Tag: Babajide Sanwo-Olu

LASG to enforce monthly house rental scheme

Jide Ige

The Special Adviser to Lagos State Governor on Housing, Barakat Odunuga-Bakare, has disclosed that the state’s monthly rental scheme will be enforced before the end of 2024 or early next year. She stated it during a recent press briefing of the Lagos State Real Estate Regulatory Authority in Ikeja, Lagos. She said, “We all see what is being done in other climes, rents are collected monthly. Hence, we are looking and hoping that before the end of the year, or by early next year, we will be able to implement…

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Lagos Red Line rail project nearing completion -Sanwo-Olu

Jide Ige

Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, on Sunday, went on an extensive inspection of the ongoing construction activities around the Lagos Rail Mass Transit Red Line project. The governor, who was joined on the inspection tour by the Deputy Governor, Dr. Obafemi Hamzat, and members of cabinet, first stopped at the multi-level Agege Terminal, where he inspected completion work on the facility. The Agege Red Line terminal shares the same yard with Babatunde Raji Fashola Station built by the Federal Government but stands about 300 metres apart, according to a statement…

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Why COVID-19 is spreading fast in Lagos

Benjamin Chukwudaalu, Political Reporter

Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has said the delayed closure of the country’s borders, seaport, and airports, including the failure of returnees to self-isolate, caused the spread of COVID-19. He said this during an Instalive interview with CNN on Wednesday. According to the governor, Lagos was prepared to curb the spread of COVID-19 but had to wait for the Federal Government to shut airport, seaport and land borders. The PUNCH reports that though Nigeria recorded its first COVID-19 death on February 27, the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), officially shut the country’s airports, seaports,…

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Fashola speaks on Okada ban, narrates encounter with armed robbers

Jide Ige

Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, says the use of motorcycles (Okada) as a major means of transportation is not in the plan of Lagos State and should be banned. He spoke at a public lecture organised by the United Action for Change in Lagos on Thursday. It will be recalled that Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State had banned the operations of motorcycle and tricycle in 15 Local Government Development Areas and Local Council Development Areas, including highways and major roads in the state. The ban, however, has…

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Sanwo-Olu vows to tackle trailer menace in Lagos

Jide Ige

The Lagos State Government says it plans to restrict the movement of heavy-duty trucks in the metropolis during the day so as to ease traffic on the roads. Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, made this known on Monday at the Lagos House, Ikeja, when a team from the Nigerian Breweries Plc paid him a courtesy visit. Sanwo-Olu said that the government had been pushing the trailers off that whole corridor of Iganmu area to ensure that the journey towards Apapa continued to remain free. He said that the state would…

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