Access Bank PLC on Wednesday commended the Federal Fire Service and Lagos State Fire Service for their support in controlling a fire outbreak that occurred at its branch at Adetokunbo Adesola, in Victoria Island, Lagos earlier in the day. It also thanked Eko Hotels and Suites, Lagos State Emergency Management Authority (LASEMA), Chevron Nigeria Ltd, United Bank for Africa (UBA) PLC and Union Bank PLC for their support in the exercise. The Group Head, Corporate Communications, Mr Amaechi Okobi, who commended the organisations in a statement, said that there were no casualties in the incident. The bank in a message…
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Angry FC Barcelona fans chanted for the resignation of club president Josep Maria Bartomeu after captain Lionel Messi announced on Tuesday that he wished to leave the Catalan side. “We love you, Messi stay, Messi stay!” and “Bartomeu resign!” chanted several hundred fans outside FC Barcelona’s Camp Nou stadium on Tuesday night. “I am very upset, for me Barca is Messi and Messi is Barca. They are the same, he is the symbol of Barca … They should erect a monument in Camp Nou. “I don’t think this (departure) should be allowed to happen,” 80-year-old Joana Polo, wearing an FC…
The Nigeria Police, Zone 2 Command, Onikan, Lagos, has burst a drug syndicate operating along the Oyo, Ogun and Lagos states axis and arrested a member of the gang, Sunday Ishola.The Zone 2 Command’s Public Relations Officer, DSP Hawa Adamu, in a statement issued on Wednesday in Lagos, said that operatives of the Zonal Monitoring Unit arrested Ishola at Imeko, Imeko-Afon LGA in Ogun.Adamu said that the unit, led by SP Uba Adams, received information of the activities of some criminal elements smuggling arms and ammunition into the country through Imeko border and laid ambush for them.“A team of operatives…
The Traffic Compliance and Enforcement Corps (TRACE) in Ogun said that a motorcyclist was crushed to death while two passengers sustained injuries in an accident on Wednesday, at Aseese, opposite Jextoban School, on Lagos-Ibadan Expressway. The TRACE Mowe-Ibafo Divisional Commander, Mr Ojuoro Olusola, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that the accident, which occurred at 7.30 a.m., involved a Bajaj motorcycle and a Worker Daf truck. According to him, a witness told TRACE officials that the commercial motorcyclist was trying to overtake the truck when the accident occurred. He said that the motorcyclist wanted to beat the truck, and…
President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday, underscored the importance of an enhanced Justice delivery system, in a bid to keep the Nigerian legal system in tune with global best practices. The President made the call at the opening ceremony of the 60th Annual General Conference of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) The 2020 NBA AGC tagged ” Step Forward” is holding both virtually and physically from Aug. 26 to Aug. 29 in Lagos and Abuja. Buhari, in his opening remarks, felicitated with the leadership of the NBA on her 60th AGC and urged that the Bar takes congnisance of its role…
The 19- year -old prime suspect in the multiple killings in Akinyele Local Government Area of Oyo State, Sunday Shodipe, said on Wednesday that pressure from a herbalist was instrumental to his escape from police custody. Shodipe, who was rearrested by the Oyo State Police Command on Sunday, stated this while being paraded by the Commissioner of Police in the state, Nwachukwu Enwonwu, in Ibadan. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that 32 other suspects were also paraded for various offences ranging from robbery, murder,burglary and kidnapping to rape and defilement. Shodipe, who spoke in Yoruba, said that the…
The Oyo State Government has discharged 50 additional COVID-19 patients from its isolation centres after their test results returned negative for the virus. Gov. Seyi Makinde announced this via his official Twitter account on Wednesday. Makinde said that the number of COVID-19 cases successfully managed and discharged in Oyo State has risen to 1,732. He, however, said the state recorded eight new coronavirus infection on Tuesday, increasing the total number of confirmed COVID-19 cases to 3,058.“Fifty confirmed COVID-19 cases received their second NEGATIVE test results and have been discharged. This brings the number of discharged cases in Oyo State to…
President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday presided over the 13th virtual meeting of the Federal Executive Council (FEC) at the Council Chamber of the State House, Abuja. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the 12 permanent secretaries and two members of the Revenue Mobilisation, Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC) were sworn in shortly before the commencement of the meeting. NAN reports that the appointment of the affected permanent secretaries was confirmed in a statement issued by the Head of Service of the Federation (HoSF), Dr Folasade Yemi-Esan, in June. They are: Anyanwutaku Ifeoma from Anambra, Belgore Shuaib Mohammad (Kwara),…
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) on Wednesday said Lagos State had tested a total of 95,843 samples for COVID-19 infections as at Aug. 25. The NCDC announced the figures in its COVID-19 Situation Report for Aug. 25. It said that out of the 388,346 COVID-19 sample tests conducted in the country, Lagos had conducted the highest number of sample tests. On the chart list for the tests, Lagos was followed by Abuja with 46,413 tests, while Kano, Plateau and Oyo States, conducted42,744; 23,113 and 19,562 tests respectively. The agency said that Lagos State recorded 26 new COVID-19 infections…
A barber, Toheeb Shafiu, on Wednesday dragged his wife, Fatimo, of three years before a Ile-Tuntun Customary Court in Ibadan, seeking divorce on grounds that she was threatening to attack him with a machete. Shafiu, who resides in Beyerunka area in Ibadan, said:” I am better off living alone than dead. “Fatimo has been after my life since I impregnated another girl that I dated before I married her. ”She has made attempts on my life with a machete. She attacked me on a number of occasions with broken bottles. ”I am not safe anymore living under the same roof…