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Headlines, Lagos, Oyo, State News
Thursday, April 12th, 2012
April 12, 2012 by Kunle Falayi Three adults and a child were burnt to death on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway on Wednesday after a bus lost control and burst into flames. According to eyewitnesses, the two front tyres of the Mazda bus burst and the driver lost control and hit a culvert between the AP filling […]
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Headlines, Lagos, State News
Monday, April 9th, 2012
By Evelyn Usman Lagos — Police investigation into the discovered lifeless body of a businessman, weekend in Ajagbandi area of Lagos, yesterday, revealed that the deceased committed suicide. Although the deceased, Ahmed Omobumbe did not leave a suicide note, investigation by the Lagos State Police Command revealed that the man hung himself out of frustration. […]
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Enugu, Headlines, Lagos, State News
Sunday, April 1st, 2012
A luxury bus conveying secondary school girls from Enugu to Lagos State was attacked by armed robbers at the Okeodo end of Ore-Sagamu Expressway, Ogun State on Saturday. The students numbering 42 were of Holy Cross College, Enugu and had hired the bus belonging to Ekene Dili Chukwu Group of Companies with registration number Lagos […]
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Headlines, Lagos, Nigerian Police, State News
Friday, March 30th, 2012
THERE was confusion around Tolu area of Ajegunle, Lagos State, on Thursday, following the recovery of bodies of three out of the eight Hausa scavengers, who drowned in a well at Fasasi Street in the area. The corpses of Ishan Abdul, Malik Suberu and Momoh Bari were recovered by a combined team of fire-fighters and […]
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Headlines, Lagos, State News
Wednesday, March 28th, 2012
Lagos State Task Force on Environment and Special Offences (Enforcement) Unit has arrested 86 suspected illegal squatters, food vendors and aliens in Ikoyi area of the state for not having definite residential address and means of livelihood. It was learnt that the arrest was in response to complaints by residents of the area about the […]
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Lagos, State News
Saturday, March 24th, 2012
March 24, 2012 by Ademola Olonilua 7 Comments There appears to be a rise in the number of attacks being perpetrated by armed robbers operating on motorcycles in different parts of Lagos. CRIME DIGEST investigations show that these criminals prefer to operate with motorcycles instead of cars as was the case in the past because […]
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Lagos, State News
Wednesday, March 21st, 2012
The Lagos State Government has given 10 days ultimatum to tax defaulters in the state to comply or relocate from the state to avert the full wrath of the law, saying it is no longer business as usual in the state for tax evaders. Speaking with newsmen at a world press briefing in Lagos, the […]
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Lagos, State News
Wednesday, March 21st, 2012
Scenes of the clash. | credits: Olatunji Obasa and Kunle Falayi Tension is still high in Agiliti, Mile 12 area of Lagos following a clash between Hausa youths and their Yoruba counterparts in the area on Monday. Our correspondents report that police vans were still stationed around the area made up of three streets: Oniyanrin, […]
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Lagos, State News
Thursday, March 15th, 2012
IT is no longer news that hotels in Nigeria are about the most expensive in the world. Many factors have been attributed to this. The factors are numerous. They range from the challenge on providing security to electricity. It is no longer news that the country is in total or partial darkness depending on the […]
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Headlines, Lagos, State News
Wednesday, March 14th, 2012
March 14, 2012 by Kunle Falayi 37 Comments The brutality ascribed to officials of the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority still persists as a man, Chudi Obiefuna, was on Monday brutalised by a combined team of LASTMA officials and riot policemen in the Ijeshatedo area of Lagos. An unidentified man, who intervened by explaining that […]