 This is the great allegor's vision and I'm your host, Love Ikuku Oyeduku. Akosri look at some of the successes recorded by Governor Babaji Desa Oulu in the last three years shows that the state has made remarkable progress across all sectors of the economy. Within three years, Governor Babaji Desa Oulu has commissioned 1,097 school infrastructure projects covering 970 schools across 20 local governments and 37 local council development areas. The governor has also touched the agricultural sector. The immotorized smill said to be among the largest in the world and largest in sub-Saharan Africa upon completion is expected to be producing 2.5 million bags of 50 kg rice annually, creating more than 250,000 jobs. The Sawulu administration has seen the completion and commissioning of roads across the state. The health sector is not left out through the medical project implementation unit and PIU. Governor Sawulu kicked started a total upgrade of infrastructure in the state owned primary, secondary and tertiary health care facilities. The administration has also completed and commissioned numerous new road projects across the three sanitary districts, even completed the ones he inherited from the last administration and still counting. This is the Greater Lagos vision and I'm your host once again, Lovie Kuku Uyeduku. Welcome. This episode features Lekieakwa Expressway. We feel your pain. Lagos state government tells residents a piece of our ongoing reconstruction. Parking levee designed to eliminate indiscriminate levee collection says Lagos state government. Transportation Lagos government introduces cash reward to lagfairy users says waterways now safe. These are many more when we return. Please say with us. The Lagos state government says it feels the pains of residents of Lekieakwa and has appealed to residents and road users over all inconveniences, the reconstruction of the ongoing 18.7 kilometer Lekieakwa Expressway may have cause. Enginia Aramide Adioju special advice works and infrastructure to Governor Sawulu stated this in a chat with newsmen. Enginia Adioju noted that the Sawulu government is a responsive government that wants the best for the citizens. Los of man hours is regrettable and we're trying to minimize that even school children for school children because it doesn't make sense for them to go spend hours in traffic before they get to school. It makes them very, very unproductive by the time they get to school. The learning capabilities will do and do. So we recognize that and so for this oppression in the next phase two because it's strategic. You have a lot of schools around that area. The contractor will see the work methodology that we will put in place to ensure that the contractor can possibly walk, maybe possibly in the night, ensure that the diversions are done in a way and manner that can actually minimize the pain and hardship that they are going through. But it's regrettable, but as a government it's not as if we don't feel the pain. And so we sincerely apologize and regret all of those pains that they are going through right now. But it's a thing that will soon fade away once we move in and the contractor stabilizes and people can ride on that stabilized surface. She, however, attributed the cause of the gridlock now experiencing the area to behave very important of people who disobey traffic laws. But in all of this, one major point of note is the fact that the way people behave when people will not cease to if they continue to face one way because the officials of last night everybody was there. Even last night all of the things that last night needed to do to rejig, to ensure that they would double their personnel, their resources, work in triple shifts. Everything they needed to do had been put in place even for the men to be able to up their game. But that subsided for like a month and we saw people go back to their old ways of facing one way. So it's about enforcement. When you are having construction work going on, government feels the pain. It doesn't make sense for people to go waste man hours. We do and that's why we are reconstructing the road. But there is no pain without gain. Road, it's a methodical job because we've done the face one, we've done 18 kilometers and we succeeded at it. The next 16 kilometers should not be a problem when people decide to be lane disciplined, stay in lane, obey diversion signs and allow the contractor to walk. So it's not as if government doesn't need to be stampeded to know what they ought to do. We have already taken practice steps. Travelling on Lagos Ferry will now attract cash reward, so says the Lagos State Government. This comes as the government announced that its waterways are now safe. Lagos remains one of the busiest cities in Nigeria. It's home to over 500 active startups with a massive consumer market. Commuting within a state densely populated as Lagos has been herkilian in spite of alternative means such as water transportation. All that is about to change now with a reward system in place. Lagferry users are now to receive cash rewards when they use the waterways. My two, Hiji Mwekwa, Ibuti Ojo, Padakri, Ekbe, Ibenjuleki. Anywhere you hide, Lagos CMS, Ibuti Oro. Anywhere you hide in Lagos are your patronising Lagos State Ferry services. Once you spend 5,000 nera, what of many, no matter the trips. If it's one way or two ways or three ways or whatever, your 5,000 nera qualifies you for a good token. And instantly, instantly, you will be entered into a draw that can make you win in a 500,000, 1,000,000, 3,000,000, 50,000,000, 100,000,000. So every 5,000 nera qualifies you for this draw and for a good token. The core values of the initiative is said to create a responsive path to meet the needs of Lagosians. I'm sure you know what gaming and betting is all about. I'm sure you know because it's like every weekend your the draw is is being done transparently everywhere. So if you win, you know you are qualified for what you have won. But you have to win. You know what I mean. So I wish you all the best. The more you buy, the more chances that you will win. So once again, I say buy in Lagos, win in Lagos. You must buy, you must buy before you can enter the draw. And like I said, it is just the right time that government seems to you know want to lean towards the buyers because they make things happen in Lagos. In Lagos, things happen. People come there. There is one Ibu man that said if you come with what do you call it? Is it gonna must go or whatever to Lagos? You go back with Jeep, isn't it? Because this