Funke Busari, Lagos Efforts to improve on the environmental conditions and promote sustainable living among residents in the State is in the pipeline as the US Mission in Nigeria has expressed its desire to partner the state Government in improving lives of Lagos residents. Recently, the Consular General of the US Embassy in Lagos, Mrs. Claire Pierangelo informed officers of Lagos State agency Lagos State Environmental Protection Agency, LASEPA, of its readiness to establish significant system that will improve, monitor and manage quality air across the State. Speaking on the development, the General Manager, Dr. Dolapo Fasawe said the engagement…
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Funke Busari, Lagos A newly renovated library for police lawyers has been commissioned by the Commissioner for Justice and Attorney-General Mr. Moyosore Onigbanjo, SAN and the Commissioner of Police, CP Hakeem Odumosu. The Commissioners on March 3, 2021 delivered the library donated by the Lagos State Government at the State Criminal Investigation Department, SCID, at Panti, Panti, Yaba, Lagos with stakeholders in the criminal and judicial sectors in attendance. The Attorney-General of Lagos State, who represented the Lagos State Government, emphasised the need to update police lawyers and work with the Lagos State Police Command on boosting the Criminal Justice…
Funke Busari National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, on Monday intercepted 27 new rifles concealed in a white sack by two suspects while on a motorcycle along Kontagora – Zuru road, to an unknown place in Niger State. Two suspects, Danjuma Auta, 35, and Daniel Danrangi, 25, both male and from Dirin Daji, Sakaba Local Government Area of Kebbi State were arrested in connection with the incident. They were arrested with 12 locally fabricated AK 47 rifles and 15 locally fabricated pistols by NDLEA’s Operatives said the Niger State Commander of the Agency, Aloye Isaac Oludare. According to Mr. Oludare,…
Funke Busari, Lagos The Inspector General of Police Monitoring Unit, Abuja has been accused of aiding and abetting land grabbers in Lekki area of Lagos State. Therefore the IGP Mohammed Adamu has been asked to investigate the activities of his Operatives in this unit. This is contained in a petition by the Nigerian Bar Association, Epe branch. The Association accused Policemen attached to this tactical unit of allegedly using police power unlawfully to intimidate residents within its jurisdiction. It stated further that the police unlawfully aided fake lawyer with fraudulent titles, use of thugs and terrorism within Lekki-Axis of Lagos.…
A real estate firm, GText Homes, has recorded a 500 per cent increase for year ended 2020 when compared to 2019, in spite of the Coronavirus pandemic disruptions. This was disclosed by Dr. Stephen Akintayo, Group Managing Director, GText Homes in Lagos on Tuesday. Akintayo said this development is connected to the need to tie down investments within the country by Nigerians, particularly those in the Diaspora. According to him, the company leveraged on technology to ensure constant digital and online visibility to serve its teeming consumers, a development, he said contributed to the company’s growth. The realtor noted that…
Schoolgirls kidnapped from a boarding school in the North-Western Nigerian state of Zamfara have been released. According to a report monitored on BBC, the state’s Commissioner for Security and Internal Affairs, Abubakar Muhammad Dauran, said two hundred and seventy students were freed and are currently in the state capital, Gusau. He said the earlier figure of three hundred and seveenteen has now been discovered to be inaccurate as no girl has been left behind in captivity. It is not clear whether a ransom was paid. The schoolgirls were seized by gunmen in Jangebe on Friday morning.
Funke Busari, Lagos The Lagos State Police Command is now on the trail of the owner of Cubana Nightclub accused of violating 12 midnight to 4:00a.m curfew imposed on residents by the Lagos State Government. This is according to Commissioner of police, CP Hakeem Odumosu on Monday at a press briefing in the Command’s Headquarters in the State. Briefing journalists, the police boss highlighted activities of the command in the past month. He also decried non-compliance of COVID-19 protocols by youths inspite of efforts of the state government to encourage youths who are leaders of tomorrow to comply with COVID-19 protocols,…
Funke Busari, Lagos The African Bar Association, AFBA, has called on the President of Cape Verde to release a Venezuelan Diplomat, Mr. Alex Saab who is being unlawfully detained in Cape Verde under very controversial circumstances and in violation of International Law and ECOWAS. Making the call in Lagos on Monday through its President, Hannibal Uwaifo Esq. at a press conference, the association said if the ambassador is not released, Cape Verde will be compromising its national, international, continental and sub-region laws. According to him, upon receipt of a petition from Mr. Saab’s wife, Mrs. Camilla Fabri, the Governing Council…
Funke Busari, Lagos The Lagos State government is showing more resolve to tackle environmental challenges in the State. To this end the Lagos State Environmental Protection Agency, LASEPA on Thursday is seeking more positivity from its accredited environmental consultants. LASEPA is urging them to be more professional in their reports so as to effectively tackle environmental challenges confronting the state or be shown the way out. The General Manager of the agency, Dr. Dolapo Fasawe threw this challenge during a mandatory virtual MasterClass for the agency accredited environmental consultants. According to her, the theme of the event, “The ideal and best…
Funke Busari, Lagos A-38-year-old man, Agbo Peter who attempted to set the Ministry of Justice at Alausa Secretariat in Ikeja on fire has been remanded in Correctional centre until he is able to perfect his bail. The remand was ordered by the Presiding Magistrate, Mrs. J.A. Adegun following arraignment and denial of the defendant over an averted bid to burn down the facility holding safe important judicial documents. Trouble began for Agbo on 18th February, 2021, when he was caught with keg of petrol, which he had poured on the ground and was about to set the building on fire.…