AVM Mohammadu Mohammed (retd), the Director General, NEMA, said at the event that the Federal Government had approved door to door direct distribution of the relief materials to the affected people.
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A police source told the News Agency of Nigeria in Badagry that two of the suspects were arrested on July 27 at a hideout in Shibiri area of Ajangbadi, Lagos, while the other was arrested on August 11 at Seme, Badagry.
The Director General, Lagos State Emergency Management Agency, Dr. Olufemi Oke-Osanyintolu, made the disclosure in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Lagos on Tuesday.
The Association of Petroleum Marketers in Badagry, Lagos State on Wednesday decried alleged extortion by officials of Nigeria Customs Service in the area.
The Lagos State Government said it would only allow the 67 Nigerian returnees from Ivory Coast to leave for their state after completing their 14-day quarantine in the Badagry.
Officials of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control on Thursday began screening of 67 Nigerian returnees who were placed in isolation by the Lagos State Government in two hotels in Badagry.
The Lagos Ferry Services Company (LAGFERRY) says it is yet to extend services to Badagry because of activities of sand dredgers and shallowness of the water body in the area.
The 15 Field Engineer Regiment of the Nigerian Army, Topo, Badagry, Lagos State has celebrated the West African Social Activities to mark the end of 2019 operational year.
Most of the petroleum stations in Badagry communities have closed as the National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers of Nigeria suspended distribution of fuel to the city.
Lagos State Government will pay more attention to the development of Badagry in view of its status as an oil producing area, says the Commissioner for Energy Resources, Olalere Odusote.
While many residents relocated from the communities since the flooding worsened few weeks ago, others parked their cars several miles away and waded through the floods in rain boots to access their houses.
The Aare Ona Kakanfo of Yorubaland, Chief Gani Adams, on Thursday said closure of the nation’s land border has grave economic implications on people of South-West in particular, and Nigeria as a nation.
The Federal Government says a Diaspora Palace estimated to gulp about $15 million will be built in Badagry, Lagos State for those in Diaspora to relax when they come on visit to the coastal city.
Residents of some communities in Badagry area of Lagos State have continued counting their losses due to flooding after many hours of weekend rainfall which destroyed homes, churches, shops and farmlands.
A Caribbean tourism team has visited slave sites in Badagry, Lagos State to commemorate 400 years since the first slave ship with African slaves docked in America in 1619.
The Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, on Monday called on the Nigerian Ports Authority to accelerate the process of giving approval to the State’s request to build two seaports in Lekki and Badagry.
Ajara New Market in Badagry has lost over N10 million due to restriction on movements and goods at the Owode and Seme border posts since the exercise commenced last month.
Checks by the News Agency of Nigeria correspondent at markets in the coastal town indicated that the exercise, which started on August 20, had resulted to restriction in the movement of some basic food items across the borders.
The joint-border security exercise ordered by the Federal Government to restrict movements within the country’s land and sea borders paralysed commercial and social activities in Badagry communities of Lagos State on Monday, the News Agency of Nigeria reports.
Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, has again cautioned Nigerians not to believe everything they read on the social media but rather take such online publications “with a pinch of salt”.