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The Lagos State Building Control Agency on Friday commenced the demolition of defective buildings on Lagos Island.

About 180 houses will be demolished, according to the General Manager of LASBCA, Mr Lekan Shodeinde.

Shodeinde, who was represented by the agency’s secretary, Mr Tayo Fakolujo, during the demolition exercise, said the buildings would be destroyed in phases.

He added that 30 had already been demolished on Lagos Island in the last one year, while 150 had been marked for demolition.

“We are doing this so that no more lives will be lost in Lagos,” he said.

“For others that are still occupied, we are going to evict the occupants to avoid disaster because their lives are important to us.”

The agency’s task force began with the demolition of a three-storey building at 60A Freeman Street, Epetedo.

The demolition is coming on the heels of Wednesday’s building collapse incident on Massey Street, Ita Faaji, Lagos Island, in which no fewer than 20 people were killed and others injured.

The agency said the property owners had been served several notices dating back to 2013.

Shodeinde said in the last three years no new building had collapsed in Lagos because the state government had been carrying out material testing on them.

He said, “But for the old structures, we are going to be doing foundation analysis of about 70 per cent of structures that are over 25 years old to ensure that they are still structurally sound.

“There are still about three or four buildings that are defective on Massey Street and we are trying to remove them but there is litigation and we must avoid liability that might arise if we remove forcefully without clearance from the court.”

According to him, some will be demolished mechanically and others manually because some of the buildings have no space between them.

Shodeinde stated that before Wednesday’s incident the agency had demolished over 10 houses between Ajeromi Ifelodun and Apapa.

He said, “We were to demolish some buildings but had to subject them to test to ensure that nobody takes advantage of the situation.”

Residents of Epetedo hailed the agency for helping them to avert disaster.

One of them claimed many houses in the area were poorly built.

The source, who gave his name simply as Taju, said, “We are happy; everything should be destroyed. We don’t want any loss of lives again.”

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Soldiers drag out a tout who ran into a church after stabbing their colleague in Magodo, Lagos.

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Pastor Iginla's Estranged Wife, Yemisi, Is Allegedly Married In America

LIB just received exclusive photos from the alleged civil wedding the estranged wife of Abuja pastor, Joshua Iginla, Yemisi, had with a mystery man in the US recently.

Recall that two weeks ago, Pastor Iginla came out publicly to announce that his marriage to Yemisi was over after he confessed to committing adultery and having a child outside wedlock. He also alleged that she committed adultery and also had a child for another man while they were still married, an allegation she has since denied and insists that all the three children she has belongs to him.

Pastor Iginla fathered a child with a South African prophetess named Stella Bambilanga while married to Yemisi. Rumor has it that he allegedly got married to Stella on October 2nd 2014, had a daughter named Reina and is allegedly expecting a second child with Stella.

See more photos from the alleged civil union of the estranged wife, Yemisi and her new man.

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Lady recounts how she was almost thrown out of a flight over an “inappropriate” outfit.

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A Nigerian drug lord was this week arrested and deported for the second time after making a mysterious return into Kenya.

According to the Department of Immigration Services, it is not clear how Kelvin Adeshina Akinjiola returned to the country after being deported in 2018.

He was first expelled from the country on July 10, 2018, by Interior Cabinet Security Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiang’i.

Adeshina was apprehended upon arrival at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos, Nigeria.

“He was deported on Saturday and arrested upon arrival in Lagos, Nigeria,” Alexandra Mutesi, Director of Immigration services, said.

The suspected drug lord was arrested after Kenyan officials informed their Nigerian counterparts that he was engaged in drug trafficking.

Sources claimed a former powerful police boss unsuccessfully attempted to secure the release of Adeshina.

He is a popular figure in the city’s high-end entertainment facilities where he is usually seen with influential individuals and often dishes out money openly.

Media reports in Kenya further revealed that the illegal immigrant is usually spotted in the company of armed guards.

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A 21-year-old truck driver, Adenuga Michael, arrested for diverting a truck load of tricycles worth N14,400,000, has told police that stealing was normal for most drivers.

The Oyo State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Shina Olukolu, said that Michael and Saheed Yekini (27), the truck conductor, were offloading the tricycles when police arrested them.

They were arrested in their hideout at Odo Ona Kekere area of Ibadan. Police recovered the Mark truck with registration number Lagos KTU 400 XB.

Olukolu said: “This operation was successful based on the information that reached our SARS office at Dugbe that some hoodlums were seen offloading brand new tricycles from a truck. Our policemen raced to the scene and arrested the suspects’ right in the act.”

Michael said: “We never had any intention of diverting the whole goods. We just wanted to move four out of the goods and sell them to make profit for ourselves. It’s a normal runs for we drivers. But we have not even removed the four pieces of the tricycles before we were arrested.”

Similarly, Kola Abiodun (40) was arrested for hijacking a truck fully loaded with Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) otherwise called petrol. He was presented to journalists among other 18 suspects.

Olukolu said: “The suspected hijacker was arrested on the Lagos Ibadan Expressway on March 2, 2019, about 7a.m., while attempting to divert a fully loaded truck loaded with 33,000 litres of petrol. Our men, based on information, arrested Kola. The hijacked PMS has been siphoned into 16 drums and 12 kegs while the truck had been taken to an unknown destination. The products recovered from the hideout has been transferred to SARS office, Dugbe, Ibadan. The suspects have confessed to the crime and will soon be charged to court.”

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A young man identified as Emmanuel Adegbite, has alleged that on the 5th of March, 2019, he was unlawfully arrested by some SARS officers, while he was playing snooker in Ikorodu, Lagos.

