Lagos State Residents Registration Agency has embarked on a sensitisation programme to encourage residents to participate in the continuous registration exercise conducted by the Agency in the 20 local governments and 37 local council development areas of the State as well as LASRRA headquarters at No. 4 Registration Close, off Lateef Jakande Agidingbi, Ikeja Lagos. While speaking during a monitoring exercise at the Agency’s headquarters, its Director of Public Affairs, Mr. Babatunde Adele said there is a massive registration going on across the State, stating that a total of 125…
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Speak Up Against Female Genital Mutilation, Ambode’s Wife Urges Parents, Stakeholders
Wife of the Governor of Lagos State, Mrs. Bolanle Ambode on Tuesday urged mothers, fathers and Non Governmental Organisations (NGOs) to continue to voice their concerns, while governments at all levels put in place the right statutes for total eradication of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) in Nigeria and in Africa by 2030. Mrs. Ambode spoke to journalists in Alausa, Ikeja in an event to commemorate this year’s International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation. She expressed optimism that Female Genital Mutilation could be stamped out of…
Read MoreLASU Dissociates Self From Ojuelegba, Anthony Campuses
The Lagos State University (LASU) says it has phased out external programmes at Ojuelegba and Anthony Village Campuses and is no longer in business with its former partners on the premises. LASU spokesman, Adekoya Martins, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Tuesday in Lagos that the off campus buildings at Ojuelegba and Anthony Village in Lagos did not belong to the university. LASU had in 2017 phased out its external campus programme and replaced it with Open and Distance Learning and Research Institute (ODLRI) which was approved by…
Read MorePower Grid Records First Collapse in February
After collapsing six times in the first eight days of this year, Nigeria’s electricity grid recorded another collapse on the first day of the second month. Documents obtained from the Nigeria Electricity System Operator, an arm of the Transmission Company of Nigeria, on Sunday in Abuja showed that the national electricity grid crashed from a high of 4,699.9 megawatts on January 31, to 219MW on February 1. On January 30, The PUNCH exclusively reported that the generation statistics of NESO showed that the country’s power grid collapsed six times in the first…
Read MoreLagos Calls For Conservation Of Wetlands Resources
The Lagos State Government has called for the conservation of wetlands resources in the State, saying that wetlands as critical parts of natural environment help in reducing the impacts of floods, absorbing the pollutant and improving water quality. Making this call was the Commissioner for the Environment, Babatunde Durosinmi-Etti during his interaction with pressmen in Alausa at the weekend in commemoration of the 2018 World Wetlands Day. Durosinmi-Etti said that Lagos State as a littoral State has associated with the rest of the world in marking the 2018 World Wetlands day…
Read MoreI Demand nothing But the Best From you, Ambode Tells New Cabinet Members
Lagos State Governor, Mr Akinwunmi Ambode on Monday swore-in five new members of the State Executive Council with a charge on them to hit the ground running and offer only the best of services to the people. Speaking at a brief swearing-in ceremony held at the Lagos State Executive Council Chambers in Alausa, Ikeja, Governor Ambode said the new cabinet members were appointed based on their track record, expertise and experience, and as such they must immediately settle down in office and inject new ideas to reinvigorate and reenergize government…
Read MoreI’m Emotionally Attached To Ikorodu United – De-Jong
Ikorodu United’s Dutch coach Jacob De Jong on Monday said that he was emotionally attached to the Lagos-based team and would return the club to the premier league next season. De Jong said this on the sidelines of his 3-2 victory over Gbagada FC at the ongoing Ekofootball Pre-Season Tournament at Teslim Balogun Stadium, Surulere. De Jong who has spent five years in the club said he was fired up with the passion of the Ikorodu-based club. De Jong was credited for his coaching acumen when he helped Ikorodu United…
Read MoreState of Sports Centres In Ikorodu Division: Sports Administrators Call For Redevelopment Of Police Playing Ground
-How Ikorodu lost opportunity to redevelop facility Kunle ADELABU Following the report by THE IMPACT on its online platforms on the state of the popular Police Playing Ground, along Igbogbo road, Ikorodu, sports administrators have called on the Governor of Lagos State, Mr Akinwunmi Ambode, to see to the redevelopment of the playing ground. They also asked the governor to fulfil his pledge of building a stadium for the division at Lagos State Polytechnic, Ikorodu campus and Igbogbo. THE IMPACT report, which was titled, ‘Police Barracks Playing Ground…
Read MoreExcel FC, Current FC Qualify For Bolowotan Gold Cup Quarter Final
-Ogunade Boys FC to face Victory One FC on February 5 in Osinowo Gold Cup in Ikorodu Excel and Current Football Clubs emerged as the first two teams to qualify for the quarter final match of the 10th Bolowotan Memorial Gold Cup going on at the Police Barracks Playing Ground, along Igbogbo road,Ikorodu. In the first match of the Round of 16 played on Sunday, February 4, 2018, Excel FC beat Super Force, which played with 9 players, 2 goals to 1. Super Force started the match with…
Read MoreLagos Revs Up Economy With New Power And Property Laws
The Lagos State Government has perfected plans to bring about a quantum leap to the State’s economy in 2018 through the Embedded Power Supply Project and the review of the Land Use Charge Law. The power project, aimed at delivering an estimated 3,000 Megawatts to homes and industries, is expected to lift the economy of Lagos which is Nigeria’s industrial hub, while the revised Land Use Charge Law had been designed to improve the values of property in the State. The State’s House of Assembly had last week announced the…
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