By OLA MODUPE, Lagos – The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, has intercepted 25 million pills of tapentadol, an opioid three times stronger than tramadol and 350,000 bottles of codeine-based syrup worth N16.1bn at the Tincan port complex in Lagos. The NDLEA spokesman, Femi Babafemi said this in...
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More partners are lining up for the eighth annual conference of the Guild of Corporate Online Publishers (GOCOP) with the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL), Nigeria LNG Limited (NLNG), Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), Delta State and Lagos State, as well as the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board...
Operatives of the Rapid Response Squad (RRS) of the Police Command in Lagos State have rescued a 59-year-old man from committing suicide on the Third Mainland Bridge. RRS made this known in a post it shared on its official X handle, @rrsLagos767, on Friday. According to the squad, the...
The Police Command in Lagos State says it has arrested two women, Ujunwa Una and Chinelo Igbechionwu over alleged sales of newborn twins. The command’s spokesperson, SP Benjamin Hundeyin, confirmed this in a post he shared on his X handle @benHundeyin on Friday. He said that the police apprehended...
A prosecution witness, Mercy Osondu, on Thursday told an Ikeja Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court how her step mother, Chinyere Osondu allegedly inserted a stick into her six-year-old niece’s private part. The defendant, Chinyere, is standing trial on a four-count charge bordering on sexual assault and grievous harm....
The police command in Lagos State says a 54-year-old man, simply called Benjamin, has taken his life at the Agege area of the state. The Lagos State Police Spokesman, SP Benjamin Hundeyin, confirmed this to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Monday in Lagos. Hundeyin said that the...
The Police Command in Lagos State says it has detained a man (names withheld), for allegedly killing his neighbour and her son over environmental sanitation dispute in Lekki area of the state. The command Spokesman, SP Benjamin Hundeyin, made this known to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on....
The Police Command in Lagos State has arrested of a 19-year-old woman, Fatimo Agboke, for allegedly stabbing a 20-year-old man to death. The command’s spokesperson, SP Benjamin Hundeyin, confirmed the arrest to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Wednesday in Lagos. He said that the incident happened on...
The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) absorbed all prospective corps members posted to Lagos State in the 2024 Batch B, Stream 2, including polytechnics and monotechnics graduates. Lagos State Coordinator of NYSC, Mrs Yetunde Baderinwa, made the disclosure in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in...
The Police Command in Lagos State has arrested two men for allegedly robbing three commercial sex workers. The Command’s Spokesperson, SP Benjamin Hundeyin, confirmed the arrest to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Saturday. Hundeyin said that the three sex workers reported the case to the police on...
Late Nigerian music icon, Onyeka Onwenu, aka Elegant Stallion will be buried today in Lagos. The singer died on July 30, 2024, at Reddington Hospital, Ikeja, after collapsing at an event honouring Dr Stella Okoli, the Managing Director of Emzor Pharmaceuticals. According to a burial arrangement issued by the...
By OLA MODUPE, Lagos – Fire gutted part of a three-storey building at the Lagos State Government Staff Quarters in Odunsanmi Street, off WEMPCO Road, Ogba area of the state. Tbe Permanent Secretary of the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA), Dr Oluwafemi Oke-Osanyintolu, confirmed the fire outbreak in...
By OLA MODUPE, Lagos – The NNPC Ltd has flagged off the third edition of the Vision First Programme, as part of comprehensive community-focused healthcare outreach targeted at the Ilaje community and its environs in Bariga, Lagos State. The Vision First programme is a continuation of NNPC Ltd/ SNEPCo...
The Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA), on Monday said that a man was found dead on a railway track after being hit by a train. The agency’s Permanent Secretary, Dr Olufemi Oke-Osanyintolu, made this known in a statement in Lagos. He said the agency responded to a distress...
By OLA MODUPE, Lagos – The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has intercepted no fewer than 1,596 cartons of codeine-based syrup containing 319,200 bottles of the opioid worth over N2.2 billion in street value. The NDLEA spokesman, Mr Femi Babafemi, who announced the seizure on Sunday in Abuja,...
By OLA MODUPE, Lagos – An Onitsha, Anambra state based-businessman, Ibeanusi Solomon Nosike, has excreted 68 wraps of cocaine after 12 days of excretion observation following his arrest at the local wing of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, MMIA Ikeja Lagos by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement...
The Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA) has said a two-storey building was gutted by fire at the Ebute-Metta area of the state. The agency’s Permanent Secretary, Dr Olufemi Oke-Osanyintolu, confirmed this in a statement made available to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Sunday in Lagos. Oke-Osanyintolu...
The Lagos State Government will divert vehicular traffic from Bourdillon Road, Ikoyi, for two days for construction work on the corridor. The Commissioner for Transportation, Mr Oluwaseun Osiyemi, said this in a statement on Thursday in Lagos. Osiyemi noted that the diversion would be between 9.00 a.m. and 5.00...
By OLA MODUPE, Lagos – The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has seized three petrol tankers used to convey edible vegetable oil in Lagos State. NAFDAC in a post on X on Wednesday, said the oil had reportedly been trans-loaded into the tankers from...