OLOWA ADVOCATES RESILIENCE AS REMEDY TO SURVIVE ECONOMY WOES.

The need to embrace resilience strategy is pertinent to survive the current State of Economy by members of Staff, Political office holders and others. The aforementioned statement were the advise of the Mayor of Ibeju-Lekki Local Government at the Lagos State Resilience Strategy Meeting held on Wednesday 30th October, 2024 at the Council Secretariat Hall, Igando-Oloja. The Presentation which was held by Lagos State Resilience Office (LASRO), headed by the Chief Resilience Officer, in Lagos State, Doctor. Mrs. Olayinka Daniel. Addressing participant during the Presentation, Mr Oluwole O. Micheal, the team leader of the mentioned office, gave the historical background of how the Resilience office emerge as office under Lagos State Government and how it was inaugurated in Lagos state in 2019 with staff deployed from different Ministries under Lagos State Government. He emphasized on the need to adopt Resilience Strategy as means and ability of an individual, Communities, Organisation, and groups to navigates and Scale through an unpleasant, harsh and highly inflated economy our nation is presently undergoing. Speaking further, he cited examples of challenges commonly experienced in Lagos State, such as Building Collapse, Flooding, Erosion, Road Accidents, Road traffic, Stress, Erratic Power Supply, Overcrowding, Inadequate Social Services just to mention few. He noted the three stages of Resilience as, Preliminary Resilience Assessment, first Stage , Resilience Strategy, second stage and Implementation of Lagos Resilience Strategy as third stage.. He proceeded by highlighting the Four Dimension of City Resilience Framework as Health and Wellbeing, Economy and Society, Infrastructure and Environment, Leadership and Strategy. Lastly, he concluded that the Lagos State office of Resilience continually intensify its efforts via research to proffer applicable solutions to mitigate against the unpleasant economy hardship presently ravaging our country, Nigeria. Present at the event are, The Mayor of Ibeju-Lekki Local Government, Hon. (Engr.) Abdullahi Sesan Olowa, The Leader of the House and Legislative Members, Secretary to the Local Government, Executive Members, Supervisors, Special Advisers, Management team, Mr. Oluwole O. Micheal, Head Education And Life Long Learning, Lagos State Resilience Office. (LASRO), Jaiye-Ola Akeem, Oyekan Olayinka, Ashade Adegbenga, Tolu Kayode, Public Relation Officer, some of the Staff of Lagos State Resilience Office. (LASRO).