Kinsmen and loyalists of a former Governor of Lagos, Akinwunmi Ambode, have commenced discreet mobilisation to drag the Epe-born politician into the 2023 governorship race, multiple sources told Daily Trust Thursday. Investigations by our correspondent showed that the move to prop Ambode to complete his second term in office has …
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Tinubu under attack for allegedly standing against Buhari’s nomination of Ambode for Ministerial Appointment
The Save Lagos Group (SLG) has called on the National Leader of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu to stop playing God over rumoured plan to appoint the immediate past Governor of the State, Akinwunmi Ambode into the yet-to-be-constituted cabinet of President Muhammadu Buhari. The group said …
Read More »Ambode presents assistive technologies, mobility aids to 2,000 people with disabilities
Ambode had on May 29, 2016, set up the Persons Living with Disabilities (PLWDs) Empowerment Fund with N500 million for their welfare. Ambode said that the presentation was a clear evidence of a promise kept by his administration to ensure an all-inclusive government in which no individual or group …
Read More »LASG serves final notice to owners of illegal structures, shanties around Obalende
The Lagos State Government on Tuesday served a 48-hour “Abatement Notice from July 25 to July 27 to all owners of illegal structures and shanties, including containerised shops around Obalende. The Head, Public Affairs Unit, Lagos State Task Force, Mr Adebayo Taofiq, said in a statement that the illegal structures …
Read More »Lagos Council Elections: Why There Was Delay – LASIEC Chairman
The Chairman of the Lagos State Independent Electoral Commission (LASIEC), Justice Ayotunde Phillips has attributed the delayed take off of the voting process in Saturday ‘s council polls in some parts of the state to heavy downpour.Speaking with newsmen while monitoring some polling units in the downpour affected the …
Read More »Fashola shuns Lagos polls
Former Governor of Lagos State and Minister of Works, Housing and Power, Babatunde Fashola did not vote on Saturday at Lagos’ Local Government election held across the state. The former governor was conspicuously missing at Ward G3, Unit 002, State Senior Grammer School, Itolo, where he normally vote. People are …
Read More »Ambode says Badoo members not spirits, vows to flush out cult
Gov. Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos State on Thursday assured residents that his administration would curtail the activities of the notorious group known as ‘Badoo’ in the Ikorodu axis of the state. Ambode, who gave the assurance while commissioning a rehabilitated fire service station in Epe also promised to ensure the …
Read More »Ambode warns citizens on continuous rainfall
The Lagos State government has warned all residents in the State of the consequences of the continuous heavy rainfall being experienced in most parts of Lagos on lives and properties. A release today by the State Commissioner for the Environment, Dr. Samuel Adejare, noted that the rainfall is bound to …
Read More »Badoo: Lagos comedian lynched as residents, landlords buy more weapons
A Lagos-based comedian, Chinedu Paul, aka Think Twice, has been identified as one of the three persons mistaken for members of the Badoo cult and lynched on Saturday by angry residents in Odogunyan, Ikorodu, Lagos State. This is just as residents continued to buy weapons, especially cutlasses, in a desperate move to stop the Badoo members …
Read More »Parents of kidnapped students storm Ambode’s office
Parents of kidnapped students of the Lagos State Model College, Igbonla, Epe stormed the Lagos state Governor’s Office demanding for the release of their children 14 days after they were abducted by gunmen.
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