is Lagos where everything happens. So and if you've been doing business and you've been making it and you've been growing we as government seems to be of the opinion that you need to say thank you back to people that are making it happen and that's why this reward system is being encouraged. So if you have Nalai Nalai, Nalai Nalai no diget anything. You have to be part of it before you know it's natural. Igo talking is natural. Thank you very much. It is very clear it has nothing to do with legal tender. What we're talking about is you spend for your satisfaction and getting value for money and at the same time you are getting reward. We're not talking about using it as a means of payment. It's you spend and you get value for your money and reward as well. Also you talked about trust. You should be seen here that because there's transparency that is why the legal state consumer protection is invited here. So wherever you believe or you think that your consumer rights has been breached, definitely you can approach us as a consumer. You use this token and you believe that you've used up to 5,000 lira on record and you expect to be to qualify for the for the draws and the token. So definitely if you think there's something wishy washy, you can as well approach us. That is transparency. In an effort to raise the standards for safety measures, the government is set to establish a command and control center to monitor activities on the waterways. Since the introduction of lagferry into the waterways, we've had significant development of our waterways because the main reason of bringing lagferry in is to be able to set the standards for the kind of votes we want to see on our waterways. And in terms of the safety that was spoken about, there's been so many things done and which has helped improve safety on the waterways. The first thing the state government was able to do was employ more officers to be able to cover all of the jetties and the terminal. So we increased the workforce of the safety officers, which helped us be able to monitor effectively on the waterways. Secondly, we're also able to increase our patrol of the waterways as well as well as upgrade our search and rescue units. Thirdly, we're able to also ensure now that it's much easier to be able to access even petrol. Buying petrol on the water, as I speak to you, follow more of the first one, as are today, Ijego Eba and Ikuru do also have four dumps, which helps eradicate the use of just buying fuel and just using kegs to buy fuel on our waterways. And we're not stopping that. The state government as well is about to commission the first of its kind in West Africa, a command and a control center. The whole idea of that command and control center is to be able to effectively monitor all of the activities going on on the waterways in terms of safety, in terms of security and of course gathered data for the government to be able to make informed decisions. And this will also help us be able to respond to emergencies even much quicker. Yes, we know that we're fortunate incidents in the recent time, but prior to those two incidents, which were back to back for nine months, we may have any incidents on our water, which is the first of its kind. And also thanks to the fact that look, we have lagged very certain the standard leading the role. But of course, there's still other operators as well. And as regulators want to ensure that safety is very very important. Like I said, safety would encourage more people to use the waterways. All eyes, especially travelers on waters are looking forward to the impact of the project. The Lagos state governor, Babaji Desomolu, has said that his administration will continue to prioritize the development of education sector in the state through increase in the education budget. The governor mentioned these are the opening day of our today 2022 Lagos state education summit. These are stakeholders from the education sector drawn from across Australia of the nation. They are here locking horns on how to evolve a feed for purpose education model for the state. Governors are only who joined viasum from Abuja, but was represented physically by the secretary to the state government for Lacha Dejaji, said that improved education is one of the legacies he wishes to leave behind by the time he leaves office. Education for us is a must for us. It's one of the major major dividends of democracy. It's one of the cardinal objective of any government that is what it's for. And so for us we see education as one of the things, one of the tools that can end poverty in our system. We see education as one of the legacies that we can decrease to generations coming behind us. And so we're not paying any service to education. We're thinking it very, very, very seriously. And it's one of the major, major, major, major pillars that we believe that will be judged at the end of our time in government. There are lots of big, big, big initiatives and ideas that we've actually been propelling that have been pushing our ideology in the last three, three and a half years. Education happens to be on year on year one of the only few sectors that has continued to receive an increment in budgetary allocations both at the capital and also with the recurring expenditure. On her part, the Commissioner for Education for Lashadi Adefisayo said Nigeria has a lot to do in improving the education sector and that the summit was organized to find solutions to the problems facing the sector in the country. So this is about audacity. It's not another talk show. Nigeria has a lot. We have a lot of problems. Yes, Nigeria has the largest number of our school children in the world. Among other unfavorable key performance indicators of education. We have a lot of work to do and therefore the Lagos State Education Summit is important because some of the outcomes of this summit, we hope, will contribute to the process of framing the solutions to the well-known problems in the sector. Lagos State has the platform and the capacity to contribute to education in Nigeria. That is why we are here. This 30-year development plan will provide the bandwidth to drive the zemes agenda of this administration of which technology and education are recognized as part of the pillars. In the words of the governor again at the official announcement of the plan, he said, the dimensions to this plan are to keep a thriving economy that will make Lagos a robust, healthy and growing economy with adequate jobs and strategic investments to sustain growth. The governor further