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Lagos state taskforce apprehends notorious highway gang targeting truck drivers

Lagos state taskforce apprehends notorious highway gang targeting truck drivers

The Lagos State Taskforce has successfully apprehended 51 notorious members of a highway gang known for harassing truck drivers along the Apapa/ Oshodi and Lagos/Badagry Expressway.     Confirming their arrest to newsmen, the chairman of the taskforce, CSP Shola Jejeloye, said these set of individuals have been identified for …

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Lagos police arrest two men attempting to change dates of 70 cartons of drugs that expired since 2016

Lagos police arrest two men attempting to change dates of 70 cartons of drugs that expired since 2016

Operatives of the Lagos State Police Command have arrested two men with seventy cartons of expired drugs.    Spokesperson of the command, Benjamin Hundeyin, disclosed this in a statement on Sunday, February 4, 2024,    According to the PPRO, officers from the Okokomaiko Division stopped the suspicious Volkswagen LT bus …

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Articulate truck driver apprehended after crushing scavenger to death in Lagos

Articulate truck driver apprehended after crushing scavenger to death in Lagos

Operatives of the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA) today, February 3, apprehended an articulated truck driver after crushing a scavenger pushing a wheelbarrow to death around Mile 12 market, Ikorodu Road, Lagos.   The Director of Public Affairs and Enlightenment Department of LASTMA Mr Adebayo Taofiq confirmed that the …

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Lagos court sentences man to life imprisonment for defiling his wife's 14-year-old niece and infecting her with HIV

Lagos court sentences man to life imprisonment for defiling his wife

The Lagos High Court sitting in Ikeja has sentenced one Richard Saviour to life imprisonment for sexually assaulting his wife’s 14-year-old niece and infecting her with the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV).   During the trial, the State Counsel, Mr Ola Azeez, called three witnesses to prove the prosecution’s case while …

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?This is an illegal construction? Lagos State Commissioner for Environment reacts to video of a canal in Lekki being sandfilled to build a structure

The Lagos State Commissioner for Environment and Water Resources, Tokunbo Wahab, has reacted to a trending video of a man raising alarm over houses being built on a canal at Orchid Road in the Lekki area of the state.    The man showed a part of the canal that had …

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