Lagos @ 50’ celebrations: OSUN TO SUPPORT LAGOS ON CALISTHENICS TRAINING

The Lagos State Government on Monday said its training of students and youths on fundamentals of calisthenics was being done in partnership with the Osun State Government.

The Deputy Governor, Dr Idiat Adebule, who spoke on the partnership while receiving a six-man delegation from Osun in her office at Alausa, said that the training in calisthenics would help in developing the students mentally, physically and socially.

Calisthenics consists of a variety of movements often performed rhythmical and usually conducted in concerts with stretches to depict specific symbols.

Lagos Government Releases N10bn For Completion Of 114 Local Government Roads

The Lagos State Government has released the sum of N10.8billion to date to ensure completion of the ongoing construction of 114 roads across the 20 Local Governments and 37 Local Council Development Areas in the State by the end of June, 2016

In a statement signed by the Commissioner for Local Government and Community Affairs, Mr. Muslim Olohuntele Folami on Wednesday, the Government said that the construction of the roads was made possible through tax payers’ money.

The Commissioner said that the second stage payment of N5.5billon released on Monday represents 61 per cent of the total cost of the 114 roads at N17.85bn.

Securing Lagos: MTN donats 10 patrol vehicles to Lagos state government (PHOTOS)

MTN is donating this patrol vehicles to Lagos state government in a bid to #SecuringLagos

BRT RAMPAGE; Army states own side of story, flays Soyinka

The Army authorities, yesterday, in Lagos, said the Lance Corporal who was knocked down and killed by a BRT bus along Ikorodu Road last Friday, was not riding motorbike on the BRT lane as widely reported. Rather, the deceased, according to the Army, was crushed to death on the normal lane plied by other motorists, maintaining also that soldiers were not responsible for the damage done to BRT buses but hoodlums who hijacked the situation.

This is just as the Nigerian Army has taken a swipe at Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, over a statement credited to him describing the Army as 'mad,' while reacting to the incident at a public function last week.

NIGERIAN MILITARY ANIMALISM AND BARBARISM

It seems clearly that some categories of people are above the law in Nigeria. This categories includes the army, police and other security agencies.

Yesterday in Lagos, a military officer was accidentally killed by a bus on an express-way stipulated only for the buses to operate on. To show their disrespect for the law and public conscience, they went on bashing innocent drivers as well as smashing and setting fire to buses. This is a clear barbaric and primitive characteristic of our military. They burnt BRT buses worth more than 100 millions naira.

Lagos Student Protest: 10 arrested as protesting LASU students clash with Police

At least five individuals were hurt and ten other arrested on Tuesday as Lagos State University (LASU) students clash with police at Oshodi. The students who were protesting fee hikes by the university authorities, paralysed commercial activities at the ever-busy Oshodi and its environs.

Sources said, at least five persons sustained various degree of injuries, the Student Union President, Comrade Nurudeen Yusuf who led the protest, however said three female students were injured through the alleged use of live ammunition by the police.