The representative of Oyo North Senatorial District, Senator Fatai Buhari, has been named the Oyo Herald Man of The Year 2017. This was contained in a press statement issued on Wednesday by the Managing Editor of the Ibadan-based magazine,Bola Olalere. According to the statement, the Senator’s “extraordinary representation and his empowerment activities in his constituency among other things made him …

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Human error and indiscipline on the part of some drivers have been identified as the causes of the 827 crashes involving 2,372 automobiles on Lagos roads in 2017. Commissioner for Transport in the state, Ladi Lawanson, who revealed this on Tuesday, said his Ministry was working round the clock with relevant agencies to ensure that the incidents are nipped in …

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Folake Sokoya Lagos State Police have arrested over 80 miscreants, recovered a toy gun, six butchers’ knives, 21 kitchen knives, nine hammers, substances suspected to be cannabis and other dangerous weapons from the Olusosun dumpsite squatters. The police team, comprising of officers drawn from Rapid Response Squad (RRS), Lagos State Taskforce, Counter Terrorism Unit, Alausa Police Station and other police …

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Governor Akinwunmi Ambode, on Tuesday, said Lagos resident should prove with the 2019 general elections that given their population, there can be an “election census” and define where Nigeria’s population lies. Ambode made this charge at the Second Quarter 2018 Town Hall Meeting, held at the Apapa Amusement Park,stresing it would help to “correct the anomaly in distribution of resources.” …

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Tayo Olanipekun In addition to the 15 of the abducted Chibok school girls recently reported to be alive,15 more are still living, bringing the number of the surviving abductees to 30, a Nigerian journalist with sources among the Boko Haram insurgents has revealed. In a series of tweets Tuesday evening, Ahmad Salkida said, however, that five of the girls have …

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Lagos State Governor, Akinwunmi Ambode, on Monday, said the tourism sector contributed N800 billion to the state’s economy. The Governor,therefore, stressed that his government “is consciously investing huge resources” to ensure that the state’s tourism potentials are fully harnessed. Ambode spoke at the Lagos Tourism Summit, held at the Eko Hotels and Suites, Victoria Island, with the theme- ‘Destination Lagos: …

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Lagos State Government, on Monday, announced that the state fire service saved property worth N76.9 billion from destruction between January and December 2017. This is as property worth N12.8 billion as well as 84 lives were lost to inferno accross the state in the same period. Giving a breakdown of fire incidents in the last one year in the state, …

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Folake Sokoya Lagos State Commissioner of Police (CP), Imohimi Edgal, has said he deeply regretted the “unwarranted use of firearm” by a police Superintendent attached to the Sagamu Road Police Station, Divisional Crime Officer(DCO), SP Opawoye Adetunji. Imohinmi has also directed that the officer be issued a “comprehensive query” for shooting a civilian on Sunday,April 15, 2018, for a yet-to-be-determined …

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Folake Sokoya Thirty-nine year -old Abdulrahman Mohammed,a primary school drop-out who has been parading himself and practicing as a medical doctor in Lagos over the past 4years have been arrested by Lagos police. The suspect, while responding to questions from journalist confessed that he was a medicine merchant, but had been giving his unsuspecting patients intravenous injections, conducting medical tests, …

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Folake Sokoya The operatives of Rapid Response Squad (RRS) of the Lagos State Police Command on Thursday forced four armed robbers to abandon a hijacked danfo commercial bus,with a gun and six passengers, whom they had held hostage while in transit. The Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Mr Imohimi Edgal disclosed this on Monday at the Command’s headquarter while parading …

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