BABAJIDE OLUSOLA SANWOOLU DAZZLES ALL WITH HIS 1ST OFFICIAL ADDRESS AROUSING THE EXCELLENT SPIRIT OF PATRIOTISM-"AWAKENING A GREATER LAGOS"

H.E, THE 15TH EXECUTIVE GOVERNOR OF LAGOS STATE, GOVERNOR BABAJIDE OLUSOLA SANWOOLU 

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By the grace of Almighty God and Your votes, I stand before you today as your Governor. (Pause)
This day marks the beginning of a new chapter in our journey to greatness. Today, I ask you to join me on this journey to awaken a Greater Lagos.

When we speak of a Greater Lagos, we speak not empty words. It is a deep and profound assertion we mean.

We intend to make history by making for ourselves and our children a better future.
Therefore, on this day, on this precious land we call our home, let us stand together in the very face of history.

Let us vow to ourselves, and to posterity that we shall not just dream of a Greater Lagos. Let us agree this day that we shall collectively rise up to build the Lagos of our dreams.

We need not be discouraged by the challenges that may be apparent. Today is an opportunity for us to forge ahead in our quest for a Greater Lagos.

It is possible!

No one should ever underestimate the spirit of Lagos and the resilience of its people. Yes, hard problems may confront us, but we will also confront them. Every problem will lose its potency to our unity.

Therefore, Lagosians, in this new chapter of our lives, we need not cry or fret. We are united by our common purpose of a Greater Lagos and fulfilling future.

Posterity has given us this day to commence our journey to greatness. We need to envision the glorious end of working together, tirelessly and committedly, towards achieving a Lagos of our dreams. By our individual and collective efforts and the Grace of God, these dreams will become a reality.

In Lagos State, our story has been of successes and achievements. Since 1999, our tradition of progressive governance has set Lagos apart and strengthened people’s belief in our ideology.

And that is the very reason I stand before you on this historic day as your Governor. While we celebrate the victory of progressive governance and democracy, tomorrow we must be ready to stand on guard and be fully vigilant.

Democracy and progressive governance hold only to the extent that we protect and nurture them. While Lagos glimmers as a beacon of progressive and quality governance, our nation now undergoes a historic battle to establish progressive and just governance.

Lagos must again rise and help lead this nation to fuller progress and to a closer realization of the greatness that exists within all Nigerians.

This inauguration symbolizes such an awakening.

Today, I stand before you as your governor, but also as your friend, brother; neighbor and your servant. I stand here to ask that you join me to script and fashion this greater Lagos with the creativity of our minds.

More after the break.

LAGOS,THE CITY WHERE DREAMS ARE MADE, BROKEN AND REMADE AGAIN

Fulfilling ones dreams in Lagos is still a desire by millions of young Nigerians everyday. Flanked with challenges and lack of access to finance many young Nigerians have had to give up their dreams at the first hurdle. However, that wasn't to be the case for James Omokwe. After completing his course at film school, he was faced with the frustrating choice of halting his dream until he would be financially capable to produce his film. Pondering on when that financial breakthrough would occur. James Omokwe was not to give up. He adamantly refused to succumb to those challenges. Frustrated with the content of films he was seeing produced within the Nigerian movie industry. He wanted to write his own Nigerian story. One that could be watched beyond the shores of the Nigerian country. More importantly one that he was proud to say "made in Nigeria". 

So,with only N50,000 naira, two years of frustration  and surrounded by a group of creative young and talented individuals, AWAKENING was born.

Awakening , features emerging actors OC Ukeje,Kehinde Bankole, Adewale Aroloye, Femi Brainard and Bryan Okwara. Directed by James Omokwe and Ethan Okwara whilst produced by Theresa Anaanenu. This is a thriller movie where you definitely will not know the ending within the first ten minutes of the movie.When the contents of a box kept for centuries is opened, a series of events begin to unfold. Nicholas, a young advertising agent suddenly begins to have dreams that eventually become premonitions of death. In a bid to unravel the mystery he meets an ambitious journalist whose thirst for adventure leads them on a path to an unimaginable past and their futures are inextricably changed forever when they uncover the truth about a curse and the existence of an immortal tribe.

This is a film to be watched by all, not just for  the creative content but also because this was produced by a young man who like all of us dared to dream beyond his circumstance.

Awakening is set to release in the cinema this coming November. 

http://www.nollywood.com/video/215/Awakening-trailer