(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Commissioner of Police in Lagos, CP Hakeem Odumosu, has said that all the police stations burnt in the state during last year’s EndSARS protests are now undergoing renovation. Odumosu, who disclosed this to the African Examiner on Sunday, stressed that some of the police stations had been completed and were now ready […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Nigerian Merchant Navy (NMN) in Lagos has claimed that one of its personnel was killed during the Police raid on its Ogudu camp on Wednesday. Cdr. Ichuku Agaba, its training commander in Lagos, stated on Thursday that four others were still missing after the raid. “The Police came to the camp […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Lagos State Government says 29 families have submitted samples for DNA to identify bodies evacuated from the collapsed 21-storey building in Ikoyi. The Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Mr Gbenga Omotoso, stated in a statement that the identification of bodies had continued at the IDH, Yaba, Lagos Mainland. Omotoso said that […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Federal Controller of Works in Lagos, Mr Olukayode Popoola, has reassured the public that the Third Mainland Bridge in Lagos is structurally okay and safe for use. Popoola, in an interview in Lagos, urged Nigerians to disregard rumours that the bridge was shaking, as speculated on social media. He said a […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Nomthi, the wife of Taiwo Odukoya, senior pastor of The Fountain of Life Church, is dead. Odukoya announced her death in a post on his Instagram page on Tuesday evening. According to him, Nomthi “battled cancer for the better part of two years.” Also, a member of the Church, who spoke to […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Some subscribers to the collapsed 21-storey building in Ikoyi, Lagos State, signed contracts ranging from over $500,000 (N206.5m) to over $3m (N1.24bn) for the purchase of luxury apartments in the high-rise from Fourscore Heights Limited, findings by our correspondent have revealed. Documents obtained by our correspondent showed that after the payment of […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Emotions ran high on Saturday as families of those who died in the 21-storey building collapse on Gerrard Road, Ikoyi, Lagos, besieged Lagos Mainland Hospital morgue in the Yaba area of the state to identify corpses of their loved ones. This is just as the wife of Femi Osibona, the developer of […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Lagos State Government said on Friday that bodies recovered from the building that collapsed at Gerard Road, Ikoyi, are ready for identification by families. Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Mr Gbenga Omotoso, while giving update to newsmen at the site of the collapsed 21-storey building, said the bodies were ready for identification […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Lagos State Governor, Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu says 19 families have so far submitted names of those suspected to be trapped in the collapsed Ikoyi building. Sanwo-Olu said this while updating newsmen at the site of the collapsed Ikoyi building, adding that register had been opened for such purpose. The governor was at […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The body of the Managing Director, Fourscore Homes, Femi Osibona, has been recovered from the rubble of the collapsed Ikoyi building. Fourscore Homes is the firm constructing the 21-storey building which collapsed on Monday, on Gerrard Road in Ikoyi, Lagos. The National Emergency Management Agency confirmed this to TheCable on Thursday evening […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Rescue officials have recovered 20 bodies buried under the rubble after a 21-storey building collapsed on Monday in the Ikoyi part of Lagos, the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has said. The building, situated on Gerard Road, trapped about 50 persons under the rubble, witnesses said. Residents and family members of persons […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Inspector General of Police, Usman Baba, has arrived the scene of the collapsed building in the Ikoyi area of Lagos State. The IGP on Tuesday came in an entourage of police cars and heavy security, to the venue of the incident. On coming, he went straight into the compound and is […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Dread has gripped residents around Adekunle village in Adeniyi Jones, Ikeja after mutilated remains of two young women were discovered within 72 hours. The first body, said to be that of a teenaged girl, was discovered at the weekend near a popular hotel at Adekunle Village with vital organs harvested while the […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Many workers are feared trapped in a 21-storey building under construction which collapsed on Gerard Road, Ikoyi, Lagos on Monday. An eyewitness on condition of anonymity said that the building collapsed around 2.30 p.m. The witness, who is also a worker on site, said that five dead bodies were seen at the […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Lagos State Environmental and Special Offences (Enforcement) Unit Taskforce has arrested 50 hoodlums and impounded 204 motorcycles. A statement issued in Lagos by Mr Gbadeyan Abdulraheem, Head, Public Affairs Unit, said the hoodlums were arrested during raids on black spots. It also said that the taskforce unit had commenced tactical enforcement […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Nobel laureate, Wole Soyinka, has stated that Nigeria is “in a mess” and that the country is currently ”disintegrating before our very eyes”. Soyinka disclosed this during a media briefing held at the Freedom Park in Lagos . The elder statesman who was worried by the state of the nation stated that […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Lagos Metropolitan Area Transport Authority (LAMATA) has said that the Lagos Blue rail lines will be operational by Dec. 31, 2022. The Railway Engineer of LAMATA, Mr Joseph Akinpelu, said this when he led 57 Students of Leisure and Tourism Management (LTM), Yaba College of Technology (YabaTech), Epe campus, on sensitisation […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Lagos State Government has unveiled a mass vaccination campaign, as part of the strategies to stave off re-emergence of the COVID-19 viral infection. Speaking during the unveiling, Lagos State Governor, Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu, said that the objective is aimed at vaccinating four million residents in Lagos before the end of 2021. […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The family of an artist, Ifeanyi Kalu, has been thrown into mourning after personnel of the Nigerian Air Force, accused of driving on the Bus Rapid Transit lane in Lagos State, crushed him. African Examiner gathered that Ifeanyi was on his way to work in the Ilupeju area of the state when […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Godwin Emefiele, governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), has stated that medical tourism is straining the country’s foreign reserves. Emefiele disclosed this at the launch of Duchess International Hospital, a newly built 100-suit health facility located in Ikeja, Lagos. He tasked the private sector operators to invest in medical facilities […]
