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29 suspected robbers arrested in April, five in May — Police records
Experts predict the future for Nigeria’s most populous state, when coronavirus ends. OLALEKAN OLABULO and SUBAIR MOHAMMED bring their perspectives.FROM available official records, crime rate in Lagos State has gone down in the…
Controversies trail COVID-19 management as govt changes dead patient’s status from positive to…
SUBAIR MOHAMMED, in this story, speaks with all sides in the controversies over COVID-19 management in Lagos.THE Lagos State government stoked further controversies on Thursday as it recanted its earlier statement on the COVID-19…
Travel ban: ‘Infiltrators will be sent back home, won’t be allowed to escape’
BOLA BADMUS, TUNBOSUN OGUNDARE, OLALEKAN OLABULO, and KEHINDE AKINSEHINDE-JAYEOBA, dug into the controversial influx of Northern youth into Lagos, and the implications of such movement in the midst of a deadly epidemic.THE security…
Our fears living close to isolation centres —Residents
SYLVESTER OKORUWA and SEGUN KASALI probed into happenings at isolation centres’ neighbourhoods and testing centres, bringing an eyewitness account.Lagos, which has the highest number of patients with COVID-19 infection, understandably…
COVID-19: Area boys demand ‘settlement’ before evacuation of suspected coronavirus patients
SUBAIR MOHAMMED walked through slums in Lagos State and reported situations making nonsense of social distancing regulation, which portends a new danger for government and people of the state.RESIDENTS of Willoughby Street,…
With empty stomachs, Lagos residents confront rising criminalities
It is a classical case of double jeopardy. While seeking to survive the hunger and lack brought about by the coronavirus stay-at-home order, criminals raiding homes presents a new reality to their obedience. OLALEKAN OLABULO, TUNBOSUN…
Eti-Osa is leading in coronavirus cases, yet flouting stay-at-home order
Coronavirus and lockdown are the two most used words in Lagos today. For a state under a presidential lockdown, it is a tale of different strokes as reported by KEHINDE AKINSEHINDE-JAYEOBA and SUBAIR MOHAMMED.Despite recording the…
COVID lockdown: Drivers, others, who survive on daily income to experience worse depression,…
SEGUN KASALI, BOLA BADMUS and SUBAIR MOHAMMED set stakeholders’ sight on a prevalent COVID-19 danger many are choosing to ignore.Five days into the 14-day lockdown of Nigeria’s most populous state and the country’s most commercially…
Coronavirus: Lockdown will bankrupt, kill many —Traders
SEGUN KASALI, LEKAN OLABULO, SUBAIR MOHAMMED and KEHINDE AKINSEHINDE-JAYEOBA monitored the effects (on the vulnerable) of the ban on trading in markets by the government as part of efforts to tackle COVID-19 in Lagos State.The partial…
Lagos explosion: Shock, anger as FG moves to sack affected communities, millions to become homeless
BOLA BADMUS, OTARU OVOSI, OLALEKAN OLABULO and SUBAIR MOHAMMED dug into the mysteries surrounding the Sunday morning blast in Lagos. Their findings are confounding.These are certainly not the best of times for hundreds of landlords and…