Special Adviser to Lagos State Governor, Mr. Solomon Bonu Sanu; Professor Wole Soyinka; CNOOC General Manager Operational, Mez Zheng; Chief Reuben Okundaye; celebrant, Chief (Mrs) Nike Davies-Okundaye; Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu; Osun State Governor, Mr. Adegboyega Oyetola and his wife, Kafayat during the 70th birthday dinner of Chief (Mrs) Nike, at the Banquet Hall of Eko Hotel & Suites, Victoria Island, Lagos, on Sunday, May 23, 2021.
L-R: Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu (fourth left), followed by the celebrant, Chief (Mrs) Nike Davies-Okundaye; her husband, Chief Reuben Okundaye CNOOC General Manager Operational, Mez Zheng and members of Lagos State Executive Council during the 70th birthday dinner of Chief (Mrs) Nike, at the Banquet Hall of Eko Hotel & Suites, Victoria Island, Lagos, on Sunday, May 23, 2021,L-R: Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu; celebrant, Chief (Mrs) Nike Davies-Okundaye; CNOOC General Manager Operational, Mez Zheng and the Special Adviser to the Governor, Mr. Solomon Bonu Sanu during the 70th birthday dinner of Chief (Mrs) Nike Davies-Okundaye, at the Banquet Hall of Eko Hotel & Suites, Victoria Island, Lagos, on Sunday, May 23, 2021.L-R: Professor Wole Soyinka, the celebrant, Chief (Mrs) Nike Davies-Okundaye and Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu during the 70th birthday dinner of Chief (Mrs) Nike, at the Banquet Hall of Eko Hotel & Suites, Victoria Island, Lagos, on Sunday, May 23, 2021.Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu, with the celebrant, Chief (Mrs) Nike Davies-Okundaye and her husband, Chief Reuben Okundaye during the 70th birthday dinner of Chief (Mrs) Nike, at the Banquet Hall of Eko Hotel & Suites, Victoria Island, Lagos, on Sunday, May 23, 2021.L-R: Special Adviser to the Governor, Mr. Solomon Bonu Sanu; celebrant, Chief (Mrs) Nike Davies-Okundaye; Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu and CNOOC General Manager Operational, Mez Zheng during the 70th birthday dinner of Chief (Mrs.) Nike Davies-Okundaye, at the Banquet Hall of Eko Hotel & Suites, Victoria Island, Lagos, on Sunday, May 23, 2021.
The Lagos State House of Assembly has charged the Ministry of Transportation, related departments and agencies to ensure effective enforcement of the State's transportation laws, especially as it relates to commercial motorcycle riders.
But for the ministerial presentations on the achievements of the President Bola Tinubu administration in its first year, christened Ministerial Sectoral Update, which began on Tuesday May 21 at the National Press Centre in Abuja, many may not have known or appreciated the quantum of work that has been done by the government within such a short period of one year in office. This piece is not really about the re-engineering work that is being done on the economy, which is now recording a gradual growth. For instance, according to the National Bureau of Statistics, the nation recorded a 2.98% growth in the first quarter of this year, higher than 2.31% recorded in the same period in 2023.
A country of many paradoxes, Nigeria does not refine a drop of all the products it consumes. But the Nigerian National Petroleum Company says it has devised a different strategy to get the country’s ailing refineries back to function. Will they work this time? Maybe, maybe not, writes Emmanuel Addeh.