Governor Babatunde Fashola "Controversial" Law on Cremation

Governor of Lagos state, south-west Nigeria, Babatunde Fashola has signed the cremation bill into law. This is one law that will sure generate controversy in the days or even months ahead. It is expected, it is welcome.

Like David Mark, our own senate president said on lesbianism, cremation law is strange to Nigeria and Nigerians; it is not in our character. It is against our culture. It is an imported concept. As if Islam and Christianity is also not an imported religion.

Lagos ACN Faults Minister Over Alleged Non-Performance

IN reaction to the Federal Government’s statement on Monday that the administration of Governor Babatunde Raji Fashola was doing nothing significant in Lagos, the state chapter of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) has described the Minister for Information, Labaran Maku, as a disoriented wayfarer and a serial blackmailer who has ridiculed the Information Ministry with his attempt to extort states for a phantom good governance tour when he had done nothing to lift the Ministry of Information above the said position of purveyors of infantile propaganda.

Fashola Unveils Adopted Athletes in Lagos

IT was pomp and pageantry Thursday as Governor of Lagos State, Babatunde Raji Fashola unveiled 57 athletes who have been adopted by sponsors in the Adopt-A-Talent Sports Programme.

The unveiling ceremony, which was held at the auditorium of the Governor’s Office in Alausa, Ikeja was attended by dignitaries, who included the Deputy Governor Adejoke Orelope Adefulire, the Chief of Staff, Lanre Babalola, Sports Commissioner,