Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu on Thursday called for the Federal Government in rebuilding Lagos State following the aftermath of last year’s #EndSARS protests, hijacked by hoodlums, which led to the destruction of public and private properties and businesses in the state.
Governor Sanwo-Olu said the goal of ensuring Lagos State becomes Nigeria’s investment hub can only be achieved through economic collaboration between the State and the Federal Government.
Speaking to journalists after meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa in Abuja on Thursday, Governor Sanwo-Olu said Lagos State Government has started working on how it will make available all that is required by the Lagos State Police Command for the law enforcement agency to be more alive to their responsibilities.
By Ismaila Chafe
Abuja, Jan. 7, 2021 President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday met behind closed doors with Gov. Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State at the State House, Abuja.
Addressing State House Correspondents at the end of the meeting, the governor said that he updated the president on the progress so far made in the ongoing reconstruction of the state.
The reconstruction was as a result of the destruction and damages caused by the ENDSARS protests in the state in October, 2020.
According to him, the state government is already resuscitating small scale businesses through the Lagos State Employment Trust Fund.
“It is work in progress. We are carefully taking a proper study to know what we need to do, taking our time to get it right but we have started something.
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The Lagos State Government has taken definite steps to address the wave of the COVID-19 pandemic with the building of 10 oxygen tents across the state for use by affected Lagosians.
The state governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, who made this disclosure on Thursday while speaking with newsmen after meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari, also announced that the rebuilding of some parts of Lagos destroyed in the wake of the EndSARS protests has commenced in earnest.
Speaking specifically on the second wave of COVID-19, Sanwo-Olu encouraged Nigerians to take full personal responsibility because of the threat of the pandemic, adding that the Lagos State government is already building oxygen tents and plants to help reduce the number of casualties.
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Seated at her Oba Eleguishi-based depot that raining Tuesday, Mrs Adegbami Bolaji exudes calm; an assuredness that contrasts the anxiety that once defined her life. Growing up like most young girls, Adegbami dreamt of a better life; one in which she would be empowered to walk tall like the powerful women she had grown up to admire.
After completing her secondary education at Toro Community School, Ile-Ife in Osun State, the prospects of a university education crumbled before her very eyes. Left with no means of livelihood, the young Adegbami would go on to embrace hairstyling at a modest salon on Lagos Island – while hoping for the best in the circumstance.
Apart from the COVID-19 pandemic and the lockdown, the EndSARS protest was another bane for the MSME sector that was attempting to recover later in the year.
The Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI) this week said the restrictions being placed by some states due to the rising second wave of the pandemic and the lockdown enforced months ago by the government cost the MSMEs in Lagos N2.7 billion revenue.
The LCCI Director-General, Dr Muda Yusuf highlighted the major challenges faced by the business community in the outgoing year as, liquidity crisis in the foreign exchange market, sharp exchange rate depreciation, high energy and production cost.