Lagos State Police Command has warned members of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) against any planned protest in the state. The Commissioner of Police in Lagos, Abiodun Alabi, gave the warning on Tuesday, saying the police will not condone any form of protest by any group....
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A 15-year-old nanny, Chiamaka Odo, was among over 30 suspects paraded on Monday by the police in Lagos State. The Police Public Relations Officer in the state, Adekunle Ajisebutu, paraded Chiamaka and others at the Command Headquarters in Ikeja. He stated that the police recorded many successes across the...
Some Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) passengers along the Ikeja/Oshodi corridor in Lagos State on Sunday, appealed to the Lagos State Government to boost security on the buses for improved safety of commuters. Some of the passengers , who spoke with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) appealed to the...
Emerging video has shown how some brave bike riders were able to rescue a suicidal man from drowning in the lagoon after he jumped over the Lekki-Ikoyi Link bridge in Lagos State. It was learnt that the incident happened on Thursday, March 10, 2022. The footage from the video...
By OLA MUDOPE, Lagos – No fewer than thirty-three (33) suspected internet fraudsters popularly known as “Yahoo boys” have been arrested by operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) in Lagos State The EFCC spokesman, Wilson Uwujaren, disclosed this in a statement issued on Friday. Mr. Uwujaren...
By OLA MUDOPE, Lagos – The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA,) has intercepted three million capsules of opioids more dangerous and potent than tramadol at Jaelith Bonded Container Terminal under Tincan seaport in Apapa area of Lagos. In a statement issued on Friday, The NDLEA spokesman, Femi Babafemi,...
Some commercial transporters have blamed the increase in transportation fare to the increase in the price of Petrol (PMS) at filling stations in the state. Some transporters made the disclosure in a separate interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos on Monday. One of the commercial...
By OLA MUDOPE, Lagos – The Lagos State Government has frowned at a viral video showing kegs of petrol to be distributed to guests at the installation ceremony of Chief Dr Pearl Chidima Ogbulu as Erelu Okin of Orile Kemta. Recalled that the video which has gone viral on...
By OLA MUDOPE, Lagos – Operatives of the NDLEA came under attack on Saturday in the course of effecting the arrest of a suspected drug kingpin in the island of Lagos State. NDLEA’s spokesman Mr Femi Babafemi confirmed the attack in a statement issued to newsmen on Saturday. “NDLEA...
Registration by candidates for the 2022 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) began on Saturday, with a slow start noticed in some centres visited in Lagos. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that there were different experiences at some of the registration centres monitored as the exercise kicked off....
By OLA MUDOPE, Lagos – Recent statistics released by the International Maritime Bureau (IMB), has showed that piracy incidents in Gulf of Guinea dropped from 81 in year 2020 to 34 in 2021. This is according to a statement issued on Sunday by The Director General of The Nigerian...
Availability of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS), also known as petrol, is improving in Lagos State, after days of scarcity of the product, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), reports. A NAN correspondent who monitored some petroleum products retail outlets on Friday in Ikeja, Abule-Egba, Iyana-Ipaja and Oshodi areas of...
An investigator with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Ms Adewunmi Omotosho on Monday told an Ikeja Special Offences Court how alleged Access Bank hacker, Chris Ihebuzo was apprehended by the anti-graft agency. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Ihebuzo in a video that went viral...
Some residents of Agric community in Ojo Local Government, Lagos state, are bemoaning the increase in armed robbery attacks at their major bus stops. The residents also alleged that the hoodlums sell and smoke hard drugs with reckless abandon and at night rob people of their valuables. The residents...
By OLA MODUPE, Lagos – The Muslim Students’ Society of Nigeria (MSSN), has called on the Lagos State Government to remind school administrators of a court ruling allowing Muslim students to wear hijab in schools. The President of MSSN, Lagos State Area Unit, Miss Basheerah Majekodunmi, made the appeal...
Royal families in Ikeja, the capital of Lagos State, have kicked against the nomination of 33-year-old Temitope Ibikunle as the king-designate for the vacant stool of Olu of Ikeja. Ibikunle, who is of Oshoja Ruling House, was a youth representative on the now-defunct Lagos State Judicial Panel of Inquiry...
Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu has said the two new high-speed trains recently purchased by the sate government will be on track latest by the fourth quarter of the year. Governor Sanwo-Olu disclosed this on Friday during an interview on Sunrise Daily where he outlined efforts being made by...
On the one hand, there is a sense in which it can be said that political leadership in Lagos has come of age. Supporting this claim is the ongoing Greater Lagos Vision, by the Governor Babajide Sanwoolu led state government, which has formulated some far reaching sustainable development programmes...
The Coroner of the Epe District of Lagos, Magistrate Mikail Olukayode Kadiri has fixed Saturday, the 15th of January for the commencement of inquest into the cause of death of Sylvester Oromoni, a 12-year-old student of Dowen College, Lekki. In a letter dated, 4th January 2022 and addressed to...
Family of the late Sylvester Oromoni (Jnr), on Wednesday, decried the legal advice reportedly issued by the Directorate of Public Prosecution (DPP), Lagos, over the death of their son. Mr Sylvester Oromoni, father of Oromoni Junior, in a statement made available to newsmen in Asaba, called on President Muhammadu...