Lagos State Government played host to its premier innovative drive-in concert in the State on Saturday, in an event organised by Palazio lifestyles and entertainment group at the Bay Lounge, Admiralty Way, Lekki and supervised by the Lagos State Environmental Protection Agency, LASEPA. The concert according to the agency General Manager, Dr. Dolapo Fasawe was to safely reinvigorate Lagos’s entertainment landscape after a long break, as the government begins to gradually ease the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown implemented in the state. “Society benefits from entertainment; it adds structure to our social lives. Our goal is to ensure that the entertainment world…
Author: Funke Busari
Strange but true, a-42 year old Engineer formerly with Exxon Mobil, James Onuoha has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for rape. The convict according to Lagos Prosecutor raped his tenant’s 14-year-old niece. Justice Adedayo Akintoye did not give him any option of fine. In his response, the convict’s counsel, Dr. Victor Olowonla pleaded with the court to tender justice with mercy as he was a first time offender. He said. “My Lord, he is a first time offender, a family man with wife, children and also the bread winner of his family”. He also told the court that the…
Governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Bello has again thrown more confusion into the existence or otherwise of COVID-19 in the state, he declared total lockdown on Kabba but insisted the State is COVID-19 free. He has earlier been at loggerheads with National Centre for Disease Control, NCDC claiming there was no Coronavirus in Kogi State. But going back on his words, the Governor in a state broadcast on Monday, 1st of June, 2020, ordered 14 days absolute lockdown of Kabba-Bunu LGA of the State effective from 12 midnight June 2nd. A statement signed by Chief Press Secretary, Onogwu Muhammed said…
The operatives of Rapid Response Squad, RRS, has arrested a 19-year-old National Diploma holder of Yaba College of Technology, Lagos as the brain behind the blackmail of Queen Salawa Abeni with nude photographs. The suspect, Olufowoke Oladunjoye Emmanuel, a resident of Brentfield Avenue, Peace Estate, Magboro, Ogun State, was picked up by the Decoy Team of RRS last week Thursday after three days of monitoring him. The Commissioner of Police, Mr. Hakeem Odumosu had in the wake of the attempt by an unknown individual to blackmail Alhaja Salawa Abeni sometime in April 2020, directed the Commander, RRS, DCP Olatunji Disu…
Many staff of the Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library, Abeokuta, Ogun State has been sacked following the pressure caused by the deadly Coronavirus in the country. The library is owned by former President Olusegun Obasanjo. In a letter signed by Head of Human Resources, Administration and Procurement, Olanike Ogunleye to affected workers stated that the development was due to the overwhelming adverse impacts of coronavirus on the organisation. The letter stated that the current COVID-19 pandemic has had a toll on all business significantly, which had resulted to making some difficult business decisions. It added: “Due to this situation, we regret…
The COVID-19 patient, Emmanuel Ononiwu declared wanted by Abia State Government after he absconded from a holding facility in Aba is now in medical custody and currently at the isolation center in Amachara, a statement by Honorable Commissioner for Information, Chief John Okiyi Kalu stated. Mr. Ononiwu reported with his family, including his wife, on Saturday morning at the Infectious Dsease Hospital (IDH), Aba, and has been moved by a State rapid response ambulance to the Abia State Specialist Hospital and Diagnostic Center, Amachara, Umuahia, for isolation and management The statement has it that samples will be collected from his…
One Praise Wokoma Barrah has been found guilty for illegally dealing in petroleum products and sentenced to two years in prison. The convict was jailed by Justice I.M Sani of the Federal High Court sitting in Port Harcourt with an option of Two Hundred Thousand Naira (N200, 000) fine. He was arraigned by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on one-count charge bordering on illegal dealing in petroleum products, contrary to Section 4 (1) of the Petroleum Act, CAP P10 Laws of the Federation of Nigeria (LFN) 2004, and punishable under Section 4 (6) of the same Act. The one-count…
The former senator who represented Ogun East Senatorial District at the eight Assembly Senator Buruji Kashamu has described Hon. Ladi Adebutu as the architect of the party’s defeat in the state. Kashamu in an interview with journalists in Lagos mentioned the former governor of Ekiti State Ayodele Fayose as one influencing Adebutu to destroy the party. “Believe me, if not because of Ladi Adebutu arrogance, there is no reason why we will not be in government in Ogun State today. But because of his arrogance and he believed he has arrived, he believed he can betray anybody like Engr. Dayo…
A non profit, non-governmental, advocacy research and capacity building organisation the Centre for Health, Equity and Justice (CEHEJ) has sent a letter to the Lagos State Commissioner for Health and the Attorney-General of the State asking them “to urgently end the 54 years age limitation against women seeking Assisted Reproduction Technology (ART) solutions as contained in the “Lagos State Regulations and Guidelines for ART Practice”. In the letter dated 27 May, 2020, CEHEJ said that “ART clinics in Lagos State that ordinarily have the expertise and would have attended to these women have been denied the opportunity because of the above…
The International Press Centre, IPC, is extremely concerned over the increase in the number of incidents of abductions of journalists and media professionals as evident in today’s kidnap of Mrs. Chinyere Okoye, a female reporter with Nigeria Television Authority, NTA Aba, Mrs. Okoye’s abduction is coming barely two weeks after another female On-Air Personality (OAP) with Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria (FRCN), – Pacesetters FM – Umuahia, Ms. Chinenye Iwuoha, was abducted according to the Sun Newspaper of May 28, 2020. It was gathered that the hoodlums who appeared to have laid in wait to pick Mrs. Okoye to an…