President Muhammadu Buhari is expected to visit Lagos on Monday, the Lagos State Government has announced on Friday. And this is why traffic will be restricted on Monday 23rd January with diversion on the Island on Tuesday 24th January, 2023 in preparation for the visit of Mr. President. Announcing this, Dr. Frederic Oladeinde, the Lagos State Commissioner for Transportation in a statement assured that alternative routes have been mapped out as well as the deployment of the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority, LASTMA to manage Traffic flow during the two day visit. Explaining the routes that would be manned by…
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On Thursday, traders from the Alaba Section of Mile 12 Market, situated in Kosofe area of Lagos stormed the State High Court in Ikeja in protest of the destruction of parts of their market by the Lagos State Government and its contractors. The marketers are angry that their means of livelihood are being taken away from them due to the demolition of 795 shops at the Alaba Mile 12 market. They claimed that despite a subsisting court order, building work is being carried on by the Kosofe Local Government; Ikosi/Isheri Local Council Development Area; Dr. Chris Onyekachi; Total Value Integrated…
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, SERAP, has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to investigate corruption in the Water, Health and Education sectors. This call was necessitated as a result of claims that the current administration has failed to keep its promises to Nigerians. Speaking on Wednesday at a media briefing in Lagos, SERAP Deputy Director, Oluwadare Kolawole told journalists this at a press briefing themed, “‘Failed Promises: Corruption in the Water, Health and Education Sectors in Nigeria.” SERAP said that President Buhari’s government has made little or no progress in fulfilling the promises made to Nigerians to fight grand…
Family of late Abimbola Martins Ogbonna are not keeping quiet in their quest to get justice for their daughter and sister. They are determined to pursue the matter to logical conclusion and are ready to bring 10 witnesses before the Coroner sitting at Epe, Lagos, to proof that Ikechukwu Ogbonna killed his wife. The Coroner is expected to sit on January 24, 2023. According to Odiana Eriata, the family’s lawyer witness statement on oath has already been filed and presented to the court with applications to subpoena various agencies and individuals who had knowledge of the unhealthy relationship and abuse…
An electrician, Olamide Ayodele, aged 27 has been jailed for life for defiling the 8-year-old daughter of his benefactor on Tuesday. This is the judgement of Justice Abiola Soladoye of an Ikeja Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court at the conclusion of the convict’s trial. The convict was 25 years old when he had unlawful carnal knowledge of daughter of a man that gave him shelter. Justice Soladoye held that the prosecution had convincingly proved the charge of defilement against the convict. According to Soladoye, the court found that the evidence of the respective prosecution witnesses were believable and consistent. She…
The High Court of Lagos State, Ikeja, has issued an order of interim injunction, restraining Kosofe Local Government; Ikosi/Isheri Local Council Development Area; Dr. Chris Onyekachi ,; Total Value Integrated Services Limited; Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Lagos State; and Ministry of Physical Planning and Urban Development from entering or forcefully taking over the land known as Alaba Section of Mile 12 Market, Kosofe Lagos, pending the determination of a Motion on Notice already before it. The Motion on Notice was initiated by the claimants/applicants namely; Incorporated Trustees of Orirere Community Ltmtm5cmyyim eaders and Traders Association, Yeye Precious Modupe…
The remains of late Omobolanle Raheem, a lawyer who was alledgedly shot dead in Lagos by Assistant Superintendent of Police Drambi Vandi has been buried in the Ikoyi area of Lagos on Tuesday. Earlier on Monday, a service of songs was held in preparation for her burial on Tuesday. She was buried after a funeral service at the Olive Tree Parish of the Redeem Christian Church of God, Banana Island, Lagos. Meanwhile, the trial of suspended police officer accused of killing the lawyer has commenced at the Lagos State High Court, Tafawa Balewa Square on Monday. He pleaded not guilty…
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The suspended Assistant Superintendent of Police, Drambi Vandi, who alledgedly killed a Lagos-based female lawyer, Omobolanle Raheem has pleaded not guilty on Monday at the commencement of his trial. The suspended Police officer was arraigned on one count of murder before the Lagos State High Court, Tafawa Balewa Square annex, on a one count of murder preferred against him by Lagos State Government. After the charge sheet was read to him, Vandi pleaded not guilty to the murder charge. The defendant, ASP Vandi an officer attached to Ajiwe Police Station in Ajah is now standing trial on a one-count charge…
An Assistant Superintendent of Police, Kazeem Oladimeji from the State Criminal Investigation Department, SCID, Panti, Lagos has testified that 30-year-old Nollywood actor, Temitayo Ogunbusola stabbed his neighbour, Oladotun Osho, to death with a knife following a disagreement over the payment of N1,000 electricity bill. This is the evidence of the investigative Police officer before Justice Olubunmi Abike-Fadipe of the Special Offences Court, Ikeja on Monday during an alledged murder trial of the actor; Temitayo Ogunbusola. The Police officer, said he and members of his team investigated a case of murder involving the defendant, who is standing trial over the alledged…