Tag Archives: Akinwunmi Ambode

Reactions have continued  to trail the Lagos State Government’s  recent re-enacted Land Use Charge, (LUC), with the Manufacturers Association of Nigeria (MAN)  appealing to  it to reverse its current increment  in the charges, in order to  ensure the survival of the manufacturing sector. On its part, the  organised private sector, (OPS) has threatened to resist the review of the LUC, ...

Lagos Governor, Akinwunmi Ambode has said that by 2025, the state will be Africa’s model mega city.

Lagos Governror, Akinwunmi Ambode is currently hosting business stakeholders  at Zinnia Hall, Eko Hotels and Suites,Victoria Island, Lagos for a round table discussion to present the giant strides and views of the government-business collaboration towards accelerated economic development.

The Lagos State Government has appealed to Lagosians to pay their taxes, so that it could carry out its duty of industrialisation via the provision of infrastructure, creation of jobs and wealth and firm security.

The Lagos State Government has released a calendar of over 70 state-sponsored and endorsed arts and culture programmes slated for the rest of this year in its bid to garner visibility for tourism-oriented art programmes. The novel exercise, according to a release signed by the State’s Commissioner for Tourism, Arts and Culture, Steve Ayorinde, is designed to front-load public and ...

The Lagos State Governor, Akinwunmi Ambode, on Monday, signed the 2018 Appropriation Bill of the state into law with a total budget size of N1,046,121,181,680.00. The total budget size comprised N347,038, 938,872.00 to be funded from the Consolidated Revenue Fund, and N699,082,242,808.00 from the Development Fund for both capital and recurrent expenditure for the year ending 31st December, 2018. The ...

Lagos State Governor, Akinwunmi Ambode, on Monday, made an announcement that the State Government would no longer accept cash payment in revenue collection. The governor said this will be effective from March 1, 2018, and that the measure is aimed at improving on service delivery to residents of the State and to block revenue leakages. He made this announcement, on ...

President Muhammadu Buhari has been listed as one of the dignitaries to discuss strategic importance of collaboration among key institutions for national development at the first Lagos-Kano Economic and Investment Summit. The summit, which is scheduled to hold at the Jubilee Chalets, Epe, Lagos, between February 28 and March 1, will focus on thematic areas, such as security, governance, ease ...

For the first time, in the fifty-year history of Lagos state, its government has budgeted a little over N1trillion for its re-current and current activities in 2018. It’s a budget with a 65-35 percent ratio for recurrent and current projects, respectively. As ambitious as it is, it’s a budget, in which an aggressive drive for internally generated revenue (IGR) would ...

Lagos Governor,  Akinwunmi Ambode  on Thursday appealed to defaulting companies and the Organised Private Sector (OPS) in the state to promptly pay their taxes, representing 70 per cent of the state’s Internally generated revenue. Ambode, who spoke at the second Lagos Corporate Assembly interactive session at the Lagos House, Alausa, said that payment of taxes would guarantee the creation of ...