The General Manager, Lagos State Emergency Management  Agency (LASEMA), Adesina Tiamiyu, has said the Agency received a  distress call  from the Lekki Concession Company (LCC) officials regarding a man who reportedly jumped into the lagoon around  the Lekki Toll Gate bridge at about  09:58 am on Friday. The footage which was captured through the close circuit cameras revealed that the …

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The Bring Back Our Girls (BBOG) campaigner and United States Congresswoman, Frederica Wilson, has  maintained that President Donald Trump’s condolence call to the widow of Sergeant David Johnson who died in a Boko Haram ambush in Niger last week, Myeshia, showed lack of compassion. Wilson, in a statement Wednesday night, said despite Trump’s criticism of what she said, she stood …

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A civil society organization, BudgiT, has asked the Federal Ministry of Finance and the Budget Office of the Federation to make available the description and location of the capital projects the nation carried out in 2016, describing the feedback it received as “an inadequate response,” for not including breakdown of the expenditure. The organization, relying on the provisions of the …

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Alternate Chairman of the Lagos State Domestic and Sexual Violence Response Team (DSVRT), Omotilewa Ibirogba, on Monday said the State had, as at Friday last week, recorded 950 reported cases of domestic, sexual violence, and child abuse. This is more than 100 percent increase from a total of 452 similar reported cases in the whole of last year, according to …

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Governor Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos on Sunday extoled the virtues of the late Afrobeat legend and freedom fighter, Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, describing him as an enigmatic artiste who used the platform of his art to agitate for social and human rights by challenging government and people to explore development through social and economic activities rooted in African values. This is as …

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Women farmers are not getting the resources they need to be able to feed their families and communities as well as adapt to climate change, Oxfam said its analysis of policies and public investments in six countries has shown. This shortfall, the international humanitarian agency said, “exposes a sham in the rhetoric and commitments by countries and donors” to strengthen …

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Hip-hop singer, David Adeleke aka Davido, has been held by the police in Lagos for giving false information following the mysterious death of a friend that was on a night out with him. According to NewsmakersNG, Davido is being held at the Lion Building Police Station in Lagos for questioning over Tagbo Umeike’s death. Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Mr …

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Wife of the Vice President, Mrs. Dolapo Osinbajo, Governor of Akwa Ibom State, Mr. Emmanuel Udom and his counterpart in Adamawa State, Alhaji Jibrilla Bindo, are among top dignitaries expected to grace this year’s edition of the National Women Conference organised by the Committee of Wives of Lagos State Officials (COWLSO). Chairperson and wife of the Lagos State Governor, Mrs. …

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Lagos State Governor, Akinwunmi Ambode, has this weekend unveiled the ‘Football Forever’ statue at Teslim Balogun Stadium, Surulere, stating that football popular sports in Nigeria is a tool for uniting the nation even in critical periods. The statue measuring 22ft tall is a sculpture of four players, two-aside on an eight feet concrete pedestal depicting the prowess, commitment and passion …

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Lagos State Government on Tuesday arraigned two of members of its staff over allegations of fraud. The duo of Babajide Odekunle and Olugbenga Omolewu of the Lagos State Infrastructure Maintenance and Regulatory Agency (LASIMRA) were arraigned at the Ikeja Magistrate Court. They both faced a two-count charge bordering on fraud and falsifying the account of LASIMRA, “thereby committing a grave …

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