Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babajide Olusola Sanwo-Olu has called on community, religious and traditional leaders as well as unions, associations and educationists to cooperate with the State Government in spreading basic information to curb the spread of coronavirus among their community members and adherents. Speaking on Tuesday at the stakeholders’ forum on the Management and … Read more
The Lagos State Government on Tuesday met with religious leaders in the state on the need to collaborate with government to halt the spread of the deadly Coronavirus. At the meeting which took place at the Chapel of Christ the Light, Alausa, in Ikeja, Lagos, Southwest Nigeria, hundreds of religious leaders under the aegis of … Read more
The Lagos State Government has confirmed that a Chinese national with likely symptom of coronavirus has been quarantined. Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi disclosed this on Tuesday at a news conference to give updates on Coronavirus. Read Also: Man Sentenced To 12 Years For Attempted Rape of Minor According to him, the Chinese national … Read more
A 25-year-old man, Bashiru Osho, has been sentenced to to 12 years imprisonment for attempting to defile an eight-year-old girl. Osho who was charged for attempting to commit a felony and defilement was found guilty and sentenced by Chief Magistrate F.A Azeez of an Ikorodu Magistrates’ Court, NAN reports. Read Also: JUST IN: Oyo Assembly … Read more
The police have arraigned a 30-year-old woman, Kudirat Balogun, before Tinubu Magistrates’ Court for allegedly stabbing a tenant living in her father’s property with a broken bottle. Balogun, who resides at Iduwo Eletu Street, Awoyaya, Ibeju Lekki, Lagos, has been charged with two counts of conspiracy and attempted murder, PM News reports. The prosecution counsel, … Read more
Advocacy group, Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, has called on Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu to immediately obey court judgment ordering all hospitals in the state to put an end to the practice of mandating husbands to donate blood, before their pregnant wives could access ante-natal care. Justice Raliat Adebiyi of the Lagos State High … Read more
The Lagos State Government, through the Directorate of Citizens’ Rights, has rescued a severely abused 12-year old boy residing at No. 64 Moricass Road, Agege when his story went viral on social media, especially on Facebook. Speaking on the incident, the Director for Citizens’ Rights, Mrs. Biola Oseni said as soon as the Agency got … Read more
The Honourable Commissioner for Education, Mrs. Folasade Adefisayo has called on Public and Private School Head Teachers and School Administrators, as well as pupils and students in the State to adopt prompt preventive measures against the outbreak of the Coronavirus disease in Schools. She remarked that it is imperative to prevent and contain any possible … Read more
The Tutor-General/Permanent Secretary, Education District 1, Barrister Margaret Titilayo Solarin has called for increased attention to technical education in Lagos Schools. The TG/PS made the call recently during a quiz competing organized by Teachers of Basic Technology and Allied Subjects for students of government and private secondary schools. Mrs. Solarin, who spoke through the District … Read more
Lagos State Government has welcomed delegates from the African Union (AU) who were on a one-week inspection tour of ongoing projects in the State with the aim of rendering necessary support towards the completion of the infrastructure. The Special Adviser to the Governor on Sustainable Development Goals and Investment, Mrs Solape Hammond, who received the … Read more
The Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi, has confirmed that the corona virus patient currently in the Yaba Mainland Hospital is doing very well and the state is very satisfied with his condition. Briefing journalists after a stakeholders’ meeting on Corona Virus at the State House, Alausa, Ikeja, on Monday, Prof. Abayomi assured … Read more
A 28-year-old man, Yakubu Afonla, who allegedly defiled a neighbour’s four-year-old daughter was on Monday tried before a Chief Magistrates’ Court in Ikeja, Lagos State. NAN reports that the police charged Afonla with defilement. The Prosecution Counsel, ASP Benson Emuerhi, explained to the court that the defendant committed the offence on Feb. 11 at Balogun … Read more
Officials of the Lagos State Government Taskforce on Environmental and Special Offences Unit on Monday 2nd March 2020 began the demolition of illegal structures around government public schools at Mile 2, along Badagry Expressway and environs. Read Also: 25-Year-Old Hemp Dealer To Spend 15 Months In Jail Ekohotblog reports that the Lagos State Government had … Read more
The Abuja Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has secured the conviction of Philip Utyo, for engaging in internet fraud, also known as yahoo yahoo. Utyo was arraigned before Justice Modupe Osho’ Adebiyi of a Federal Capital Territory, FCT High Court, Gudu, on a one-count charge bordering on cybercrime. Read Also: … Read more
The Lagos State Police Command have arrested one Kazeem Mustapha for allegedly stabbing one Afeez Oluwole in the chest over N500. According to the state Police Public Relations Officer, Bala Elkana, the incident happened around the Satellite Town area of the state. Elkana said Oluwole died as a result of the injuries he sustained during … Read more
A minor scuffle that ensued between a taxi driver and a car owner has resulted in one death. The Incident that happened yesterday along warehouse Owerri attracted eye witnesses who said the guy punched the taxi driver to death for hitting his Lexus Jeep. Read Also: Coronavirus: About 100 persons in supervised self-isolation — Minister … Read more
Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu said he was highly confident in the response approach initiated by the State’s Incident Command Centre in the wake of the outbreak of the virus, expressing optimism that the nation would survive the epidemic and put it behind. He said the State had already upgraded its isolation facilities at the IDH in … Read more
The Director-General, Lagos State Public Service Staff Development Centre (PSSDC), Dr Olufunmi Ajose-Harrison at the weekend unveiled plans by the centre to induct about 2,000 civil servants recruited by the state government who are yet to be inducted into the service. He said the PSSDC now had backlog to deal with and would urgently do … Read more
Motorists and commuters on Sunday lamented the hardship they faced on the Long Bridge and the Kara end of the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway despite the reopening of a lane of the road after two months of reconstruction. We reported that the Federal Controller of Works, Lagos, Mr. Adedamola Kuti, had said that the Berger/Kara section of … Read more
The Federal Ministry of Works and Housing has appealed to road users to use alternative routes during the partial closure of the Independence Bridge in Lagos. Mr. Adedamola Kuti, Federal Controller of Works, Lagos who made the pronouncement said the closure is to ensure routine maintenance till May 2 to replace damaged expansion joints. Motorists … Read more