As part of efforts towards deepening community policing and intelligence sharing in Lagos State, Rapid Response Squad (RRS), led by its Commander, CSP Olayinka Egbeyemi on Thursday, 21 December, 2023, visited Lagos State Neighbourhood Safety Agency (LNSA). CSP Egbeyemi, who was received by LNSA’s General Manager, Prince Ifalade Oyekan, called for a partnership between the two agencies towards combating traffic robbery, cultism and other community based crime as well as speedy intelligence sharing to prevent crime. While expressing RRS preparedness to collaborate with agencies with a view to reducing crime in the state, Egbeyemi offered to render a periodic pep…
Author: Khadijah Olowode
Olufemi Babalola trained as a lawyer, with preference for commercial and company law, before embarking on a career in enterprise by embarking on a new city project, through creation of an island in the middle of Lagos Lagoon, now known as Gracefield Island. Olufemi Babalola was born on 29th July, 1963 in Lagos, Nigeria. He started his education at Yaba Methodist School, Lagos. He attended African Church Grammar School, Abeokuta for his secondary school education where he finished in 1980 in flying colours, before proceeding to University of Ife (now Obafemi Awolowo University) to read Law. He won the Scholarship…
Dozy Mmobuosi, founder of Tingo, has issued a robust response to the recent allegations of fraud brought forth by the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) against him and his affiliated companies. In a statement released on Friday, 22 December, 2023, Mmobuosi dismissed the accusations, labeling them as “untrue and baseless.” The SEC had, on Monday, 18 December, 2023, charged Mmobuosi and his three U.S.-based companies – Tingo Group Inc., Agri-Fintech Holdings Inc., and Tingo International Holdings Inc. – with fraud. The charges, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, alleged a multi-year…
The First Lady of Nigeria, Senator Oluremi Tinubu CON has held a unique Christmas luncheon with children at the State House in Abuja. The Christmas Luncheon with the theme, ‘The Christmas Story’, had the First lady reading a Christmas story she wrote and put in a booklet for the children aged between 7 and 16 years. “When Jesus came, His mission is to redeem mankind from sin committed by Adam. “We understand better why Jesus came into the world as it is written in Romans 5:15, “But there is a great difference between Adams sin and Gods gracious gift. For…
The Committee of Pro-Chancellors of State-Owned Universities of Nigeria (COPSUN) has raised concern over the menace of brain drain in the country with a charge on the Federal Government to a declare the trend a matter of national concern deserving urgent solution. While calling on state governments to prioritize funding of state universities, the organisation called on Vice Chancellors of state universities look for alternative means of generating revenue to ensure there were enough funds. These were some of the decisions contained in a communique issues at the end of the 62nd Quarterly Meeting of COSUN held in Abuja and…
Lagos State Government has been commended for her thrives on the economy and appraised for the year 2023 budget performance, reaching 78 percent attainment in the third quarter. Business experts and economists at a Round-table to review the Lagos Economy in year 2023 and the outlook for Year 2024, held at the Protea Hotel Select, Central Business District, Ikeja, organized by Economic Intelligence Department (EID) of the Lagos State Economic Planning and Budget, expressed hope that the year 2024 appropriation bill, when passed would meet expectations. Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu, last Wednesday, 20 December, 2023, presented an estimate of 2.2 trillion…
Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi State has presented 25 ambulances to all the local government areas of the state and some tertiary institutions as well as fire fighting vans to the state’s Fire Service in Lokoja. These were part of efforts to further aid the smooth functioning of the state’s health sector adjudged as one of the best in the country currently, in line with the State government’s prioritisation of the sector and to enable quicker handling of emergencies. The Governor also presented 40 SUV cars and four Hilux vans to the state’s lawmakers and judges at a brief ceremony…
Veteran Actor , Dejumo Lewis who played the role of King (Oloja of Oja) in the popular television series, Village Headmaster, is dead. The news of the demise of the actor made the rounds in the morning of Saturday, 23 December, 2023. The new was also confirmed by Actor Saheed Balogun who wrote, “Good night DEJUMO LEWIS, may your soul rest in perfect peace. RIP.” on his social media page Lewis is a Nigerian film and television actor, famous for the Kabiyesi role he played in The Village Headmaster, Nigeria’s longest-running television soap opera shown on NTA from 1968 to…
Ogun State Governor, Prince Dapo Abiodun has approved an exciting end-of-year package for civil servants in the state. The bonus, which spans across all levels of the workforce, aims to bring some succour amidst the economic challenges facing the country. The Christmas bonus ranges from 68% to a whopping 159% of the basic salary. Level 01 officers will receive an impressive 159%, while other levels will enjoy varying percentages according to a circular from the office of the State’s Head of Service (HoS). Level 02 officers get (165), level 03 (135), level 04 (122), level 05 (113), level 06 (104),…
Residents of Lagos Street closed to the scene of the building that collapsed on Friday, 22 December, 2023, have recounted how a dog being taken care of by the occupants warned them few minutes before the tragic incident, reports thegazellenews.com According to the Territorial Coordinator of the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), Ibrahim Farinloye, the dog came few minutes before the building collapsed. “According to accounts of residents, before the collapse, a dog, which the people in the collapsed building had been taking care of, got to the building and started barking in a sorrowful manner and refused to eat or…