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The chairman of Lagos State Parks and Garages management committee, Musiliu Akinsanya popularly known as MC Oluomo and other supporters of the All Progressives Congress presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu are holding a rally in Lagos State on Sunday.
The march commenced at the Teslim Balogun Stadium and will terminate at Oshodi.
A facility manager in an estate in Lagos state has recounted how she was allegedly detained by the police in the Ajah area of the state on Monday, October 3 after she went to report the death of a thief who invaded her estate.
In a series of tweets, the lady with the handle @With_luv_tracy mentioned that the thief was electrocuted while trying to flee the estate after committing the crime.
She said she was shocked when the officers arrested her, interrogated her and almost implied that the thief was killed and then his body positioned to seem as though he was electrocuted.
She said she was made to paid to money to regain her freedom.
SisiYemmie took to Twitter to lament after spending about 6 hours in traffic during a journey that typically lasts 15 minutes.
The lifestyle influencer said she went to pick her kids from school 15 minutes away from home but ended up being in traffic with them from 3p.m. to 8p.m.
At the time she posted about it, she said she was still in traffic with her tired kids and it didn’t look like it was about to get better.
Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu has announced that his administration is working to increase the salaries of workers in the state civil service.
Sanwo-Olu made this known on Tuesday, October 4, while addressing the workers at the state secretariat, Alausa, Ikeja.
He said:
“I have looked around and I know that as a country, there is pressure.
I know that, as a country, there is a high level of inflation, but we are determined to cushion the effects on our workers and residents.
“At our cabinet meeting, I instructed the head of service office and the ministry of staff training, and pensions to start work on how we are going to increase the entire salary of our public servants.” He continued:
“We are capable of doing this. Lagos leads while others follow in Nigeria. In salary increment, we are leading again.
“We are going to reflect the popular ‘Buga’ slogan in the payment of salaries. We are not going to wait for the Federal Government’s minimum wage increase.
“We have commenced the process. I can assure that by early next year it will be ready for implementation.
“We don’t want to wait for workers’ unions to hold us to ransom before we do the needful.”
The governor also promised to pay all the outstanding backlog of pensions to workers by the end of October. Sanwo-Olu said:
“I want to reassure you that all the few outstanding backlogs of pensions will be sorted out this week and payment by the end of October.
“We are the highest and best paying in pensions in Nigeria.
“We are clearing the entire backlog of pensions; it’s a liability we met on ground.”
The Lagos state police command has warned against any form at Lekki Toll Gate.
In a statement released on Friday September 30 by the state Police Public Relations Officer, SP Benjamin Hundeyin, the command stated that while it is not averse to the peoples’ right to freedom of assembly and association, and expression, it would equally live up to its mandate of ensuring that no person or group of persons infringe on the fundamental human rights of others, especially the rights to freedom of movement and right to dignity of human persons, especially under the guise of rally or procession.
The statement read;
“It has become imperative to reemphasise that no form of rally whatsoever will be allowed at the Lekki Toll gate on October 1, 2022.
“This emphasis has become necessary to enlighten Nigerians that might be misled into converging at the toll gate.
A court of competent jurisdiction has ruled that no person is allowed to converge at the Lekki Toll gate for whatever reason.
“In conformity with its mandate to protect life and property, the Lagos State Police Command under the leadership of the Commissioner of Police, Abiodun Alabi, will leave no stone unturned in ensuring total compliance with the court order and an emplacement of adequate security in the state.
“The warning therefore goes that anyone found flouting the court order or infringing on the rights of other Nigerians will be dealt with in accordance with the law.
“Meanwhile, the CP enjoins all peace loving persons to go about their lawful duties without fear of harassment or intimidation, reiterating that adequate security assets have been strategically deployed to ensure the safety and security of Nigerians at designated rally venues and across the state at large.”
A commercial bus on Sunday, September 25, caught fire at Iyana Oworo near the Third Mainland Bridge, killing seven passengers while others were injured.
Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA) which confirmed the incident, said when officials of the agency arrived at the scene, they saw that a commercial bus with 14 passengers was on fire.
The Mazda bus with registration number KJA 699 GY, reportedly caught fire due to recklessness and speeding by the driver.
Permanent Secretary of LASEMA, Dr. Olufemi Oke-Osanyintolu said while the driver escaped with some burns, three female adults were rescued and rushed to Gbagada General Hospital while a male adult was attended to by LASAMBUS at the scene.
Seven victims including four females, two male adults and one male child in the bus were burnt to death. The remains have been bagged by the Agency’s LRT Paramedics, LASAMBUS official and handed over to the appropriate authorities.
Dr. Olufemi Oke-Osanyintolu added; “Arrangements have been made by LASTMA officials at the scene for removal of the burnt vehicle from the road.”
Barely two weeks after a seven-storey building collapsed in the Oniru area of Lagos state, a three-storey building has collapsed on Sonuga Street, Palm Avenue, in the Mushin area of the state.
