The Lagos State Emergency Management Agency has given a identified the man who today abandoned his vehicle on the Third Mainland Bridge and jumped into the Lagos Lagoon. Spokesman of the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA), Kehinde Adebayo, said the man is Orji but did not give any other name. Adebayo said : “The Agency received a distress call […]
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The Lagos State Task-Force on Environment says it has arrested 43 persons for alleged adulteration and seized tankers suspected to contain 2.5 million litres of adulterated diesel at Alausa, Ikeja. The chairman of the task force, SP Olayinka Egbeyemi, confirmed the arrest to journalists on Sunday. “Adulterated diesel of about 2.5 million litres was fully loaded inside gallons and six […]
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As the ding-dong affairs between the Cross River State government, the Federal Ministry of Environment and stakeholders on the proposed 260-kilometre Super Highway continues, the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) project appears to have failed after a third attempt to get the document approved. Indications to this effect came to the fore Thursday during the stakeholders’ family meeting organised by the […]
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Pandemonium occurred Saturday at Liverpool Roundabout, at the Apapa area of Lagos, when a commercial bus driver killed a soldier. The soldier, attached to Signal Barracks, Apapa, which is a few meters away from the said roundabout, was said to have been walking on the sidewalk when the bus driver hit him. According to eyewitness account, due to the vehicular […]
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The Head of Ports Operations, Dangote Group, Mr Yakubu Abdullahi said that the organisation spent N1 billion to repair the road leading to Apapa Port. Abdullahi disclosed this in an interview on Saturday in Lagos. He said as a major player in the maritime sector, the company had so far spent N1 billion to make the road accessible to the […]
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