Operations will resume on the Lagos-Kano railway route in six weeks, the Subsidy Reinvestment and Empowerment Programme Committee has said. This followed the intervention of the committee in the rehabilitation of the rail line two years after the Nigerian Railway suspended operations on the route. NRC was forced to suspend commercial rail operations on the […]
The Lagos State Government on Tuesday said it was now mandatory for occupiers of houses in the state to beautify the perimeter areas of their buildings. The government said a violation of this would attract N250, 000 or the amount the state would incur if it decides to carry out the beautification, or six months […]
10, 2012 by Sesan Olufowobi, Eniola Akinkuotu and Temitayo Famutimi 52 Comments Armed robbers, numbering about 12, robbed in different parts of Lagos State on Sunday killing three policemen and a commercial bus driver. One of the policemen and the driver, who were killed at the PWD area of Ikeja by the rampaging robbers, were […]
Residents of Okobaba, a community in Ebute Meta, Lagos State, have appealed to the state government to relocate them before embarking on the demolition of the area. PUNCH Metro learnt that the state government had during the administration of Bola Tinubu resolved to re-develop the area in line with the Lagos Mega City project. […]
*Dead body recovered – Police *Govt orders immediate waterfront evacuation By Evelyn Usman It was tragic Eid-el-Fitr, yesterday, as high waves accompanied by ocean surge swept away 16 persons in Lagos. One victim was reported dead. The police confirmed the body was recovered. The victims, Sunday Vanguard learnt, last night, include 11 traders in a […]
The Special Court in Alausa, Ikeja in Lagos, Southwest Nigeria has sent three female beggars to jail for begging in unauthorised places. One of the convicts is 20-year old Shadia Nasiru who was caught begging with three hired children in Maryland area of Lagos. The others are Binta Sanni, 46, and Aisha Isala, 42. Officials […]
Published on August 16, 2012 by pmnews The victim of the armed robbery raid at a bank in Apapa, Lagos, southwest Nigeria, on Tuesday, Inspector Taiwo Ajetunmobi, 51, left behind three wives, eight children and a 90-year old mother. When P.M.NEWS correspondents visited his residence at Ebute Meta, Lagos, yesterday, the three wives, Princess Elizabeth […]
A group, Congress of South-West Youths (COWSY), has criticised the Senior Special Assistant to President Goodluck Jonathan on Public Affairs, Dr Doyin Okupe, over his recent call for resignation of the Speaker of Lagos State House of Assembly, Adeyemi Ikuforiji. Okupe had recently called for Ikuforiji’s resignation based on his pending trial by the Economic […]
The recently installed Catholic Archbishop of Lagos, His Grace, Most Reverend Dr Alfred Martins, on Thursday, during his maiden press briefing, which was held at the Catholic Church of Assumption, condemned the brutalisation of Mr Benedict Uwalaka, a photojournalist with the Leadership Newspaper, by men alleged to be mortuary attendants. According to the cleric, “it […]
By EVELYN USMAN LAGOS — The female banker, accused of crushing an official of the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority, LASTMA, to death last Friday, on Lekki/Ajah Expressway, has said she is innocent of the said offence. The woman, Mrs. Yinka Johnson, a staff of a new generation bank, said it was an on-coming commercial vehicle […]
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