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  The Lagos State Government has launched a project "The Art for Climate Change", to with the aim of using creative art to tackle climate challenges and promote awareness and action through artistic expression.  For the project, the Lagos State Government is partnering with the Creative Youth Community Development Initiative - Solution17 for Climate Action, and New York University, Abu Dhabi in United Arab Emirates (UAE), to promote climate change awareness and action using artistic expression.  Speaking at a press conference on Thursday in Ikeja, to herald the launch of the Art for Climate Project, the Permanent Secretary, Lagos State Ministry of Environment and Water Resources, Mr. Gaji Omobolaji, disclosed that artists from Lagos will collaborate with Tech Innovators, Experts in relevant fields, students from New York University, Abu Dhabi and the Universities Climate Network United Arab Emirates (UAE), to co-create innovative solutions to problems around key thematic area

  By   Samuel Bolaji Community chiefs, religious leaders, political stakeholders, students and other indigenes of the Eti-Osa Local Government Area of Lagos State, on Thursday, protested the alleged exclusion of their indigenes in the government of Babajide Sanwo-Olu. The protest by the indigenous people of Eti-Osa is coming days after a group, Eti-Osa Heritage Organisation,  alleged that outsiders had been listed as indigenes of their local government among the 39 commissioner-nominees sent to the Lagos State House of Assembly for screening and confirmation. The protesters, who spoke at a press conference on Thursday, decried “a grand deceit where people not related to Eti-Osa would take their slot.” The President, Eti-Osa Heritage Organisation, Adewale Sanni,  lamented that out of the 39 nominees for commissioners and special advisers, none of them is from Eti-Osa. “Ours is an indigenous community with over 500 years of history and our local government is constitutionally recognised

The Executive Chairman of Eredo LCDA, Hon. Ismail Monsuru Akinloye, has given out welfare packages to the residents of Eredo LCDA. The Eredo Food Bank Initiative will be held each month and aims to help the general public. According to the council boss, the Eredo food bank program will continue for as long as it is able to do so, with the intention of helping as many people as possible. Another program, the Eredo house-to-house food bank, will also be launched, and as part of it, a crew will visit various homes in the local government and deliver food. This idea is a public movement, not a political one, claims Akinloye. He claimed that, prior to the gasoline issue, he had always wanted to take the initiative. Akinloye further reassured the populace that things would improve. He urged everyone to maintain their composure and said that Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the president, and his cabinet were working hard to keep the nation stable. "The initiative of Eredo LCDA is highly welco