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  • Mactay Golfers Pro-Am debuts in Ikoyi

    Mactay Golfers Pro-Am debuts in Ikoyi

    MacTay Professional and Amateur Golf tournament marks its debut with the successful hosting of its maiden edition at the Golf Section Ikoyi Club 1938.

    The 18-hole competition, which featured professional and amateur golfers, was also used to showcase the youth development initiatives being embarked upon by MacTay Group.

    Themed “Heritage of Champions,” the tournament brought together elite professional golfers and dedicated amateur players of Ikoyi Club in a spirited Pro-Am format that honoured the Club’s legacy of excellence, discipline, and sporting mastery.

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    Meanwhile, Mike Makinde has emerged winner of the maiden tournament, shooting a 67-net score to win by 3 shots over the hard-hitting Ikoyi Club 1938 Vice Chairman, Bolaji Martins who carded 90 gross for 70 net to duck in the second position.

    Femi Feyide was further down on the winners’ chart after 71-net, while Sunkanmi Iyiola, with a score of 74-net completed the top 4 in the net category for men.

    Tim Ayomike won in the Gross category after carding 75 followed by Paul Tijani in the second position.

  • Truck driver held for killing pedestrian in Ikoyi

    Truck driver held for killing pedestrian in Ikoyi

    Operatives of the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA) have apprehended the driver of a Mercedes Benz truck after a fatal accident claimed the life of a pedestrian along Osborne Road, Ikoyi, Lagos.

    The incident occurred along Simpson Street, inward Ikoyi, near the Osborne Expressway Traffic Light Junction, when the truck, with registration number KRD 466 XJ, reportedly suffered a mechanical brake failure while moving at high speed.

    Eyewitnesses said the driver, in a desperate bid to avoid crashing into vehicles ahead, lost control of the vehicle and veered off the road, hitting a pedestrian who was walking by the roadside. The victim died instantly.

    LASTMA officials on duty at the scene were said to have moved swiftly to cordon off the area, preventing further accidents and ensuring free vehicular movement around the busy corridor.

    The truck driver was immediately apprehended by LASTMA personnel and handed over to security operatives from the Dolphin Estate and Ikoyi Police Divisions for further interrogation and legal action.

    Police officers later evacuated the remains of the deceased to a mortuary in Ebute Metta, pending formal identification by the family.

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    Reacting to the incident, the General Manager of LASTMA, Mr. Olalekan Bakare-Oki, described the occurrence as “tragic and preventable,” while extending condolences to the family of the deceased.

    He said the accident was another reminder of the need for proper vehicle inspection and maintenance, especially among operators of heavy-duty and articulated vehicles.

    Bakare-Oki urged all motorists, particularly truck drivers and fleet operators, to carry out thorough mechanical checks before setting out, with special attention to the braking system.

    “Mechanical negligence and poor maintenance culture remain among the leading causes of avoidable fatalities on our roads,” he said.

    He commended the prompt and coordinated intervention of LASTMA operatives and the police, assuring that the agency will continue to uphold safety and discipline on Lagos roads.

  • Truck driver held as brake failure kills pedestrian in Ikoyi

    Truck driver held as brake failure kills pedestrian in Ikoyi

    Operatives of the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA) have apprehended the driver of a Mercedes Benz truck after a fatal accident killed a pedestrian along Osborne Road, Ikoyi, Lagos.

    The incident occurred along Simpson Street, inward Ikoyi, near the Osborne Expressway Traffic Light Junction, when the truck, with registration number KRD 466 XJ, reportedly suffered a mechanical brake failure while moving at high speed.

    Eyewitnesses said the driver, in a desperate bid to avoid crashing into vehicles ahead, lost control and veered off the road, hitting a pedestrian who was walking by the roadside. The victim died instantly.

    LASTMA officials on duty at the scene were said to have moved swiftly to cordon off the area, preventing further accidents and ensuring free vehicular movement around the busy corridor.

    The truck driver was immediately apprehended by LASTMA personnel and handed over to security operatives from the Dolphin Estate and Ikoyi Police Divisions for further interrogation and legal action.

