By Ayo Balogun As a measure to check issuance of fake vehicle papers, the Lagos State Government is set to commence the verification of Driver’s Licenses of all drivers and plying the metropolis through law enforcement agents. General Manager of the Motor Vehicle Administration Agency (MVAA), Mr. Lateef Lawal, confirmed this Monday, at the Agency’s […]
By Ayo Balogun The Lagos State Government has defended its plan to purchase additional three helicopters to confront high rate of crime in the metropolis. The State Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Mr. Steve Ayorinde in a statement he issued Wednesday, insisted that the purchase had become necessary to beef up surveillance and ensure the […]
By Ayo Balogun, Lagos – Lagos State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode has sacked the Managing Director/ Chief Executive Officer, CEO, of the Lagos State Development and Property Corporation (LSPDC), Mr Taofeek Abiodun Oki over suspected case of fraud. Ambode also approved the sack of three Principal Officers of the corporation. In his replacement, the governor […]
By Ayo Balogun – Lagos – The monthly environmental sanitation exercise in Lagos, Monday suffered a setback as a Federal High Court in the State, ruled that the restriction of movement that goes with the exercise is an infringement on the right of the residents. While delivering his judgment, Justice Mohammed Idris, held that the […]
The Committee for the Protection of Peoples Mandate (CPPM) has condemned in strong terms the barbaric, crude and uncivilized assault on the fundamental and democratic rights of Lagosians by a group named Coalition of Concerned Nigerians (CCN) on Monday in Lagos. The protest was embarked upon by members of the Oodua Peoples Congress (OPC) and […]
A chieftain of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in Lagos State, Chief Ibrahim Babatunde Olorogun –Etti has called on the people of South- West to reject the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the 2015 general election. “President Goodluck Jonathan is the best man for the job. He knows the needs of the people and he […]
Ayo Balogun, Lagos The Lagos State Government has received clearance from the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to open a 7-year N87.5 billion bond, maturing in November 2020. The bond is rated A+ by Agusto & Co. and AA- by Global Credit Ratings. It is the second and final tranche of the Lagos State Government’s N167.5 […]
By Ayo Balogun, Lagos Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola (SAN on Monday denounced the Sovereign Wealth initiative of the Federal Government, describing it as unconstitutional. Fashola said he would receive the Shareholders Certificate of the Fund presented to him by the management of the fund only as an acknowledgement that the State’s fund was […]
A 20- year- old man and only child of his parents, Emanuel Okupe, was arraigned Wednesday before an Ikeja Magistrate Court, over alleged burglary and stealing of the sum of N400,000. Emanuel, a barber and resides at Esa Iba Town area of Lagos, was brought before Magistrate Miss Akinde. He faces a two-count chargeon burglary and stealing. According […]
Ayo Balogun, Lagos The Chairman, Amuwo Odofin Local Government Area of Lagos State, Nigeria, Ayodele Adewale has called on Lagosians to discard the campaign of calumny against him by sponsored group in the council. A report was published recently in one of the online news portals, with the caption: “Festac Residents Raises Alarm over Excesses […]
Ayo Balogun, Lagos The Lagos State Government says it is prepared to meet the Onitsha deportees, which sued it N1 billion in court whenever the time comes. Seven of the deportees had sued the Lagos State Government, its Attorney General and the Commissioner of Police on behalf of other deportees N1 billion claiming they were […]
Ruth Bamidele, Lagos As Muslims in Nigeria join other Muslims in the world to celebrate Ed–al-Kabir this year, there have been reflections on the festival by Muslim faithful in Lagos. The Chief Imam, Nawair-Ud-Deen Society of Nigeria, Ikotun Branch, Alhaji Nurudeen Abdulrasaq, said that Ed–al-Kabir reminds Muslims of how the Almighty intervened to turn a […]
Ayo Balogun, Lagos “We call on the Presidency to respond to the germane message that truly, the national conference is a Greek Gift, diversionary and deceptive.” The Conference of Nigerian Political Parties (CNPP) stated this in a statement issued to back the position of the National Leader of the All Progressives Congress Asiwaju Bola Tinubu […]
Ayo Balogun Constitutional lawyer, Prof. Itse Sasgay, fiery preacher, Pastor Tunde Bakare , a university don, Prof. Pius Adesanmi and others have thrown their weight behind the President Goodluck Jonathan’s proposed National Conference, saying it will help to salvage the nation. They spoke at the Maiden Edition of the Centre for Change lecture at the […]
Ayo Balogun, Lagos A truck carrying waste metals crashed into the green zone at the Festac link bridge, Amuwo Odofin Local Government on Monday. This is coming after a Container piloted by men of the Area E Command forcefully drove into the Local Government destroying barriers in the process. The container was said to have […]
Ayo Balogun, Lagos Lagos State Governor, Babatunde Fashola and the former Governor of Lagos, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu have urged Nigerians to imbibe the lessons of the sacrifice that is necessary to move the nation to greater heights. Fashola, who spoke after observing the Eid –El-Kabir prayers at the Lagos Central Mosque on Nnamdi Azikiwe […]
Ayo Balogun, Lagos The Executive Chairman of Amuwo Odofin Local Government Area of Lagos, Nigeria, Comrade Ayodele Adewale on Monday leads a protest against police harassment of council officials. The protesters carried placards and decried the arrest of some officials of the council by the police, calling for their immediate release of some Man O’ […]
Ayo Balogun, Lagos The All Progressives Congress (APC) has dismissed as reckless, baseless and completely unfounded the report published by a local newspaper that the party has zoned its vice presidential slot to the South-West instead of South-East. In a statement issued in Lagos on Monday by its Interim National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, […]
The African Examiner, Lagos State Governor, Babatunde Fashola has recommended severe punishment for all those responsible for the woes in the aviation industry. The governor spoke when the Air Officer Commanding, Logistic Command, Nigerian Air Force, Ikeja, Air Vice Marshal Monday Morgan paid a visit on the governor at the State House, Ikeja, Lagos, Nigeria on […]
Ayo Balogun, Lagos Human rights activist, Bamidele Aturu has called for the sack of the Minister of Aviation, Princess Stella Oduah-Ogiemwonyi and other bigwigs in the sector over incessant plane crashes and the rot in the aviation sector of Nigeria. Aturu, in a statement said the latest crash that occurred in Lagos while conveying the […]
