the formal commissioning of Dr Lucas Memorial High School’s Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Centre, built by Techno Oil Limited in Lagos. The [...]
A member of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Rotimi Olowo, representing Somolu Constituency 1, has pledged support for the Governor Babatunde Fashola administration’s efforts to ensure qualitative education in the state, urging well-meaning Nigerians to follow suit. Olowo who stated this during his visit to some schools in Somolu as part of activities marking [...]
Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Abubakar Umar Manko has advised commercial motorcyclists commonly called okada riders to be grateful to Governor Babatunde Fashola for restricting their operations on major highways in the state. He said left to him, he would prefer a total ban. Speaking with P.M.NEWS in his office at Ikeja, Lagos, Southwest Nigeria [...]
Lagos State Governor, Babatunde Fashola, on Tuesday said the state government was nearly running a state police with the massive funding of the state‘s police command. Speaking at the 6th Lagos Town Hall Meeting in Victoria Island, Fashola said the state government picked up the burden, owing to the inability of the Federal Government to [...]
The Lagos State House of Assembly has said it is not prepared to grant easy passage to the 2013 budget proposal presented to the House by the state Governor, Babatunde Fashola, on Wednesday. Speaker of the House, Adeyemi Ikuforiji, said this after the governor presented the estimated figure of N497. 277 billion as the budget [...]
Lagos State Governor, Babatunde Fashola has approved N77.5 million for scholarship award to 337 qualified indigenes of the state in various tertiary institutions across Nigeria. Secretary of the Lagos State Scholarship Board, Mrs. Yetunde Jegede said the awardees were the 223 undergraduate students with 3.5 Grade Point Average, GPA and above and 74 post graduate [...]
Operating under the aegis of Conference of Nigerian Political parties, CNPP, 25 political associations have expressed their support for Lagos State Governor, Babatunde Fashola, on the state Traffic Law recently signed and gazetted. Under the law, driving a vehicle or okada, jumping traffic light, driving and receiving calls attract a fine of N20,000 for first [...]