    Police officers later evacuated the remains of the deceased to a mortuary in Ebute Metta, pending formal identification by the family.

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    Reacting to the incident, the General Manager of LASTMA, Mr. Olalekan Bakare-Oki, described the occurrence as “tragic and preventable,” while extending condolences to the family of the deceased.

    He said the accident was another reminder of the need for proper vehicle inspection and maintenance, especially among operators of heavy-duty and articulated vehicles.

    Bakare-Oki urged all motorists, particularly truck drivers and fleet operators, to carry out thorough mechanical checks before setting out, with special attention to the braking system.

    “Mechanical negligence and poor maintenance culture remain among the leading causes of avoidable fatalities on our roads,” he said.

    He commended the prompt and coordinated intervention of LASTMA operatives and the police, assuring that the agency will continue to uphold safety and discipline on Lagos roads.

    Bakare-Oki also reiterated that LASTMA, in collaboration with other relevant agencies, will intensify enforcement of roadworthiness standards and expand public enlightenment campaigns targeted at truck operators, commercial drivers, and transport unions.

    He called on all road users to embrace caution and discipline, noting that road safety is a collective responsibility.

    “The surest way to prevent needless loss of lives and property is through strict compliance with traffic regulations,” he said.

  • Pupil wins historical contest in London

    Amali Mucheke, a Year Seven (JSS1) pupil at the Lagos Preparatory & Secondary School (LPSS), Ikoyi, Lagos has won the Historical Association’s Historical Fiction Prize for her year.

    Her story titled: ‘Freedom for All’ based on Colonial Nigeria won her the prize in her category.

    The Historical Fiction Prize is a yearly contest open to pupils from Year Five to Year Nine (aged nine to14) but is limited to three entries per school.

    The association requires that entries could be about settings and places in the past.

    “One of the key attributes of historical fiction is that it has a convincing setting in a past time and place. Students can set their stories in any period or place in the past, so the story can fit in with and extend any historical topic they may be studying,” the association noted.

    Amali’s entry was sent to London alongside two other LPSS entries, Bethany Okeowo’s, ‘The Maid’s Moment’ and Kitan Fagbamigbe’s story, ‘The Queen, the Candle and the Golden Mirror’.  Amali emerged as the winner for all the entries submitted by pupils from all over the world, in the Year Seven category,

    According to the judges, “stories in each category are shortlisted by panels of student readers. The shortlist is then judged by our primary and secondary expert panels.

    ‘’Judges are looking for: Historical accuracy – even down to the choice of names characters are given and any props additional to the historical setting; a riveting read with a good plot; a convincing story – is it plausible that these events and/or this character could have existed at the time; Use of historical knowledge to feed the plot, context and character; Effective use of historical vocabulary and literary conventions, including where dialogue is included in the story; Creative and interesting perspectives of story-telling. In the past we have received an entry telling the story of a siege from the perspective of the castle!”

  • Southern Sun prepares ‘Easter Experience’

    In celebrating the Easter season and ensuring that guests have an opportunity to experience its luxury and culinary offerings with family, friends and their significant others, Southern Sun Ikoyi has unveiled its Easter offerings for guests.

    The package includes special room rates from Thursday, April 18 to Monday, April 22. The hotel is offering guests the opportunity to enjoy uncluttered room for a bed and breakfast stay at the hotel at.

    Famed for its fine dining and serene ambience, the Easter holiday’s package by Southern Sun Ikoyi is one dedicated to give guests a memorable treat of exquisite dishes designed to truly satisfy the taste buds and yearnings of guests with an experience of a culinary ecstasy through its wide varieties on its special Easter brunch on Sunday, April 21.

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    For fitness enthusiasts, the gym is well-equipped to meet your needs and is run with staff who are extremely warm, friendly and working together in making your overall stay at the hotel, a memorable one. In making this year’s Easter celebration truly unforgettable, take advantage of the long weekend break and usher in the arrival of the Easter bunny in luxurious comfort and style.

  • Lagos Polo gallops off with Silver, Low Cup matches

    The best polo action will be on display at the prestigious Lagos Polo International Tournament which has GTBank as the main sponsor gallops off Wednesday at Polo Club Road, Ikoyi.

