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The case of the female employee of a bank in Ikorodu, Amarachi Ugochukwu, who allegedly took her own life after consuming an insecticide has been referred to the State Criminal Investigation Department, City Round has learnt. The incident reportedly happened on Monday within the premises of the bank when the 32-year-old locked herself in the […]
The parents of a 14-year-old boy, Mubarak Sanyaolu, who was allegedly killed by a stray bullet on November 4, 2021, at the Command bus stop in the Meiran area of Lagos State, have appealed for the intervention of the state government to recover the corpse. PUNCH Metro reported that the late Mubarak’s father, Olamilekan, alleged that […]
After a 12-day search for a female passenger, Mrs. Beatrice Akinola, who was aboard a bus alongside 21 other passengers when it crashed outside a filling station on December 28, 2023, the husband’s family is seeking help to locate the whereabouts of the Lagos-based wife. PUNCH Metro learnt on Monday that the accident was said to […]
The government of Ireland has perfected plans to entice Nigerians and other foreign workers with work permits. The potential beneficiaries are those with critical skills who require permission to work in the country. According to the Citizens Information Board, the scheme under the name ‘Critical Skills Employment Permit’ applies to countries outside the European Economic […]
Operatives of the Lagos State Fire and Rescue Service have recovered the body of a 27-year-old man, Adeyemi Azeez, who was said to have fallen inside a canal leading to the Lagoon in the Alapere Ketu area the state on Thursday. The Director, LSFRS, Margaret Adeseye, disclosed this in a statement made available to PUNCH Metro on […]
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 […]
A visually impaired mother, Agnes Forte, has appealed to the Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Fayoade Adegoke, to intervene in the search for her missing one-year-old baby, Excel. Agnes had raised the alarm over the disappearance of Excel on Tuesday, November 28, in the Akowonjo area of Lagos State. Speaking with our PUNCH Metro on […]
Two children, Amirat Adeniji and Kadijat have reportedly gone missing in the Ajegunle area of Lagos State with the family suspecting kidnap. Amirat’s father, Rasheed Adeniji, who spoke with PUNCH Metro on Monday said the children went missing on New Year’s Eve at their residence at Mobil Road, Ajegunle-Apapa, Lagos. He said the children were last seen […]
The Home Office of the United Kingdom on Monday announced that it had commenced the implementation of its policy banning Nigerian students and other overseas students from bringing in dependants via the study visa route. In a post on X (formerly Twitter), the Home Office reiterated that only those on postgraduate research or government-sponsored scholarship […]
Barely two days to the new year, a hit-and-run driver ended the life of a pedestrian on Saturday, just after the Mobil filling station toward Otedola Bridge outward Lagos. The Lagos Territorial Coordinator, National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), Ibrahim Farinloye, made this known in a statement issued in Lagos on Saturday. Farinloye said that the […]
