Tag: Lagos

2023: Atiku interacts with Lagos Business Executives

Aminu Imam

Speaks on fuel subsidy, exchange rate, debt crisis Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, has made his stand known on several economic issues Nigeria is currently battling. The former vice-president, who spoke about his recovery plan for Nigeria at the Lagos Business School 2022 Alumni Day, which had in attendance prominent business executives, engaged the audience about economic issues, fuel subsidy, foreign exchange policy, debt crisis, power as well as the oil and gas sector. Atiku, who used the occasion to pay tributes to the private…

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2023: “God will punish us if we dont support Tinubu” – Lagos CAN Chairman

Aminu Imam

The Chairman of the Lagos State chapter of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Reverend Stephen Adegbite, has vowed to mobilise support for the presidential aspiration of the Presidential Candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu. According to him, this is on account of the Asiwaju’s tremendous support for the Christian community, not only in Lagos but in the entire South-West region. Reverend Adegbite further said: God will punish us if we dont support Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu. I have told our friends from the North…

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Lagos: NDLEA discovers N8.8bn worth of drugs in VGC mansion, impounds 13m Tramadol pills

Aminu Imam

…Arrests billionaire drug baron The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, (NDLEA), has said it has uncovered a large consignment of drugs worth N8.86billion from one of the mansions of the Chairman of AutoNation Motors Ltd, Ugochukwu Nsofor Chukwukadibia, in a highbrow residential estate in Lekki area of Lagos. The substances are contained in hundreds of cartons kept in a house in Victoria Garden City (VGC) estate, which is mostly occupied by the rich, located along the Lekki-Ajah corridor. In an issued statement released yesterday by the agency’s Director of Media,…

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“Nigeria needs freedom from terrorism, poverty” Sanwo-Olu

Aminu Imam

Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has said that even after 62 years of independence, Nigeria is still striving to attain freedom from terrorism and poverty. Sanwo-Olu said this at the weekend, during the Independence Day parade to commemorate Nigeria’s 62nd National Independence Day celebration. The parade, which was held at the Mobolaji Johnson Arena, Onikan, was organised by the Lagos State Ministry of Home Affairs. Sanwo-Olu said that the country was still seeking freedom from the disastrous impact of climate change and from moral decline. The governor said it was…

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2023: ‘No rally is allowed at Lagos Lekki Tollgate’ – Lagos Police warn Peter Obi, supporters

Aminu Imam

The Lagos State Police Command has warned the Labour Partys Presidential candidate, Peter Obi and his supporters not to hold any rally at the Lekki Tollgate today, Saturday. Obis supporters had planned to hold a rally for their candidate at the Lekki Tollgate on Independence Day, but a Federal High Court in Lagos had stopped them from doing so. The court ordered the Inspector-General of Police (IGP) and the Lagos Commissioner of Police to ensure that the order is enforced. However, a statement issued by the Commands spokesman, Benjamin Hundeyin,…

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ASUU Strike: Travellers, commuters stranded as protesting students ground airport

Aminu Imam

Air travellers, as well as commuters, were forced to trek to get to the airport in Lagos yesterday, due to the blockade of the road by students under the aegis of the National Association of Nigerian Students, (NANS), protesting the strike action of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, (ASUU). Recall that ASUU has been on strike since February 14, 2022. Due to the protest, the travellers were seen trekking to the Murtala Mohammed International Airport, in Ikeja. It was gathered that some Lagosians were making business out of helping…

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NBA AGC: Lawyers loot conference materials at collection centre

Aminu Imam

The President of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Olumide Akpata, has expressed regret over the looting of collection centre conference materials by lawyers at the on-going Annual General Conference (AGC) of the association. Akpata stated this in a press statement issued at the venue of the conference, titled: Collection of Conference Materials. While acknowledging and expressing regret that there were lapses in the distribution process, he maintained that Tuesdays nights incident was a national embarrassment, noting that members of the association behaved in a most despicable manner not expected of…

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Insecurity: ‘Lagos under partial lockdown’ – Police Commissioner

Aminu Imam

The Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Abiodun Alabi, has said that there was a partial lockdown of the State by security agencies due to the threat of attacks by some unknown gunmen.  Alabi disclosed this in Lagos during the Lagos State Stakeholders Forum on Police Accountability (SFPA)s quarterly meeting and awards, on Wednesday, Alabi, who gave a keynote address on: Police Community Partnership: Panacea for Effective Police Performance at the event supported by the ‘Open Society Initiative for West Africa‘, (OSIWA), said that the partial lockdown was for a purpose,…

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Petrol sells for N220 per litre in Lagos, N235 in Abuja as scarcity worsens

Aminu Imam

Some filling stations yesterday dispensed Premium Motor Spirit, (PMS), otherwise known as petrol, for as high as N235 a litre, prompting the resurfacing of fuel queues in Lagos and Abuja, the federal capital. Despite displaying the N165 a litre on their pumps, it was noticed that some filling stations sold the product above the regulated price. The decision to continue to regulate the pump price of petrol has cost the nation about N1.27 trillion since the beginning of the year. Recently, the price of petrol has increased on the insistence…

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Drug trafficking: NDLEA intercepts N4.5bn heroin concealed in baby food

Aminu Imam

As ex-BRT driver excretes 90 pellets of cocaine Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, (NDLEA), have intercepted 22 blocks of heroin weighing 23.55 kilogrammes concealed in packs of Nestle Cerelac baby food at the Lagos Airport. The consignment, with a street value of over N4.5 billion, came from Johannesburg, South Africa, on board a South African Airways flight last Wednesday, as part of a consolidated cargo that arrived at the SAHCO import shed of the Lagos airport. After a series of follow-up operations that led to the arrest…

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