Customs officers kill woman in Lagos
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by raji rasak3 the nigeria police in badagry said it had arrested seven customs officers over the killing one mrs patience oni and injuring an innocent man at forte oil filling station near popular badagry roundabout in lagos state1 the divisional police officer dpo badagry police station mr samson akhiromen told the news agency of nigeria nan in badagry that the men of customs were arrested for indiscriminately shooting and killing of innocent people1 according to the dpo the customs officers under the code name anti-flying were raiding an illegal rice depot near a filling station around 12 noon on tuesday when they started shooting1 they started shooting indiscriminately to scare away traders and residents from the area1 during the shooting the bullets from one of the officers hit two people one died immediately while the other one is receiving treatment in an undisclosed hospital1 the husband of the woman killed is a police inspector serving in area k police station morogbo he said1 the dpo said that he arrested the officers with his team of officers when the situation was getting out of hand1 he however said the arrested officers had been handed over to the sciid panti for further investigation and prosecution1

Minimum wage: Expect N100,000 from 2019, Sowore tells workers
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by raji rasak3 the news agency of nigeria nan reports that the meeting was attended by a large number of youths in the coastal town1 speaking at a town hall meeting organised by the party in badagry sowore said nigerians were indirectly going into slavery by traveling to different countries in search of jobs1 he noted that over 43 million black africans were sold into slavery in the coastal city about 400 years ago a development he said was still happening indirectly because of lack of job1 i am in politics to stop this by providing 500000 jobs yearly1 the minimum wage for civil servant will be n100000 from 2019 he said1 sowore regretted the poor state of roads in the country and describing the lagos-badagry expressway as the worst in nigeria1 the presidential aspirants said the historic town had been cut off from the rest of the country due to deplorable state of the expressway1 mr omoyele sowore a presidential aspirant of african action congress aac says he will ensure civil servants in the country receive n100000 as minimum wage from 2019 if he is elected nigerias president1 we spent almost five hours coming here instead of one and half hours1 badagry town has been cut-off from nigeria due to deplorable state of the road1 this is very shameful the presidential aspirant said1 he promised to construct two expressways from badagry to lagos and another one linking badagry and ogun state if elected into power in the 2019 general elections1 sowore urged the residents of badagry to vote wisely for candidates of their choice1 i heard now that politicians are buying permanent voters card pvc for n10000. please dont sell your pvc the pvc is your future1 can you do any business with n10000 they will buy your card your future is your pvc keep it he said1 i have traveled all over nigeria but i have not seen any international expressway like lagos-badagry1

Ikoyi to experience 5-hour outage Sunday EKEDC
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by raji rasak3 the eko electricity distribution company ekedc has announced a five-hour outage in ikoyi and environs from 10.00am to 3.00pm on sunday1 mr godwin idemudia the ekedc general manager corporate communications said in a statement on saturday that the outage would enable the company to carry out maintenance work1 according to the general manager the maintenance work will be carried out on the companys 33kva bus section 11 at the fowler injection substation. we solicit understanding from all our customers who will be affected by the outage especially for the inconveniences it will cause them even as this information comes to them at a short notice. eko disco promises to keep improving its equipment for better service delivery to electricity users in its network. we implore our customers to bear with us he1