Lagos State governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu with officials of Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA) Lagos State High Court has declared that it is unconstitutional for Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA) to impose fines on motorists suspected to have committed traffic offenses without a court order. The judge, Justice Olalekan Oresanya, made the declaration while […]
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The All Progressives Congress, Lagos State chapter, has faulted the governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in Lagos State, Olajide Adediran (popularly known as Jandor), and his running mate, Funke Akindele, over their visit to owners of vehicles auctioned by the Lagos State Government for traffic offenses. The state government had on Thursday auctioned […]
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Two men were on Monday swept away and nine women rescued following heavy flooding in parts of Lagos. The men were swept off by flash flood at different locations at Iyana Ipaja while the women were said to have been trapped after their residence at Mende, Maryland started sinking. The building located at 47 Akinwunmi […]
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Six persons still trapped under rubble – Official Two bodies have been recovered from a building that collapsed in Lagos on Sunday. Nosa Okunbor, the spokesperson for the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency, provided the update on Sunday morning. “Two male commodities have been recovered under the rubble and bagged,” he said. “Search and rescue […]
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Lagos State Government has ordered the arrest of the developer and building professionals working on the seven-floor structure that collapsed at Oba Abiodun Oniru Road in the Iru/Victoria Island area of the state. The Commissioner for Physical Planning and Urban Development, Dr Idris Salako, made this known during his visit to the site of the […]
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Education Commissioner Lagos State Government has directed all schools to begin the 2022/2023 academic year on September 5, 2022. This was contained in a statement issued by the Director-General, Office of Education Quality Assurance of the state, Abiola Seriki-Ayeni, on Saturday. It noted that this was as approved by the Commissioner for Education in the […]
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In the following touching story, Olamide Famuwagun captures the anguish of parents in a Lagos slum over the unknown whereabouts of their children: Hot tears rolled down the distraught face of 57-year-old tyre repairer, Oriyomi Onikoyi, while recounting the agony of his four-year-old daughter, Alimot’s disappearance in the Otto Ilogbo community in Ebute Metta, Lagos. […]
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Commuters and motorists were stranded in a heavy gridlock on Ikorodu-Lagos Road, inward Mile 12, Friday morning. The heavy traffic was particularly noted around Itowolo to Ajegunle areas, with both sides of the road blocked. It was observed that yellow buses, popularly known as Danfo, faced on-coming vehicles, thereby complicating the traffic congestion. Commuters were […]
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Lagos State Police Boss, Abiodun Alabi Residents and traders at Mile 12, in the Kosofe Local Government Area of Lagos State, have been living in fear after cultists allegedly killed a Chairman of the National Union of Road Transport Workers, Sulaimon Onaolapo, aka Ariku, in the area. In a video which trended online on Sunday […]
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A Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) and counsel to Maroko evictees, Mr. Femi Falana has told the embittered clients that were resettled in Ikota-Low Cost Housing Estate, along Lagos Epe Expressway to go and value their properties for adequate compensation after the government has given their estate to a developer. Speaking during a meeting with […]
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