The Lagos State Government, LASG on Sunday reiterated that it has paid the salaries of all its employees, doctors inclusive, as and when due. Some doctors working in the State Government’s hospitals had early last week staged a demonstration alleging that the State Government owed them an unspecified amount of money covering their salaries for…
INEC Yet To Distribute PVC In Some Parts Of Rivers
By Chudi Eke-Ejelam As the Independent Electoral National Commission, INEC, begins the distribution of the Permanent Voters’ Card, PVC, in some parts of the federation today, residents of Rivers State, have decried the absence of INEC staff and materials in some parts of the state. According to reports, INEC officials are yet to arrive with…
Fashola Raises Alarm Over Unauthorized Uniformed Men in Lagos
Babatunde Fashola, Lagos State governor, has called on the Presidency to investigate reports that some men and women in black uniforms are being gathered daily at the toll gate end of Lagos. The persons who are identified as SURE P/FERMA Federal Task Force members, according to the governor, are without any legal basis and are…
2015: Aderanti Meets Lagos Political Stakeholders
Ahead of the 2015 General elections, the Lagos State Command of the Nigeria Police Force has announced that it will meet with stakeholders of all registered political parties in the state on Tuesday, November 4. In a statement signed and released to reporters on Monday by Ken Nwosu, spokesman of the command, the police said…
Lagos To Get 2,400 Extra Polling Units — REC
Dr. Adekunle Ogunmola, the LagosState Resident Electoral Commissioner, REC, on Monday, revealed that the state would get 2,400 additional polling units in preparation for the 2015 elections. Ogunmola, while speaking tojournalists at a workshop on the upcoming distribution of permanent voters cards organized for key officers of INEC by the United Nations Development Project, UNDP,…
Lagos Schools to Now Resume October 8
The Lagos State Government on Sunday said primary and secondary schools in the state would no longer resume on Monday, September 22 as earlier announced. Lagos government said the schools would now resume on Wednesday, October 8. With this decision, the state government joined other states in the South-West, which had postponed the resumption of…
‘Lagos Now Ebola Free’ – Fashola
The Lagos State Government, LASG, on Friday said the last suspected case of the Ebola Virus Disease in the state had been cleared having tested negative after surveillance. Babatunde Fashola, governor of Lagos State disclosed this on Friday while giving an update on the virus at the Secretariat Central Mosque, Alausa, where he observed Jumat…
A Peep into Lagos Ebola Camp
It is one place that has recently generated almost an equal mix of interest and controversy. Many are interested in knowing what the isolation treatment center set up for patients who have tested positive to the Ebola Virus Disease, EVD, at the Infectious Disease Hospital, IDH, Yaba, looks like. Others, who say they already know,…
Glamour, glitz as Lagos holds 2014 carnival
The fifth edition of the annual Lagos Carnival held yesterday at the Tafawa Balewa Square, TBS, Lagos. Expectedly, Lagos residents were treated to scintillating, rhythmic displays and performances from participating carnival bands. The event, which began with processions by different carnival groups from Awolowo Road, Ikoyi; Campos Square, Lagos and TBS, attracted not only…
HAWKERS ATTACK KAI OFFICIALS, DAMAGE OFFICIAL VAN
Unidentified highway hawkers on Wednesday attacked some officials of the Kick Against Indiscipline, KAI under the Lagos State Ministry of Environment, M.O.E, and damaged their official van at Berger bus stop, Lagos. The incident happened right in front of the Berger bus stop of the Lagos Bus Rapid Terminal, BRT, along the Lagos – Ibadan…
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