The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, is reviewing a new strategy for the operation of interstate transport companies in compliance with the Covid-19 guidelines. NCDC Director General, CHIKWE IHEKWEAZU, confirmed the development while speaking on a television programme monitored in Lagos. IHEKWEAZU commended the transporters for the move, stressing that it was necessary for every organization…
A fifty-year-old father man has been remanded in police custody for allegedly raping his nineteen-year-old daughter for eight years at their family residence around Ikotun, Lagos State. The man identified as Ede Tyndale was reported to the police by his wife and mother of the nineteen-year-old victim. Lagos State Police Command spokesman, Bala Elkana, said that the…
The Police in Lagos have arrested two runaway soldiers over the murder of a Police Sergeant around Okokomaiko axis on Saturday. One of suspect was identified as Kehinde Elijah, who is 45 years old and claimed to have fled the army in 2015 after he was sent to fight terrorists in the northeast. The Lagos State Police…
A new research has revealed that Nigeria has been made a dumping ground for highly toxic petrol, diesel and kerosene by international commodity traders. According to the report of the survey conducted by Stakeholders Democracy Network, SDN, the dubious commodity traders take advantage of Nigeria’s weak and poorly enforced fuel regulations. The report reveals that the quality…
The Nigerian Senate has commended President MUHAMMADU BUHARI for his leadership in tackling the Covid-19 pandemic in the country. However; the Senate appealed to President BUHARI to direct the military to go after armed bandits who have been terrorizing the people of Kaduna, Niger, Zamfara, Sokoto and other states. Adopting a motion moved by Senator SABI ABDULLAHI,…
Most Lagosians on Twitter will like the State Government to lockdown the state for a second time, following the growing number of confirmed Covid-19 cases. This is based on the voting trend in an opinion poll lunched by the Lagos State Government on its Twitter handle, which is supposed to end today. Seventy-two thousand, seven hundred and…