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The Lagos State Police Command has reiterated its zero tolerance for crimes and criminality with a recent arrest of traffic robbers in the State. Its operarives attached to Ketu Division arrested 9 suspected traffic robbers on Thursday, December 31, 2020, at about 8pm along Y-Junction, by Old Tollgate, Ketu, Lagos State. The police public relations officer, CSP Olumuyiwa Adejobi who made this known in a press release, stated that, the suspects had attacked one Mr Adejare Adetayo and wife in the traffic at the area, when police detectives on undercover operation along the area went after the hoodlums and arrested…

The National President of Association of Nigeria Licensed Customs Agents (ANLCA), Hon. Iju Tony Nwabunike has promised to interface stronger with the Federal Ministry of Finance, Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and the Bank of Industry (BoI) on the need to secure a special loan scheme to help logistics firms. This proposed loan scheme according to him, is to help the logistic fims in expanding and maintaining fleet of heavy duty and lighter vehicles required beyond coverage of train in the new year. This was contained in a new year message issued by the ANLCA National President to all port…

Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu has signed the financial document into law on Thursday at a ceremony held at the State House in Marina, ushering Lagos residents into the New Year with renewed hopes and heightened expectations. The Governor assented to the bill, christened ”Budget of Rekindled Hope”, at the event attended by cabinet members, Assembly members and chairman of the House Committee on Finance, Hon. Rotimi Olowo, who also represented the Speaker, Rt. Hon. Mudashiru Obasa. After signing the bill, Sanwo-Olu said, the speedy consideration and passage of the budget reflected the dedication to the progress and prosperity of…

A recent unplanned fact-finding visit to Apapa by Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu to ascertain the cause of incessant gridlock on roads leading to the seaports has revealed several causes responsible for the congestion. The visit which happens to be the fourth by Governor Sanwo-Olu and members of the State cabinet to Apapa over traffic congestion, has impacted negatively on businesses and lives in the environ. As the Governor assessed the complexity of the situation that allowed heavy-duty trucks to clog up the access roads, a blame game ensued between stakeholders operating within and around the Apapa seaports. While the…

Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has commissioned a Permanent Triage and Oxygen Therapy Centre at Eti-Osa Local Government to provide swift emergency oxygen therapy to residents who require such service. The facility, which doubles as a COVID-19 sample collection centre, is located within the premises of the Eti-Osa Maternal and Child Care Centre and is one of 10 others strategically located in 10 local governments of the State with a high burden of COVID-19 cases. Speaking during the official launch of the facility, Sanwo-Olu disclosed that the need to better manage severe-to-critical COVID-19 cases spurred the State government to build…

The Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON) has sealed a plaza at the Trade Fair Complex, Lagos over adulteration of established lubricants. SON Director General, Mallam Farouk Salim said the move was to guard against prevalence of motor accidents and machine breakdown, particularly during the yuletide resulting from the use of adulterated lubricants. Mallam Salim who was represented by SON Coordinator, Surveillance, Intelligence and Monitoring (SIM) Unit,Isa Sulieman, stressed the organization’s commitment to the production of quality locally manufactured lubricants. According to the DG, lubricants and packaging materials worth millions of Naira were seized during the operation. He revealed that two…

Senior Special Assistant to the Deputy Governor of Edo State on media, Mr Benjamin Atu, has called on the Chairman Media of the All Progressives Congress, APC Campaign Organization and the Ize-Iyamu campaign Organization to complete his first round of apologies by immediately extending his retraction to Nigerians, Edo State indigenes and the Deputy Governor of Edo State, Comrade Philip Shaibu and his wife Comrade Mrs Maryann Philip-Shaibu, for the embarrassment and stigmatisation against them during the September 2020 Governorship election. According to Atu, “John Mayaki should realise that the allegation against Mr. Mike Igini of INEC can’t be compared…

President Muhammadu Buhari has dispelled the trending allegation that he was dead and had been replaced by his clone, one Jubril Aminu from Sudan. The President’s aides had also waved it aside on several occasions, meaning it doesn’t deserve any attention. Yet the rumour sown by Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, in 2017, has continued to grow luxuriantly like a seed planted by the riverside. And not only do many Nigerians believe that narrative wholeheartedly, they are ready to stake their lives on it. However, Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Femi…

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo says with the kind of impact and interest already generated among Nigerians by the ongoing implementation of the Survival Fund under the Economic Sustainability Plan, there is a need to expand the scope and reach of the benefits to an even larger number of the populace. This hint was dropped at a virtual meeting held just before the Christmas holidays between the vice president and the Steering Committee of the MSMEs Survival Fund. According to a statement by Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Laolu Akande, the meeting was attended by Minister…

Gunmen have ‘killed PDP leader in Niger, abduct his three daughters’ Gunmen, suspected to be bandits, have killed a man identified as Ahmodu Mohammed, chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Kampala ward, Bosso local government area of Niger state. The deceased’s three daughters were also reportedly kidnapped by the gunmen. Mohammed was said to have been killed on Thursday when the attackers, said to have numbered about 15, invaded his house around 2am, after two previous raids in the community and at a neighbourhood market. The ward chairman has, however, been reportedly buried according to Islamic rites. The…