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Nigeria: Sanwo-Olu Denies Promising to Fix Apapa Grid-Lock in 60 days

19Jun

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Environment, News, Nigeria

Nigeria: Sanwo-Olu Denies Promising to Fix Apapa Grid-Lock in 60 days

Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has made a U-turn, insisting that he never promised to solve the Apapa gridlock crisis in 60 days. The governor said this while fielding questions from State House correspondents in Abuja on Tuesday. Sanwo-Olu, who was still governor-elect on May 18, 2019 had during an interactive session with his classmates at the Executive Master of Business Administration class, University of Lagos, 1998/2000 set, said that he would end the protracted gridlock in Apapa area of the state within the first 60 days of his administration. He said not minding the politics involved, he would rid the area of all the trailers whose operations have been responsible for the intractable gridlock. Sanwo-Olu had said, “The Apapa trailer issue; it’s a campaign issu...

Nigeria: Lagos Commences Second Phase of Polio Vaccination Campaign

17Jun

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News, Nigeria

Nigeria: Lagos Commences Second Phase of Polio Vaccination Campaign

The Lagos State Government, in collaboration with the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has commenced the second phase of the 2019 Polio Vaccination Campaign which was preceded by a sensitisation training for health reporters and journalists, ahead of the statewide polio vaccine administration. Speaking at the training exercise on Monday, the Permanent Secretary Primary Health Care Board, Dr. Tayo Lawal, disclosed the level of progress that had been made to eradicate polio and drastically reduce the incidence of vaccine-preventable diseases. According to him, the objectives of the campaign are aimed at halting the spread of the polio virus in Lagos State, increasing the coverage of immunised children against vaccine-preventable diseases, reducing the number of unimmunised chil...

Opinion: Portrait of the Tiger Ambode Rode by Yinka Odumakin

11Oct

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News, Nigeria

Opinion: Portrait of the Tiger Ambode Rode by Yinka Odumakin

LOUIS XIV was King of France for 72 years and 110 days and became the most powerful French monarch who consolidated a system of absolute monarchical rule that endured until the French Revolution. At the peak of his maniac, he said: “L’Etat c’est moi”(I am the state). I am not aware Asiwaju Bola Tinubu is given to so much reading to have come across Louis’ declaration but I once heard him making the same declaration as he got up from his seat and said “Eko fe lo sun”(Lagos wants to sleep). The embodiment of the current pathetic Lagos by the man who rode to power in 1999 largely on account of his association with NADECO abroad is an interesting study for some of us who are eyewitnesses to recent history. It’s all coming back to me now from 1998 in a rush. Dr. Bunmi Omoseyindemi and I h...

Opinion: Extricating Lagos from the Captivity of Bola Tinubu by Femi Aribisala

2Oct

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News, Nigeria

Opinion: Extricating Lagos from the Captivity of Bola Tinubu by Femi Aribisala

The drama currently going on in APC over who will be the party’s flag-bearer in the coming gubernatorial election in Lagos is as fascinating as it is disturbing. The same party that schemed to ensure that Buhari is the sole APC presidential candidate for 2019, is determined that Akinwumi Ambode, the current Governor of Lagos State, is not the APC candidate in the gubernatorial election in 2019. If Buhari who has performed abysmally, is given an automatic second-term ticket, why not Ambode? Godfather-cracy All this turns on the whims and caprices of one man, Bola Tinubu; the self-styled “godfather” of Lagos and even South-west politics. Tinubu is determined that Ambode must be unseated, and he has refused the entreaties of the president, the vice-president and other APC stalwarts outs...

Nigeria: News of Plans to Impeach Ambode Not True – Lagos Assembly

12Sep

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News, Nigeria

Nigeria: News of Plans to Impeach Ambode Not True – Lagos Assembly

Lagos State's House of Assembly has responded to the news of the impending impeachment of the sitting state governor, Akinwunmi Ambode. The news was refuted by Musibau Razak, the Chief Press Secretary to the speaker. According to Razak, there was no rift between the Speaker and the Governor. He described the relationship between the two as smooth and solid”. He went on to say "The news of impeachment is political. A lot of information is being circulated here and there but there is no iota of truth in the report. "Claims to initiate impeachment proceedings against Governor Ambode are false as the relationship between the Governor and Speaker is smooth and solid." Despite this claim, the media is awash with the news of Ambode's fall out of favour with Bola Ahmen Tinubu, regarded...

Nigeria: Ikeja NBA Gives Lagos Seven-day Ultimatum to Reverse Land Use Charge

8Mar

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Economy, Nigeria

Nigeria: Ikeja NBA Gives Lagos Seven-day Ultimatum to Reverse Land Use Charge

The Nigerian Bar Association, Ikeja Branch, has given the Lagos State Government a seven-day ultimatum to reverse the recent hike in Land Use Charge. The Chairman, NBA Ikeja Branch, Mr. Adesina Ogunlana, said in a statement on Wednesday that the association was set to embark on a mass protest tagged: ‘Hell Tax Must Go’ against the new tax regime. Ogunlana stated that the NBA was strongly opposed to the LUC, which he described as an “excessive and arbitrary tax regime” calculated at turning Lagos State into a “toxic environment and a living hell” for the residents. He said the association would give Governor Akinwunmi Ambode till next Monday to retrace his steps on the LUC, failing which its members would hit the streets on Tuesday. According to him, the protest will be the asso...