Thread by @Talkinlagos

The trust fund continues to yield positive results in improving the security of lives and properties by providing necessary equipment both hardware and software for modern-day security infrastructure like CCTV in major areas and business districts,

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fortified situation rooms, and motivated personnel.

Realizing most crimes are localized in the communities, the Lagos state government have also over the period under review established the Lagos Neighborhood Safety Corps (LNSC)

a community-based uniformed civil security system strategic for complimenting police in maintaining law and order, crime prevention, as well as information gathering.

EDUCATION
A visit to most of those public schools now showed tremendous improvement and complete transformation from what they used to be in 1999. To ensure no student drops out due to inability to pay fees,

the Lagos state government implemented free education in all public primary and secondary schools, including payment of WAEC/NECO fees for all students regardless of their state of origin this continues to this day.
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Most recently in the realization of the need for expanding university education services in the state, the state government under Governor Babajide Olushola Sanwo’olu has announced the establishment of two additional universities –

Lagos State University of Technology Ikorodu with campuses in Ikorodu and Isolo and Lagos State University of Education Epe with campuses in Epe and Ijanikin.

These were achieved by upgrading the former Lagos State Polytechnic in Ikorodu and Isolo, state-owned Adeniran Ogunsanya College of Education Ijanikin, and Micheal Otedola College of Primary Education Epe.
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SPORTS
The Lagos state government over the years saw sports as one of the major tools for youth engagement and empowerment.
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With the establishment of the Lagos State Sports Trust Fund, initiation of school sports, and development of mini stadia and sports facilities in every nook and cranny of the state. There’s virtually any LGA or LCDA that doesn’t have one sporting facility or the other.

The refurbished Agege stadium has been home to MFM Football Club in the Nigerian premier league. The newly renovated Onikan stadium (now renamed Mobolaji Johnson Stadium) has been designated home ground to many Lagos-based football clubs playing in the low-tier leagues

like Ikorodu United, Stationary Stores FC, Julius Berger FC, First Bank FC, and others.
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TRANSPORTATION
From the standpoint of 1999 with a dilapidated state of major public infrastructure, disrepair states of roads, unorganized transport systems and transport unions.

The state transport system can literally be said to be run by the informal sector with the rickety yellow-black taxi system to the danfos, and the heavy smoking and usually overfilled molues.

The Lagos State Mass Transit (LMTS) with few “civilian” buses which are long due for overhaul or replacement.
The state government took this head-on through various policy reforms and a vision for a megacity-status efficient transport system.

This vision birthed the Lagos Metropolitan Area Transport Authority (LAMATA) in 2002 as the anchor for the Lagos state transportation master plan.
Twenty-one years down the line, these concerted efforts have yielded a lot of results transforming the transportation landscape of

Lagos and creating jobs and business opportunities for private sector participation.
The state’s massive investment in a modernized mass transit system with Bus Rapid Transport (BRT)
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with dedicated routes to reduce travel time is a first in our country and Africa, a feat ingeniously developed by the thinking team of Lagos government which has achieved successes that are widely commended and admired world over.