The Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA) said it rescued twelve victims of a boat mishap which occurred Wednesday evening at about 8:20 pm. The Guardian had earlier reported three persons were confirmed dead after a boat conveying about twenty passengers capsized in Lagos. The passengers were en route Ojo from Coconut jetty, a suburb…

Three persons have been confirmed dead after a boat conveying about twenty passengers capsized in Lagos. The passengers were enroute Ojo from Coconut jetty, a suburb in Lagos when the boat capsized in the middle of the sea. Although there was yet to be a report on the state of safety of the remaining seventeen…

Operatives of the Rapid Response Squad (RRS) have given a graphic account of how a man jumped into the Lagos Lagoon yesterday.According to the operatives, the man, who was a passenger in a vehicle driving towards Oworonsoki area....

The Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA) has reiterated its readiness to partner with relevant institutions and other stakeholders towards entrenching safety of lives and properties in the state. Its General Manager, Adesina Tiamiyu, who disclosed this yesterday at the Command and Control Centre in Alausa, while receiving a delegation from the Disaster Management Programme…

The family of the middle-aged man who drowned after jumping into the Lagos lagoon in the early hours of Tuesday yesterday claimed his body from the State Environmental Health Monitoring Unit (SEHMU).

A middle-aged woman, her children, and other motorists, escaped death yesterday, in a multiple accident around Toyota bus stop, inward Apapa, Lagos.

For many hours yesterday, vehicular traffic in the Berger-Ibafo area of the Lagos-Ibadan expressway came to a standstill when motorists perceived danger and swiftly diverted their vehicles to the other lane to avoid another explosion tragedy.

In everyday activities, Nigerians are confronted with emergency situations like inferno, building collapse, road accident and others. The questions are: how prepared are Nigerians and safety agencies? Events across the country for years have shown that except for few states like Lagos, Rivers, Enugu and others, not many states have functional safety and emergency agencies…

Families of the Otedola tanker fire accidents that occurred on June 28, 2018 have urged the Lagos State government to release the report of the DNA test carried out.

After almost a week commuters had hellish experience plying the Apapa-Oshodi expressway, respite finally came yesterday following the clearing of articulated vehicles from a section...

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has directed the commencement of a 72-hour joint operation to restore order around Apapa and environs, after activities of truck drivers had caused traffic gridlock and made vehicular movement around the axis near impossible over the past few days.

Ten people were feared killed, yesterday, when a petrol-laden tanker burst into flames at the Otedola Bridge area of Ojodu-Berger, Lagos.