In line with the tradition that is already entrenched in the calendar of the government of Lagos State, Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu, recently yielded the seat of authority to Ms. Jemimah Marcus for a brief moment to step in as one-day Governor of Lagos State. The 17-year-old student of Angus Memorial Secondary School, Somolu in Education District I Somolu, won the 2020 edition of the Spelling Bee Competition, thereby earning the honour to become the one-day Governor. Spelling Bee competition, a contest amongst public schools across Lagos, is one of the legacy programmes in the State’s education sector pioneered in 2001 by the then First Lady, Senator Oluremi Tinubu through her New Era Foundation. The weekly Executive Council meeting of the State’s cabinet was presided over by Ms. Marcus, an indigene of Edo State, as Sanwo-Olu temporarily stepped aside and observed the proceedings. Presiding over the cabinet meeting, Ms. Marcus commended the Sanwo-Olu administration for initi
