Lagos State Government has exonerated the five students and five employees of Dowen College linked to the death of a 12-year-old student, Sylvester Oromoni, in the state. Also cleared by the government from being responsible for Sylvester’s death, a nephew to Delta state deputy governor, Kingsley Otuaro, was the management and school building in Lekki. […]
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South West Governors: Oluwarotimi Akeredolu of Ondo State; Gboyega Oyetola, Osun; Dapo Abiodun, Ogun; Babatunde Sanwo-Olu, Lagos; Kayode Fayemi, Ekiti; and Seyi Makinde, Oyo Governors of Nigeria’s southwest states have condemned the alleged role of the attorney-general Abubakar Malami in deploying security operatives to evict residents of Magodo Estate in Lagos State. The governors said […]
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Sanwo-Olu in verbal exchange with the CSP Malami, IGP under fire over police deployment to Lagos estate Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu (middle) addressing residents of Magodo Phase II protesting against possession of their properties, on Tuesday, 04 January 2022. With him: Commissioner for Information & Strategy, Mr. Gbenga Omotoso, the Attorney General/Commissioner for […]
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CONFRONTATION: Lagos State Governor and Chief Security Officer of the state, Babajide Sanwo-Olu addresses the officer who led men of the Nigeria Police to invade Magodo GRA, Lagos yesterday…a test of federalism. The argument that state governors are not in charge of security in their various states was reinforced, yesterday, as a police officer refused […]
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A screengrab taken on January 4, 2022, shows Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu pointing to the police officer who defied his order to vacate the Magodo Phase II Estate in Lagos The lingering land dispute at the Magodo Phase II Estate in Lagos took a different dimension on Tuesday as a Chief Superintendent of Police (CSP) publicly […]
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Residents of Magodo Phase II Estate in Lagos are protesting the presence of over 50 armed policemen in their estate. The management early Tuesday shut the two gates leading into the estate. The closure led to the disruption of vehicular movement. People were allowed to exit the estate, but were restricted from entering. Residents bore […]
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Mrs. Adefisayo (with the microphone) standing with other officials while addressing pupils at the Babs Fafunwa Millennium Senior Secondary School complex Two of the pupils hit by a truck last December 7 in Ojodu areas of Lagos State are still hospitalised, Commissioner for Education, Mrs. Folasade Adefisayo, said on Tuesday. Two pupils died in the […]
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As public and private primary and secondary schools in Lagos prepare to resume for the commencement of the second term on Tuesday, authorities in the state have said the embattled Dowen College, a secondary school located in Lekki, will not be reopening. The government said until investigations into the unfortunate incident of the death of […]
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Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Mr Hakeem Odumosu, ordered the arrest of private security guards at Brooks Estate, Magodo, Isheri for allegedly delaying and denying him entrance into the estate. It was gathered that the police boss had gone to the estate in his convoy to meet a “strategic partner at a function” on Saturday […]
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The Lagos State Police Command has arrested two minors, who claimed to be up-and-coming artistes, for allegedly stabbing a Redeemed Christian Church of God’s pastor, Babatunde Dada, to death. The suspects, aged 15 and 17, were paraded on Friday by the state Commissioner of Police, Hakeem Odumosu. The minors were said to have attempted to […]
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