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Community Metro Top Story

Are you an NGO doing community work in Lagos? Let us tell your stories

Are you a Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO), Civil Society Organisation (CSO), Faith-Based Organisation (FBO), Community-Based Organisation (CBO) or even an individual doing community work in Lagos? Let us know. Lagos Metropolitan newspaper would like to partner with you. We provide absolutely free news coverage for community based work. You can send your reports to us at Read More…

Metro Public Works Top Story

Traffic on Alaka-Apongbon Eko Bridge to be diverted for 6 months from 5 March

Traffic will be diverted on Eko Bridge for six months starting from March 5, for the commencement of comprehensive repair works at the Alaka-Apongbon stretch. The Commissioner for Transportation, Dr Frederic Oladeinde, said in a statement on Thursday that the diversion point was on the Apongbon bound lane of the bridge. He said that the Read More…

Environment Metro

Over 40 teachers in Lagos get training on plastic waste management by NCF

Over 40 teachers in Lagos have received training from the Nigerian Conservation Foundation (NCF) on plastic waste management to ensure environmental sustainability . The training, which is part of the ‘Clean Our World’ project, is an initiative of Oando Foundation and funded by Sumitomo Chemicals, Japan. NCF Head of Environmental Education, Mrs Abidemi Balogun, said Read More…

Metro Top Story

352 prison inmates currently on death row in Lagos, Chief Judge frees 33

Three Hundred and Fifty Two inmates are on death row at the Kirikiri Maximum Correctional Centre, according to the Controller of the Nigeria Correctional Service (NCoS), Lagos State, Mr Adewale Adebisi. Adebisi made the disclosure on Wednesday while delivering his address of welcome at the 2022 Correctional Centres Decongestion Exercise. The decongestion exercise is in Read More…

COVID19 Health Metro Top Story

COVID-19 admissions have dropped to 0% in Lagos, death rate 0.7% – Abayomi

It is cheery news in Lagos as the Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi, has reported that bed capacity utilisation in the state’s public and private COVID-19 care centres have dropped to zero per cent. Abayomi made this disclosure this through his Instagram account @profakinabayomi on Wednesday, while giving the state’s COVID-19 update Read More…

Metro Top Story

VIS slams 5K tickets on traffic offenders monthly in Lagos – Director

Director of Vehicle Inspection Service (VIS) in Lagos, Mr Akin-George Fashola, has said that the service issues an average of 5,000 bills for traffic offences on monthly basis. Fashola dropped the hint in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos on Tuesday. He said that after the installation of cameras on Read More…

Crime Metro Wilful Damage

Septuagenarian docked for alleged damage to property in Lagos

The police have brought a 72-year-old man, Kadiri Salawu, before an Ojo Magistrates’ Court in Lagos State, on charges of damage to a building. Salawu is standing trial before the Magistrate, Mr Ademola Adesanya, on a three-count charge of conspiracy, willful damage to property, and threat to life He, however, pleaded not guilty to the Read More…

Metro

Lagos govt, FAO/UNIDO begin survey on coconut value chain

The Lagos State Government in partnership with the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) and the United Nations Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO), have begun a one-month intensive field research and survey on coconut value chain analysis. Ms Abisola Olusanya, the State Commissioner for Agriculture, said in Lagos on Sunday that a survey on coconut was last Read More…