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Governor Babajide SanwoOlu has announced a N400M grant as support for both practising and upcoming filmmakers and other practitioners in the creative sector. Commissioner for Tourism Arts and Culture, Pharm. (Mrs.) Uzamat Akinbile-Yusuf, conveyed the Governor’s gesture to beneficiaries recently at the screening exercise for the State’s Film Fund applicants at Alausa, Ikeja. She said, […]
In an effort to ease the suffering of lawyers and litigants filing Court processes at the Lagos State Judicial Registries, the State Chief Judge, Kazeem Alogba, says the public are now free to make payments to the registries through physical cash, electronic transfer and Point-of-Sale, PoS machines. Justice Alogba made the announcement, on Thursday, in […]
Lagos State Government has warned those rejecting the old Naira notes to desist from doing so or face prosecution. The state, in a statement signed by the Commissioner for Information & Strategy, Gbenga Omotoso, warned that it is against the law to reject the old Naira notes, as doing so is contrary to the position […]
Suspected IKEDC Staff Burgle Transformer In Ojokoro, Throw Residents Into Darkness! As Nigerians struggle to survive the hardship caused by the redesigned Naira notes and currency swap policy of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, the situation has been further worsened for the residents of a part of Ojokoro Local Council Development Area, LCDA, under […]
Lagos State Government has commenced the distribution of palliative measures to vulnerable residents in fulfilment of Governor Babajide SanwoOlu’s promise to cushion the effects of the hardship being experienced by Lagosians occasioned by the fuel scarcity and non-disbursement of currency by the banks. Speaking at the launch and distribution exercise, in Alausa, Ikeja, Governor SanwoOlu […]
– Hamzat commends Lagos Speaker, over Agege’s transformation Deputy Governor of Lagos State, Dr. Obafemi Hamzat, and Speaker of the State Assembly, Rt. Hon. Mudashiru Obasa, have again declared Asiwaju Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress, APC, the best of all the presidential candidates for the February 25th election. The duo further urged Lagos […]
Lagos State Government has clarified that its order for the temporary closure of Chrisland Schools only affects Chrisland High School, Ikeja, and not all the schools being operated by the owners. According to the Ministry of Education, the clarification is necessary to address the anxiety of parents and members of the public on the erroneous […]
Lagos State Government has ordered a Coroner’s Inquest to ascertain the cause of death of late Whitney Adeniran, a 12-year-old pupil of Chrisland School, who died on Thursday, February 9, 2023. State Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice, Moyosore Onigbanjo, SAN, gave the directive in a statement, on Monday, noting that a thorough investigation will be […]
– Says Old Notes Unacceptable, As Polaris, FCMB, UBA & Fidelity Banks Reject Currency It was obviously a bad day for lawyers and litigants, who trooped to the Lagos Court’s Registry, to file their processes with old Naira notes, on Monday, as they were turned back by officials of the Registry, insisting their banks were […]
A Lagos High Court, sitting in Ikeja, has sentenced a teacher, Chukwu Ndubuisi, to life imprisonment for defiling a six-year-old pupil of Mind Builders School, Lagos (names withheld). Ndubuisi, age 41, was the art teacher of the school as at June 2016 when the offence was committed. He was first arraigned at an Ogudu Magistrate […]
