Pandemonium broke out on Wednesday during a clash between officials of the Lagos State Environmental Sanitation Enforcement Agency and transport workers in the Abule-Egba and Agege areas of the state. PUNCH Metro gathered that the transport workers were protesting the…
Lagos communities resort to self-help, keep vigil to check rising invasion by robbers
After a day of rage across communities in Agege, Alimosho, Ejigbo and Oshodi areas of Lagos State yesterday, the president’s broadcast at 7 pm which extended the lockdown by two weeks, heightened tensions as robbery attacks spiked in the mainland…
Lagos prosecutes alleged environmental offenders, fake LAGESC officer (Guardian)
The Lagos State Environment Sanitation Corp (LAGESC) at the weekend arraigned nine persons arrested for violating the environmental laws before the special offences court in Ogba. The violators were arrested during the joint operation exercise of LAGESC and the Lagos…
Cops rescue two robbery suspects from being lynched (Punch)
Two armed robbery suspects, Ganiyu Adebayo and Peter Ozobere, have been rescued by the police in the Oke-Koto area of Agege, Lagos, from being lynched by a mob, who beat and inflicted machete cuts on them. The mob, who were…
Agege stadium, secretariat road begs for rehabilitation (Guardian)
Commuters plying the Pen Cinema en-route Stadium road to Ogba are beginning the New Year carrying over the burden they have endured in recent years. While road users in other parts of Lagos are heaving a sigh of relief over…
Maiden Arewa festival and award to hold in Lagos
The maiden edition of the annual Arewa Festival and Awards (AFA) will hold in Lagos in the shape of Dinner and Award on December 28, while the Festival and Exhibition is to hold on December 30, at TBS Lagos. Already,…
“33” Export Friendship Party returns, set to storm Agege and Aba this weekend
Coming off the heels of the just concluded ‘City of Friends’ campaign, a first-of-its kind experience, the No. 1 friendship beer “33” Export, will be storming Ikorodu and Aba with its signature Friendship Experience Parties. With a main focus of…
Lagos demolishes shanties, illegal structures to improve hygiene, security at abattoir
Over 500 shanties and illegal structures within and outside the Oko-Oba abattoir and Lairage Complex in Agege area of Lagos State were on Saturday demolished by the State Government as part of effort to ensure adequate upgrading and transformation of…
