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Environmental Lagos

...news, reports, issues... about Lagos

After FIJ’s Story, Namecheap Suspends Private Website Selling Nigerians’ NIN, Other Data

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Xpressverify, an identity verification website that makes money from selling out the personal information of Nigerians, has been suspended by its domain registrar, FIJ can report. This development follows a report by FIJ detailing how Xpressverify had unrestricted access to the National Identification Database and personal details of Nigerians despite being a privately owned website. Namecheap Incorporated, […]

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High cost of iron rods: Engineers now build with bamboo

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Why Bamboo—That Nigeria’s economy is in bad shape, is no longer news. Food and other necessities are hard to come by. However, no matter what turn the economy takes, Nigerians, by their unique nature, will always find survival alternatives. That is why although it sounds unthinkable to see, anywhere in the world, where bamboos are used in […]

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Lekki demolitions: Govt not out to hurt citizens – Commissioner

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Lagos State Government has explained that the recent removal of shanties on the coastal road, along Mayegun and Jakande area of Lekki, was not to hurt its citizens, but done for over-riding public interest. Commissioner for the Environment and Water Resources, Mr. Tokunbo Wahab, made this affirmation on Sunday, when he led state officials on […]

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Police confirm death of motorist protesting damage on his car

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The Police in Lagos State have confirmed the death of a motorist, Seun Sahola, 33 while protesting damage to his car by another motorist, who allegedly hit his car on the Jakande-Lekki-Epe Expressway. The Command’s Public Relations Officer, SP Benjamin Hundeyin, confirmed the incident to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Saturday. Hundeyin said […]

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Police rescue 50 stranded foreigners in Lagos building

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At least 50 persons, some of them children from neighbouring African countries, were, yesterday, rescued from a duplex on Omola Road, in the Edemola area of Epe, Lagos. News filtered around Epe and the entire Lagos State that the rescued persons, foreigners, were kidnapped and kept in the kidnappers’ den, pending when ransom would be […]

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Lagosians excited as govt begins 57 food markets today

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Following the announcement by the Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu that the “Ounje Eko” food markets will begin sales of food items at discounted prices in the five divisions of the state on Sunday, March 17, Lagosians may flood the various locations to buy food items at friend prices. Sanwo-Olu had stated that the food […]

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Gunmen ‘abduct’ editor in Lagos

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FirstNews, an online news platform, says Segun Olatunji, its editor, was on Thursday abducted from his home in Lagos. Olatunji, a former Kaduna bureau chief of The PUNCH, was reportedly picked from his house in Iyana Odo, Abule Egba area of Lagos state by gunmen. In a statement issued on Saturday, the management of the […]

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Army arrests nine fake soldiers in Lagos

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The 81 Division Nigerian Army has apprehended nine individuals who were masquerading as soldiers and engaging in criminal activities in Lagos State. The Acting Deputy Director Army Public Relations, Lieutenant Colonel Olabisi Ayeni, disclosed this in a statement on Thursday. The suspects were said to be involved in various offenses, including performing illegal duties, providing […]

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