Stories by Emeka Anaeto, Business Editor
Lagos state government has indicated that the state was faced with daunting challenges that required far more resources than is presently available. It also hinted that it was mobilizing the entire citizens of the state to enable it meet the challenges.
Commissioner for Economic Planning and Budget, Samuel Egube, who disclosed these to newsmen in Lagos, said while the state’s landmass was just about 0.04 percent of the entire country, the state’s population is over 10 percent of the country’s, giving a huge disproportion of space-to-residency ratio.
But he also hinted that the state’s 2020 budget has been designed in consultation with all stakeholders cutting across economic sectors and the tiers of government as well as communities in the state, to address the challenges.
Some of the challenges he linked to the population are the overstretched infrastructure and social services in the area of healthcare,…
Source: Vanguard Newspaper
