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‘No Boko Haram Threat in Lagos’ - Aderemi Ibirogba, Lagos State Commissioner for Information and Strategy, spoke with TELL’S Ademola Oladosu and Ayodeji Adeyemi on a wide range of issues, including the Lekki toll road controversy, security and welfare of Lagosians.  Excerpts: Is Lagos State government taking the threat of Boko Haram seriously since it has been alleged that the group is planning an attack in the South-west, particularly Lagos? Let me first say that Boko Haram threat or any other security threat is a result of lapses. It is either that some people are aggrieved, agitated and feeling that…

Experts blame shipwrecks on the nation’s waters on the coastal erosion and other environmental hazards threatening the lives and livelihood of the coastal communities even as Lagos State government and NIMASA trade blames over the handling of the problem in Lagos Over the years, residents of communities around the Lekki Beach in Eti Osa Local Government, LG, area, Lagos State have come to accept the yearly reality of multiple ocean surges in the area, including its vanishing coastline. However, on a beautiful serene April evening in 2011, Shamsudeen Banuso, chief imam of Okun Alfa mosque on Alpha Beach community, Lekki,…

Adams Oshiomhole, Edo State governor, moves in for the kill, mopping up loyalists of PDP governorship aspirants aggrieved over recent primary election That the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Edo State has picked its standard-bearer for the July 14, 2012 governorship election in the state is no longer news. Charles Airhiavbere, a retired major general in the Nigerian Army, beat four other contestants for the PDP ticket in a primary election, the outcome of which political observers believe had been predetermined. From all indications, it would have been perhaps the eighth wonder of the world if the outcome of the…

The suicide attacks on two churches in Jos by Boko Haram rekindle the fire of hate and sectarian violence that has divided the city along religious lines   Samuel Adeloye, a soldier, is not in anyway involved in the crisis that recently engulfed Jos, capital of Plateau State. Rather he is there as a peacemaker. However, today he is one of the victims of the confusion that enveloped the place, following the reprisal attacks that followed the recent bombing of churches in the area. Ironically, when he was attacked in the cause of the reprisal attacks, Adeloye, who was in…