Controversy as Customs invade Lagos market, cart away rice, money The Punch
Published 4:15 am • Oyo traders protest overnight raid of rice stores
Controversy has trailed the invasion of the Better Life section of the Ikotun Market in Lagos State by men of the Nigeria Customs Service.
While some of the traders claimed that the law enforcement officers carted away local rice, including the money they kept in their shops, the agency said only foreign rice smuggled into the state were taken away.
PUNCH Metro gathered that the incident happened around 1am on Wednesday, March 24, 2021.
Some of the traders, who spoke to one of our correspondents, claimed that the officials took no fewer than 592 bags of rice and N5m cash.
District Hospital in Bhandara hospital tragedy operating without fire NOC
The unfortunate incident took place on January 9 when a fire broke out at a neo-natal care ward of the state-run hospital at Bhandara.
Bhandara fire tragedy in Maharashtra that killed 10 infants on 9 January.
After the tragic death of 10 infants in the fire that broke out at Bhandara district hospital, it has been reported that the hospital was working without a no-objection certificate (NOC) from the fire department.
According to the report by Times Now, the ongoing investigation revealed that the hospital flouted all the fire safety norms and didn t have a NOC since its inception in 1981.