LAGOS SEPTEMBER 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-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, which is still with us. Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu has directed that the planned parade and other activities that involve the gathering of more than 50 people should…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Lagos State Government has called on stakeholders in real estate, to work out modalities for residents to pay house rents on a monthly basis instead of annually. Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu made the call during the Policy Roundtable Dialogue with key stakeholders in the Real Estate Sector in Lekki on Thursday. The…
LAGOS AUGUST 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Lagosians, as residents of Lagos State, are popularly known, have expressed concerns over the subsisting regime of three weekly market-free days in the state, a development they say is worsening hunger pangs and having a detrimental effect on the fight against COVID-19. Equally important, some of the respondents; among whom are traders,…
LAGOS AUGUST 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Lagos State government has extended the hours of operations of both food markets and non-food markets across the state. In a series of tweets on Sunday, the Chief Press Secretary to Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu, Mr Gboyega Akosile, said the decision was to further enhance trade and commerce and mitigate the hardship…
LAGOS AUHUST 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Ayobamidele Yussuf, an alumnus of Lagos State University (LASU), Ayobamidele Yussuf was once crowded with a negative thought when he applied to study Biochemistry in the university in 2013. Up until then, the 36-year-old institution had earned for itself a bad reputation. Cultism, constant industrial crisis between management and workers, bad blood,…
LAGOS JULY 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Publisher and Editor-In-Chief of South South International magazine and former President of the League of Maritime Editors and Publishers as well as former Publicity Secretary of Association of Communication Scholars and Professionals of Nigeria, Ovie Edomi has cried to the Governor of Lagos State and his Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice…
LAGOS MAY 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Lagos government has approved the establishment of the State Cash Transfer Unit (SCTU) for the National Cash Transfer programme. The State Commissioner for Wealth Creation and Employment, Mrs. Yetunde Arobieke who disclosed this Thursday in Lagos while rendering the account of activities of her ministry within the last one year to…
LAGOS MAY 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)- The Lagos State Government has said about 3,000 samples are yet to be tested for COVID-19 in the state. In a statement on Sunday, the Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, noted that the development was due to a lack of reagent for molecular testing. According to him, the Lagos State Government…
