The Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has approved the reintroduction of monthly environmental sanitation in the state after 8 years. To commence sometime in July, we await it’s official start. The government said the exercise, which used to be held for three hours on the last Saturday of every month with restrictions on movement, needed to go to pave the way for a much-needed reform.… Read More »Monthly Sanitation To Return Back to Lagos
The Eko Electricity Distribution Company (EKEDC) has announced the upgrade and downgrade of certain locations under its territory from Band B to Band A and vice versa. The company disclosed this in a post on its official Twitter page stating that the decision was subject to a review by its regulator, the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC). Following the review of performance by it’s regulator,… Read More »Festac Gets Feeder Upgrade By Eko Disco
News shaking the country now is the outbreak of Cholera in almost all it’s state in which the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) has confirmed 30 deaths so far. On the 11th of June 2024, the Lagos government reported at least 5 people dead in the state while on the 13th, the NCDC said that from January 1st till June 13th, 2024,… Read More »Cholera Outbreak Hits Lagos, Many Confirmed Dead
It was a glorious event as Festac Senior Grammar school amongst other schools emerged winners of the 2024 Lagosreads inter-school quiz competition. The competition which was organized by the Lagos State Library Services in partnership with the Lagos state government amongst six schools across the six educational districts as participants. There emerged three winners of which Keke Senior High School, Agege emerged winner, followed closely… Read More »Amuwo School Shines in Lagos Competition
After the joint national executive council meeting of the unions, the TUC/NLC has approved to relax the industrial action for one week with immediate effect. Activities in different sectors were grounded in the light of the initial strike including schools, businesses, hospitals and airports shut. The national grid was also shut down, throwing the nation into a forced darkness. Labour’s actions followed the expiration of… Read More »TUC/NLC Relaxes Nationwide Strike
The old national anthem ‘Nigeria, we hail thee’ which was composed by Lillian Jean Williams in 1959 and was adopted when we gained independence on October 1, 1960, and used up until 1978, has been officially lawed as Nigeria’s anthem going forward. The bill which was passed by the Senate on the 28th and the 23rd of May by the House of Representatives, was officially… Read More »Nigeria Reverts To Old National Anthem
The Lagos State Government has announced plans to establish the Lagos State Essential Medicines Agency (LSEMA) to ensure seamless management and distribution of essential medicines within the state. The establishment of LSEMA is aimed at transforming the management and distribution of essential medicines, in line with the Federal Government’s mandate for every state to set up a Drug Management Agency. Several benefits of the Essential… Read More »Over 20,000 Residents To Benefit From Free Medical Outreach
Multichoice Nigeria, despite the recent court order prohibiting the company from increasing it’s rates, have gone ahead to make an upward adjustment to it’s DSTV and GOtv subscribers. On the 24th of April 2024, officially announced it’s intention to increase the prices of their services starting from the 1st of May New prices are now displayed and implemented on their official website. For DStv Premium… Read More »Dstv, GOtv Increase Rates, Ignore Court Order
The Ajeromi area neighboring Amuwo Odofin encountered heavy pandemonium on Tuesday, the 30th of April, as they witnessed a large gas explosion that rocked their streets. The explosion occurred at Ajegunle-Apapa area of Lagos, at about 1:30 pm, in an area popularly known for it gas and gas cylinder trading. The explosion was said to have been caused by a gas leakage ignited by a… Read More »Outside Amuwo: Many Feared Dead as Explosion rocks Neighboring Community
Civil servants across the country received good news, as the Federal Government has approved a salary increase of between 25% and 35%, on the 30th of April, 2024. We recall that those in the tertiary education and healthcare sector which involved University Academic Salary Structure and Tertiary Institutions Salary Structure for Universities had already received their increases earlier in the year, which takes effect from… Read More »Civil Servants in Amuwo Get Workers Day Gift – FG
In the continuous bid to defend Naira against other currencies such as the Dollar , The EFCC Economic Financial crimes Commission has warned establishments and business in the country against usage of dollars for payments. Business’s such as supermarkets, hotels, schools, real estate developers, were majorly mentioned and they have been seriously warned not to bill customers in dollars or any other foreign currency, vowing… Read More »EFCC Defends Naira, Warns Nigerians
Supermarkets and grocery stores in Amuwo-Odofin LGA risk being in trouble with the Lagos State Consumer Protection Agency, LASCOPA.
March 14th 2024 had millions of telecommunications users, subscribers and even bank users lament and complaint of paralyzed service and for many disconnection.
News reaching Festaconline media according to Bloomberg that the West Africa Cable System, MainOne and ACE sea cables — arteries for telecommunications data — were all affected on Thursday.
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Sometime last year, we recall the Lagos State Government unveiled it’s first set of public electronic vehicles -Bus Rapid Transit- to ease movement for commuters in the state. The Lagos State Commissioner for Transportation, says the state government is planning to buy no fewer than 2,050 vehicles to ease movement, and further address queues at bus stations across the state. With the support of an oil… Read More »Lagos Looks Forward To Seemless Commuting
As has been seen over the weeks, the current situation of the country has forced the hands of its citizens to gather in their numbers and protest the hardship. Kano and Ibadan were one of the first states to start a protest. Today, a number of Lagosians, including male and female from different works of life took to the streets, converging under the Ojuelegba bridge,… Read More »Lagosians Breakout In Protest