The Lagos Waste Management Authority (LAWMA) has sealed several plazas around Tejuosho Market, Yaba, for environmental offences including improper waste disposal and trading activities obstructing free flow of traffic, among others. The affected plazas are those situated around Mobil Filling Station down to the left and right sections of the popular Okrika market. According to the Managing Director/CEO of LAWMA, Dr. Muyiwa Gbadegesin, the plazas were found to be in violation of several critical environmental regulations, which include indiscriminate dumping of waste on road median, use of road setbacks for trading activities, impeding free flow of traffic, and operation of illegal motor parks in the area. He said, “Under our policy of zero…
Author: Soffiyyah Olamide
After his sudden exit as chairman of the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), Muhammad Nami went on to approve N6 billion as payments to several contractors and consultants, TheCable can report. Nami, who was succeeded by Zacchaeus Adedeji, greenlit the payments two days after he was sacked on September 14, according to documents seen by TheCable. Officials privy to the development — but not authorised to speak on the matter — said the former FIRS boss directed staff of the finance, audit, and internal affairs departments to work on Saturday and Sunday to perfect some financial transactions while files were…
The Managing Director of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Dr Samuel Ogbuku, has enjoined the newly promoted Directors of the Commission to make a difference in the discharge of their duties and take the Commission to greater heights. Ogbuku, who gave the charge at the closing session of a two-week course on Leadership and Performance Management for directing staff of the NDDC in Abuja, said that the provision of quality services to the people of the Niger Delta was a collective responsibility and should be given priority. According to him, the reason for sending the new Directors for training was to ensure they took the administrative…
Some 500-level Accounting students of Ladoke Akintola University (LAUTECH) Ogbomoso, Oyo State lost their lives in a fatal accident while returning from an excursion to Erin-Ijesa Waterfall in Osun State. The incident occurred on Wednesday evening, 27 September, 2023, around Ilobu-Okinni-Osogbo road in Osun State while they were returning from their visit to the waterfall. The bus conveying the students according to reports, caught fire although the cause of the accident is still unknown. The Public Relations Officer of the institution, Mr Lekan Fadeyi confirmed the accident. He said lives were lost in the accident but he could not confirm…
Lagosians may have to exercise more patience, as they anticipate the completion of the 37-kilometre-long Lagos Rail Mass Transit (LRMT) Red Line project. The construction of the rail infrastructure is at the finishing stage, but Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu said the project will not open to the public until all stations are completely furnished and safety features put in place. The Governor, on Wednesday, 27 September, 2023, undertook a comprehensive inspection of the Red Line infrastructure, traversing the major stations of the rail project. The Deputy Governor, Dr. Obafemi Hamzat, and members of the State cabinet joined the Governor on the…
The management of the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH) has commenced moves to pacify the parents of the boy with the missing intestines, Adebola Akin-Bright, thegazellenews.com has exclusively gathered. This medium learnt that officials of the tertiary health institution have contacted parents of the deceased teenager offering to offset his burial expenses. While this was going on, thegazellenews.comalso learnt that the father of the deceased has collected the films of the scan carried out on him at LASUTH and the scan clearly showed that the intestines were present in the boy when the scan was carried out. “The scan was done on…
The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, has approved the immediate termination of the appointments of 21 heads of parastatals, agencies, and government companies of the FCT Administration (FCTA). Wike, in a statement by his Director of Press, Office of the Minister, Anthony Ogunleye, on Wednesday, 27 September, 2023, ordered the affected appointees to hand over the affairs of their offices to the most senior officers in rank. Those affected by the decision are: 1. Group MD/CEO, Abuja investment Company Ltd 2. CEO/MD, Abuja Markets Management Ltd 3. MD/CEO, Abuja Urban Mass Transport Company 4. CEO/MD, Abuja Property…
The critical case for Peer Review Mechanism among the States of the Federation was brought to the fore recently, when the transportation team of Anambra State Government visited Lagos State to understudy the successful implementation and positive impacts of the bespoke multi-modal transport systems with alternative inter-connecting options of Road: BRT, LAGRIDE, FIRST MILE – LAST MILE BUS; Rail, BLUE LINE and RED LINES; and Water, LAGFERRY). The management team and operations crew of LAGFERRY warmly received the Anambra State Commissioner for Transport, Barr. (Mrs.) Patricia Ifeoma Igwebuike; her Local Government and Community Affairs counterpart and other state functionaries at…
The Chief Consultant on Media to Governor Dapo Abiodun of Ogun State, Hon. Kayode Akinmade, on Wednesday, 27 September, 2023, said the allegation of diversion of local government allocations against the governor by Mr Wale Adedayo, was politically motivated. He asserted that contrary to the false claim, the Governor had augmented several shortfalls in allocations to local governments from the Federation Account to the tune of N17 billion from the inception of his administration in 2019 till date. Speaking in an interview on Raypower FM programme, Facts File, as well the Yoruba version on Faaji FM, Akinmade noted that Adedayo…
A New York-based Lawyer and Chattered Accountant, Chief Owolabi Salis has tasked President Bola Tinubu on the need to ensure fairness and equity in his appointments.He said this in a statement issued from his United States of America base, against the backdrop of criticisms trailing the choice of the President into key positions. According to him, appointments ordinarily should be an avenue to engineering national unity and cohesion.Salis who is also an expert in diversity management noted that division was not an option for the new administration in view of current challenges facing the nation.He stressed that this was considering…