A yet to be identified person has been shot dead outside the Shoprite premises around Jakande, Lekki area of Lagos state. A witness whom described the victim as a protester said he was killed after an angry mob set a police van on fire during a protest on Tuesday.Aggrieved persons had stormed the complex located on the Lekki-Epe expressway, chanting violent [...]
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The Human and Environmental Development Agenda (HEDA) has requested Akinwumi Ambode, governor of Lagos state, to give an update on the state's acquisition of parts of the Lekki-Epe expressway.Olanrewaju Suraju, chairman, HEDA resource centre, said Lagosians deserve to know why there has been delay in the acquisition of the Lekki-Epe road and the contract terms and agreement entered into by [...]

The Lekki Concession Company Limited (LCC) says from February 1, 2018, motorists using the toll gate at the Victoria Island end of the Lekki-Epe expressway and Lekki-Ikoyi link bridge would have to pay more money.Currently, cars are levied N120, sport utility vehicles (SUVs) N150 and commercial buses N80 at the toll gate, while cars pay N250 and SUVs, N300 at [...]

While many residents of Lekki have been trapped by flood, the situation in neighbouring Victoria Island is not so different.Lekki and Victoria Island are upscale neighbourhoods in Eti Osa local government area of Lagos state.A video of a foreigner paddling canoe on Ahmadu Bello way on Victoria Island is currently trending on Twitter.See video below:Oyibo man paddling his canoe in [...]

Knights of the Order of Saint Mulumba in collaboration with the Family and Human Life Unit of the Catholic Archdiocese of Lagos will hold a reparation vigil on abortion.Charles Mbelede, Metropolitan Grand Knight, Lagos Metropolitan Council of the Order, disclosed this at a press conference in Lagos.He said the programme will hold at the Church of Transfiguration, Lekki, on Friday.Mbedele [...]

The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) on Wednesday sealed the office of Nokia-Alcatel located in Lekki, Lagos for operating without license.Salisu Abdul, the head of enforcement unit, NCC, while speaking with journalists shortly after the company was sealed in Lagos, said that the company had been operating without license for years.Abdul said that during one of the commission's monitoring activities, the [...]

BY MATHEW ADEDAYOUntil the Nigerian government changes its approach to Public-Private Partnership (PPP) and learns to respect the agreements they sign and the rule of law, the country’s infrastructure may continue to languish in the quagmire of decay and dereliction.All over the world, concession is seen as a means of reducing the deficit in infrastructural provision engendered by the disproportionate growth [...]