• Sanwo-Olu’s poverty fight yields 5,339 new entrepreneurs
Segun James
The Lagos State Government has disclosed that 6,753 cases of Gender-Based Violence (GBV) were recorded in 2025, with 2,460 survivors obtaining justice through various intervention and support mechanisms put in place by the government.
This is as the government has intensified its poverty alleviation and economic empowerment drive, providing business tools and equipment to 5,339 residents while graduating 5,313 from its network of tuition-free skills acquisition centres.
Commissioner for Women Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, Mrs. Bolaji Cecilia Dada, who disclosed this during the ministry’s ministerial press briefing commemorating the third year of the second term of Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu’s administration, revealed that 116 offenders were prosecuted during the period, while 3,099 survivors received recovery and support services.
