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Governor 1977 July 1978 Military Commodore Ebitu Ukiwe [1] Governor July 1978 October 1979 Military Alhaji Lateef Jakande [1] Governor October 1979 December 1983 Unity Party of Nigeria (UPN) Air Commodore Gbolahan Mudasiru [1] Governor January 1984 August 1986 Military Navy Captain Mike Akhigbe [1] Governor August 1986 July 1988 Military
Lagos Echo and Lagos Standard newspapers begin publication. [9] Bank of British West Africa established. [10] 1898 - Electric street lighting commences operation. [6] 1899 Anglo-African Bank established. [8] Briton William MacGregor becomes governor of Lagos Colony. 1900 - Ibadan-Lagos railway begins operating. [11]
Lagos State Government is the government of Lagos State, concerned with the administration of the state ministries. [1] The government consists of the executive, legislative and Judiciary. [2] The government is headed by the Governor who is the policy-maker and often assisted by the commissioners and other civil servants of the state. [3]
The governor of Lagos State is the head of government of Lagos State in Nigeria. [1] The governor leads the executive branch of the Lagos State Government. This position places its holder in leadership of the state with command authority over the state affairs. The Governor is frequently described to be the number one citizen of the state.
In January 2022 the Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, reiterated the plan by the state government to commence the construction on the Opebi-Mende link bridge and the 38-kilometre 4th mainland bridge: "Construction work on the 38km 4th Mainland Bridge — which will be the longest in Africa — and the Opebi-Mende link bridge will ...
Babajide Olusola Sanwo-Olu [1] (born 25 June 1965) [2] [3] [4] is a Nigerian politician who has served as the governor of Lagos State since 2019. [6]Sanwo-Olu became governor under the platform of the All Progressives Congress after winning the APC gubernatorial primaries against then-incumbent governor, Akinwunmi Ambode who had fallen out of favour with his alleged political sponsor.
Femi Odugbemi is a Nigerian writer, filmmaker, television producer and the founder and executive producer of Zuri24 Media, a content production company in Lagos.. Odugbemi was the president of the Independent Television Producers Association of Nigeria (ITPAN), the chair of the Lagos International Forum on Cinema, Motion Pictures and Video in Africa from 2002 to 2006.
Aerial view of Lagos in 1929. Lagos is the largest city of the West-African country of Nigeria, and its former capital; it is the largest city in Africa in terms of population with about 15.3 million people. [1] It is also the 4th largest economy in Africa. [2]