The Lagos State Commissioner of Police, CP Fatai Owoseni, acting on a tip-off, deployed operatives from the Area G Command Headquarters at the weekend to rescue 13 children and 15 adults chained and locked up by one Emmanuel Adeyemi at the Oke-ira area of Ojodu, Lagos. Confirming the incident, the state Police Public Relations Officer, Dolapo […]
Continue ReadingThe attention of the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) has been drawn to media report on apprehension and panic by members of the public living around the area of ongoing air operations at AREPO and its environs.Thus, it has become necessary to allay the fear of the people with a view to sustaining public confidence and […]
Continue ReadingContrary to reports that the Lagos state government has abolished the monthly environmental sanitation, the government has said the monthly exercise is still in force. Although, earlier at the monthly media chat of his ministry, Babatunde Adejare, commissioner for environment, had said it was not productive to shut the city for three hours in reference […]
Continue ReadingFormer governor of Akwa Ibom state and Senate Minority Leader, Godwill Akpabio, has denied ownership of Lekki Gardens, Lagos, where a building collapsed and killed 34 persons last week. A statement by Anietie Ekong, Special Assistant to Mr. Akpabio on Tuesday in Abuja, said it was unfair link Mr. Akpabio to a property he did […]
Continue ReadingFollowing last week’s collapse of a Lekki Gardens building that resulted in the death of 34 people, Governor Akinwunmi Ambode, of Lagos state, has giving a nod to the dismissal of Adeigbe Olushola, who is the general manager of the Building Control Agency (LASBCA). Governor Ambode also approved the dismissal of Adeoye Thomas Adeyemi, head […]
Continue ReadingGovernor Akinwumi Ambode of Lagos State, on Tuesday signed and approved the release of 2,500 Certificates of Occupancy to owners of landed properties from Wednesday, September 9, 2015. The Executive Secretary of the Lands Bureau, Mr Olukayode Ogunnubi, disclosed this to newsmen. He said the development was in line with Governor Ambode’s effort to clear […]
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Governor Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos State on Friday stated that his administration will introduce strategies to take the teeming unemployed youths off the streets of Lagos. Governor Ambode approved the appointment of Mr. Ayo Agbesanwa as the Director General, Lagos State Sports Commission. The governor who disclosed this while commissioning the newly reconstructed multi- purpose Onikan […]
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Mr. Babatunde Fashola, spent N139m on the drilling of two boreholes at the Lagos House, Ikeja. The expenditure works out at N69.5 million each. The project was completed by Deux Projects Limited according to a report published by the state government The report, which was part of the awarded contracts by the Lagos State Tenders […]
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Governor Akinwunmi Ambode, has described Lagos State as the engine room for the growth and development of Nigeria. Ambode said this on Sunday when he led lawmakers and leaders of the All Progressives Congress to receive a delegation of US Congress, led by Congressman Darelle Issa. The state team, which received the US delegation at the […]
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