Showing posts with label Lagos State. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lagos State. Show all posts

Monday 16 May 2016

Lagos Now Officially An Oil Producing State

Lagos State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode (right), receiving a sample of the Crude Oil discovered in the State by the Group Managing Director, Tunde Folawiyo Petroleum Company Limited, Mr. Tunde Folawiyo 
Photo: Lagos State government
The Lagos State Governor, Akinwunmi Ambode, on Monday declared that Lagos has officially joined the League of Oil Producing States in Nigeria following the discovery of crude oil by Yinka Folawiyo Petroleum Company Limited in Badagry, Lagos.
Governor Ambode, who made the declaration when the management of the company led by the Group Managing Director, Tunde Folawiyo, paid him a courtesy visit at the Lagos House, Ikeja, commended the firm for their doggedness to achieve the feat after 25 years of hard work, saying by the provision of Section 162 Sub-Section 2 of the Nigeria Constitution, Lagos has become an oil producing State.

Sunday 21 February 2016

Unknown illness Kills 70 children in Lagos

Strange disease kills 25 children in Lagos

LAGOS State government yesterday confirmed that a yet to be identified type of disease has claimed 70 lives while no fewer than 34 others are currently under close monitoring in Otodo Gbame community in Eti-Osa area of the state.

Those killed in the last couple of days are children that are between eight months and six years old.