The Igbo members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Lagos have urged Igbo communities in the state to boycott the planned nationwide protests against economic hardships in the country. The President of the group, Mr Joe Igbokwe, made the call at a media briefing in Lagos on...
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By OLA MODUPE, Lagos – Lagos State Police Command has arrested five persons, including a couple, over their alleged involvement in selling a two-month-old baby. The Command’s spokesperson, SP Benjamin Hundeyin, confirmed the arrests on Saturday in a statement in Lagos. Hundeyin said that detectives from the Oko-oba Police...
A Lagos APC Chieftain, Mr Taofeek Adaranijo, on Saturday urged Nigerian youths to reconsider the proposed nationwide protest to avoid its hijack by hoodlums to cause violence. The APC chieftain said that Lagos could not afford to an experience similar to 2020 EndSARS protest hijacked by hoodlums...
The Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA) said the death toll in the building collapse at Arowojobe Estate in Maryland area of the state had risen to five person. The agency’s Permanent Secretary, Dr Olufemi Oke-Osanyintolu, confirmed this in a statement made available to the News Agency of...
An Ikeja Chief Magistrates’ Court on Monday remanded a 55-year old man, Pius Promise, in a correctional centre for allegedly defiling his daughter. The police charged Promise with defilement. The Magistrate, Mrs E. Kubeinje, refused to take his plea and directed the police to send his case file...
The leadership of the House of Representatives have visited the Dangote Petroleum Refinery in Lagos. Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Tajudeen Abbas, led the lawmakers who arrived at the refinery located in the Lekki Free Trade Zone in Lagos around 11am. Africa’s richest man and President...
An Ikeja Chief Magistrates’ Court on Thursday remanded a 72-year-old man, Patrick Ukpenor in a correction centre for sexually assaulting a six-year-old girl. Magistrate E.Kubrinhe remanded Ukpebor at Kirikiri Correctional Centre where he will be until Aug. 13 for trial. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that...
Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, (NDLEA), have intercepted various quantities of cocaine and opioids such as tramadol, pentazocine injection, morphine sulphate and ketamine injection in Lagos. A statement by the NDLEA spokesman, Mr Femi Babafemi on Sunday in Abuja said that the drugs were concealed...
The Police Command in Lagos State said it had detained one of its officers who allegedly raped a 17-year-old girl at the Area H Command, Ogudu. The command’s spokesperson, SP Benjamin Hundeyin, who confirmed this to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Saturday, however, denied report that...
#EndSARS nOWAS Court orders Nigeria to pay victims N2m compensation each The ECOWAS Court of Justice, on Wednesday, ordered Nigeria to pay 2 million naira each to some victims of the October 2020 #EndSARS protests in Lagos. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the protests were organized...
The Lagos State Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court in Ikeja, on Monday, sentenced a security guard, David Jackson, 72, to life imprisonment for defiling a 7-year old girl. Justice Abiola Soladoye sentenced Jackson to life imprisonment and held that the prosecution had proved the three ingredients...
Operatives of the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA) and other emergency responders have recovered the body of a female biker trapped under a loaded containerised truck in Lagos. This is contained in a statement signed by Mr Taofiq Adebayo, Director, Public Affairs and Enlightenment Department of LASTMA,...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, (NDLEA), has arrested a couple, Mmadu Agbakoba and Ijeoma Agbakoba as well as their associate, for trafficking cocaine worth N2.1 billion. The NDLEA Director of Media and Advocacy, Mr Femi Babafemi, who disclosed this in a post via...
Lagos State Police Command has neutralised nine kidnapping suspects during a gun battle in the Ladipo area of the state. The Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), SP Benjamin Hundeyin, confirmed this while addressing newsmen at the Police Command Headquarters in Ikeja. He said that the command recorded a...
By OLA MUDOPE, Lagos – Lagos State Police Command has rescued a 19-year old lady who was on the verge of committing suicide in the Ikorodu area of the state. Police spokeman in the state, SP Benjamin Hundeyin, made this known in a post he shared on his X...
The Minister of Marine and Blue Economy, Adegboyega Oyetola, has commissioned three newly- acquired 80 tonnes bollard-pull tugboats to enhance the berthing of vessels at the Dangote Refinery and Lekki Deep Seaport. Oyetola said during the inauguration in Lekki on Thursday that the three tugboats were christened MT...
Police Command in Lagos State said that a yet-to-be identified 61-year-old man has lost his life after being electrocuted during the flood incident. Police spokesperson, SP Benjamin Hundeyin, confirmed the death in a post he shared on his X handle @benHundeyin on Thursday. He said that the incident...
The Lagos State government has apologised to residents of the state displaced as a result of the intensive rainfall experienced on Wednesday. The state’s Commissioner for Environment and Water Resources, Mr Tokunbo Wahab, stated this during a syndicated interview programme across different television channels in Lagos on...
Hundreds of members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the Labour Party (LP) on Thursday defected to the All Progressives Congress (APC) at Mainland Constituency II in Lagos State . Receiving the detectors, Mr Rasheed Shabi, a member of the State House of Assembly (Mainland ll) ,said...
The Nigerian Customs Service (NCS) has intercepted a cache of arms and ammunition valued at N270 million at the Murtala Muhammed Airport (MMA) in Lagos. The Comptroller General of Customs (CGC), Bashir Adeniyi, made this known in a statement made available to the News Agency of Nigeria...