LASG Advises Due Diligence On Real Estate Business Transactions

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LASG Advises Due Diligence On Real Estate Business Transactions

Lagos State Government has advised potential real estate investors to always check the registration portal of the Lagos State Real Estate Regulatory Authority (LASRERA) via its website: lasrera.lagosstate.gov.ng for the list of registered individuals/organisations captured on the agency’s database before committing to any real estate business transactions in the state.   

Special Adviser to Lagos State Governor on Housing, Barr. Barakat Odunuga-Bakare

The Special Adviser to Lagos State Governor on Housing, Barr. Barakat Odunuga-Bakare gave this advice on Thursday at the Y2024 Ministerial Press Briefing held at Bagauda Kaltho Press Centre, Alausa, Ikeja.

Responding to the growing concerns raised over unregistered real estate practitioners and the proliferation of imposters, Barr. Barakat Odunuga-Bakare emphasised the importance of due diligence, especially in areas where new estates and construction works are ongoing.

She highlighted the efforts of the Lagos State Government through LASRERA to safeguard both local and international investors from falling victim to fraudulent schemes.

She disclosed that the strategies put in place by the state government to regulate activities within the real estate sector will serve as a deterrent to fraudulent practices within the real estate sector and enable swift intervention and sanctions against erring practitioners.

Odunuga-Bakare also underscored the effectiveness of LASRERA’s regulatory measures, noting that the agency’s database currently boasts 925 registered individuals and organisations, with an additional 2550 practitioners in the process of enrollment.

“LASRERA has a database of 925 registered individuals/organisations on its registration portal while over 2550 practitioners have enrolled to be registered”. Odunuga-Bakare stated.

Adeoti Sobowale 

Deputy Director,

 Public Affairs ,

LASRERA .

15th May, 2024.

Be Vigilant, Avoid Actions That Can Undermine Your Effective Performance, Aregbesola Advises Immigration Officers

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Aregbesola 

The Minister for Interior, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola has urged officers and men of the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) to be extra vigilant and abstain from activities that could undermine effective performance of their duty and safety of the country. 

 

Ogbeni Aregbesola spoke on Friday, 5 February, 2021 during the commissioning of the NIS' Office Complex in Kaduna. 

"As you are all aware, national security is a life and death matter for all of us, especially considering that the security challenges we face have a foreign component. It is therefore our bounden duty to ensure that foreigners who are likely to harm us in any way are kept away from our shores and borders. This requires that you be extra vigilant and abstain from attitudes and activities that could undermine effective performance of your duty and the safety of our land," he explained

In a speech titled, 'A Befitting Accommodation for the Service', he stated that the ministry is fast putting behind the days when government Ministries, Department and Agencies (MDAs) rent buildings for office accommodation. 

"This event is a proof of our commitment and the demonstration of government to improving public facilities and emplace good working environment for officers and men. This is because we have placed premium on infrastructure and human capital development," he disclosed.

The Nigeria Immigration Service Management, the Minister noted, made a firm resolve that command office complexes are built in all the 36 state command structure of the Service and the FCT. It is against this background that the Ministry keeps supporting agencies under it, including NIS in its effort to building and refurbishment of office accommodation. 

"From late last year to this year despite some hitches due to the outbreak of COVID-19, the Ministry successfully commissioned the Kwara and Oyo States Command office complexes virtually. 

"Today we are here to commission the Kaduna State Command Complex. It is my belief that this edifice will provide the needed comfort for officers and men of this Command to function effectively. Therefore, I enjoin the personnel serving in Kaduna Command to make good use of this new command office complex' he pointed out.

 He also commended the Service for the gradual deployment of technology in their operations, especially Migration Information and Data Analysis System (MIDAS) in controlling the data of every person entering or leaving Nigeria.

Ramadan: Egunjobi Advises Muslim Faithful To Obey Govt. Directives

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By KAZEEM AKANDE

Alhaji Ganiyu Egunjobi, the Executive Chairman, Agege Local Government Council, Lagos, has urged Muslim Faithful to adhere to government directives on COVID-19 during the Ramadan period to prevent spread of the pandemic in the state.

Egunjobi gave the advice in an interview with News Agency of Nigeria on Thursday in Lagos.

According to him, Muslim Faithful should adhere strictly to all directives from the government during this Ramadan period to curtail further spread of the virus.

