The Lagos State Government says it has authorized N30,000 payment to each intern selected through its special programme, the Ready Set Work, RSW. The beneficiaries have been placed in various organisations for six-month paid internships, the government further said. Obafela Bank-Olemoh, an education adviser to the governor of the state, said in his statement said the […]
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It has been brought to public knowledge that the effort of the Lagos government to sanitise the state is being sabotaged by some individuals with unknown motives. To curb the huge heaps on refuse on the streets of Lagos, the administration of Akinwunmi Ambode, governor of the state, introduced the Cleaner Lagos Initiative (CLI) in […]
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The government of Lagos State issued a 24 hour quit notice to all new/fairly used furniture traders on road setbacks and walkways along Oshodi, Mile 2 Expressway. The quit notice came as the Lagos State Waterways Authority, LASWA in effort to ensure safety on the inland waterways, distributed over 1500 life jackets to ferry operators […]
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Suspected thieves on Thursday night opened the cargo hold of an Air Peace aircraft scheduled for departure at the runway of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos. The Corporate Communications Manager of Air Peace, Chris Iwarah, said this in a statement on Friday in Lagos. Mr. Iwarah said the cargo hold of Flight 7138 scheduled […]
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Lagos State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode, has signed the Lagos State Electric Power Reform Bill into law in an attempt to ensuring 24-hour power supply in the state. The law would enable investors to generate electricity for the state and afford the state government to upgrade power infrastructure, as well as tapped into the gas […]
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A supervisor at Chrisland School in Victoria Garden City in Lekki Lagos raped a two-year-old pupil several times. An ex-social worker, Miss Gloria Chinoyera said this today in a testimony at the newly-inaugurated Ikeja Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court. The school supervisor, Adegboyega Adenekan, 47, is facing a charge of child defilement. The prosecution alleged […]
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Five men on Tuesday appeared before the newly inaugurated Ikeja Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court, for allegedly using social media to lure, kidnap and rape two women in Lagos. The accused are Gabriel Obinna, 20, Nnadozie Akabueze, 21, Hector Ugochukwu, 32, Chinedu Ezechukwu, 21 and Godwin Balogun. They are facing a six-count charge of […]
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The government of Lagos State on Thursday inaugurated four special courts solely for the prosecution of sexual offences and corruption cases. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that two courts will adjudicate on special offences (economic and financial crimes), while the two others will try sexual offences. The Sexual Offences Court is the first […]
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No fewer than 20 people died in a ghastly motor accident along Kaduna-Abuja expressed way on Sunday night. The Sector Commander of the Federal Roads Safety Corps in Kaduna State, Umar Ibrahim, told the News Agency of Nigeria in Kaduna on Monday that the accident occurred around 7 p.m. at Dutse U-turn, 22 kilometres from Kaduna […]
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Deji Tinubu, former chairman of the Lagos State Sports Commission, who died on Thursday, will be buried on January 30. Tinubu, who was the Special Adviser on Commerce, Industry and Cooperative to Governor Akinwunmi Ambode, died on Thursday, in the Epe area of Lagos State. The former Lagos state sports chairman reportedly slumped during a […]
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