The Lagos State Government on Friday vowed to strengthen its enforcement mechanism and collaboration with experts to check collapse of buildings in the state. The newly appointed Commissioner for Physical Planning and Urban Development, Mr Omotayo Bamgbose-Martins, said this during a roundtable discussion with stakeholders, in Ikeja, on ending...
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By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – FCT Minister, Malam Muhammad Musa Bello has approved the appointment of Hon. Abdullahi Adamu Candido as the new Secretary for the Transportation Secretariat of the FCT Administration. Born on the 3rd of December 1965 in Jiwa, Abuja Municipal Area Council (AMAC) of the Federal...
By GRACE AUDU, Abuja – Executive Secretary of the Federal Capital Development Authority (FCDA), Engr. Shehu Hadi Ahmad has charged the newly inaugurated Executive Committee members of the FCDA Staff Multi-purpose Cooperative Society to refrain from anything that will further dent the image of the Cooperative Society and by...
A sixth corpse has been recovered from the rubbles of a seven-storey uncompleted building, which collapsed on Oba Idowu Oniru Street, Lekki in Lagos on Sunday. Emergency response agencies recovered two bodies from the site on Sunday and recovered three others earlier on Monday. Mr Ibrahim Farinloye, South West...
By OLA MUDOPE, Lagos – The Lagos State Commissioner for Physical Planning and Urban Development, Idris Salako, has resigned from his position. The state Commissioner for Information, Gbenga Omotoso, disclosed this in a statement issued on Monday in Lagos. He said: “the Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu has accepted...
Death toll at the seven-storey building that collapsed at Oba Idowu Oniru Street, Lekki, Lagos State on Sunday has risen to four. Excavators of emergency response agencies in search of corpses at the site retrieved two more bodies from the rubble on Monday. Two corpses had earlier been taken...
By OLA MUDOPE, Lagos – The Lagos State Government has ordered for the arrest of the developer and building professionals working on the seventh-floor structure that collapsed in the early hours on Sunday. The collapsed building, which is under construction, is located at Oba Abiodun Oniru road, Iru/Victoria Island...
The Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA) said it had apprehended 19 vehicles over indiscriminate and illegal parking at garages and parks in Lagos Island. The General Manager of LASTMA, Mr Bolaji Oreagba, said this in a statement through the Director, Public Affairs Unit LASTMA, Mr Adebayo Taofiq, Lagos...
By JOY ADARA, Abuja – At least 9 passengers have been confirmed dead and ten others injured in a fatal crash at Yangoji-Abaji road, Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Abuja. The Corps Public Education Officer (CPEO), Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Mr Bisi Kazeem, confirmed this in a statement on...
The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), FCT Command, has disassociated the corps from the alleged interference with the election results of Feb. 12, chairmanship election of Abuja Municipal Area Council (AMAC). The FCT NSCDC Commandant, Dr. Peter Maigari made the denial, when he paid a courtesy call...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and The Borno State Environmental Protection Agency (BOSEPA) have carried out an environmental sanitation exercise in some parts of the capital Maiduguri and Jere LGA host communities of Bulumkitu, Dakar and Bulabulin areas. The sanitation exercises...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) has disbursed a total sum of N2,892,081,930.29 billion to the six Area Councils in the FCT and other stakeholders as its share of statutory allocation for the month of July, 2022. Minister of State, FCT, Dr. Ramatu Tijjani Aliyu,...
The Lagos State Government on Wednesday said defaulters of the ban on commercial motorcycle operators (Okada), risked three-year jail term, as enforcement for the Phase 2 ban starts on Friday. The Commissioner for Transport, Dr Frederic Oladeinde, said this during a news conference in Ikeja, adding that the Phase...
Security agencies on Wednesday embarked on a show-of-force in Lagos, in display of their readiness to enforce the ban on operations of commercial motorcycles extended to more areas of the state. The spokesman of the police command in Lagos State, SP Benjamin Hundeyin, said in a statement that it...
The Nigerian Correctional Service (NCoS), FCT Command, says there is no protest in Kuje Custodial Centre over the death of an inmate. It dismissed a publication by some online media that there were some disturbances by the inmates of custodial centre, Kuje, as a result of the death of...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – The lawmaker representing Marte, Nganzai and Monguno Federal Constituency, Hon. Mohammed Tahir Monguno has commended Governor Babagana Zulum over his strategic and transformational developmental projects. Hon. Monguno, who gave the commendation on Monday while speaking with journalists in Monguno LGA of the state. The...
Katsina State Government has awarded a N2.4 billion contract for the construction of a 24.5km road on Tuesday. The road connects Danja, headquarters of Danja Local Government Area to two rural communities, Bazanga and Nahuce. The project is expected to be completed in 18 months. Katsina State awarded the...
Commuters on the Lagos/Ibadan Expressway are still having nightmares travelling on the ever-busy road due to gridlock caused by bad portions around Kara market and the ongoing reconstruction within the area. A correspondent of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on-the-spot assessment of the situation on Sunday, observed that...
By OLA MUDOPE, Lagos – The Lagos State Police Command has arrested a 39-year-old suspected fake Army Captain, Andy Edwards, in Lagos for alleged armed robbery. The Police Public Relations Officer, SP Benjamin Hundeyin, disclosed this in a statement issued on Sunday in Lagos. SP Hundeyin said the fake...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) has said all property developers in the FCT, must show evidence of ground rent payment before the Department of Development Control consider and approve any building plan application. The Director of Information & Communication, FCTA, Muhammad Hazat Sule,...