    The Silver Cup, the traditional event opener, would set hostilities rolling with three matches on the card as teams from Lagos, Kano and Ibadan battle for supremacy while the Low Cup would close the day’s activity.

    Of the 33 teams set to vie for honour in four cups, twelve of them would stake their pride in the Silver Cup, which is the lowest grade in the tournament.

    For the medium-goal Low Cup, five teams would be contesting for the top prize. The medium-goal Low Cup and the prestigious Majekodunmi Cup, which would round off the polo extravaganza, will feature two teams, STL of Lagos and Rubicon of Kano.

    The Open Cup as well as the Majek Cup, which are billed for the concluding week would have high-profile players from Argentina, United Kingdom, South Africa and a host of top Nigerian players participating.

    Debuting STL of Lagos has Abuja-based Almat to contend with and a triumph for any of the contesting teams would see them joining the elite group of winners which include 2018 champions Fifth Chukker of Kaduna.

  • Obnoxious mansions as luxurious prisons

    Osbourne Road, Ikoyi Lagos is one of the havens of the nouveau riche in Nigeria with a concentration of jaw dropping and awe-inspiring mansions like homes in paradise. Such avenues of the wealthy and classy are common in our metropolitan centres, sheltering the powerful in politics and the business barons or perhaps the big men in drug and crime.

    Though, Voice of Nigeria where I work is also in Ikoyi, in fact not too much of a distance to Osborne, I have never taken so much interest in this posh neighbourhood of the mighty until last weekend when the providence of being a Muslim professional forced me to have a good look of the area. It was while returning from an engagement of Muslim professionals with the Vice President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo.

    As we manoeuvred round the circular Osbourne, a colleague familiar with the area identified each property and its owner, also regaling us with their atrocious automobiles worth millions in dollars, not just in naira. He pointed at the luxurious house a certain former governor. He pointed at a castle like or palatial mansion of a wealthy madam reputed to be the fourth costliest in entire Africa and I nodded. We saw the homes of many foreign diplomats nestling on Osborne, numerous mansions of mindless dimensions.

    One thing I also noted about all these obnoxious and profane palaces is their high Iron wrought gates of handcrafted design and monumental concrete fences akin to walls of correctional facilities, the euphemism for prison yards in America. And I ask if you must live in luxury, must it be behind prison walls?

    What a contradiction in the life of men and women of means and grandeur. These posh palatial and magnificent castle-like homes strewn around Ikoyi, Victoria Island, Lekki, Ajah, Magodo and other exclusive areas of Lagos and the larger Nigeria tells of the futility and vanity of our acquisition. Why build a house in which you will be afraid to live so, you have to wall up yourself? Why build a house whose cost of maintenance will ultimately outstrip the total cost of construction? Why build a house which in your twilight years too big for you to walk round? Why build a house when at old age, you become lonely or isolated in it beginning to regret that you could have done something more average and manageable? Why build a house that you would be afraid to sell off, yet has outgrown your need?

    I have heard of multiple rooms hilltop mansions of our former rulers. When their owners die, they are either abandoned to be overgrown with weeds or to be cheaply sold off by ill-bred children and family members with least appreciation for such monuments. Some of such homes eventually become criminal havens or hideouts. They become for beggars and itinerants and the homeless or the insane. They lost value despite their humongous cost.

    If you are crazily rich, my advice is you build mansions for yourself in paradise not on earth. How you might ask? Build hospitals, build religious houses, build courthouses for the government, build markets for the common man, build police stations and detention centres for public use, build conveniences that meet the emergency needs of road users, offices that can be rented cheaply, low cost houses whose payment terms are flexible for salary earners and struggling career men and women, build clean inns and decent motels for wayfarers, libraries for higher institutions, even for neighbourhood primary and secondary schools, buy and put mass transit buses that the public can ride on subsidy.

     

    • Abdulwarees is an assistant director of Strategic Planning & Corporate Development at Voice of Nigeria. korewarith@yahoo.com, 08090585723

     

  • Commissioner frowns at defacing of VI, Ikoyi

    Lagos State Commissioner for the Environment Mr. Babatunde Durosinmi-Etti has expressed concern over what he called the alarming rate at which Victoria Island and Ikoyi were being defaced.

