Governor Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos State has stressed importance of the entertainment industry, especially the movie section, in positively shaping the society. Ambode, while receiving a Hollywood actor, Danny Glover, who is in the country for a new film that chronicles the Ebola Virus Disease that struck Nigeria in 2014, 93 Days, promised to throw…
Governor Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos State has sent names of his would-be Commissioners and Special Advisers to the state House of Assembly for approval. In the list are 23 Commissioners and 13 Special Advisers, who are mainly technocrats and the governor hopes to work with them to move the state forward. At the moment, Ambode…
Governor of Lagos State, Akinwunmi Ambode, has promised to transform the state-owned television station, LTV 8, to a world class media house. Ambode made this disclosure when he paid an unscheduled visit to the station, located on Lateef Jakande Road, Agidingbi, Ikeja, on Wednesday, July 8, 2015. He was taken round facilities in the station…
The resignation of Governor Akinwunmi Ambode from the Lagos State Civil Service at an early age in 2012 as the Accountant General of Lagos State became a subject for debate during his campaign before the April 11 governorship election, but being an ‘anointed’ candidate of some powerful personalities in the state, he emerged the governor…
The gubernatorial candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Lagos State, Akinwunmi Ambode, has reacted to an allegation of mental disorder history made against him by a group known as Greater Lagos Alliance. President of the body, Dr Lanre Adeoye, in a statement he personally signed, had alleged that Ambode’s history of mental disorder…
Amongst the numerous politicians jostling to become the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Lagos State few weeks back was a trained accountant, Akinwunmi Ambode. The rest is now history as Ambode was elected by the delegates of the party as he got over 65% of the vote at the primary election,…
On Friday, October 24, 2014, Akinwunmi Ambode formally declared his intention to contest in the 2015 gubernatorial election in Lagos State under the platform of All Progressives Congress, APC. At a colourful declaration ceremony held at the Onikan Stadium, Lagos, the former Lagos civil servant said he is offering himself to the service of Lagos…