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Punch Newspapers Sections Oluwatosin Omojuyigbe Published 12 March 2021 A Lagos State High Court in Ikeja has adjourned till May 27, 2021 for the adoption of final written addresses in the case of a collapsed guesthouse of the Synagogue Church of All Nations. The Lagos State Government had prosecuted the SCOAN over the collapsed building, which killed 116 worshipers of the church on September 12, 2014. The defendants were two engineers, Oladele Ogundeji and Akinbela Fatiregun, charged alongside their companies — Hardrock Construction and Engineering Company and Jandy Trust Ltd. They were c...

In the wake of the outrage that greeted the increase in the price of Premium Motor Spirit also known as petrol, the Petroleum Products Pricing Regu...

Punch Newspapers Sections Tunji Ajibade Published 12 March 2021 The United Kingdom’s current High Commissioner to Nigeria, Catriona Laing, trended lately. The occasion was when she rejoiced with a fellow female, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, selected recently as the Director-General of the World Trade Organization. Laing joined the #BeLikeNgoziChallenge online in which females dressed in the unique style of Nigeria’s former Finance Minister. That time, her surname once again makes me wonder if she’s a relative of a former senior British colonial officer in Nigeria, E.H.B. Laing. As of 1922, unt...

Punch Newspapers Sections Deji Lambo Deji Lambo Published 12 March 2021 A yet-to-be-identified motorcyclist has lost his life after he was crushed by a BRT bus around Cement Bus-Stop on the Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway, Lagos State. The state Police Public Relations Officer, Muyiwa Adejobi, in a statement on Thursday, said the motorcyclist lost control while plying the BRT corridor. He said, “In furtherance of the directive of the state Commissioner of Police, Hakeem Odumosu, operatives of the Lagos State Rapid Response Squad, on Wednesday, March 10, 2021, successfully prevented a reprisal o...

‘AfCFTA’ll drive Africa’s economic recovery post-COVID-19’ Published 12 March 2021 The Secretary-General, Africa Continental Free Trade Area Secretariat, Mr Wamkele Mene, has described the AfCFTA as a key driver for Africa’s recovery from the impacts of the coronavirus pandemic. Mene was quoted in a statement by the Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry as saying this during a courtesy visit to the chamber in Lagos. He said the continent’s ability to trade in merchandise and services, inclusive of the airlines industry, tourism and other components, was critical to its recovery. ...