Train Accident : LASEMA Gives Update on Lagos Train Accident

Lagos State Emergency Agency (LASEMA) Thursday morning said efforts are ongoing to save persons trapped in a train accident that occurred around Ashade Ram Market in Agege area of the state. LASEMA said the accident happened around 7am.

In a statement by the agency at about 11am, the train moving en route Ebute Metta via Oshodi from Iju with full capacity passengers derailed from its tracks.

"Further investigation revealed

Shipping firm introduces e-platform

A shipping group, Grimaldi, has introduced new electronic services through its web portal to enhance efficiency and effectiveness of its processes.

 

The Managing Director, Grimaldi Agency Nigeria Limited, Mr. Ascanio Russo, said customers could now view ship rotation numbers of previous 11 vessel calls and five upcoming Grimaldi vessel calls to its terminal, PTML Terminal in Lagos, through this service.

Mr. Babatunde Fowler, FIRS chairman, Mr. Taiwo Oyedele,, PwC, others for Economic Summit

 

The Chairman, Federal Inland Revenue Service, Mr. Babatunde Fowler, and the Head, Tax Services, PwC, Mr. Taiwo Oyedele, are among dignitaries and economic experts scheduled to speak at one-day economic summit in Lagos.

The summit, tagged, ‘Thriving in a period of economic summit’, will address issues relating to tax revenue and the citizens; changes in business models and how businesses can source for foreign exchange amid the current scarcity, according to a statement by the organisers.

The programme, being organised by the Lagos Province 21 Headquarters of the Redeemed Christian Church of God to enhance the socio-economic and spiritual development of its members, will hold on Saturday.

T.B. Joshua of Synagogue struggles for life Months after Building Collapse

The controversial collapse of a building at the Synagogue Church of All Nations, Lagos has dug a hole in its profile and programmes, writes AFEEZ HANAFI, who attended some of the programmes

 

It is a year and a quarter after about 116 persons, mostly foreigners, lost their lives to the collapse of a six-storey guesthouse on the premises of the Synagogue Church of All Nations in Ikotun, Lagos State.

Many people may be gradually putting the incident behind them. But not SCOAN and its environs, as lives have yet to be fully restored in the area, as visits to the church and its neighbourhood by our correspondent revealed.

 

 It was around 2pm on Friday, November 27 and worshippers, including foreigners who had already booked into the lodges within the church, had started arriving with their luggage filed in for inspection at a security post.

Lagos to launch online platform state laws since 1967 till date.

The Lagos State Government has perfected plans to launch an online platform where people all over the world can access the laws enacted by the State since 1967 till date.

The State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode, who made the announcement on Tuesday at the formal launch of Laws of Lagos State 2015, said the online platform would not only enable investors and would-be investors to make informed decision about investing in the State, but would also help them to appreciate the various legal protections available for their persons and investment.

L-R: Governor Akinwunmi Ambode (2nd left); his Deputy, Dr. (Mrs.) Oluranti Adebule; Managing Director, Thomson Reuters Africa, Sneha Shah; the State Chief Judge, Justice Olufunmilayo Atilade; Chairman, House Committee on Judicial Commission, Olufumilayo Tejuosho and Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Mr. Adeniji Kazeem, during the launching of the Lagos State Laws at the Adeyemi Bero Auditorium, Alausa, Ikeja, on Tuesday, December 08, 2015.

The Governor said that the Law Reform Commission of the State was saddled with the task of developing the online platform, adding that the development was geared towards promoting a platform for accountability and responsibility thereby fulfilling the obligation of the government to create easy access to the laws of the State.