Lagos: Ocean surge hits Alpha Beach, renders thousand homeless

  Frequent visitors to Alpha Beach on the Lagos Island would find it difficult to believe that their favourite fun spot is no more. What is left of this tourist site is a broken coastline that shows the potency of angry water. What used to be a tarred road running parallel to the beach had […]

Security Beef Up in Lagos, Abuja, Airports

The Embassy of the United States, which is a few metres to the bombed  UN building located on Diplomatic Road and its officials were seen responding to the terrorist attack with renewed tightening of security measures. Saturday Tribune noticed a sense of fear and apprehension at the Embassy, as vehicles were disallowed from packing opposite […]

Collect more than 6 months’ rent, go to jail, Fashola tells landlords

Respite has finally come to tenants in Lagos as the state governor, Mr Babatunde Fashola, has signed into law a bill that will make it unlawful for a landlord or his agent to demand or receive from a sitting tenant rent in excess of six months. The law, which explicitly harps on the rights and […]

Lagos: 5 feared dead in building collapse •As fire guts NIPOST building

Five  people were on Saturday afternoon feared killed, several others severely injured  and property worth millions of naira destroyed  when a three-storey building collapsed on the Island in Lagos State.  Among the injured was a man said to be a welder. One of the Ikeja  offices of the Nigeria Postal Services (NIPOST) also, on the same day, went […]

Over 2000 Lagos residents to be displaced

Lagos State Government is set to demolish over 500 clusters of shanties at the Ilaje lagoon front in Bariga Local Government Area of the state. The demolition, when carried out, would render over 2,000 residents homeless. The state Commissioner for Waterfront Infrastructure Development, Prince Adesegun Oniru, who addressed the over 2,000 affected residents on Wednesday […]

Fashola, Amaechi, others call for fight against Polio

Lagos State Governor, Mr Babatunde Fashola (SAN) yesterday joined his 36 States counterparts under the aegis of the Governors’ Forum of Nigeria in sustaining the campaign against the spread of Polio nationwide, stressing that Lagos State could not afford to stop the campaign against the deadly disease now. Governor Fashola who spoke at the Quarterly […]

Fear of Boko Haram attacks spreads to Lagos

 South West Regional Editor with agency reports LAGOS — The fear of attacks by Islamic militants in Nigeria is spreading South to the nation’s commercial capital, Lagos, where city buses are being checked for bombs. This followed a text message purportedly sent by the group warning people not to take government buses because they are […]

Picture: Fashola gives 500 vehicle inspection devices to Police, FRSC, LASTMA

Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State, has distributed 500 Auto-Vehicle Inspection devices to the Police; Federal Road Safety Commission, FRSC; Lagos State Traffic Management Authority, LASTMA and Vehicle Inspection Units as part of  measures to improve traffic control in the state. Mr Fola Arthur-Worrey, Executive Secretary, Lagos State Security Trust Fund (left) and Divisional Police […]

2-year rent banned in Lagos

Any landlord in Lagos state who collects rent in excess of one year from a new tenant is liable of punishment by the state government as such action would henceforth be seen as a criminal offence, which will either attract jail term or payment of fine. This is part of the content of the tenancy […]

Fashola orders prosecution of owners of collapsed buildings

Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State, has directed immediate arrest and prosecution of owners of collapsed buildings in the state. He also directed Ministry of Physical Planning and Urban Development to commence immediate review of current building laws to restore sanity to the building sector. The state Commissioner for Physical Planning and Urban Development, Mr. […]

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