Tag: Ikorodu
LASG set to unlock 60 major traffic gridlock areas
The Lagos State Government is set to unlock 60 identified major highway junctions and corridors critically affecting the free flow of traffic within the Lagos metropolis. The State Commissioner for Transportation, Dr. Frederic Oladeinde, who made the disclosure during his project assessment visit to Oyingbo Bus Terminal corridor, stated that the traffic challenges which vary ...Police arrests 5 armed robbery suspects, 73 suspected cultists in Lagos
The Lagos State Police Command has arrested five armed robbery suspects and 73 suspected cultists, a statement signed by its spokesman, Bala Elkana has said. Elkana, in the statement on Sunday, said that the suspects were picked up at various locations in Lagos following reports on their criminal activities. “On July 19, at about 1:30 ...LASWA confirms 5 still missing 6 days after Lagos boat tragedy
Six days after a-20 capacity passengers’ boat capsised on Lagos waterways, the Lagos State Waterways Authority (LASWA), on Thursday said five people were still missing. Mr Oluwadamilola Emmanuel told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos that 12 corpses had so far been found in the rescue operations. Emmanuel said rescue efforts were still ...17 juveniles detained in 5 Lagos prisons between Jan., March 2019 – Report
A Quarterly Report by the Lagos State Ministry of Justice Criminal Information System (LCIS) has revealed that 9,044 inmates were detained in five prisons in the area between Jan. and March 2019. The report identified the Ikoyi prison, Kirikiri Medium prison, Kirikiri Maximum prison, Female prison, and Badagry prison, as the five detention centres mentioned. ...Task Force Arrests Ring Leader of a Four-man Criminal Gang in Lagos
CP Muazu Zubairu Operatives of the Lagos State Task Force on Environmental Sanitation and Special Offences have nabbed a notorious criminal for robbery and pick-pocketing in Lagos. CSP Olayinka Egbeyemi, Chairman of the Task Force, in a statement, said that the suspect was nabbed on Saturday at ‘Costain Bridge’ in Surulere by the ‘Enforcement and ...Lagos Taskforce Begins Clampdown on Illegal Traders… To Prosecute Seven Arrested Culprits
The operatives of both the Lagos State Environmental Sanitation and Special Offences (Taskforce) Unit and the Lagos State Environmental Sanitation Corps (LAGESC) has begun dislodging of all illegal traders on road setbacks and walk-ways around Ikeja. Speaking on the clampdown, the Chairman of the Lagos State Task Force, CSP Olayinka Egbeyemi stated that the activities ...Poll Results: Buhari in Early Lead, Sweeps 15 LGAs in Lagos
President Muhammadu Buhari, the Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) is in early lead as INEC collated presidential election results of 15 local government areas of Lagos state. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that APC won in most of the local government results declared so far in the much awaited ...LASG Rewards Winners of Adult Learners Quiz Competition
The Lagos State Government has rewarded winners of an adult quiz competition organised by the Office of the Special Adviser on Education and Agency for Mass Education with a promise that it will continue to use adult education to boost the overall development of the State in particular and the country at large. Speaking ...Police Interrogates 13 Anti-Cultism-Unit Policemen for Alleged Unprofessional Conduct
Lagos state CP, Imohimi Edgal Thirteen out of the policemen attached to the Anti-Cultism Unit of the Lagos State Police Command are currently being investigated for unprofessional conduct. The command’s spokesperson, CSP Chike Oti, said in a statement on Thursday that the policemen were arrested following a publication which exposed their unprofessional act ...Reopen Lagos HoA To Expedite Passage of 2019 Budget or Be Compel to Do So – LLM to Obasa
Speaker, Lagos House of Assembly, Mudashiru Obasa The Lagos Liberation Movement, LLM rose from a special organisational session of its members across the nooks and crannies of the State on Saturday in Ikorodu to call on the Speaker of the House of Assembly, Hon. Mudashiru Obasa, to immediately reconvene the House, which ...
Police foil another suicide bomb attempt in Borno, kill three bombers
Police foil another suicide bomb attempt in Borno, kill three bombers
Qatar Airways makes history, completes first longest non-stop flight of 16 hours from Doha to New ...
Confusion in Gambia, Jammeh stays put, Barrow to be sworn in at Gambia embassy in Senegal