The Lagos State Police Command has rescued a woman, Taiwo Titilayo Momoh who attempted to jump into the Lagoon from Third Mainland Bridge on Friday. Taiwo’s case is coming few days after a medical practitioner, Allwell Orji jumped into the Lagoon from Third Mainland Bridge as his remains was retrieved from the water on Wednesday. Lagos State Commissioner of Police, […]
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The management of Arik Air says it has resolved the impasse with labour unions, which affected it operations on Thursday. The airline said the impasse, which was led by the Lagos State branch of National Union of Air Transport Employees (NUATE), Air Transport Services Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (ATSSSAN) and National Association of Aircraft Pilot and Engineers (NAAPE) was […]
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The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and the Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN) are heading for a collision over the introduction of Bulk Purchase Agreement (BPA) fee by the corporation. The marketers alleged that NNPC introduced BPA fee of N125,000.00 yearly for bulk buyers of petrol and also directed that each marketer should make five years upfront payment, […]
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A Lagos painter, Oluwadamilare Afolarin, has lamented the ill treatment he allegedly suffered in the hands of officials of the Lagos State Vehicle Inspection Service. PUNCH Metro learnt that the victim’s Honda Accord with number plate, AKD 367 BG, was impounded by VIS operatives attached to the Eti-Osa office, for windscreen violation. He was reportedly fined N80,000.00, while the car […]
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The Giron-Masa community, in the Shanga Local Government Area of Kebbi State has been thrown into mourning after 22 traders, who were returning home from a market, were killed in a road crash. PUNCH Metro learnt that the bus driver had attempted to avoid a pothole when he hit a motorcyclist, which made the bus to somersault several times before […]
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Labour unions in the aviation sector on Thursday shut down Arik Air operations, vowing to continue the action until the airline agreed to implement the agreement reached by the two parties in December. The unions involved in the action are National Union of Air Transport Employees, Air Transport Services Senior Staff Association of Nigeria and National Association of Aircraft Pilots […]
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The Lagos State Government had barely a year ago in 2016 said it will construct an additional footbridge at Ojota bus-stop on Ikorodu Road to complement the existing one following the upsurge in its usage. The State’s Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Mr Steve Ayorinde, had in a statement anchored the decision on the need to urgently address the excessive […]
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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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