According to reports, the officers, one of them pictured above, broke into Royal crown Hotel, Asolo, Ikorodu, and took Adegbite and some other people away.

They were taken to Ladegboye base, Ijede, where they were tortured for hours and threatened at gun point.

Emmanuel was, however, released after his mother was forced to give them N464k for her son to be released to her alive.

She made the transfer from her Access bank account to an account the officers gave her. .

The account the officers provided was a Pagatech account for a Bio Integrated Global Resources, with bank account number 3756479401.

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Muhammaded Suddas Umar Yola, a 9-year-old pupil of Muhawshat Primary School, Jalingo, Taraba State, has been strangled to death by his Arabic teacher.

The son of prominent Jalingo-based businessman, went missing on Sunday night when he went for Magrib prayer in a Mosque near their house.

However, when Suddas did not return home after the prayers, a search party was organized to look for him.

Meanwhile, one of his friends told his parents how the Arabic teacher, identified as Hashiru Bala, had been asking them about the movement of the victim as well as that of his brothers and sisters.

It was at this point that the teacher was called in and asked if he had seen the boy, but he initially denied ever seeing him.

However, when operatives of the Department of State Security (DSS) were called in, he confessed that he was the one that strangled Suddas to death. .

Hashiru later led security operatives to a compound where he dumped his body. The deceased was his father’s favourite and once travelled with him to Saudi Arabia on holy pilgrimage.

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The joy of the family of Ikimot Awojoju knows no bounds as she has been reunited with her family in the Oyingbo area of Lagos, five years after she went missing.

It was gathered that Ikimot lived with her guardian after her mother, Faidat Awojoju, passed away.

She reportedly went missing on her way back from school on July 23, 2014.

Ikimot’s guardian, Ajoke Abass, said she sold her valuables to raise the money needed to search for her but all efforts to find her proved abortive.

Abass told PUNCH Metro that after two years, she stopped searching but kept on praying for the safe return of the girl.

The Kwara State indigene said Ikimot’s return was an indication that her prayers were answered as everyone had assumed that she was dead.

The mother of four said, “Ikimot’s mother was an area sister to me and we took each other as family members. She already had a child before she got pregnant with Ikimot. The man responsible was not ready to accept the pregnancy and she wanted to abort it. I advised her against it and stood by her throughout the course of the pregnancy until she put to bed.

“I was the one looking after the child, while she was going about her business, because I am self-employed. When Ikimot clocked two years, her father came to apologise and promised to assume responsibility for the child’s upkeep, but he did not keep to his promise after her mother died.

“Ikimot was three when her mother died in 2011 and none of her family members was ready to take over the responsibility of taking care of her and her brother, so, I decided to take it up since I was the one taking care of her before and I was the one that encouraged her mother not to abort the pregnancy; Ikimot was in my custody and I took her older brother to one of my brothers, who is a cleric, to help me train him in the Islamic way.

“On the day that Ikimot went missing, she did not come back from school at the usual time and after some time, I told my children to go and check her in the school. They returned to say that they could not find her. I went to different police stations in search of her.

“I sold all I had to raise the money needed to conduct the search for her. After two years, my husband told me to stop searching and that I should just keep praying for her. And anytime my heart reached out to her, I would give alms to the poor on her behalf.”

Abass said when Ikimot returned, she could not recognise her initially, adding that the girl helped the police to arrest her captor.

“On Tuesday, February 26, 2019, I was outside the house playing with my children, when one of my neighbours called my attention to a girl that stood afar off. She asked if I recognised her and I said no, but the girl was smiling at me. My neighbour asked the girl if she knew me and she replied that she used to live with me.

“I took a second look at her and that was when I was flooded with memories of what she looked like. She arrived around 10pm and people were with us till midnight. When I took her into the room, she noted that I had changed the position of the bed, which really confirmed that she was the one, but she no longer understood Yoruba as she could only speak pidgin English and Igbo.

“In the morning, I took her to the Denton Police Station and I explained everything to the officers there. They took her statement and she kept on repeating an address as the residence of her abductor. We went with the police to the address and the woman was arrested.

“At first, the woman claimed that she was Ikimot’s mother, but when she was asked to provide her childhood pictures, she said she did not have any. She was also unable to produce her birth certificate and the girl insisted that she was not her mother.

“I was asked to bring everything that could prove that she was mine and the police also requested that her father must come to the station to corroborate the girl’s statement, which he did. When he came, the girl also recognised him as her father but the woman kept on insisting that she was the mother of the child.”

PUNCH Metro gathered that another child was also recovered from the suspected abductor, Christiana Onuchukwu, who eventually allegedly confessed to the police to have bought the children for N350,000 each.

She, however, failed to reveal the identities of the persons who sold the children to her.

“The 12-year-old girl, who was released to me on Monday, said she found her way back by asking people for direction,” Abass added.

Ikimot was quoted as saying, “On the day I was abducted, I was on my way back from school when a woman called me. When I went to meet her, she held my hand and took me away. One day, the woman I was made to live with (Onuchukwu) scolded me by saying that she would take me back to my family in Oyingbo and I held on to that.

“The day I wanted to leave, I kept telling people that I was going to Oyingbo and I was told to keep trekking. When I got to a point, I told a man that I was going to Oyingbo and he said that it was not far. He asked me if I had any money on me and I said no. He gave me N50 to board a tricycle.

“When I got to Oyingbo, I remembered that I usually passed through a rail track on my way back from school and I remembered that there was a storey building opposite the house I used to live in. That was how I was able to trace the house.”

The state Police Public Relations Officer, Chike Oti, said investigation into the matter was ongoing.

“The girl has been reunited with her family. The woman that was found with the children has been arrested and investigation is ongoing,” he stated.

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