...news, reports, issues... about Lagos
NIGERIA recorded its first rainfall of 2024, yesterday, as light showers washed some parts of Lagos, the nation’s economic capital. For about 20 minutes, areas like Ishashi, and Iba LCDA, Surulere, Anthony Village, Ojuelegba and Akoka among others had light showers that were almost immediately replaced by sunny weather. Specifically, at University of Lagos, Akoka, […]
Traders at the POWA (Police Officers’ Wives Association) market, Phase II Plaza, Computer Village, Lagos, have lamented demolition of their structures. The market was pulled down by police authorities on New Year day, at about 12:30 a.m., while many traders were away celebrating the holiday. The Guardian learnt that eviction notices had been posted on […]
Residents and pedestrians along the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway have lamented the continuous open defecation on the reconstructed drainage system. PUNCH Metro reported that the trend had become rampant as miscreants defaced the road median with faeces, thereby causing pedestrians who cross the expressway to cover their noses. Our correspondent who monitored the sanitary situation on the expressway […]
A Lagos-based lawyer, Olumide Sonupe, has been hospitalised after he was said to have been detained by the police while seeking the bail of his client at the Moshalashi Police Station in the Alimosho area of the state on December 30, 2023. PUNCH Metro learnt that the 36-year-old Olumide was taken to the hospital when his […]
The National Electricity Regulatory Commission has stated that electricity distribution companies require its approval before increasing tariffs. The spokesperson of the NERC, Usman Abba Arabi, made this disclosure in a chat with The PUNCH correspondent on Tuesday. There have been media reports that Discos had concluded plans to hike electricity tariffs in the New Year. Earlier, the […]
Several beneficiaries have been jolted by the deductions of thousands of naira from their bank accounts without any notice from the banks. The loan was disbursed to households and Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises affected by the COVID-19 pandemic by the Central Bank of Nigeria through the commercial banks in 2021. The fund, which was […]
There are strong indications that some Distribution Companies (DisCos) may have quietly effected a tariff change, contrary to the position of the Nigeria Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) that it has not approved any electricity tariff increase. According to a consumer on the network of Ikeja Electric (IE), Mr. Abidemi Odeyingbo, a resident on Budland Street, Ojodu-Berger […]
