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Lagos State Governor, Mr Babatunde Fashola (SAN) received the One Day Governor for Year 2011, Mr Iniodu Jones Akpakpan at Lagos House, Ikeja on a courtesy visit, affirming that by his choice as the winner, Lagos has shown aversion to ethnicity, division and religion.

The Governor who spoke during a Special Executive Council Session attended by the One Day Governor and members of his cabinet said the mixed and multi Nigerian assemblage of the cabinet has shown and demonstrated that Lagos will always recognize and promote the very best of Nigerians wherever they choose to live and study on the great island called Lagos.

‘Governor’ Akpakpan Iniodu being congratulated by Babatunde Raji Fashola, SAN, on his ‘assumption of duty’. They are flanked by ‘members of the cabinet’.

He said the persistent call that Lagos deserves a special treatment inNigeria is best amplified by the scenario that has played out in the 2011 Spelling Bee Competition because if Lagos does not prosper it may not be able to offer the opportunities for people to explore their potentials.

musiwa26: why are majority of the people adult.. and few student.


fee of school fee at Lasu is over N200,000
the price of school fee at ondo state university is less than 30,000

Fashola Receives One Day Governor, Oluwatoyin Adeosun
…Says Govt would continue to confront challenges in Education Sector

Jul 26, 2010 - Lagos State Governor, Mr Babatunde Fashola (SAN) on Monday hosted the 2010 One Day Governor, Miss Oluwatoyin Adeosun at the Lagos House, Ikeja reiterating that the State Government would continue to confront challenges in the field of education.

Governor Fashola who spoke at the Executive Council Chambers when the One Day Governor and members of her executive council addressed members of the State's Council added that all problems cannot be solved in one day but would continuously receive Government's attention.

Governor Fashola explained that the State Executive Council has already tabled the issue of provision of more classrooms for discussion at the weekly meeting, declaring that in the last three years, the administration has provided over 250, 000 classrooms round the state.

The Governor explained that the heartwarming part of the provision of the classrooms is that they all come with well equipped laboratories and Information Technology facilities which are vital for ensuring the imparting of quality learning.

Governor Fashola commended the initiative of former First Lady, Chief (Mrs) Oluremi Tinubu for initiating the One Day Governor's programme through her New Era Foundation, saying the programme has produced students who recorded outstanding performances in Universities.

Fashola Receives One Day Governor, Miss Lilian Ogbuefi At Alausa
…Says Lagos will always give fair opportunity to all

Governor Babatunde Fashola (SAN) on Monday received the 2012 One Day Governor of the State and winner of the Spelling Bee Competition, Miss Lilian Ogbuefi at the Executive Council Chambers of the State House Alausa, stating that the state decided to resuscitate the various literacy skills enhancing programmes because they have proved to be useful building blocks of character.

The Governor who spoke when he received the One Day Governor who was accompanied by some members of her cabinet added that the various programmes like the schools debate, schools quiz have all proved their worth since they were reintroduced.

He said the fact that the winner is a product of a public school is a reaffirmation of the industry that has gone into the revitalization of public schools by the state government despite the fact that it cannot compel people on what choice to make between a public school and a private school for their wards.

Fashola Visits, Offers Scholarship To Students Of Vocational Centre For The Blind As He Turns 49


• Appeals to Lagosians to keep walkways free for the use of pedestrians, physically challenged
As has been his tradition since the last five years, Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola (SAN), Thursday celebrated his 49th birthday with students of the Nigeria Society for the Blind's Vocational Training Centre in Oshodi offering annual scholarships to the students and support for the development projects of the school.

In his remarks at the occasion, Governor Fashola said the State Government would give yearly scholarships to the full capacity of inmates in the school as a way of showing appreciation to the founders, the Board of Trustees and management of the institution for the selfless service they render to the society.

Governor Fashola said in the last five years, his administration has not only put in place a legislation to protect the physically challenge in the society, it has taken concrete steps to show a consciousness of the needs of the group. Among others, he said, Government had made it mandatory to include ramps and walkways while building hospitals, schools, courts and roads especially for the use of the physically challenged as a matter of law enacted by Government which sets guidelines about what it should do to give the

We Are Setting New Levels In Quality Assurance In Public Schools - Fashola
…As State Holds Awards/Breakfast Meeting on Support Our Schools initiatives

The Lagos State Government on Tuesday recognized some corporate organizations and individuals for their support to public schools in the State with the Governor, Mr Babatunde Fashola (SAN) stating that the Government is setting new levels in quality assurance in public schools.