    In a statement, at the weekend, he said the development could cause danger in those areas.

    Durosinmi-Etti urged residents to obey laws on waste management, noise pollution and approved master plan for the area.

    A situation where owners allowed indiscriminate conversion of residential areas to commercial use was not acceptable, he said.

    The commissioner said such actions had contributed to increase in refuse generation  and illegal dumping of refuse in unauthorised places.

    The government, he said,  was committed to attaining a clean, healthy and sustainable environment.

    Durosinmi-Etti frowned at the use of cart pushers who dump waste on the roads, despite warnings about the environmental and health implications.

    The commissioner said there was a proliferation in worship centres and nite clubs on Victoria Island and Ikoyi, and called for caution on the noise level to avoid rancour.

    “Any noise above the approved level contravenes the National Environmental Noise Standard and Controls Regulations 2009, as well as the Lagos State Environmental Laws 2017,” he said.

  • British lawyer charged with £484,000 fraud, gets N100m bail

    The Police Force Criminal Investigation Department (FCIID), Ikoyi, Lagos, on Thursday arraigned an English lawyer, Joyce Amanambu, at a Federal High Court in Lagos for an alleged £484,000 fraud.

    Amanambu, 53, was accused of swindling a Briton of Nigerian ancestry, Chukwudi Ajudua, of the sum in London, within a period of 10 years.

    She is facing a two-count charge, of obtaining under false pretence and fraud.

    According to the police, Amanambu has been disbarred in England.

    Prosecuting counsel, Mr Henry Obiazi, a Deputy Superintendent, told Justice Ibrahim Buba that the defendant committed the offence between August 2005 and March 2016, at 25, Harcourt Street, London.

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    Obiazi alleged that Amanambu, by false pretence and with intent to defraud, obtained the sum from Ajidua in two tranches of £348,500 and £99,500.

    The offences, the prosecutor added, contravened Sections 1(1)(a) and 1(3) of the Advanced Fee Fraud and other related offences Act, 2006.
    Amanambu pleaded not guilty.

    Her counsel, Chima Umezurike, prayed the court to grant her bail in “liberal terms.”

    In a bench ruling, Justice Buba admitted Amanambu to bail in the sum of N100 million, with one surety in the like sum.

    The surety must deposit his international passport and landed property documents in the court’s custody.

    Justice Buba also warned the defendant that she would be remanded in prison custody unless her bail was perfected yesterday or today.

    He adjourned further proceedings till December 3.

  • Forex scam: Woman ‘dupes’ Kogi Rep of $49,800

    A woman, Amarachukwu Chineke, who allegedly obtained $49,800 (about N15, 438,000) from Kogi State lawmaker, Hon Emmanuel Egwu, under false pretences, was Monday brought before an Igbosere Chief Magistrates’ Court in Lagos.

    Chineke, 37, was arraigned by the Police Force Intelligence and Investigation Department (FCIID), Ikoyi, Lagos before Mrs Folashade Botoku on a three-count charge of conspiracy, obtaining under false pretence and stealing.

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    Prosecuting Sergeant Friday Mameh, alleged that the defendant and others at large, committed the offences on September 19, on Abraham Adesanya Street, Lekki, Lagos.

    The court heard that Chineke obtained the money from Egwu, House of Representatives member representing Idah Federal Constituency, Kogi State under false pretence that she would exchange it to its Naira equivalent of N15, 438,000.

    Mameh said: “The defendant connived with others who are yet to be found to steal the sum of $ 49,800 US Dollars, property of Honourable Emmanuel Egwu, with pretence to give him the Naira equivalent.”

    According to him, the offence contravened sections 411, 314 (3) and 287 (5) (a), of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2015.

    The defendant pleaded not guilty.

    Chief Magistrate Botoku granted her bail, in the sum of N2million, with two sureties in the like sum.

    She said the sureties must show evidence of tax payment to the Lagos State Government and have their addresses verified.

    The case was adjourned till December 10, for trial.