Tag: Ikeja
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LASBCA seals popular Ikeja golf club over safety issues
The Ikeja Golf Club has been sealed off by the Lagos State Building Control Agency for negligence and disregard for public safety. In a statement on Wednesday, LASBCA’s Director of Public Affairs, Adu Ademuyiwa, said the enforcement followed numerous complaints about safety lapses at the club. The statement read, “The Lagos State Building Control Agency…
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Organised labour shut down Ikeja, Ibadan DisCos over electricity tariff hike
Members if organized labour have stormed various offices of electricity distribution companies to protest over the Band A tariff hike. The workers, under the aegis of the Nigerian Labour Congress and the Trade Union Congress, thronged the offices of the DisCos on Monday, preventing workers from resuming work for the day. In Lagos, the workers…
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Man remanded for breaking into cemetery, stealing iron rods from grave
An Ikeja Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday remanded a 28-year-old man, for allegedly breaking into a cemetery and stealing iron rods used to cover a corpse in a grave, valued at N1.1 million.
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Teenager jailed 2years, 3 months for attempted theft
An Ikeja Chief Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday sentenced a teenage boy, Ishola Yusuf, to two years and three months in Borstal Correctional Centre in Abeokuta, Ogun for attempted theft.
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Auto dealer, IVD arraigned for death of his wife, Abimbola
Auto dealer, Ikechukwu Ogbonna, popularly known as IVD, has been arraigned before Justice Nicole-Clay of a Lagos State High Court in Ikeja over the alleged manslaughter of his late wife, Abimbola. Abimbola died in a fire incident at their residence in the Lekki area of the state on October 2022. The Lagos state government charged…
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(PHOTOS) Many feared dead as train runs into Lagos BRT Bus
Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) with registration no 04A- 48LA, carrying Lagos State Government staff, was on Wednesday morning crushed by a moving train at PWD, Ikeja area of Lagos. The Director, Public Affairs and Enlightenment Department of the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority, Adebayo Taofiq, confirmed the accident in a statement. “The accident recorded many…
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Many feared dead as train crashes into bus in Lagos
A collision between a Marcopolo Lagos State Government staff bus Ikeja Thursday morning train has caused tension and a heavy gridlock in the area. Although details are still sketchy, TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) gathered that the accident occurred at Adekunle Fajuyi way GRA Ikeja, and the bus was dragged all the way to Shogunle. An eyewitness said…
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Sanwo-Olu bans Okada in Surulere, Apapa, four other LGs
T he Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has banned the operations of commercial motorcycles popularly called Okada, in Ikeja, Surulere, Eti-Osa, Lagos Mainland, Lagos Island, and Apapa. The governor announced that the ban is “indefinite and total”.
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Security guard gets life imprisonment for defiling teen
Security guard defiling teen
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NEMA raises alarm over leaking gas pipeline in Ikeja; asks residents in Computer Village, Oba Akran, others to close shops, avoid naked fire
The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has raised an alarm following a report of a gas pipeline leakage in some parts of Ikeja, the Lagos State Capital.