… Collaborates with Multipro for Sensitisation Walk The Lagos State Ministry of Health, in collaboration with Multipro Enterprises Limited (MPEL), makers of Hypo bleach, is organising a walk, health summit/symposium, medical screening and community clean-up exercise to sensitise residents and commemorate this year’s World Health Day. The Director Disease Control, State Ministry of Health, … Read more
The General Manager, Lagos State Lotteries Board, Mr. Oluwaseun Anibaba, has announced that enforcement operations for the automation of gaming platforms in Lagos State will commence on April 5, 2019. Anibaba, who spoke during a press interview recently, said the exercise seeks to ensure compliance with an earlier directive to all pool betting promoters to … Read more
Gov. Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos State has appointed Mrs Teju Abisoye as the Acting Executive Secretary of Lagos State Employment Trust Fund (LSETF) with effect from April 1, 2019. Mrs Bosede Alimi, the Director, Strategy, Funding and Stakeholder Management in LSETF, said this on Wednesday in Lagos. Alimi said Abisoye’s appointment was, however, subject to … Read more
Stakeholders in the justice system have called on the Lagos State Government to immediately take steps to remove juveniles from prisons located in the state. Speaking at a summit on Criminal Justice Reform and Human Rights organized by Citizens United for the Rehabilitation of Errants (CURE-Nigeria) in conjunction with the National Human Rights Commission, … Read more
National Vice Chairman, South-West of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Dr Eddy Olafeso, yesterday disowned Segun Adewale as the Lagos State Chairman of the party. Olafeso in a statement in Akure said Adewale “did contest the last Ekiti State governorship election on the platform of ADP, therefore to that extent, still a member of that party … Read more
The Landlady of 16, Adekoya Street in Ojo, Lagos State, and her children are on the run, following an alleged murder of one of her tenants, Idowu Oladele. The fleeing landlady, Fausat Ibrahim, was alleged to have hit the deceased with a charm on his chest, causing him to slump and die moments after. … Read more
A 24-year-old tricyclist, Simon Offum, who allegedly stole a tricycle valued N1.2 million parked at Maroko Police Station, was yesterday brought before an Igbosere Magistrates’ Court, in Lagos. Offum, a resident of Golden Pearls Estate, Sangotedo, Lagos, is facing a two-count charge of stealing and breach of the peace. It was alleged that the … Read more
A Celestial Church prophet, Kehinde Salami, 25 and a prophetess, Yetunde Akinola, 42, have been remanded on the orders of an Ikeja Chief Magistrate’s Court for allegedly forcing a 16-year-old housemaid to swallow an iron cross for spiritual cleansing. The defendants, who lived in Adeyemi Street, Ifako Ijaiye in Lagos, are standing trial on … Read more
An Ebute Meta Chief Magistrate’s Court in Lagos, yesterday, remanded a motorcyclist, Ibrahim Awwal, in prison for allegedly beating a man to death. Chief Magistrate O.O. Olatunji remanded Awwal, 20, in Ikoyi Prisons and ordered that the case file should be sent to the Lagos State Director of Public Prosecutions, DPPs, for advice. Earlier, the … Read more
Thirty-year-old Gerald Offordile allegedly stole his lover’s properties then threatened to publish her nude pictures on social media if she doesn’t give him $2,000. Offordile, who was docked before a Lagos Magistrate’s Court sitting in Igbosere, resides at 17/19 Matthew Osamiran Street, Ologolo Village, Lekki, Lagos, and is facing a seven-count charge preferred against … Read more
The Lagos State Government has acquired and commissioned a briquette-making facility, donated by the Ecological Fund Office(EFO), for waste recycling. Receiving the facility, Lagos Waste Management Authority(LAWMA) Consultant on Business Development, Mr. Bode Fanimo affirmed the commitment of the agency to making judicious use of the facility by providing solution for agro-forestry waste. Fanimo, who … Read more
Lagos State government has received and accommodated 138 internally-displaced persons, IDPs, created by building collapse and the ongoing demolition of distressed buildings at the State Emergency Management Agency, LASEMA, Resettlement Centre, Igando, Alimosho Local Government Area of the state. The other resettlement camp at Agbowa, Ikorodu area of the state, was yet to be opened … Read more
The presidency has offered condolences to the family and friends of Kolade Johnson, a youth who was allegedly shot dead by policemen from Anti-Cultism Unit of Lagos state command on Sunday, March 31. The presidency took to its Twitter page to offer its condolences to the family and friends of the victim, assuring that the … Read more
The death has been announced in Lagos of one of the architects and founding fathers of Lagos,Pa Hassan Fasinro Pa Fasinro, passed on at exactly 8:29pm on Sunday evening after a brief illness at the age of 99. The number one citizen of the state,Mr Akinwunmi Ambode,in a statement credited to his Chief Press … Read more
President Muhammadu Buhari, in a statement by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, sympathized with the families of victims. The President in the statement charged the Lagos State government to do all that was needful, to avoid future recurrence of such tragic developments. He said: “It touches one to lose precious … Read more
The Medilag 90 Group, made up of the 1990 medical and dental graduates of University of Lagos, College of Medicine, have urged the Lagos State governor-elect, Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu to resuscitate 37 non-functional Primary Health and Dental Care Centers in the state when sworn in. They made the demand in a press statement congratulating … Read more
Some Lagos residents has urged the governor-elect in the state, Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu, and incoming lawmakers to make welfare of the people their priority when they assume office. They spoke in separate interviews in Lagos. The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) had on Sunday declared Sanwo-Olu winner of the March 9 governorship election and … Read more
Ambode on Wednesday visited the scene of a three-storey building which collapsed in Ita Faaji area of Lagos Island, where he commiserated with families of victims who lost their lives, most of whom are children. Governor Ambode, who got to the scene of the incident at about 2:42p.m., described the incident as unfortunate, however, … Read more
Lagos State governor-elect, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has commiserated with the families of the victims of the collapsed three-storey building on 14 Massey Street, Lagos Island, which housed a primary school, yesterday. Sanwo-Olu expressed his sympathy to the victims’ families in a statement by his media office, describing the incident as “one tragedy too many”. … Read more
Former Minister for Defence and Chieftain of the All Progressive Congress, APC, Chief Demola Seriki, has described the governorship candidate of the Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP,in Saturday’s governorship election, Mr. Jimi Agbaje, as a ‘perennial runner’ that needs encouragement to look for a successor for his party. Fielding questions from newsmen following Mr. Babajide … Read more