Lagos Territorial Head of the National Emergency Management Agency, Mr Ibrahim Farinloye confirmed the incident and also said two persons had been rescued from the collapsed building.
Farinloye said;
“An adult and a child have been rescued alive. Search and rescue ongoing.”
The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) have blocked the road leading to the Murtala Muhammed Airport in Lagos State to protest the lingering strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU).
The students, protesting the seven-month strike, blocked a section of the access road to the International airport on Monday morning, September 19.
This caused gridlock as vehicular movement in and out of the airport was stalled.
There was heavy police presence at the scene but this did not deter the protesting students.
The students had last week blocked the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway and the Ibadan-Ife Road.
Watch the video of today’s protest below.
An Ikeja Special Offences Court has sentenced a 52-year-old man, Akin Isaac, to 21 years imprisonment for defiling and impregnating his 18-year-old daughter.
Justice Oluwatoyin Taiwo sentenced the convict on Thursday, September 15, 2022, following his plea bargain application dated 21 April.
“In view of the guilty plea of the defendant to one count of defilement, I hereby find the defendant guilty as charged,” Mrs Taiwo said.
The judge thereafter asked the defendant if he had anything to say, following his conviction. NAN reports that the convict knelt down in the dock and pleaded for mercy, saying he had an aged mother to look after.
Mrs Taiwo thereafter sentenced him to 21 years in prison and added that the sentencing should take effect from June 2020 when he was arrested.
Earlier, the judge had asked the state counsel, Omowumi Bajulaye-Bishi, if the 21 years plea bargain was good enough for the convict, owing to how emotional the survivor was while she was giving her testimony.
“I remember the survivor clearly. She was weeping right here in the box. Abortion, pregnancy, drugs, beating and all sorts of inhuman treatment meted on her by her father? Do you think 21 years is good enough for him?” the judge asked.
Mrs Bajulaye-Bishi, in her review of facts dated 6th July, had informed the court that the convict applied and concluded to change his plea, upon which the information against him be amended to the offence of defilement.
The offence was committed between 2014 and 2020 on Akinlagbe Street, Alapere Lagos.
It contravened Section 137 of the Criminal Laws of Lagos State, 2015.
The Rapid Response Squad (RRS) of the Lagos State Police Command has arrested an ex-convict, Yekini Opeyemi.
Opeyemi, working as a guard at Ojota New Garage, was arrested for being in possession of two stolen 2.8KVA generators.
The 35-year-old suspect was apprehended near Odo-Iya Alaro at Ojota in company of others who are now at large.
He was trying to load one Firman and one Tigmax generator, both 2.8 KVA, into a Volkswagen Golf car.
The driver, on sighting police operatives sped off, leaving Opeyemi behind. Police Public Relations Officer, Benjamin Hundeyin said Opeyemi arrived in Lagos last week and got a job at Ojota.
The security agency found out that the suspect has been imprisoned on four different occasions over separate incidents.
Commissioner of Police, Abiodun Alabi has directed that the case be transferred to the State Criminal Investigation Department (SCID) Panti, Yaba, for further investigation and prosecution.
A Nigerian man has shared photos of what he found under the tiles of a house in Lagos.
@Elkrosmediahub who shared photos of what looks like a charm, said it was discovered after he decided to renovate a new space he got.
He tweeted; Took a space in Lagos recently, didn’t like the flooring, so I decided to break the tiles and add flooring amongst the renovation I was doing there. My tiler sent me these images yesterday. Said he found them buried under the tiles
Asked the facility manager and they said it was a woman that left before the last guy that used the space.
Advice? If you can, always renovate. Change the floor and the POP. Humans are weird in this part of the country. It’s fine if you don’t believe in juju and stuff tho.
A young man has been arrested for waste burning in the Eti-Osa local government area of Lagos state.
The Lagos Waste Management Authority, LAWMA, shared a video showing the moment the man was arrested and wrote;”CAUGHT IN THE ACT OF WASTE BURNING LAWMA enforcement, personally supervised by the Managing Director/CEO, Mr. Ibrahim Odumboni, this morning arrested an environmental defaulter for waste burning at Eti-Osa axis.
He has since been taken to Oshodi mobile court for prosecution, and a minimum of three months prison sentence awaits him. We appeal to residents to make conscious efforts to shun acts capable of endangering the environment and people living in it.”
A 21-year-old mechanic identified as Monday Nnime has been arrested by the police for allegedly stabbing his brother to death in Lagos.
He was apprehended by operatives attached to the Denton Police Division, Ebute Meta on September 7, following the death of John Okoh, 28.
Nnime was arrested for allegedly stabbing the deceased in the neck with a broken bottle during a scuffle over N1,500 at their workplace along Sam Freeman Road.
It was gathered that a customer had given Okoh N1,500 after working on his vehicle but the suspect wanted equal share from the sum.
Confirming the incident, Police spokesman Benjamin Hundeyin said Okoh was rushed to the Federal Medical Centre, Ebute Meta, for treatment but was confirmed dead by the doctor on duty.
