The Lagos state government on Friday, February 2, impounded a sewage evacuation truck and arrested the driver for discharging faeces in the drainage and polluting the environment in Amuwo Odofin Housing Estate, Mile 2. Disclosing this via his X handle, the state Commissioner for Environment and Water Resources, Tokunboh Wahab, said the driver has been arraigned and remanded by the magistrate till Tuesday, February 6 for sentencing. Wahab added that the truck owner will also be arraigned in …
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L-R: Glo Influencer and Fashion Icon, Mai Atafo; Hon. Bayo Balogun, Member, House of Reps, Ibeju Lekki Federal Constituency; Glo Festival of Joy winner, Mr Abiodun Hundeyin, a retired Deputy Comptroller-General of Immigration; Engr. Abdulai Sesan Olowa, Chairman, Ibeju Local Government; Glo Influencer and Nollywood star, Bolanle Ninalowo; and Temitope Ayeni, Globacom Regional Manager, Victoria Island, at the presentation of Business Class ticket won by Mr Hundeyin in the ongoing Glo Festival of Joy promo in Lagos on Friday. Globacom on Friday presented business class …
The Supreme court today January 12 affirmed the election of Babajide Sanwo-Olu as governor of Lagos state. In March 2023, INEC declared Sanwo-Olu as the winner of the Lagos state governorship election. His election was however challenged by LP’s Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour also known as GRV, who scored 312,329 votes. and PDP’s Abdulazeez Adediran popular as Jandor who came a distant third with 62,449 votes. Both men approached the Lagos State Election Petitions Tribunal to nullify Sanwo-Olu’s victory. In its …
A two year old girl simply identified as Mudashiru has died from electrocution after she touched a neighbour’s gate on Langasa road in Lagos state where she resided with her parents. Her father had visited the Langbasa police state on January 2 to report that his baby girl was electrocuted by a naked wire connected to the gate of his neighbour simply identified as Michael. The distraught father said his daughter was rushed to the hospital where she was …
The death toll from the building collapse at Ebute Meta, Lagos State, has increased to three. The building collapsed on Friday morning, Dec. 22, on Herbert Marculley Way, Ebute Meta. Mr Ibrahim Farinloye, the territorial coordinator of the National Emergency Management Agency, confirmed the death toll to newsmen in Lagos. The body of a 12-year-old boy and the bodies of two adults —a male and a female— were recovered from the rubble of the two-storey building. Farinloye added that …
A father, Olasunkanmi Adeyemi, has lamented the sudden disappearance of his 9-year-old son, Emmanuel Adeyemi, in Lagos State. Speaking to Punch on Tuesday, December 12, 2023, Mr Adeyemi said his child went missing while on an evangelical outreach in the Orile-Agege area of the state on November 19. “We went for an evangelism outreach three weeks ago on Sunday with a church where we go to pray. While in church, my wife brought him (Emmanuel) to me and …