Tag: magodo
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BREAKING: Lagos traditional ruler, brother bag 15-year jail term
An Ikeja High Court has sentenced the deposed Baale of Shangisha in Magodo area of Lagos Mutiu Ogundare to a 15-year jail term. Ogundare was charged with faking his kidnap.
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Magodo: Lagos approaches Supreme Court over land ownership
The Lagos State Government on Friday said it had approached the Supreme Court to seek clarifications on a 2012 judgement regarding land ownership in the Magodo area of the state. The Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Gbenga Omotosho, in a statement, said the Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu administration took the decision because judgment creditors failed to…
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[Video] Watch Moment Police CSP defies Gov. Sanwo-Olu orders
A yet to be identified Chief Superintendent of Police has openly defied the order of the Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, to vacate the Magodo Phase 2 Estate area of the state today, January 4. The residents of the estate had taken to the street on Tuesday morning, January 4, to protest the continuous presence…
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Collapsed building: Over 100 buildings marked for removal in Magodo
The Lagos State Government has marked over 100 buildings for removal in Magodo area of the state following the collapse of a building which killed a mother and her three children. The woman and her three children died last Saturday after a house built on a hill collapsed on another at Otun Araromi area of…
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[Photos] Four killed in Magodo building collapse
Four persons have been confirmed dead after a house built on a hill collapsed on another in the Otun Araromi area of Magodo-Isheri. The General Manager, Lagos State Emergency Management Agency, Dr Femi Oke-Osayintolu, who confirmed the casualty figure to our correspondent, said the tragedy struck around 8:00 a.m. He said some injured victims trapped…
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Notorious kidnapper, Evans misses life in ‘Magodo’ laments maltreatment in prison
Alleged kidnap kingpin, Chukwudumeme Onwuamadike, a.k.a. Evans, broke down in tears on Monday before the Lagos State High Court in Igbosere, where he was arraigned on fresh two charges of kidnapping. After initially refusing to come down from the prison van in protest, he was eventually brought into the courtroom by warders on the order…
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BREAKING: Two burnt to death as gas plant explode in Lagos [Photos]
Two persons were feared dead in a reported fire outbreak in Second Coming gas plant in Magodo area of Lagos State. While the immediate cause of the inferno remains unknown as at press time, the fire is said to have spread to other properties in the neighbourhood and other persons are said to have been…