Residents across the Lagos region continue to experience significant power disruptions due to ongoing faults on the 330kV transmission lines. The management of the Eko Electricity Distribution Company confirmed this in a statement released on its X handle today. The company further confirmed that the persistent load-shedding is a direct result...
•Lagos police spokesperson, Benjamin Hundeyin The operatives of the Lagos State Police Command have apprehended two Pakistanis who allegedly specialise in kidnapping people for ransom in the state. The command’s spokesperson, CSP Benjamin Hundeyin, disclosed this via a statement yesterday, Thursday, March 6, 2025. Hundeyin said the suspects we...
•Building collapse Two persons were confirmed dead yesterday, while 14 others were rescued alive from the rubble after a three-storey building with a penthouse under construction collapsed, on Oriwu Street, in Lekki area of Lagos. But the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency, LASEMA, said six persons were rescued. The victims were labourers...
•A teacher and students in classroom Lagos State Government say it still does not tolerate corporal punishment in public schools and has upheld counselling as an effective correctional measure. The state Commissioner for Basic and Secondary Education, Mr Jamiu Alli-Balogun, made this known in an interview with our correspondent yesterday. Alli...
•Jandor Olajide Adediran, popularly known as Jandor, has announced his departure from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). He made this declaration during a media briefing at his Ikeja office in Lagos toda, Monday, March 3, 2025. Jandor was the PDP’s governorship candidate in the 2023 Lagos State election, reports Vanguard. As of now, he has [&...
•Meranda and Obasa Chairman, Governance Advisory Council (GAC) in Lagos State, Prince Tajudeen Olusi, has opened up on the controversy in the Lagos State House of Assembly. Speaking for the first time since the removal of Mudashiru Obasa as Speaker and election of Mojisola Meranda on January 13, 2025, the APC leader stated that whereas [&helli...
•Trucks parked along Apapa port road Haulage truckers operating in Apapa and Tin Can Ports axis have suspended their planned service withdrawal following the intervention of the Lagos State Government and key maritime stakeholders towards resolving their grievances. The suspension was announced, yesterday, in a joint statement issued by the se...
•NAFDAC DG, Prof Mojisola Adeyeye The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control on Wednesday, said it seized 87 truckloads of banned, expired and substandard medicinal products, including USAID and UNFPA-donated antiretroviral drugs, male and female condoms, among others. This followed a crackdown on the illicit drug trade t...
•Some of the suspects in court today The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arraigned an additional 16 Chinese at the Federal High Court, Ikoyi, Lagos. They were arraigned today before Justice Daniel Osiagor on alleged cyber-terrorism, and internet fraud to destabilise the Nigerian economy, reports Channels TV. According to th...
•An accident scene A yet-to-be-identified hit-and-run driver has killed a 12- year-old student, leaving the siblings injured in Lagos. The incident was made known by the Lagos State Command of the Nigeria Police, in a statement via its official X account this morning. According to the statement, the incident occurred at Ogundare bus-stop along...
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