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Lagos Road Safety Gains: LASTMA Saves 1,075 Injured Victims Throughout 2025

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Lagos Road Safety Gains: LASTMA Saves 1,075 Injured Victims Throughout 2025 …Over 17,169 Vehicles Impounded for Traffic Infractions; 760 One-Way Offenders Apprehended. The Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA) over the weekend announced remarkable progress in its sustained crusade to fortify road safety standards and decisively curb traffic crashes across Lagos State, disclosing that no fewer than 1,075 injured accident victims were rescued by its officers during coordinated emergency interventions undertaken throughout the 2025 operational year. The Authority revealed that these rescue operations were executed across critical traffic corridors through rapid incident response frameworks, robust inter-agency synergy and the strategic deployment of personnel to high-risk flashpoints, thereby ensuring that victims of road mishaps received prompt and lifesaving assistance. Operational statistics further indicate that LASTMA’s intensified enforcement driv...
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UPDATE:SECURITY REINFORCED IN BUI DISTRICT, AREWA LGA, FOLLOWING ARMED RUSTLING INCIDENT

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UPDATE: SECURITY REINFORCED IN BUI DISTRICT, AREWA LGA, FOLLOWING ARMED RUSTLING INCIDENT The Kebbi State Police Command has reinforced security presence in Bui District of Arewa Local Government Area following an armed cattle rustling incident on 18/02/2025. In collaboration with the Military and other security agencies, additional personnel and operational assets have been deployed, and sustained area domination patrols are ongoing to maintain stability. The Command deeply regrets the loss of thirty-three innocent lives and extends its heartfelt condolences to the families affected and the entire Arewa community. Preliminary investigations confirm that armed Lakurawa militants entered the area to rustle cattle. The assailants are believed to have crossed into the district from Gudu Local Government Area of Sokoto State. Residents from Mamunu, Awasaka, Tungan Tsoho, Makangara, Kanzo, Gorun Naidal, and Dan Mai Ago mobilized in response, during which the fatal confrontation ...
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Fatal Truck Collision Shuts Down Oshodi–Apapa Corridor at Cele

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Fatal Truck Collision Shuts Down Oshodi–Apapa Corridor at Cele The Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA) solemnly affirms the occurrence of a catastrophic nocturnal road traffic collision involving two fully laden 40-foot containerized trucks along the Cele inward axis of the Oshodi–Apapa Expressway, Mile 2, Lagos. A tragic episode that culminated in the untimely demise of two individuals. The fatal impact claimed the life of one of the truck (T-392 LA) drivers and a suspected miscreant whose presence within the operational perimeter of the articulated vehicles could not be immediately established at the time of response. The ferocity of the collision left the deceased driver severely entrapped within the steering compartment of his truck, thereby necessitating painstaking technical extrication by operatives of the Authority’s Rescue and Recovery Team.  Demonstrating commendable rapidity and professional coordination, LASTMA personnel undertook m...
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Two Critically Injured in Gbagada Crash; Drunk Driver Arrested The Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA) has formally confirmed the successful rescue of two critically injured victims—a female motorist and her male passenger—following a severe vehicular collision that transpired earlier today along the Gbagada inward Oshodi corridor of Lagos State. The distressing incident involved a Highlander Jeep (AKD 956 JY) and a Black Toyota Corolla (APP 884 JJ). The magnitude of the impact resulted in substantial vehicular damage and significant bodily injuries to the occupants of the Corolla. LASTMA operatives strategically stationed along the axis demonstrated exemplary vigilance, responding with remarkable dispatch, tactical precision and professional competence to secure the accident scene, administer immediate assistance and prevent secondary incidents. The driver of the Highlander Jeep was promptly apprehended at the locus of the collision and subsequently transferred to office...
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LASTMA OFFICER VICIOUSLY STABBED WITH BROKEN BOTTLE BY REBELLIOUS COMMERCIAL BUS DRIVER; OFFENDING VEHICLE IMPOUNDED AT OJOTA, LAGOS

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LASTMA OFFICER VICIOUSLY STABBED WITH BROKEN BOTTLE BY REBELLIOUS COMMERCIAL BUS DRIVER; OFFENDING VEHICLE IMPOUNDED AT OJOTA, LAGOS. The Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA) over the weekend registers its strongest condemnation of a heinous and premeditated assault perpetrated against one of its officers by a defiant commercial bus driver at Ojota Interchange in Lagos. The violent involved a painted Caravelle GL Volkswagen commercial bus EKY 693 YK. The vehicle was lawfully intercepted for a flagrant contravention of extant traffic regulations, having been operated along the Ojota–Ketu corridor with its passenger door recklessly left ajar while fully laden with commuters an egregious infraction that gravely endangered passengers and other road users alike. Upon interception on the main carriageway, the driver responded with brazen insubordination, strenuously resisting lawful arrest and attempting a hazardous escape by mounting the median in a desperate bid to...
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African Leaders Renew Call for Strong Institutions at Murtala Muhammed 50th Memorial International Lecture

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African Leaders Renew Call for Strong Institutions at Murtala Muhammed 50th Memorial International Lecture   L – R: Amb. Joe Keshi, National President, Association of Retired Career Ambassadors of Nigeria; Mr. Ernest Koroma, Former President of Sierra Leone; Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, Former President of Nigeria; Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, Former Vice-President of Nigeria; Alh. Risqua Murtala-Muhammed, Son; Dr. Ajoke Murtala-Muhammed, Wife of late Former Head of State, General Murtala Muhammed; Mr. John Kufuor, Former President of Ghana; Dr. Aisha Muhammed-Oyebode, Daughter and CEO, Murtala Muhammed Foundation (MMF); Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, Former President of Nigeria and Chairman, MMF; Sen. George Akume, Secretary to the Federal Government, representing President Bola Ahmed Tinubu; Mrs. Joyce Banda, Former President of Malawi; Emir Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, Emir of Kano and Dr. Dionisio Fonseca, Minister, Chief of Civil House, Republic of Angola at the Murtala Muhammed International Lecture an...
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Primate Ayodele Commissions Mosque, Names It After Tinubu’s Mother

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Primate Ayodele Commissions Mosque, Names It After Tinubu’s Mother The Leader of INRI Evangelical Spiritual Church, Primate Elijah Ayodele, has commissioned a mosque he built and named it after the mother of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Mrs. Abibatu Mogaji. The commissioning took place during his annual thanksgiving ceremony on Saturday, February 14, 2026, at Oke-Afa, Lagos State. The event was attended by several dignitaries from the religious, traditional, political, and entertainment sectors, among others. Among the dignitaries were the Iyaloja-General of Nigeria, Mrs. Folashade Tinubu-Ojo, the first daughter of President Tinubu, who sent several delegates due to her unavoidable absence; the Governor of Taraba State, Dr. Agbu Kefas, represented by his Special Adviser on Islamic Matters; delegates of the Etsu Nupe, HRH Alhaji Yahaya Abubakar; the House of Representatives member representing Oshodi/Isolo Federal Constituency II, Hon. Joe Oke; the Ch...
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