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A suspected traffic robber, Charles Igbadoh, notorious for dispossessing motorists of their belongings at the Ilubirin end of the Third Mainland Bridge in Lagos has been arrested by the Lagos State Police Command. The spokesperson for the Command, SP Benjamin Hundeyin, announced the arrest in a statement made available to newsmen on Thursday in Lagos. Read More…
Ifeanyi Onyega, a 22-year-old painter, has been remanded in Kirikiri Correctional Centre by an Ogudu Magistrate’s Court, on Thursday in Lagos for allegedly defiling his neighbours’ 16-year-old daughter. Mrs. M.O. Tanimola, the Magistrate, who did not heed Onyega’s plea, instructed that the case file should be sent to the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) for Read More…
Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu, on Thursday said that the Lagos State Government will establish the State Tertiary Education Trust Fund to create a financial model that will sustain its universities, on Thursday. He stated this when the Visitation Panel to the Lagos State University (LASU) tendered its report to him at the State House in Marina. Read More…
Lagos State Police say they detained Ayomide Fawehinmi, a 22-year-old man for attempted child trafficking. SP Benjamin Hundeyin, the Police Public Relations Officer in Lagos, who confirmed the arrest in a statement on Monday, said the suspect had been rescued from a mob in Empire Area of Surulere. Hundeyin said police operatives attached to Surulere Read More…
The leadership of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) through its Public Relations Department has empathised with the people affected by the gas explosion which had occurred in the early hours of Monday. The statement which emphasised that it was a gas explosion and not a bomb blast read: “This incident which has been Read More…
An explosion has occurred close to the Redeemed Christian Church of God camp on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway. The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), has confirmed that the explosion by was caused by a truck loaded with gas that burst into flame only a few meters away from the camp. Reports states that the explosion caused dread amongst Read More…
The Lagos State Police Command has confirmed the killing of one Alhaji Sulaimon Onaolapo, popularly known as Akiru, who was the leader of Mile-12 Lagos Parks and Garages. The command’s spokesperson, SP Benjamin Hundeyin confirmed the killing on Monday. “One Alhaji Sule was killed following the incident at Mile 12. No arrest made yet. Normalcy Read More…
Twenty-two thousand five hundred children died from air pollution in the state in 2021 according to the Lagos State Environmental Protection Agency (LASEPA). LASEPA said that the figure constituted 75 per cent of 30,000 people who died in 2021 in the state due to the bad environment. The General Manager, LASEPA, Dr Dolapo Fasawe, disclosed Read More…
Fire razed Filmhouse Cinema at the Apapa Shopping Mall in Apapa Lagos State on Friday. Activities were going on as usual in the mall when customers and workers started perceiving the smell of burning substances, emergency workers alongside curious customers in the mall traced the smell of the burning substances to the cinema that had been Read More…
President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration has apologised for the hardship road users face on the Berger-OPIC axis of the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway while encouraging them to endure. Forosola Oloyede, the acting federal controller of works in Lagos, said: “The government feels the pains of the people, especially residents of Lagos and Ogun states, who are at the Read More…
