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  In celebrating this year’s Id el Kabir festivities, the Lagos Waste Management Authority (LAWMA) has admonished residents to bag and containerise waste generated appropriately, for a clean environment. In a statement, Mr. Kunle Adebiyi, the Executive Director, Finance, of LAWMA, assured the public that comprehensive measures had been put in place to ensure a clean and hygienic environment throughout the celebration, adding that PSP operators had been assigned to work tirelessly to clean up the city, maintaining a round-the-clock schedule. He urged residents to shun all forms of indiscriminate waste dumping on road medians, canals, uncompleted buildings, and other unauthorised locations, assuring that LAWMA would intensify efforts at ensuring that the festivities were observed in a clean and healthy environment. Adebiyi said, “LAWMA is determined to combat improper waste disposal practices that contribute to environmental degradation within the metropolis, especially during the fo...

  From left: Group Head, Channel Operator, Sterling Head Office, Abubakar Soyemi; Group Head, Energy, Dele Faseemo; Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Transportation, Lagos, Engr. Abdulhafis Toriola; Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources, Engr. Shola Shasore; Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Environment, Omobolaji Gaji; and the Group Head, Transport and Renewable Energy, Sterling Bank Plc, Olabanjo Alimi; during the launch of Nigeria first Electric Vehicle Charging Station in Lagos by Sterling Bank Plc Lagos, Nigeria: Nigeria's leading commercial bank and one of Africa's fastest-growing companies, Sterling Bank, has changed the course of Nigeria's energy and transportation sectors with the launch of Qore; its suite of renewable energy-powered transportation solutions. Qore will offer the purchase and financing of electric vehicles (EVs), EV charging stations, conversion of fossil-fuel-powered engines to EV engines, battery swapping services for modular...

  The Oyo state chapter  of the Odua Peoples  Congress  (OPC) has called on President Ahmed Bola Tinubu, traditional  rulers and and well meaning  Nigerians  especially prominent leaders in the South West, Nigeria, to intervene in the unconditional release  of Chief  Sunday Adeyemo, popularly  known as "Sunday  Igboho" The appeal was made  by the coordinator  of OPC in Oyo State, Comrade  Rotimi Olumo while addressing  news men  shortly  after  the state's executive council meeting of the organisation at Ibadan, Oyo State capital. Comrade  Olumo said that  it has now become imperative  for South West leaders to intervene in Sunday Sunday Igboho's matter, because  of his role in ensuring the unity of the region, as the Akogun Odua of Yoruba land. Olumo said that Igboho as a Human Rights  activist, has always been fighting  for peoples rights and freedom and he also dete...

  The Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Mudashiru Obasa, has congratulated Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu and Femi Gbajabiamila, Chief of Staff to President Bola Tinubu, as they mark their birthdays. While Governor Sanwo-Olu is 58, Gbajabiamila, immediate past Speaker of the House of Representatives, is 61. In a message celebrating Sanwo-Olu, Dr. Obasa described the Governor as a Lagosian whose background and experience in the corporate world have helped in sustaining the position of Lagos as the yardstick for measuring development in Nigeria. Obasa described Sanwo-Olu as an exemplary Governor with a sense of purpose and commitment to the ideals that make Lagos great. "You have constantly ignited the passion for the sustenance of the dream, vision and the inclusiveness that have kept us achieving more for the people of our dear State. "Your life speaks a volume of blessings, God's favour and, because you are a technocrat of repute, our State of excellenc...

  The Oyo state chapter  of the Odua Peoples  Congress  (OPC) has called on President Ahmed Bola Tinubu, traditional  rulers and and well meaning  Nigerians  especially prominent leaders in the South West, Nigeria, to intervene in the unconditional release  of Chief  Sunday Adeyemo, popularly  known as "Sunday  Igboho" The appeal was made  by the coordinator  of OPC in Oyo State, Comrade  Rotimi Olumo while addressing  news men  shortly  after  the state's executive council meeting of the organisation at Ibadan, Oyo State capital. Comrade  Olumo said that  it has now become imperative  for South West leaders to intervene in Sunday Sunday Igboho's matter, because  of his role in ensuring the unity of the region, as the Akogun Odua of Yoruba land. Olumo said that Igboho as a Human Rights  activist, has always been fighting  for peoples rights and freedom and he also dete...

  The Oyo state chapter  of the Odua Peoples  Congress  (OPC) has called on President Ahmed Bola Tinubu, traditional  rulers and and well meaning  Nigerians  especially prominent leaders in the South West, Nigeria, to intervene in the unconditional release  of Chief  Sunday Adeyemo, popularly  known as "Sunday  Igboho" The appeal was made  by the coordinator  of OPC in Oyo State, Comrade  Rotimi Olumo while addressing  news men  shortly  after  the state's executive council meeting of the organisation at Ibadan, Oyo State capital. Comrade  Olumo said that  it has now become imperative  for South West leaders to intervene in Sunday Sunday Igboho's matter, because  of his role in ensuring the unity of the region, as the Akogun Odua of Yoruba land. Olumo said that Igboho as a Human Rights  activist, has always been fighting  for peoples rights and freedom and he also dete...

 ** On behalf of my family and the entire people of the Lagos East Senatorial District, I extend my warmest congratulations to my dear friend and brother, the Chief of Staff to the President, Rt. Hon. Olufemi Hakeem Gbajabiamila (CFR), on the occasion of your 61st birthday. I celebrate your sterling accomplishments in legal practice and in the Nigerian Federal Parliament, where you served our people meritoriously for more than two decades before you received a higher calling to serve as the Chief of Staff to His Excellency, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, GCFR. Our dear nation is blessed to have a highly resourceful and cerebral professional with wide exposure and experience in national politics as the engine room of Nigeria's presidency. Rt. Hon. Gbajabiamila, I salute your courage of conviction in the progressive ideals and for being steadfast as a member of the party from the days of the Alliance for Democracy (AD) to this very day. You are a great asset to our dear party, APC, and...