In a bid to stem the incessant collapse of buildings in the state, the Lagos State government has banned developers from working on building construction on weekends, public holidays and at night. Commissioner for Physical Planning and Urban Development, Toyin Ayinde, disclosed this on Tuesday at a ministerial press conference in Alausa, Lagos, southwest Nigeria, [...]
A day old baby girl abandoned Tuesday morning at Funmilayo Bus Stop, in Orille-Agege Local Council Development Area of Lagos, southwest Nigeria has been rescued. The baby who was reportedly wrapped with a dirty Ankara wrapper and dumped in front of a shop owned by a foodstuff seller, Mrs. Adeola Adefenwa, at 194, Ipaja Road, [...]
Ayodeji Dedeigbo, Yusuf Mohamed & Sulimon Mojeed-Sanni The Lagos State Police Command, southwest Nigeria, Tuesday paraded four suspected human parts sellers. The suspects identified as Ajibade Rafiu aka Dudu, 30, Fatai Akiwowo, 30, Kazeem Sanni 25, and Agboola Kolawole, 40, were arrested at Owode-Idiroko in Ogun state and Badagry in Lagos state. The suspected leader [...]
Henry Ojelu The embattled president of Aguiyi Ironsi International Market popularly know as Ladipo market in Mushin, Jonathan Okoli was today granted N5m bail by Justice Olabisi Akinlade of the Ikeja High Court. Okoli was arraigned before the court by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on allegation of stealing over N52 million belonging [...]
Princeton College (Princeton Girls in IT), a Lagos team, has won the Technovation Challenge competition in the African region. In a statement made available weekend in Lagos, Mrs Martha Alade, the Chairperson of Women in Technology in Nigeria (WITIN), said that the team won in Nigeria and was also judged against teams across the globe. [...]
Jamiu Yisa Mr. Kehinde Bamigbetan, the Chairman of Ejigbo Local Council Development Area,in Nigeria’s most populous state of Lagos, has disclosed that he still carries with him the trauma of being beaten till blood oozed out of his nostrils by his abductors. The Ejigbo LCDA boss made this disclosure while giving an emotion-laden speech at [...]
Kazeem Ugbodaga Former Governor of Lagos State and National leader, Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu has described the All Progressive Congress, APC, as the moving storm that will eventually end the reign of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in 2015. Tinubu spoke at the public presentation of the book, Witness to History: [...]
