Lagos State Government, yesterday, said that as part of efforts to empower research and innovation, Lagos State Science Research and Innovation Council had provided N900 million grants to 80 researchers and 75 startups.
It also said that, according to the 2026 grant circle, the Council had processed over 240 applications.
The state’s Commissioner for Innovation, Science and Technology, Tunbosun Alake, disclosed this at the ongoing yearly media briefing to mark the third year of the second term of Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu’s administration.
Alake also revealed that 6.46 million residents had been registered through the Lagos Identity Card Project.
He said that of the registered residents, 4.058 million are adults, while 2.407 million are children.
‘The Lagos Identity card project is extremely important in governance as a means to maintain an overall view on the vision of the current administration as an integral centrepiece of the THEMES agenda on finding innovative ways to improve the efficiency of governance and service delivery for the benefit of the good people of Lagos State’, he said.
Alake maintained that the objective of the framework is to ensure an inclusive participation and integration of multiple agents of government under a unified and efficient approach that makes it possible for the different agencies and their partners to operate independently while leveraging a central infrastructure for data, partnerships and information.
The Commissioner for Tertiary Education, Tolani Sule, yesterday, said that the Ministry of Tertiary Education did not renovate any public secondary school library despite the state budget performance document revealing that the ministry spent over N300 million in 2025 to renovate public secondary school libraries.
The commissioner stated this during the media briefing yesterday.
In the 2025 budget performance of the state government, it was stated that the ministry, in one of the budget lines, disclosed that 70 public secondary school libraries were rehabilitated across the state for N232.6 million.
The same document also disclosed that another N100 million was spent on buildings cum retention for the completion of 50 public secondary school libraries under phase 1 and phase II.
Sule, however, disclosed that the state government, in collaboration with the Ministry of Health, had advanced legislation for the establishment of a new University of Medicine and Health Sciences to address the widening healthcare manpower deficit in Lagos and Nigeria.
He said the proposed institution would significantly increase the training of doctors, nurses and allied health professionals, helping to fill in the gaps in the persistent migration of medical practitioners abroad.
