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Governor-elect of Lagos State, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has promised to decongest Apapa road of trailers and containers causing heavy traffic within the first 60 days of his administration. Sanwo-Olu made the promise on Saturday, May 18, 2019, during an interactive session with his classmates at the Executive Master of Business Administration class, University of Lagos, 1998/2000
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The operatives of the Rapid Response Squad (RRS), a unit of the Lagos State Police Command on Wednesday, May 15, 2019, arrested a fake soldier and a robber. The fake soldier was arrested along Mobolaji Bank Anthony Way near Muritala Muhammed Airport, Ikeja while the robber was caught in action at Oshodi robbing commuters. The fake
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African football legends both in Nigeria and abroad will on Saturday, May 18, 2019, storm Agege Stadium in Lagos to feature in the testimonial match organised in honour of outgoing Governor Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos State. Chairman, Lagos State Sports Commission, Dr Kweku Tandoh, in a statement on Thursday, May 16, 2019, said the event
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The Lagos State Government on Tuesday, May 14, 2019, began construction of road at Ojodu-Berger area of Lagos Mainland, promising to compensate residents whose properties will be affected. According to the government, the expansion of the two-lane road to six-lane was going to bring inconveniences to people but appealed to concerned stakeholders to cooperate for
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Ahead of the end of his tenure in office, Lagos State Governor, Mr Akinwunmi Ambode, is set to commission multiple projects embarked upon and completed by his administration within the last four years, including the new Senate Building of Lagos State University (LASU). The State’s Commissioner for Works and Infrastructure, Mr Ade Akinsanya, in a
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The Lagos State gubernatorial candidate of the Action Democratic Party (ADP) in the March 9 general election, Mr. Babatunde Gbadamosi, yesterday, Sunday, May 12, 2019, launched an attack against the National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu. Gbadamosi, in a Facebook post, while lamenting the deplorable state of AKA Road,
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Lagos State Police Command on Sunday, 12 May, 2019, said its operatives have smashed motorcycles-snatching syndicates terrorising and dispossessing people of their valuables in the state. The Lagos State Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) Bala Elkana, a Deputy Superintendent of Police in a statement made available to journalist said the Police Station received a distress call on
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Following earlier reports that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) sealed off houses in the Ikoyi area of Lagos State belonging to Senate President Bukola Saraki, the anti-graft agency has said that it was unaware of the sealing of multiple residential properties allegedly purchased using state funds when he was governor of Kwara State.
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Yesterday, May, 7, 2019, armed robbers held sway on the Eko Bridge, Lagos Mainland, dispossessing motorists of their valuables. Hapless victims who recounted their ordeal with the men of the underworld described their encounter as hellish and frightening. They also lamented that distress calls to law enforcements officers and other emergency units in
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An Ikeja High Court on Tuesday, May 8, 2019, sentenced a 36-year-old woman, Stella Gilbert, to death by hanging for stabbing her neighbour, Mrs Stella Godwin, to death during a fight at their residence in Ajegunle, Lagos Mainland. The convict stabbed the deceased on the chest and arm with a knife during
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