The Federal Government on Thursday described Lagos State as a true model of the vision of improving on the ease of doing business and turning Nigeria into one of the easiest and most attractive places for investors in the world. Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment, Dr Okechukwu Enelamah, who stated this in Lagos after a meeting with Governor Akinwunmi Ambode, said the State, as the commercial capital of the country, stands in a vantage position to drive the goal of government to improve World Bank ranking of Nigeria on the ease of doing business.

FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT: LAGOS DEEPENS EASE OF DOING BUSINESS WITH ONE-STOP SHOP FOR INVESTORS   As part of preparations for the Lagos@50 celebrations, the State Government has reiterated its commitment to further enhance the ease of doing business in the State through its one-stop-shop (Lagos Global) so as to attract more Foreign Direct Investments as well as increase the its Gross Domestic Product (GDP) to the position of the second largest economy in Africa.

It is not always an easy task to live in UNITY & PEACE as Human. Your best friend will talk about you behind your back, he may steal that girl that you were talking to, and your friends may not invite you to that party.  Instead of turning on our friends and holding grudges against the people that anger us the most, we are supposed to love and forgive these people. In God's eyes being angry with someone in our hearts is the same as murdering them. By remaining angry towards someone, we give Satan a way to creep into our lives. Anger can steal our joy, take away our fun and steal our opportunities. How can we fight and not be angry towards others?  Be The First To Apologizing: -  Take the first step in experiencing more joy by being the first to apologize. When that one person is still causing you to be angry, you are just as much in the wrong if you continue to go to bed angry with them (Ephesians 4:26). No matter what they have done to you, the...

PHASING OUT DANFO BUSES WILL CREATE MORE JOBS THAN LOSSES- AMBODE Lagos State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode on Monday allayed fears that plans by his administration to phase out the yellow commercial buses, popularly known as Danfo would lead to massive job losses, saying that it would instead create more jobs in the transportation sector. The Governor, who spoke at the May Day Rally held at the Agege Stadium to commemorate the 2017 Workers Day Celebration, said the Bus Reform Initiative, aimed at introducing over 5000 air-conditioned buses to replace the Danfo buses would open new vista of opportunities, while also redefining the means of road transportation in the State.

The operatives of Rapid Response Squad of the Lagos State Police Command have arrested a man for impersonating a Nigerian Police officer and extorting people in the Oshodi area of the state Gregory Anyasodo, 47, from Owerri North, Imo State was arrested on Thursday after extorting N125,000 from one of his victims, a trader in Oshodi, the police said in a statement on Monday. The unsuspecting victim, Emmanuella Joseph, had approached RRS officials stationed in Oshodi to report Mr. Anyasodo’s threat to arrest her and confiscate her hand bag containing N125,000. A search around the area led to the arrest of the suspect and the recovery of a radio that looked like a walkie-talkie and a police identity card, which portrayed him as an Inspector with the number 14873, attached to Lagos Taskforce and Special Anti-Robbery Squad. Confirming the crime, the suspect acknowledged seizing the trader’s bag but said he did not steal her money as alleged by the victim. “I have...

The Head of Service, Mrs. Olabowale Ademola has urged participants in a specialized orientation programme designed for recently deployed local government management staff to show leadership skills that will engender improvement of the quality of public service delivery in Lagos State. Ademola who made the remarks at the closing ceremony of the programme noted that the event was designed to broaden the knowledge base of the Officers and expose them to the structure, processes and procedures in the mainstream civil service in order to adequately prepare them for the tasks ahead. “There is no gainsaying that the quality of an Organization’s human capital is central and critical to the attainment of its goals and objectives. This underlines and explains the unwavering commitment of Governor Akinwunmi Ambode, to the vigorous and systematic reform of, not only Public Service structures, processes and procedures including the realignment of existing MDAs and creation of ...

SUICIDE BOMBER KILLS FIVE TROOPS IN BORBO At least five soldiers were killed and another 40 injured when a Boko Haram jihadist rammed an explosives-laden pick-up truck into a military convoy in northeast Nigeria, security sources told AFP on Friday. The bomber, believed to be loyal to factional leader Abu Mus’ab Al-Barnawi, targeted the convoy, which was conducting “clearance operations” between Yobe and Borno states, two military officers said. “At about 1100 hours (1000 GMT) on Thursday, a suicide bomber believed to be a Boko Haram terrorist riding in a van loaded with explosives rammed into a military convoy at Manguzum village,” one said. “We lost five soldiers in the incident and more than 40 sustained various degrees of injuries,” added the officer, who asked to remain anonymous because he was not authorised to speak about the incident. The convoy was heading to the garrison town of Damboa, which is some 90 kilometres (55 miles) from the Borno state capital, Maiduguri, at the ti...