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Two weeks after inferno, another fire destroys property at Oko Baba Sawmill in Lagos Two weeks after inferno, another fire destroys property at Oko Baba Sawmill in Lagos Share The Lagos State Fire and Rescue Service has saved residents of Oko Baba from an inferno that gutted the Okobaba Sawmill which went up in flames overnight on Thursday. This is coming two weeks after another fire razed some parts of the sawmill on Tuesday, March 16, where goods worth millions were also destroyed. The acting Controller, Lagos State Fire and Rescue Service, Mrs. Margaret Adeseye, who disclosed the Thursday incident to journalists, added that firefighters prevented the fire from extending to adjoining shanties and residential areas. ....
Punch Newspapers Sections Nike Popoola The Lagos State Commissioner for Physical Planning and Urban Development, Dr Idris Salako, has urged residents who are involved in the vandalisation of highway wire mesh panels to desist from such actions. He said this while condemning the vandalism of newly installed highway wire mesh panels in some parts of the state. Speaking with correspondents in Lagos, he said some of the highway wire mesh panels around Adekunle towards the Third Mainland Bridge Ramp and Oko Baba areas had been vandalised. The commissioner blamed saw millers at Oko Baba for the vandalism of the fence. ....
Alfa Bisiriyu Apalara (1918-1953): A Murder Mystery That Haunted Lagos, By Femi Kehinde As the court later found, Apalara’s murder resulted from a conflict with the Oro cult. But it was only a wing of it. The Muslim preacher had been treading dangerously on the toes of a section of the members of the ancient cult. He threatened their exposure, for they were prostituting the powers of the cult, frightening people from the streets whenever they wanted to carry out their smuggling or burglary expeditions. Murder is as old as mankind. Cain, because of a jealous rage, killed his brother Abel, according to the book of Genesis in the Bible. In exact similitude, Qabil and Habil, believed by Moslems to have been the first two sons of Adam and Eve, just like Cain and Abel in the Bible, also suffered the same fate. ....