Operatives of the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA) on Sunday, 30 April, 2023, rescued an unconscious accident victim on top of Cele-Egbe Bridge inward Ikotun, Lagos. LASTMA Anjorin Adeola (zebra 7 Ejigbo) who led the rescue team confirmed that the rescued unconscious accident victim was the truck driver involved in an accident where a white six tyre truck (FFF 996 XB) loaded with biscuits fell on an unregistered blue Toyota Camry (unregistered) inward Ikotun, Lagos LASTMA Anjorin further confirmed that the accident was very serious as the side of the truck fully loaded with biscuits fell on top of…
Author: Soffiyyah Olamide
Members of staff of MediaFuse-Dentsu cleaned strategic locations in the Ikeja GRA, Lagos State as part of activities to mark the company’s 2023 volunteering day tagged “One Day For Change”. One Day For Change is a global volunteering event held in alignment with Earth Day. This year, dentsu in the Nigerian market focused its volunteering efforts on nature and circular economy. This is as employees of the company gave back to the community by picking up used plastic bottles and other waste, according to a press statement by Dentsu Nigeria Group Corporate Communications Manager, Sodiq Oyeleke. As part of dentsu’s social commitment,…
The serene and quiet Ososa town in Odogbolu Local Government Area of Ogun State came to live over the weekend when the children of the late Chief Imam of Ijebu Ososa, Alhaji Taoreed Idris Oluwakemi held Fidau prayer in his honour. The two in one event also served as the final burial ceremony of the late Chief Imam and wife, Alhaja Subedat Oluwakemi held within the premises of the Moslem Primary School, Ososa, Ijebu Ode. The event was a delighted reunion for members of the family, the League of Imams and well wishers from far and near who thronged the…
Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have seized at the Tincan port in Lagos 126 parcels of Canadian Loud, a synthetic strain of cannabis, weighing 63 kilogrammes concealed in a used Toyota Corolla car imported from Toronto, Canada. This is even as an attempt by a freight agent, Mordi Chukwuemeka Samuel, to export 900 grammes of the same substance, Loud, hidden inside walls of a travelling bag containing food items, to Kenya, was thwarted by anti-narcotics officers at the SAHCO export shed of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos on Saturday. A statement by the spokesman of…
The Chairman of the Lagos State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Pastor Cornelius Oyefolu Ojelabi, has felicitated Nigerian and Lagos State workers on the occasion of this year’s Workers’ Day celebration. The APC Chairman, who expressed satisfaction with the way the workers have conducted themselves in the last year, particularly the noble role they played in the just concluded general elections, prayed for them to live long to reap the benefits of their labour in good health and prosperity. He used the opportunity of the global celebration to congratulate the workers for their immense contributions to socio-economic and…
A Leader of the Labour Party (LP) in the Southwest Banji Omotoso has dragged the Federal Government of Nigeria, FGN and the Attourney-General of the Federation, AGF before an Akure High Court, seeking the declaration of the court that the May 29, 2023 handover date and inauguration of the President-elect, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu remained sacrosanct and unchanged. Omotoso, also a leader of the Aggrieved Labour Party Members in the southwest, is also seeking the relief of the court for a declaration that on no ground must the Federal Government, through its agencies, agents or officers imposed an Interim Government…
Lagos Education District 1 has emerged the winner of both junior and senior categories in the Association of Commercial Subjects Teachers of Nigeria, ACTSON second annual state academic quiz for public schools in Lagos state held at the Youth Hall,Bolade Grammar School, Oshodi on 27th April. In the junior category, six schools from the six education districts in the state: Iju-Obawole Junior Grammar School, Ikosi Junior High School, Lagos Model College, Igbo Nla, Sari-Iganmu Junior Secondary School, Festac Junior College, Isolo Junior Secondary and Metropolitan College were tested in Business Studies. At the end of the keenly contest, Iju-Obawole Junior…
I join the rest of the world and all compatriots to celebrate Nigerian workers on this year’s International Workers’ Day. Today is a special day in most parts of the world, a day to salute and honour the working people whose hardwork and sweat continue to oil the wheel of human progress and advancement. Today is significant in many respects. It is a day forged and born out of the struggle for workers’ rights and socio-economic justice. Since 1891, this day has been observed all over the world. In Nigeria, every May 1 is a special day in our national…
Fascism On Course It would appear that a record discharge of toxic sludge from our notorious smut factory is currently clogging the streets and sewers of the Republic of Liars. It goes to prove the point that provoked the avalanche EXACTLY! The seeds of incipient fascism in the political arena have evidently matured. A climate of fear is being generated. The refusal to entertain corrective criticism, even differing perspectives of the same position has become a badge of honour and certificate of commitment. What is at stake, ultimately is – Truth, and at a most elementary level of social regulation:…