The Lagos state government has said the bodies of 103 victims of #EndSARS protest in 2020 prepared for mass burial were not from the Lekki tollgate. In a statement released the state government on Sunday, it said no dead body was retrieved from the Lekki toll gate as a result of the protest. The statement […]
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Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu has approved the opening of Lekki and Ikoyi toll gates during peak hours on Wednesday. A statement signed by the Governor’s Deputy Chief Press Secretary, Gboyega Akosile, said it is in furtherance of the Lagos State Government’s real-time traffic simulation survey being carried out with the aim of reducing traffic congestion around […]
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Some houses and vehicles were burnt in Epe, Lagos East, on Thursday as political violence erupted following the killing of a supporter of one of the aspirants contesting to represent the All Progressives Congress in the House of Representatives election next year. The person killed was identified as Idris Alooma, said to be 30 years […]
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The Lekki Concession Company on Sunday announced the new tolls to be paid by motorists using the Lekki-Epe Expressway and Ikoyi Link Bridge in Lagos. In the new fare regime, which becomes effective February 1, cars and tricycles owners are to pay N200 for using the Lekki-Epe Expressway as against N120 being paid now. For […]
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The Lagos state government has temporarily halted the proposed toll hike on the Lekki-Epe Expressway and the Lekki-Ikoyi link bridge. The 49-kilometre Lekki-Epe corridor is being managed by the Lekki Concession Company, a purpose vehicle representing investors in the rebuilt road. Steve Ayorinde, the state’s commissioner for information, said the order was to allow “stakeholders” […]
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Ford Ford’s first ever automobile assembly plant in Sub-Sahara Africa has been established in Lagos, Nigeria, courtesy of Coscharis Motors Plc, the nation’s exclusive official representative of the brand. The plant, which is sighted on a piece of land of more than 14 Hectares within Coscharis Group’s head office in Lekki, Lagos, was unveiled recently. […]
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Ibe Kachikwu, minister of state for petroleum resources, has urged Aliko Dangote, president of Dangote group, to make sure he completes his refinery before December 2019. He made the call when he visited the Dangote oil refinery site at Lekki free trade zone, Lagos state, on Monday. Kachikwu said there would be more chances of […]
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The entire Ahmadu Bello way in Victoria Island, Lagos, was on Saturday, flooded beyond imagination, forcing some residents and commercial offices to unceremoniously vacate their premises. As a result of the unpleasant development, the Lagos State Police Command has temporarily closed the road for human and vehicular movements due to threat by heavy flood. The […]
Continue ReadingThe Lagos State Government on Sunday issued a 14-day ultimatum to owners of illegal structures, shanties and street hawkers in Ikoyi, Victoria Island and Lekki areas. The Secretary to the State Government, Tunji Bello, who gave the ultimatum in a statement ordered that they should remove them or face the law. It also ordered those […]
Continue ReadingOperatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Tuesday stormed the Lagos residences of former Minister of State for Defence, Musiliu Obanikoro, carting away cars and other valuables. The two homes raided were the former minister’s private residence at Park View Estate and the house near Banana Island where his two sons, Jide […]
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