Truckers and Carriers Association of Nigeria (TACAN), and the Maritime Workers Union of Nigeria (MWUN) are singing discordant tunes over alleged extortion and attack that left three persons hospitalized with severe injuries at Lagos Ports. While TACAN blamed MWUN members for the attack, MWUN insisted its members had nothing to do with the attack, saying “the attack was a result …

The Lagos State Government says 213 children have been listed to benefit from its Free Limb Deformity Corrective Surgery and Rehabilitation Programme, an intervention targeted at the treatment and rehabilitation of children with lower limb deformities. The Permanent Secretary, Lagos State Ministry of Health, Dr. Olusegun Ogboye said 60 out of that number had already been operated upon. He disclosed …

Lagos State Government has rolled out relief measures to cushion the current hardship being faced by residents as a result of fuel subsidy removal by the Federal Government. Rising from the state’s Security Council meeting on Monday in Alausa, Ikeja, the governor announced a 50 per cent fare reduction across the state-owned public transportation services, effective Wednesday. Commuters using BRT …

Some civil society organisations, the Take It Back Movement and Youth Rights Campaign, have knocked the Lagos State government over the arrest of some street hawkers. The National Coordinator of the TIB, Juwon Sanyaolu, in an interview with PUNCH Metro on Thursday, said the government was only criminalising poverty and not solving any environmental problem. A statement from the state Ministry …

The Lagos command of the Nigerian Correctional Service (NCoS) confirmed on Saturday that the state government had pardoned and released 30 inmates. In an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Lagos. NCoS’ spokesperson for Lagos Command, Mr. Rotomi Oladokun said that the inmates were pardoned by the state Chief Judge, Justice Kazeem Alogba. “The inmates released are those …

The operatives of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps said it had arrested no fewer than eight persons caught while transporting suspected stolen petroleum products in Ajah Beach in Lagos State on Tuesday. The suspects were said to have been apprehended during a routine patrol of the Anti-vandal unit of the agency’s state command. The command Public Relations Officer, …

A 21-year-old undergraduate of Lead University, Ibadan, Oyo State, identified as Augusta Osedion has been reportedly killed by her lover, Benjamin, in Oral Estate, Ikota, Ajah, Lagos. According to reports, the lovebirds had a misunderstanding, which degenerated into a fight and the victim, Augusta, was stabbed to death in the process. It was learned that on 11th July 2023, Augusta …

The Federal Government through the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), in collaboration with the Lagos State Government, has commenced the demolition of shanties and extortion points leading to the Lagos ports, to enhance trade facilitation and improve the security and safety of port users in the state. A statement by the authority said the operation, which commenced on Sunday, would be …

An unidentified female hawker was on Saturday crushed to death by a diesel-laden tanker at Otedola bridge inward Berger area of Lagos State. The truck, with number plate GME 483XD, also reportedly rammed into three moving vehicles. In a statement. the Permanent Secretary of the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency, Dr. Olufemi Oke-Osanyintolu said the accident happened after the tanker …

The Lagos State Government at the weekend presented official vehicles to six Permanent Secretaries sworn in on  18th May. The state’s Head of Service, Mr. Hakeem Muri-Okunola, who was represented by the Permanent Secretary, Public Service Office, Mrs. Sunkanmi Oyegbola, during the presentation of the new official vehicles, said the occasion marked a significant milestone in Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu’s administration’s …