...news, reports, issues... about Lagos
...news, reports, issues... about Lagos
The Lagos State Physical Planning Permit Authority (LASPPPA) on Tuesday said it sealed more than 700 buildings for various contraventions in 2023. Mr Kehinde Osinaike, General Manager, LASPPPA, disclosed this while leading an enforcement team of the authority across Ikeja Local Government area of the state. Osinaike said that the authority was embarking on early […]
The Lagos State Government has stressed the need for green and improved air quality across the State to ensure healthy living for the citizens. The government stated that the present air quality in many parts of the State as indicated in the State’s Air Quality Index is unhealthy. As a result, the State government through […]
The Lagos State Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court in Ikeja, on Tuesday, remanded a man Onyeka Mbaka in the Nigerian Correctional Centre for the alleged defilement of a 15-year-old girl. Justice Rahman Oshodi made the remand order of the defendant after he was arraigned on a count of defilement preferred against him by the […]
The family of a three-month-old pregnant mother of six, Deborah Fawolere, who died at the Gbagada General Hospital in the early hours of Tuesday, has accused the husband of having a hand in the death of his wife. PUNCH Metro learnt from the sister of the late wife, Toluwalase Adedoyin, that the husband, Idowu Fawolere, did […]
The Federal Government through the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission has issued 13 new licences for the generation of off-grid and embedded power, independent electricity distribution, as well as for the trading of electricity. It said the new licences were issued in the third quarter of 2023, as the cumulative quantum of electricity to be generated […]
by Ray Morphy As last year was ending, the youth of Nigeria began adopting for the coming new year, a slogan: “No gree for anybody!” The slogan represented their aspirations for a new Nigeria that progressive, accountable and responsive to the demands and needs of modern nationhood. They had apparently surveyed the past few years and […]
As global elites, political leaders and influential personalities converge on Davos, Switzerland for the yearly World Economic Forum (WEF), a report by Oxfam has revealed that Africa’s seven richest men own more wealth than the 700 million people, who make up the poorest half of the continent’s population. The document, which is on inequality and […]
Five passengers were reported dead while eight others were injured in an accident which occurred on Monday at about 1:58pm around the Fidiwo end of the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway. The fatal crash involved a Mazda bus with registration number EKY582 YE and another Mercedes Benz truck with no plate number. The truck reportedly suffered tyre burst […]
•Kidnappers move from expressways to Lagos, Ogun, Abuja city centres •Abductors kill two young victims, demand N700m ransom for nine others The scourge of abductions which has strangulated social and economic activities in the North-West has spread nationwide as bandits and other criminal elements have moved their operations into the major cities across the country. […]
Passengers using the Lagos State Bus Rapid Transit were stranded on Sunday as drivers of one of the companies operating the service, Primero Transport Services Limited, embarked on a strike over alleged non-payment of their December salary. Our correspondent, who visited the Ikorodu BRT terminal, noticed long queues of passengers at all boarding stops at […]