said, we are building a human-centric city in which every Lagosia will have access to affordable and world-class education, healthcare and social services. Stakeholders believe that creating a sustainable feed-for-purpose education model calls for a reworking of the current system being operated. Your content will reflect your socioeconomic affinity. The teachers must be able to be globally competitive in terms of what is acquired of them globally. These are some of the things feed-for-purpose education is designed to do. We have to look at quality of our education. One key thing we need to solve is the quality of our teachers. We cannot improve education outcomes in Nigeria if we don't improve the quality of our teachers. And to do that, it goes beyond training 5,000 teachers, 10,000 teachers. We must come up with a model that can train millions of teachers on a yearly basis based on incentives. Those are the kinds of things we need to rethink. Those are hard questions we need to ask ourselves. The Vice Chancellor of Pan-Atlantic University, Nigeria, Professor Enase Okonedu, in her lecture, lamented a decay in the education sector, noting that the knowledge-based system that Nigeria now practices is no longer appropriate. Okonedu urged stakeholders to see education as an investment that can make the youth thrive in an ever-changing world. The Lagos State Government has refuted 4th alarms over packing levy by its agency, the Lagos State Parking Authority, LASPA, saying that the development was designed to eliminate indiscriminate levy collections. The Lagos State Commission of Transportation, Dr. Frederick Oladende, added a press briefing on the activities of the newly created agency, LASPA, said against the arena's claims by setting individuals and groups. LASPA has the power by law to collect packing levis. This press conference is to pull the record straight on a purported viral post on social media by a business owner on demand notice by Lagos State Parking Authority, LASPA, charging him to pay the sum of 290,000 naira for packing in his compound. But the Lagos State Government says it's all false. The Lagos State Parking Authority, LASPA, according to the Commissioner for Transportation, Frederick Oladende, says any setback not in the title of a property belongs to the government, except whoever is claiming ownership proves otherwise. He said the idea that informed the creation of LASPA was to put an end to impediments arising from indiscriminate packing and collection of levis. For example, you build a supermarket. The supermarket would have the space that is allocated to it and then the supermarket would have a fence around it. Now, the distance between the fence because we believe that that fence is put, I mean they put it at the limit, and the distance between that fence and the drainage, which we know is not allocated to anybody, is actually the setback. It's important that we understand the definition of a setback. That setback belongs to the government. Now, if the supermarket actually wants additional parking space, it's welcome to visit the agency and then pay for that parking space. For State Commissioner for Information and Strategy, BINGA or Motor Show sell the claims for an attempt to malign the government by mischievous people. After the recognition of an absenum television, people don't know anything about law at all. They raise their hands and beating the ear in anger to say that what the grocery government has done is wrong. And they are basing this on false information that to pack it up with your company, you are supposed to pay. I think this is the philosophy of the ear. It's not true and it's an attempt to malign the government by mischievous people. But I know that members of the media, my colleagues will not be surprised if you see such assings because we are in the season of politics. Virginia manager LASPA, a DBC Adilabo, enjoined developers and builders to accommodate park provisions in their building plans before construction. You cannot charge 2 million, 3 million or 4 million for a venue and there is no parking. In Lagos today there are some events centres that have 10 hours, 20 hours parking and you have cities, venues for 1000 people, 500 people. We feel as a government that that's very unfair because the day we have that event, that whole area is on lockdown, people can't get in, can't get out, you have to project an hour or two to get around. These are some of the reasons why the government decided something needed to be done about that. Vek commisioner for transportation, Frederick Oladende enjoined legations to cooperate with the agency and other similar stakeholders in carrying out his mandate. Oladende also employed interested and concerned members of the public to visit the agency's office for necessary information and assistance. The Lagos state government alongside the French government has signed a memorandum of understanding MOU, enabling professional e-sports players in Lagos to go on real-time online community and compete with players around the world in the 1 billion e-sports industry. The MOU was signed between Governor Babaji Desaunlu and the French ambassador to Nigeria, Mrs. Emmanuel Blatsman. In the agreement, the French partners would leave a high-grade online video gaming infrastructure that would afford players in Lagos to switch from being casual participants to competing players in your game of choice across online leagues. According to Sawunlu, the MOU would be unlocking opportunities for the youths. So for us, it's really to ensure that we can create that ambience that space where youth are very smart, intelligent youth and smart kids in this space can take this opportunity of deepening the understanding of the games and deepening the learning that will be coming out of it. It's like STEM education in itself, technology, innovation, creativity, and the kind of things that we're going to be seeing. Apart from the other part of it, which is an entertainment part, but there's a deep-rooted learning skill. Of our partnership will propel the engagements we are taking today to empower the Nigerian e-sports ecosystem and beyond the Nigerian youth. With world-wown expertise, a turnover amounted to 50 million euros just in 2019 and with a since then a 480% increase in investments and several major annual international meetings, the French market is ready for synergies to be built with its Nigerian counterpart. That's all we have for you in this episode of the Greater Lagos vision on PLUS TV Africa. I'm Lovie Kuku Uyeduku. Bye-bye now.