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Lagos Task Force impounds 81 motorcycles on restricted routes On Kindly Share This Story: The Lagos State Environmental and Special Offences Unit (Task Force), on Tuesday, impounded 81 motorcycles for plying restricted routes in the state. A statement issued by Femi Moliki, Head, Public Affairs of the agency, said that the motorcycles were impounded at Jakande Estate, Isolo, for plying restricted routes and endangering the lives of other road users. The statement quoted the Chairman of the age...

Punch Newspapers Sections Segun Adewole The Lagos State Environmental and Special Offences (Enforcement) Unit (Task Force) has said it is not responsible for the death of a young man which happened in the Oshodi Area of the state on Tuesday morning. In a statement issued on the official Twitter handle of the Lagos State Government, the Task Force described the social media reports blaming it for the death as false. It said the young man died as a result of the reckless driving of a traffic def...

Lagos task force allegedly kills man at Oshodi The task force says the deceased was killed by a commercial bus driver ADVERTISEMENT Operatives of the Lagos state ‘Anti-Oneway and Other Traffic Offenders Squad’ also known as Taskforce have allegedly killed a yet-to-be identified man in the early hours of Tuesday. The cousin of the deceased @datoshodiboi, who tweeted about the incident, quoted a witness as saying that the deceased was knocked down by the officers’ vehicle while they were c...

Share Lagos State Environmental and Special Offences (Enforcement) Unit (Task Force), on Tuesday, washed off its hand in the death of a young man at Oshodi earlier in the day “as being falsely reported on the social media.” Chairman of the agency, CSP Shola Jejeloye, said this in a statement made available to newsmen, stating that the young man was knocked down as he was trying to cross the Oshodi Expressway by a commercial bus driver, who took off recklessly at a high speed, having noticed...

Youths in Lagos are protesting the death of a bricklayer who was allegedly hit by a vehicle belonging to the Lagos State Environmental and Special Offences Unit, also known as the Lagos State Taskforce, in Oshodi. According to an eyewitness, the task force vehicle, knocked the young man down while chasing a bus driver around 5:30 am on Tuesday. The victim who was on his way to work died on the spot. Following his death, some youth took to the street to protest against the unending killings by s...

Punch Newspapers Sections Deji Lambo One person has been reported killed during a clash between motorcyclists and policemen attached to the Lagos State Task Force on Environmental and Special Offences (Enforcement) Unit in the Agric area of Ikorodu Road on Friday. PUNCH Metro gathered that the clash started with a shouting match between the policemen and the motorcyclists and later degenerated into the use of different weapons, including bottles, cutlasses and guns. Eyewitnesses, who spoke to ...

Punch Newspapers Sections The most widely read newspaper, The PUNCH, has won the Best Investigative Media Organisation Award at the 15th Wole Soyinka Award for Investigative Reporting. The award, which was held at the NECA House, Ikeja, Lagos State, on Wednesday, was themed, ‘Masked but not silenced.’ Online news medium, A senior correspondent of The PUNCH, Samson Folarin, was also adjudged winner of the print category of the award, clinching the prize for the second year in a roll. Fola...