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• Partial Compliance By Select Transport Companies• NURTW Backtracks, Maintains Normal Fares• Expectant Commuters Left In The Lurch There is confusion within the road transport sector over the Federal Government’s announcement of 50 per cent reduction in transportation fares along 22 inter-state routes during this Yuletide season. Findings by The Guardian, yesterday, indicated that while […]
Lagos vows evacuation of distressed structures, three die in collapsed building The bodies of two middle-aged adults (male and female) and a 12-year-old boy were recovered on Friday when a two-storey building collapsed in the Ebute Meta area of Lagos State. The Territorial Coordinator of the National Emergency Management Agency, Mr Ibrahim Farinloye, confirmed the […]
Yesterday morning, a cart pusher kidnapped a two-year old boy, around the UBA bank(along Owutu-Isawo Road) Agric, in Ikorodu, in a sack. He was reportedly apprehended around Jayeola Street along that same road (about a kilometre from the location of the kidnapping). The child who was barely breathing was rescued by observers who noticed some […]
The acute scarcity of cash worsened on Friday, leaving many shoppers and travellers stranded and at the mercy of Points of Sales operators, who offered the small amounts of money available to them to desperate citizens for exorbitant fees. Also on Friday, hundreds of intending passengers, who wanted to travel to different parts of the […]
The First Lady of Nigeria, Senator Oluremi Tinubu on Thursday launched the Renewed Hope Initiative Elderly Support Scheme (RHIESS) poised to support vulnerable elderly citizens aged 65 and above in all 36 states of the federation during this festive period. Tinubu, at the maiden edition of the Renewed Hope Initiative Elders Support Scheme (RHIESS), in […]
The Lagos State Traffic Management Authority has explained how it rescued three passengers of a commercial bus from an accident. The accident, LASTMA, said, happened at Anthony-Oke, in the Oshodi area of the state. A statement released by the Public Relations Officer, LASTMA, Adebayo Taofiq, on Thursday, gave details of the crash and the rescue. […]
Some commuters have lamented what they described as a disregard for the Zebra Crossing signs on Lagos roads, saying the disobedience to the traffic sign makes commuting dangerous for pedestrians. Some of the commuters who spoke with PUNCH Metro in separate interviews on Thursday said the enforcement of the traffic rule was weak on Lagos roads. While […]
A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos has ordered the remand of an alleged WhatsApp hacker, Stephen Andrew Ojo, at the Ikoyi centre of the Nigerian Correctional Services. Justice Akintayo Aluko remanded the defendant following his arraignment before the court by the officers of the Zone 2 Police Command, Onikan, Lagos. Ojo was arraigned on […]
There was heavy human traffic at Lagos and Abuja train stations on Thursday following the Federal Government’s announcement of free rides for passengers as part of the Yuletide celebration. In addition to the free train rides, President Bola Tinubu, also approved a 50 per cent discount for inter-state road travel, effective from December 21 to […]
The Lagos State Domestic and Sexual Violence Agency has sounded the alarm to alert Parents and Guardians in the State to be extra vigilant in the monitoring and protection of children and wards during this festive period. The Executive Secretary revealed that the historical trend from available data points to children being at a higher […]