Search and rescue operatives combing the rubble of the seven-storey building that collapsed at Oba Idowu Oniru Street, Lekki, Lagos State, have recovered four more corpses.
The Permanent Secretary, Lagos State Emergency Management Agency, Olufemi Oke-Osanyintolu, in a statement on Monday, confirmed the development 24 hours after emergency responders had recovered two corpses at the scene of the incident on Sunday.
Oke-Osanyintolu said,
“The agency alongside other first responders has been working for over 24 hours at the seven-storey building which collapsed yesterday.
Another four bodies have been extricated from the rubble bringing the fatalities to six. The process is ongoing.”
Similarly, the Lagos Territorial Coordinator, National Emergency Management Agency, Ibrahim Farinloye, in a chat with our correspondent, also confirmed that four corpses including that of an adult male were recovered.He said,
“Six corpses including that of an elderly man have been recovered from the rubble as recovery efforts continue.”
NPG had reported that some persons were sleeping in the seven-storey building under construction when the building collapsed around 3am on Sunday.
While some of the occupants escaped death, it was learnt that some other persons, who were unlucky, were trapped in the rubble of the collapsed building.
Emergency responders including officials of the LASEMA, the NEMA, and the police, among others, had been engaging in a search and rescue operation to rescue the trapped victims.
Reacting, the state Commissioner for Physical Planning and Urban Development, Dr Idris Salako, had in a statement, ordered the arrest of the developer and other professionals involved in the collapsed building.
However, a series of building collapses that claimed the lives of residents had been recorded in the state.
Angered by these tragic developments, residents alongside experts in the building industry had slammed developers, among others, for using substandard materials and not conforming to standard building regulations in Lagos State.
Also, the Lagos State Government, particularly the Ministry of Physical Planning and Urban Development, had also been under heavy criticism for the reoccurring building collapse killing people in the state.
Amid the criticisms, a statement by the state Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Gbenga Omotoso, confirmed Salako’s resignation, noting that the commissioner’s resignation was part of Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu’s efforts to restructure the ministry and its agencies.
“Governor Sanwo-Olu thanked the Commissioner for his services to the state and wishes him success in his future endeavours.
“The Governor warns all players in the sector to respect the law or face the consequences of any indiscretion, no matter who the perpetrators are,” the statement said.
The Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) has apologized for a traveller’s “near-death experience” while using a faulty escalator at the Murtala Muhammed international airport in Lagos.
It was on Sunday, September 4, that a lady suffered deep cut on her foot after she used the escalator.
In a statement released today September 5, Faithful Hope-Ivbaze, acting general manager, corporate affairs, FAAN, said it had taken full responsibility for the unfortunate incident.
“Accordingly, We have also reached out to actively participate in the care for the injured.
FAAN is reviewing the operating procedure for the equipment to ensure that such sudden mechanical faults do not occur again.”the statement in part reads
Lagos Planning Commissioner resigns after Oniru building collapseLagos State Commissioner for Physical Planning and Urban Development, Idris Salako, has resigned.
Gbenga Omotoso, the Commissioner for Information made the announcement in a statement on Monday, September 5.
Omotoso said Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu has accepted the resignation. The official noted that Salako’s exit “is a prelude to the restructuring of the Ministry and its agencies”.
Sanwo-Olu thanked him for his services and wished him success in his future endeavours.
The governor warned all players in the sector to respect the law or face the consequences of any indiscretion.
Salako leaves the position after multiple building collapses in Nigeria’s commercial hub in the last few years. The most recent occurred in Oniru on Sunday, September 4.
A seven-storey building under construction collapsed. Two died and some are still trapped in the building.
Salako suggested the developer was a powerful man. While addressing the media, Salako recalled how the developer chased state officials away during enforcement.
He also disclosed that the developer broke the seal of the site on three separate occasions.
There was a fire incident close to the scene of a building that collapsed in the Lekki area of Lagos on Sunday.
Smoke was observed coming out of the storey building in the Oniru area.
The fire has been contained. Meanwhile, two bodies have been recovered from the rubble of the seven-storey building that collapsed early Sunday.
A seven-storey building collapsed close to the Sand field bus stop, in the Lekki area of Lagos State, on Sunday.
Emergency responders are on the ground at the scene of the incident.
The Lagos state police command spokesperson, Benjamin Hundeyin, has said the command has video evidence of Nigerian rapper, Ice Prince assaulting a police officer and that the video will be presented as evidence against him in court today September 2.
Ice Prince was arrested in the early hours of today for driving without license plate.
Hundeyin who disclosed this, said Ice Prince assaulted the officer who arrested him and threatened to throw him in the river.
Many Nigerians doubted the story and said video evidence should be made public.
In an update given, Hundeyin said the police has video evidence but won’t release it.
The Chairman, Lagos State Park and Garages Management, Musiliu Akinsanya popularly known as MC Oluomo, has unveiled the new uniform for his members.
In the video, MC Oluomo and his members are seen wearing the same new uniform with the inscription ‘LASPG’.
