By Edith Igbokwe The Anthony Village Joint Community Development Associations (CDAs) in Kosofe Local Government has urged the Lagos State House of Assembly candidate of Social Democratic Party (SDP), Lanre Carew not to toe the path of promise and fail if elected. They advised him when he met with stakeholders seeking their support to be […]
By Saheed Afolabi The BOSKOH Medical Outreach conducted free medical services in partnership with the leadership of Mushin Local Government, for the community and its environs, at the Palm Avenue Primary Health Centre (Omodigbo) as part of its mission to take free health care services to the grassroots and ensure the people have access to […]
By Motolani AbdulGafar The students of Lagos State Cooperative College for the 2022/2023 academic year sponsored by the chairman of Ibeju-Lekki Local Government, Hon. Abdullahi Olowa, have graduated. The students studied on sponsorship which covered their full school fees and 50 per cent of the hostel fees of the beneficiaries. The institution empowered youths with […]
By Rasaq Adebayo The Accord Party governorship candidate, Hakeem Olaogun-Dickson has claimed to have set the template for the creation of some agencies such as the Lagos State Transport Management Agency (LASTMA), Lagos Waste Management Agency (LAWMA), Lagos Neighborhood Safety Corps (LNSC), and others in Lagos State. He said he created the prototypes of those […]
By Saheed Afolabi The chairman of Mushin Local Government, Hon. Emmanuel Bamigboye, has provided free University Tertiary Matriculation Examination forms to indigent students in Mushin. The chairman called on stakeholders and the private sector to do more for the indigent students, stating that education is a fundamental right of every child and that no child […]
Lagos Stare is collaborating with not less than 20 other states to apply for joinder in the suit filed by Kaduna, Kogi and Zamfara to demand the review of the currency re-design policy of the Federal Government to extend the use of old notes until new notes are sufficiently available when the case comes up […]
Following nationwide tension caused by persistent fuel shortage and the debacle of currency exchange by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Lagos State Government has announced palliative measures to cushion effects of the crises on residents. Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu, on Wednesday, directed 50 per cent fare reduction in all State-owned transportation services, effective Thursday. […]
Ladapo Kolade Banks shut branches prone to protests from customers yesterday in Lagos in a cautious move to cut the risk of violence and damage to properties. In Ejigbo, Oshodi-Isolo LGA, the customers could not gain access to the branches of First Bank, Fidelity Bank, Access Bank, and Zenith Bank as of 10 am yesterday. […]
Ladapo Kolade More filling stations are selling cash to Point of Sale operators in a new secondary monetary market birthed by banks’failure to dispense cash to depositors. There are fears that new mint notes bought by POS operators at high rates is spiking cost of POS withdrawals by over 200 percent. A withdrawal of N20,000 […]
By Rasaq Adebayo As scarcity of cash persists and people are unable to get it from the banks, Nigerians have turned to Supermarket as alternative source of getting cash. They target the customers who are to pay with cash, collect the cash from them and pay for them with their own card. This, apart from […]
