LAGOS JULY 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, on Tuesday, announced a gift of N100,000 for each corps member departing the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) camp in the state and a sum of N100 million for the NYSC support staff. He made the pledge while delivering his address as the special guest of…
LAGOS MARCH 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Some residents of Lagos State have claimed that the food items being sold at the discounted market recently launched by the state government are actually expensive in comparison to the actual market prices. Recall that Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu had earlier stated that the “Ounje Eko” food markets would sell food…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-As though advancing a closing argument on the 2023 general election, the Oba of Benin, Omo N’ Oba N’ Edo, Uku Akpolokpolo, Ewuare II, on Sunday, in Lagos, declared that it must have pleased God to ordain Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu as Nigeria’s president, if his difficult path to victory was anything…
LAGOS OCTOBER 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Babajide Sanwo-Olu, the governor of Lagos, has announced that 310 pilgrims have been airlifted back to Nigeria from Jerusalem. On October 8, the Hamas militant group infiltrated Israel in what was an unprecedented assault that has ended the lives of over 700 Israelis. At the time of filing this report, over 1,500…
LAGOS OCTOBER 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu has ordered the demolition of Jankara and Bombata Markets in Lagos Island to curtail flooding and other environmental degradation caused by the markets. The governor disclosed this to journalists yesterday after the drainage and regeneration tour of Lagos Island area of the state said a lot of…
LAGOS AUGUST 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos has continued to flaunt his exotic collection of wristwatches, including a Patek Philippe, estimated to sell for N160 million, as poverty and soaring inflation bite harder in the commercial hub. Mr Sanwo-Olu’s constant show-off has been deemed insensitive to the plight of many Lagos residents who can…
LAGOS JULY 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Governor of Lagos State, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has approved the mass burial of at least 103 protesters who were massacred by joint forces of the Nigerian Army and the police during the October 2020 mass protest against police brutality tagged. In a letter seen by Peoples Gazette and dated July 19 by the…
LAGOS MAY 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The President-elect, Bola Tinubu; Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola; Governor of Lagos State, Babajide Sanwo-Olu; a former Osun State governor, Gboyega Oyetola, and an associate, Oladipo Eludoyin, have been allegedly linked to 20 properties bought in the United Kingdom when he (Tinubu) was serving as Lagos State governor. According to…