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Group decries planned demolition in Lagos community

5 months ago1015 min

A coalition of victims of the demolished buildings in the Oworoshoki area of Lagos State has called on the government to stop further planned demolition in the area. On Thursday, officials of the Lagos State Environmental Task Force invaded the Mosafejo community, a slum settlement at Oworonshoki, in the Kosofe Local Government Area of the state. The invasion was unprecedented as the dwellers were taken unawares when the armed officials ordered them to vacate the...

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Residents beat Lagos security guard to coma over car theft

5 months ago1015 min

There was tension on Monday after a yet-to-identified security guard went into a coma after he was beaten up at the Tanisewun Estate in the Igbogbo area of Ikorodu, Lagos State. PUNCH Metro learnt that the incident happened after a car was allegedly stolen in the area he was securing. Our correspondent gathered that the owner of the car had stepped out to pick up something in his car in the morning when he discovered...

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Council probes Lagos FCE violence, school shut

5 months ago1127 min

Following the violence that erupted on Monday, the Governing Council of the Federal College of Education (Technical) Akoka, Lagos, has ordered an indefinite closure of the institution. The embattled provost, Dr. Wahab Azeez, revealed the council’s decision to PUNCH Metro during a telephone interview on Tuesday. Recall that the ongoing leadership crisis escalated on Monday when videos emerged showing protesting students vandalising the official vehicles of the governing council members, who reportedly narrowly avoided being...

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RCCG holds free medical outreach in Lagos community

5 months ago6568 min

No fewer than 1,000 adults and children benefitted from the medical outreach organised by the Redeemed Christian Church of God, The Calvary Area Headquarters, Province 89, Oshodi, Lagos State, on Saturday, as part of activities to mark its 27th anniversary. The activity, which has been held in the community for the past 10 years, featured free medical consultations, healthy living counselling, blood pressure checks, blood sugar screening, deworming and eye tests, among others. PUNCH Metro...

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Mob vandalises MTN office in Lagos protesting mass disconnection

5 months ago1064 min

A large crowd of angry MTN subscribers in the early hours of Monday, vandalised the telecommunications company’s office in the FESTAC Town area of Lagos State in response to the network blocking subscribers due to a mismatch in their National Identification Number and SIM registration. In a viral video circulating on social media, the mob could be seen destroying a barricade fence just outside the MTN office. The Lagos State Police Public Relations Officer, Benjamin...

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Police arrest 32 suspects after violent attack in Lagos college

5 months ago995 min

The Lagos State Police Public Relations Officer, SP Benjamin Hundeyin, has confirmed that 32 suspects have been arrested following a violent attack on a Ministry of Education team at the Federal College of Education (Technical) in the Akoka area of the state. According to Hundeyin, the team had been sent to mediate a three-month-long impasse between staff and the Provost, who had been locked out of his office. However, the situation escalated when staff and...

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NDLEA recovers cocaine hidden in bizman’s sandals at Lagos airport

5 months ago2599 min

Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency have recovered parcels of cocaine weighing 1.20 kilograms from a Spain-based businessman, Francis Akajiobi, at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja, Lagos State. Akajiobi, a 50-year-old man, had concealed the cocaine in the soles of a pair of black sandals he was wearing while attempting to board a flight to Madrid. A statement by the agency’s spokesperson, Femi Babafemi, on Sunday, said Akajiobi confessed that he was...

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Lagos task force arrests 124 suspects in black spot raids

5 months ago2556 min

The Lagos State Task Force said its officials arrested 124 suspects during multiple raids of criminal hideouts across the state as part of its efforts to restore sanity across the state. The raid, according to a statement made available to PUNCH Metro on Sunday by the Director of Press and Public Affairs of the agency, Gbadeyan Abdulraheem, was carried out on Saturday midnight and was led by the agency’s chairman, CSP Adetayo Akerele. Abdulraheem noted...

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Taskforce arrests 124 drug suspects In Lagos black spot raid

5 months ago25415 min

The Lagos State Task Force on Environment and Special Offences Enforcement Unit raided a drug hub in the Agbado-Oke-Odo LCDA of Alimosho Local Government on Saturday. During the raid led by CSP Adetayo Akerele, the unit was said to have apprehended 124 individuals suspected of drug peddling, abuse, and criminal activities. The state commissioner for the Ministry of Environment and Water Resources, Tokunbo Wahab, disclosed this in a statement on X.com on Sunday. The statement...

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Lagos command queries policeman, awaits medical report

5 months ago3036 min

The Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Adegoke Fayoade, on Friday, confirmed that the policeman accused of raping a 17-year-old girl in one of the offices at the Area H Command in Ogudu, in the Ojota area of the state, has been queried over the allegation. Fayoade, while speaking with City Round, said the command was awaiting the medical report of the test conducted on the minor who accused the policeman of raping her during a...

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