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  CARDOSO LEADS EIGHT-MAN TEAM FOR LAGOS RECOVERY EFFORTS …As Sanwo-Olu signs Executive Order for Rebuild Lagos Trust Fund Days of reflection over the carnage sparked by the hijack of the #EndSARS protests seems to have ended in Lagos, with Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu leading the battle to rebuild razed infrastructure. The Governor today (Wednesday) signed an Executive Order for the formation of an eight-man Board to coordinate efforts to restore lost assets. Citibank Nigeria Chairman, Mr. Yemi Cardoso will head the Board of the Lagos Rebuild Trust Fund. The Board members were unveiled at a Press Conference at the Governor’s Office, Alausa, Ikeja. Sanwo-Olu said the Government decided to put the criminal destruction behind it and face the huge and necessary task of rebuilding the State. The government, he said, would be embracing new standards of governance and building stronger partnerships, which would enable the State to bequeath stronger institutions and cohesion among residen...

  The Chief of the Air Staff (CAS), Air Marshal Sadique Abubakar, has expressed satisfaction with the progress of ongoing infrastructural development projects at the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) Base Kainji, Niger State, which are being emplaced to accommodate the 12 x A-29 Super Tucano aircraft when they arrive Nigeria as well as the NAF personnel that would operate and maintain them. The CAS equally applauded the appreciable level of work on the in-country Periodic Depot Maintenance (PDM) on 2 Alpha Jet aircraft, NAF 465 and NAF 471, as well as engine recovery efforts being undertaken by the 407 Air Combat Training Group (407 ACTG) Kainji. Air Marshal Abubakar made this known yesterday, 3 November 2020, while on an operational visit to Kainji NAF Base, where he inspected the ongoing construction of 3 blocks of 10 single-bedroom Single Officers’ Quarters (SOQ), one block of 6 x three-bedroom Married Officers’ Quarters (MOQ) as well as a block of 30 x single-bedroom Transit Accommodati...

  ...to pay N231m as compensation for road dualisation ...maternity leave for pregnant, nursing mothers now six months The Government of Oyo State has re-awarded the contract for the completion of the 7.2 kilometre Idi Ape-Basorun-Akobo- Odogbo Barracks road through the Alternative Project Funding Approach. The contract, according to the state's Commissioner for Information, Culture and Tourism, Dr. Wasiu Olatubosun, was awarded to Messrs Fax Consults at the cost of N3,280,568,572.34 only [Three Billion, Two Hundred and Eighty Million, Five Hundred and Sixty-Eight Thousand, Five Hundred and Seventy-Two naira and Thirty-Four Kobo only]. This is coming on the heels of the commitment made by the state governor, Engineer Seyi Makinde, during the last media interaction on Independence Day that the government would re-award the contract in four weeks. A statement by the Chief Press Secretary to the governor, Mr. Taiwo Adisa, indicated that the Commissioner, while briefing newsmen shortly...

  Oke-Odo Senior High School, Alimosho has emerged champion in the grand finale of the Year 2020 Lagos State Schools Debate (Season X) with 75 points to beat the Lagos State Senior Model College, Kankon, Badagry, which scored 73 points, and Babs-Fafunwa Millennium Secondary School, Ojodu with 71 points to the second and third positions respectively. Speaking at the Virtual Grand Finale held today, the Honourable Commissioner for Education, Mrs. Folasade Adefisayo opined that the competition is an initiative of the State Government aimed at producing socially stable and self-reliant students, who can easily integrate into the larger society. Adefisayo enthused that the debate competition over the years had enabled students to think critically, analysing topical issues that concern them and relating to their environment, adding that the initiative also gives the opportunity of self-expression and offer of solutions to situations affecting the State and Nation. The Commissioner averre...