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Some eligible voters in Lagos State may shun the March 9, 2019 Governorship and State House of Assembly elections due to fear of attack by thugs, the News Agency of Nigeria is reporting

For Lagosians, this Saturday’s governorship election promises to be decisive. It will put many issues finally to bed. One of the issues that must be put to rest is the chasm that some are trying to create and exploit between Yoruba and Igbo people in Lagos. Even among brothers within the same family who love and care for each other, differences arise at times.

The governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party for Lagos State, Jimi Agbaje, on Thursday concluded his campaigns, asking Lagosians to come out to vote on Saturday and liberate themselves from the shackles of the Pharaoh under whom they had suffered for 20 years.

The Lagos State Government on Wednesday urged eligible voters in the State to come out enmasse on Saturday to vote in the Governorship and House of Assembly elections, assuring that adequate measures have been firmed up to ensure a hitch-free exercise.

The Independent National Electoral Commission in Lagos State says supplementary elections will hold in six federal constituencies of the state on Saturday alongside the governorship and state house of assembly elections.

The campaign team of the governorship candidate of the People’s Democratic Party in Lagos State, Jimi Agbaje, has warned members of the All Progressives Congress in the state against intimidating his supporters. 

The National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, on Wednesday urged party members in Lagos State to work assiduously to deliver votes to the party on March 9 during the governorship and state assembly elections.

The governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in Lagos State, Jimi Agbaje, has said he was very much in the race and has no contrary plan or conviction.

Some residents of Lagos on Tuesday told the News Agency of Nigeria that they would continue their enjoyment during the Christian’s Lenten season as it were during ordinary time.

There was mild drama in Ikeja, Lagos State on Monday as operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission arrested Yinka Farounbi, a former Chairman of the Ikeja branch of the Nigerian Bar Association.

The National Commission for Refugees, Migrants and Internally Displaced Persons on Monday commenced a national skills acquisition programme for about 2,000 Nigerian returnees and persons of concern.

A Yaba Chief Magistrates’ Court in Lagos on Monday ordered that a 40-year-old landlady, Yinka Martins, accused of killing her tenant, be remanded in Ikoyi Prison, pending legal advice from the State Directorate of the Public Prosecution.

Lagos Governor Akinwunmi Ambode’s Former Commissioner of Energy, Wale Oluwo, has assured the people of Epe that the Governorship Candidate of the People’s Democratic Party, Jimi Agbaje, would continue the developmental strides begun by his former boss in the town.

The police in Lagos State say they have arrested nine persons who allegedly attacked their men at Ayobo area of the state.

Ahead of the Governorship and State Houses of Assembly election on March 9, 2019, a community leader, Chief Desmond Duru, has cautioned the Igbo community resident in Lagos State to be civil in their conduct.

Veteran actor, Kehinde Akinremi, popularly known as Kanran, on Saturday urged philanthropists, corporate organisations and private investors to assist him to build a mega art city.

Prof. Ifagbemi Awamaridi, the Labour Party Governorship candidate in Lagos State, says if elected, all political office holders must have their children in public schools to reposition education for national growth and development.

Canaan House, also known as the Blue House, has emerged winner of the M.D School, Oko Oba, Lagos State 13th biennial inter house sports competition held at the Agege Stadium on Thursday.

The Commissioner of Police in Lagos State, Zubairu Muazu, has warned transport unions in the state against being agents of destabilisation during and after the March 9 elections.

The Lagos State chapter of the All Progressives Congress says Senator Tokunbo Afikuyomi, is not a member of the party in the state.