gbanikiti: True talk! meanwhile, Jakande Estate at Iba town which is a stone throw from LASU is going through hell with Electricity problems. The feeder which ought to have been completed for long has been under construction for more than a decade now. I urge Fashola to extend the IPP project to the Estate. After all it belongs to the State Government.

naptu2: I like that idea. If you are not allowed to distribute electricity, you can remove government agencies from the grid and thus free up electricity on the grid for other consumers (reducing demand).

kunlekunle: so lagosians dont study again?

luvinhubby: @op

Pls who told you Lagos state govt is reconstructing Lagos-Badagry expressway, the rail-line is their project & not the road

You may as well tell us that Apapa-Oshodi expressway is being reconstructed by Fashola's administration.

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Gov Fashola at Lagos State Power Kids Awards 2013

Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola SAN (left) congratulates the winner of the Lagos State Power Kids Awards 2013, Master Osadara Gideon of Iju Junior Secondary School (middle) while the General Manager, Lagos State Electricity Board, Mrs. Damilola Ogunbiyi (right) watches with admiration during the Lagos State Power Kids Awards 2013, a Lagos State Government Energy Conservation Initiative, held at the Memorable Gathering, NERDC Road, CBD Alausa, Ikeja on Tuesday, May 14, 2013

Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola SAN (middle)with the Winners of the Junior and Secondary School Category of the Essay Competition on Taxation – Third Position in the Junior category, Miss Temitope Akinbinu (2nd right) from Gbagada Girls Junior School (right), Second Position in the Senior Category, Miss Sunmisola Oyetomi (2nd right) from Apapa Senior High School, First Position in the Junior Category, Miss Yesirah Adepeju Adebiyi (3rd right) of Ashafa Tijani Memorial High School, First position in the Senior Category, Miss Ibukun Ajayi (3rd left) from Lagos African Church Grammar School, Third position in the Senior Category, Miss Blessing Idokwe (2nd left) from Lagos African Church Grammar School and the Second position in the Junior Category, Master Ibrahim Adeyemi Olalekan (left) from Federal Government College Ijanikin during the 6th Lagos State Taxation Stakeholders’ Conference at The Haven, Ikeja GRA, Lagos, on Thursday, January 18, 2013.

Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola SAN (middle) in a group photograph with winners of the Secondary School Essay Competition on Taxation and their parents during the 6th Lagos State Taxation Stakeholders’ Conference at The Haven, Ikeja GRA, Lagos, on Thursday, January 18, 2013.

Omexonomy: the problem of educating rich non indigene en mass is half solved or the problem of turning indigene to agberos en mass is half solve. Which one are you saying.

segiwest: I just understood your plight with this your vocabulary. Nothing good comes cheap.

UNDERGROUNDWATER: FASHOLA CALLS FOR PRUDENT MANAGEMENT, AVOIDANCE OF POLLUTION

“Water is the resource that will define how long we will live on earth, how well we will enjoy that stay”

Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, Tuesday flagged off a one-day seminar with the theme “Ground water Abstraction in Lagos State: Environmental and Health Impact”, calling on residents to be prudent in the management of the underground fresh water and to avoid doing anything that would pollute it.

Governor Fashola, who spoke at the capacity filled Adeyemi Bero, Alausa, venue of the event, also advised Lagosians to always get information from the State’s Water Regulatory Commission before drilling borehole in their compounds in other to avoid drinking contaminated water.

The Governor told the gathering of residents, stakeholders in underground water abstraction and environmental experts, “Water is the resource that will define how long we will live on earth, how well we will enjoy that stay and how meaningful and satisfying it will be for us”.

Likening water to electricity and mobile phones, Governor Fashola explained that just as electricity would expire if over used and mobile phone calls would stop if the money in the card runs out, the underground water which constitute the water we drink, would run out if not prudently managed.

He further explained, “Whether it is water, whether it is electricity, whether it is the telephone, they are utilities and we all need them. Sometimes, they will never be enough. So, you cannot have enough electricity if there is no regulator. Even if we have whatever thousand megawatts and we just decide to put everything on, we know that it will finish if we don’t conserve”.

“It is the same way with water. Sometimes you will also see that when you want to make a call the call drops, the network is congested. There are so many people on the wave band. You are making a call, someone else is sending e-mail, somebody is tweeting, and somebody is sending photographs; so there is need for some waveband management”, the Governor said .

