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Tayo Olanipekun Governor Akinwunmi Ambode has sworn-in Justice Opeyemi Oke as the 16th substantive Chief Judge of Lagos State with a call for more reforms in the judiciary to fast-track justice delivery. During the ceremony on Friday,the Governor said reforms were necessary and would not compromise the fundamental principle of fair hearing and the rule of law as he unveiled …

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 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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*** Lagos Has Highest Number of Prisoners Tayo Olanipekun Persons incarcerated for stealing, robbery and armed robbery topped the number of those admitted into Nigerian prisons for various offences last year with Lagos, Rivers and Kano recording the highest inmates population, statistics has shown. The Prison Statistics released by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) on Thursday revealed that a …

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Olabide Adaramola,   Minna The Niger State Police Command,  has announced the rescue  of the kidnapped Divisional  Police Officer (DPO)  in munya Local Government area of the state on Thursday evening. Advertisement In a statement by  the Command’s Police Public Relations Officer ( PPRO)  SP Abigail Unaeze, the kidnapped Divisional Police  Officer (DPO) and five others, have been rescued in …

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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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As the world marked the International Day of The Girl Child on Wednesday, founder of Grace Life Events, Debbie Enenmoh has announced her organisation’s upcoming program on Sexual Abuse holding on 21st October. Speaking at a press conference held at the Grace Event Centre, Orchid Hotel Road, Lekki, Lagos, Enenmoh urged parents to do something fast to protect their children …

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…Ekiti confirms disease, Osun sets up quarantine centres, fears in Enugu, Cross River, Lagos, Rivers Palpable fear and tension have gripped Nigerians following the reported spread of Monkey Pox virus. With claim that no fewer than 31 cases have been reported since the virus first manifested in an 11-year-old boy in Bayelsa last month, panic has gripped Nigerians, as  reports has …

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The Chairman, United Bank for Africa Plc and Transnational Corporation Plc, Mr. Tony Elumelu has decried the debilitating effect of power sector failure on the nation’s economy due to incompetency of private electricity distribution companies. He suggested that the Federal Government should take another look at the sector by wresting ownership from incompetent private operators and sell the firms to …

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Prompt intervention of men of the Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN) averted what could have been a disaster this morning when a fully loaded commercial bus crashed into an electric pole and parts of the fence of Light Hospital on Folarin Street, Alimosho area of Lagos after its brake failed on motion. The commercial bus according to its driver …

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