Lagos police boss, Abiodun Alabi A suspected cable thief has been killed after hoodlums vandalised power cables at the Dangote Refinery in the Ibeju Lekki Local Government Area of Lagos State. It was gathered that about 20 hoodlums invaded the premises of the refinery through the lagoon and were vandalising the power cables when security […]
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The Iyaloja of Aromoleti Market on Lagos Island area of Lagos State, Mrs Rukayat Balogun, on Tuesday, begged the Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu-led Lagos State Government to shelve its planned eviction of traders under the Eko bridge. According to her, no fewer than 30,000 traders under the Eko bridge will be affected if the state government […]
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•Damage to bridge will subject motorists, commuters to hardship – Lagos Mrs Rukayat Balogun sat quietly staring at the corner where her shops, which housed goods comprising baking materials, once stood. She was so lost in her thoughts that she hardly noticed the presence of sympathisers. Having traded and earned a livelihood there for over […]
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A Lagos State High Court at the Tafawa Balewa Square (TBS) has discharged and acquitted a housewife, Mary Alilu, who was accused of murdering her husband, Kingsley Perewe, by cutting his neck and head. Justice Modupe Nicol-Clay cleared the housewife of the one-count charge of murder in suit LD/5944C/17. Mrs Alilu spent over four years […]
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Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu yesterday launched the ‘Lagos Ride Transport Initiative’, with 1,000 new GAC cars rolled out in the first phase. The taxi hailing initiative, operated on a lease-to-own basis, is a component of the government’s multimodal transportation blueprint, executed under the Traffic Management and Transportation pillar of the THEMES agenda. The initiative […]
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A Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Mr Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa, on Tuesday, applauded the Governor Sanwo-Olu government over the arraignment of a Bus Rapid Transport driver, Andrew Omininikoron, a prime suspect in the gruesome murder of a passenger, Bamise Ayanwola. The senior lawyer, in a statement, also asked the government to apologise to the family of the […]
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Lagos State Government on Monday announced the diversion of traffic with the provision of alternative routes for motorists for the visit of President Muhammadu Buhari. The President will be making a second visit to the state for the inauguration of the new International Terminal at the Muritala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja by the Federal Airports […]
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Shop owners in Computer Village, Ikeja, Lagos State have started counting their losses to the planned relocation of the information technology (IT) market to Katangow, a suburb. The traders lamented the cost of relocating to a new site at the beginning of the year, especially as they said they had just had renewed their tenancy. […]
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Embattled Chairman of Lagos State Council of National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW), Musiliu Akinsanya (aka MC Oluomo), has clarified the directive given to union’s members to sell tickets at motor parks. According to him, the tickets are the ones issued by the State Government pegged at N800. The Lagos State Government in January […]
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Lagos dispatch rider, mother and baby Lagos State Police Command on Monday disclosed that a dispatch rider, Williams Tadule, got the consent of one Lovina Biturs to take her 10-month-old baby away. According to the police, Tadule and Biturs were neighbours and the baby was fond of the rider. The police, in a statement, added […]
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