Recalling that the Guest Lecturer mentioned the word “subsidence” which means the failure of the ground as a result of over extraction of water, Governor Fashola said it would not be improbable to divorce such phenomenon from the incidence of collapsed building in parts of the State in recent times.

Governor Fashola declared, “We are not saying don’t drill boreholes, we are saying get information before you do. We are saying if you must drill borehole it is possible one may be enough for a whole street or two streets instead of drilling 20 so that we can share and we can conserve”.

“Water is an important part of our public health strategy. Its management is also important in our security and defense system. It is an asset that helps us to do so many things”, the Governor said adding, “This is important for some of what the guest speaker, Dr. Oteri, has told us that if we don’t conserve, if we don’t manage, we will lose everything”.

He said the Lagos State Government has set up the Water Regulatory Commission, headed by Mrs.’Tanwa Koya, to regulate and monitor the abstraction of underground water in the State in order to ensure conservation and reduce indiscriminate extraction throughout the State.

“They are going to regulate water corporations and all those people who produce water. They will be like the Central Bank for all the banks setting the standard. They will be like the National Communications Commission for all the Telecom operators. They will be like the National Broadcasting Commission for all the Television stations. So they will be the policeman of water”, the Governor said.

Governor Fashola also warned against human activities that lead to the pollution of the underground water such as defecating or urinating in open places and dumping of refuse in unauthorized places saying such activities have led to rampant cases of Cancer and Kidney diseases in recent times.

“High salt intake is not good for the system and it is not impossible to say that high salt intake is not unconnected with the water we drink. It has been demonstrated to us today that if we continue to abuse the groundwater sources, salinity will happen because we are close to the coast. The Atlantic Ocean is full of salt and there is nothing we can do about that. So if we allow it to leak into our fresh water, there is a potential health hazard that will result”, the Governor said.

The Governor also called for caution on how people mix waste and water adding, “There is a very poisonous by product of our waste which comes from the food we eat, the paper bag, the nylon bags; so it is human activity. We should not be afraid of it but we must continually tell ourselves that we must control and manage how we get rid of it”.

“Why are people suddenly dying in their prime of kidney diseases? When I was a child, Cancer was what we read in books, now every other person you and I know or somebody who knows somebody that you know has one form of Cancer or the other. Is it impossible to divorce the rapid occurrence with what we eat, what we drink, how it is produced and also how we are discharging chemicals back into the environment?”, the Governor wondered.

According to the Governor, when people urinate, defecate or discharge their refuse in open places, they will eventually decay and sink into the underground water which is eventually extracted and used by people resulting in the aforementioned diseases.

He called on manufacturers to also be conscious of how hey discharge there effluence saying, “It will come back to us possibly in terms of poisonous or contaminated ground water. Now, when chemicals begin to enter our body at the rate and regularity with which we use water, to bath, to drink, to wash, we have to avoid it. So even if it is small chemical every day, it is on our skin and it can result to deadly disease”.

The Governor hoped that the interactive meeting would lead to a better understanding of the need for conservation of underground water and avoidance of human activities that could lead to pollution of the water.

Earlier, in his welcome address, the Commissioner for Environment, Mr. Tunji Bello, called for a better understanding of the need to avoid activities that could pollute underground water saying because the result of such activities take time to manifest, a long term perspective was needed to manage the resource.

He said as a result of this, the Lagos State Government has developed “a time-tested culture of interactive and consultative approach to policy making, planning and strategizing adding that the Government believes that domestic perspectives must be brought to bear on issues that may be global in nature but with local peculiarities.

“We have gathered experts from the Academia, the Health sector Drilling Practitioners and legal minds to educate us on all the issues of the impact of our collective activities on the ground water resources of Lagos State and what we must do to ensure that these resources are preserved”, the Commissioner said.

Present at the occasion were the Deputy Governor, Hon. (Mrs.) Adejoke Orelope-Adefulire, Executive Secretary of Lagos State Water Regulatory Commission, Mrs. ‘Tanwa Koya, members of the State Executive Council and House of Assembly, Experts and Stakeholders in Water Abstraction, Lagos residents and top government functionaries.

Omexonomy: Tell fashola to reduce the school fees of lasu from N300 thousand naira back to N25 thousand naira for over 80% of student of lasu are non indegìne mostly people accross the niger. Most of lag indegine could not afford that much.

Omexonomy: another lie. This so called research fund that is too dificult to asses. That was why does who need the fund never botherd themselves.

enm: In other word the Koko of the mata or decision be say, yes you are my beloved wife, the mother of my beloved and precious children but don't disrespect my family.