Former governor of Lagos State, Alhaji LATEEF JAKENDE, has died at the age of ninety-one. Late JAKANDE was the first civilian governor of Lagos State, and he served from October, 1979, to December, 1983. He would be remembered for many landmark projects, including the several Jakande Low-Cost Housing Estates scattered across Lagos. Governor BABAJIDE SANWO-OLU has described…
A section of the Third Mainland Bridge in Lagos has been reopened to traffic heading to the Island, after a total closure of the bridge, which lasted for forty-eight hours. The closure of the two lands of the Lagos Third Mainland, which began at Midnight on Saturday, December 26, 2020, was meant to last for seventy-two hours.…
People in Lagos who fail to wear face mask in public face the risk of up to one-year imprisonment. This follows a warning by the Lagos State Government that anyone who fails to obey any of the guidelines for the prevention of Covid-19 will be arrested and prosecuted. According to a public service announce on the government’s…
PDetectives from the Lagos State Police Command have tracked down and arrested four suspected armed robbers in Kaduna State after robbing a man in the Bariga area of Lagos. The suspects are JUNIOR MICHAEL, PIUS EKO, SAMSON YUNANA, and DANIEL YAKI, who are between eighteen and twenty-two years of age. The State Police Command spokesman, OLUMUYIWA ADEJOBI,…
The Lagos State Judicial Panel has resumed sitting for the seventeenth day, with seven petitions lined up for consideration today. Lasgidi FM’s NAJITE ATIRENE reports that the first petition to be considered by the Panel today is that of a couple OKWUCHUKWU and NZUBE OBECHINA. However; the lawyer to the respondent, NOSA WATSON, asked the panel to…
The sale and use of fireworks and firecrackers have been banned within the business districts of Lagos State during the forthcoming end-of-year celebrations. The Special Adviser to the Governor on Central Business Districts, OLUGBENGA OYERINDE, announcement the ban. OYERINDE said the ban on firecrackers and fireworks is because of the danger such materials pose to the health…