Tag: Lagos State Government
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No Independence Day Parade in Lagos — Sanwo-Olu
The Lagos State Government has opted for a low key celebration of the 60th Independence Anniversary due to the ravaging effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu has directed that the planned parade and other activities that involve the gathering of more than 50 people should be cancelled. According to a communique by the…
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Sept 14 university resumption only for final year students, says Sanwo-Olu
As tertiary institutions reopen next Monday in Lagos State, the state government says final-year students will go back to the classrooms before students on other levels. Tokunbo Wahab, Special Adviser on Education to Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu, made this known on Thursday while featuring on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily programme. Schools in the country had been…
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Sanwo-Olu invites boy on viral video pleading mum to ‘calm down’
The governor of Lagos State, Babajide Sanwo-Olu has extented invitation to young boy who pleaded with mum to calm down during punishment after wrongdoing. The governor in a Facebook post on Wednesday said he “I would like to meet the young boy since we both now have exclusive right to the phrasal verb ‘calm down’”.…
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Lagos seals off five private schools for allegedly flouting COVID-19 closure order
The Lagos State government has sealed off no fewer than five private primary and secondary schools allegedly caught holding physical lessons within their premises with students on mufti. Recall that the Federal and State Governments closed down all public and private schools at all levels nationwide since March and asked students to stay and study…
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56 illegal structures in Ikoyi, Banana Island sealed
The Lagos State Government has asked 56 property owners sealed in Ikoyi and on Banana Island axis to produce their building plan permits and evidence of stage certification. The Commissioner for Physical Planning and Urban Development, Dr Idris Salako, said this in a statement released to newsmen by Mr Mukaila Sanusi, the spokesman of the…