Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has rewarded Team Lagos athletes for their outstanding performance at the 8th National Youth Games (NYG) in Asaba, appreciating their second-place finish at the competition. At a reception held at the Banquet Hall, Lagos House, Ikeja, the governor, who was represented by his deputy, Dr. Obafemi Hamzat, announced a cash reward of N200,000 for gold …

Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu; his Ogun State counterpart, Prince Dapo Abiodun; and Ekiti State Governor, Mr. Abiodun Oyebanji on Wednesday stormed Akure, the Ondo State capital, to solicit support for the All Progressives Congress (APC) and its candidate, Governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa in Saturday’s governorship election Sanwo-Olu, who doubles as the Chairman of APC National Campaign Council for Ondo …

What was thought impossible has unravelled before our eyes. It’s how safe and smooth driving around the heart of Ikeja, capital of Lagos state has become. Hitherto, a drive through Ikeja under bridge, Kodeso, General Hospital (Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, LASUTH), Obafemi Awolowo Way, Oba Akran, Simbiat Abiola, Ikeja Along, Mobolaji Bank-Anthony, among others was hell on earth. To …

For Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu, the Lagos of the 21st century is one where everyone irrespective of their status and stations in life should be able to contribute meaningfully to the socioeconomic development of the state. Of course, the governor, ever forward-looking and future-thinking, knows that one better way to put a state with over 21 million population and still counting, …

Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu has sworn in Vice Chairman of Onigbongbo Local Council Development Area (LCDA) as the council’s substantive chairman, days after the passing of the incumbent, Hon. Oladotun Olakanle. Barrister Rekiya Olufunke Hassan, 44, took the oath of office to succeed the late Olakanle at the low-key ceremony held in the precinct of the State House, Alausa. …

President Bola Tinubu on Monday congratulated the Serving Overseer of the Citadel Global Community Church, Pastor Tunde Bakare, on his 70th birthday. President Tinubu, alongside governors of Lagos and Ogun states, Babajide Sanwo-Olu and Dapo Abiodun, respectively, extolled the political vibrancy of Bakare in Nigeria, and his spiritual leadership at the church over the years. The President and governors spoke …

Mrs. Bateren Nofisat Yinka, 50, is one of the six artisans honoured by Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu as the Best Graduating Tradesmen in the just-concluded up-skilling programme taken across the Lagos State Skill Acquisition Centres. The trader, nominated for the course by Bamboo Marketers Association, was one of the 1,200 artisans and tradesmen across Lagos who took the intensive eight-week vocational …

Not even the very successful Lagos Blue Line metro in the corridor could stop him. Today, Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu has commenced a big project that will turn Mile 2 into a modern transportation hub. The Lagos State government has begun the construction of an intermodal transport terminal at the interchange in Mile 2 – a very busy axis in the …

The Lagos State Government has dismissed a news report on Tuesday, which claimed that Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu has dragged the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to Court over alleged plan to prosecute him after his tenure. Sanwo-Olu is only a year and five months into his second and final term of four years each. In a statement on Tuesday, …

The National Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Abdullahi Ganduje, has asked the people of Ondo State to allow the governor and the party’s candidate, Lucky Aiyedatiwa, to continue to provide progressive leadership. Ganduje said this in Akure, while inaugurating the state national governorship campaign council, headed by the Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu. Former deputy Senate president, …