“I am not a nominal Muslim, I practise, but no religion, not even Islam subscribe to suicide or attempted suicide.

“We cannot continue to press the self-destruction button in the name of worshipping God,” he said.

The chairman said the local government had shut down the popular Alhaja Mosque in Agege, to prevent spread of the pandemic among the worshipers and residents as a whole.

Egunjobi said that such action had prevented the possible spread of the virus among the over 300 worshipers in the mosque.

“We recently made the headlines for leading a team of the council officials to shut down a mosque in the area where worshippers defied government’s ban on congregational worship amid the Coronavirus after they viciously attacked officials of the State’s Taskforce on the COVID-19.

“It was an unfortunate incident that if we had let go and failed to rise up to the occasion as a grassroots government, it has dire consequences which would hurt public policy in a great deal.

“It was quite appalling, a clear breach of government’s order, and to add insult to injury they attacked officials of the State’s Taskforce on COVID-19.

“We all know the state government has the capacity to deal with the situation but because mischievous bigots, ethnic jingoists and misguided elements among us may use the moment to fuel crisis.

“So, it required local solution and we stepped into the breach,” he said.

According to him, the council met with Sarkin Hausawa, and other stakeholders before we moved to the place, chased everybody out of the mosque, fumigated it, which I personally did and locked it up.

Egunjobi said that the council was trying to disabuse the mind of the people from erroneous belief that Coronavirus was the sickness of only the rich.

“I do tell those who insist on having religious gatherings and congregational worships that we cannot be more catholic than Pope.

 Pope suspended all religious ceremonies from catholic mass to funeral in Vatican.

“The grand zero of Islam, Saudi Arabia, the authorities called off all year-round lesser hajj, Umrah, suspended congregational prayers of all forms and shapes in all the country’s mosques except the Grand mosque, Haram in Mecca and the Prophet’s Mosque in Medina where there are strict restriction on the number of worshippers while prayer outside the two holy mosques are prohibited,” he said.

He said that before the lockdown, the council had been carrying out aggressive sensitisation across all the nooks and crannies and stakeholders, but the compliance was nothing to write home about.

The chairman said that according to Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, (NCDC) there was only one case of Coronavirus victims in Agege, adding that this was not to say that the people were doing the right things.

It was reports that Saudi Arabia’s Supreme Court has reportedly urged its citizens to look out for the crescent moon on Thursday, April 23 and report their findings to moon sighting committees set up specifically for the purpose.

Stop Living 'Marlians Lifestyle' DCP Disu Advises Secondary School Students

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Tunji Disu, Naira Marley

The Lagos State Rapid Response Squad (RRS) Rapid Response on Wednesday warned pupils attending  schools  in Lagos State to guide against living the street lifestyle popularly called ” the Marlian”.

Its Commander, Deputy Commissioner of Police, DCP Olatunji Disu gave the warning at the “Security Day” Celebration organised by some law enforcement agencies for some secondary school pupils in the state.


The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that some of the secondary schools that participated in programme include: Ikeja Senior Grammar School, Ikeja Junior Secondary and Ikeja Junior College.

According to the DCP, the ‘Marlian lifestyle is not decent enough to be copied by any responsible child.

According to the him, this category of people are fond of wearing their trousers beneath their buttocks and always expose their underwears.

”The Marlians also change their natural hairs to dreadlocks, smoke illicit substances and live  very rough lifestyles  and other abnormal attitudes ,” Disu said.

According to the the RRS boss, living such a lifestyle is abnormal.

NAN reports that Afeez Fashola, a Nigerian singer with the Stage name ‘Naira Marley’, came up with the Marlian ideology.

A marlian is any real follower of the controversial Naira Marley who must love a controversial lifestyle.

Disu also advised the pupils not to join ‘Eiye’ and other illegal confraternities and secret cults no matter what they were offering prospective members.

“If you join any secret and illegal cult, you are not sure of coming out alive. Moreover, it will affect the entire family system of its members.

”The cultists also depend heavily on the use of illicit drugs to drive them high.

“This has contributed to the high rate of crime in the country,” he said.

Disu also advised the pupils not to get immersed in the social media in order to face their studies without distractions.

According to him, the adverse effects of the social media are vast than the benefits.

“Some of you make new friends on the social media everyday.

”Through this activity alone, many students had gone missing or been kidnapped, please face your studies.

“Be security wise and remember your parents need you to take care of them at their old ages,” he said.

(NAN)