Tag: Lagos State
Lagos 2015: Doherty to join race
Sulaimon Mojeed-Sanni Following months of consultations and underground campaigns, former acting national vice chairman (south west) of Peoples Democratic Party…
Lagos, 20 others get new commissioner of police
The acting Inspector General of Police Suleiman Abba has appointed Kayode Aderanti as the new Commissioner of Police for Lagos…
Fire Razes Lagos Plank Market
Yusuf Muhammed Fire has razed Awori plank market in Abule-Egba, a suburb of Lagos state, southwest Nigeria. It took over…
2015: Ambode Declares For Lagos Gov Race
Kazeem Ugbodaga Former Accountant General of Lagos State, Akin Ambode on Monday formally declared his intention to vie for the…
Physically Challenged Couple Weds In Lagos
Kazeem Ugbodaga Two physically challenged groom and bride have wedded at the Lagos State Vocational Rehabilitation Centre for Persons with…
Race For Fashola’s Job Gathers Momentum
Kazeem Ugbodaga The battle for who replaces Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State, southwest Nigeria is gathering momentum. Several chieftains…
Ebola: Lagos To Provide 600 Schools With Pipe-Borne Water
As part of measures to curtail the spread of the deadly Ebola Virus Disease, EVD, among students in the state,…
Aboru resident decries theft of transformer parts
Henry Ojelu Residents of Aboru in Agbado-Oke-Odo Local Community Development Area, LCDA have decried the stealing of vital parts of…
Flush Out Cult Gangs, Fashola Orders Police
Kazeem Ugbodaga Lagos State Governor, Babatunde Fashola has ordered the Lagos State Police Command to flush out members of various…
Fake Ebola Test Kits On Sale In Lagos
Kazeem Ugbodaga/with agency report Some unscrupulous Nigerians are profiteering from the outbreak of the deadly Ebola Virus Disease, EVD, as…
2015: 36 APC Scribes Meet In Lagos
Kazeem Ugbodaga Ahead 2015 elections, Publicity Secretaries of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in the 36 states of the federation…
Fire razes 40 apartments at Police barracks in Lagos
Paul Iyoghojie Fire has razed at least 40 apartments at Ijeh Police Barracks in Obalende, Lagos state. About 40 rooms…
Bus conductor bites off passenger’s ear over N20
Cyriacus Izuekwe A 32-year old conductor, Taye Ajayi has been arrested and charged before Lagos court for biting off the…
Ebola: Fashola Receives FG’s N200m
Kazeem Ugbodaga Lagos Governor, Babatunde Fashola says the state has received the N200 million donated by the Federal Government to…
Man Hires Assassins To Kill Ex-Wife
Cyriacus Izuekwe A jilted man, Abiodun Atinuke, has been arrested and charged before Ijeshatedo Magistrates’ Court sitting in Lagos State,…
Why I Wrote Book On Police, Criminal Justice —Abdul-Fatai
Kazeem Ugbodaga A lawyer with the Lagos State Ministry of Justice, Mr. Muheeb Abdul-Fatai, has explained why he wrote a…
Man arraigned for stabbing co-tenant with bottle
A 29-year old man, Wasiu Tajudeen, accused of stabbing a co-tenant with a broken bottle, was on Friday brought before…
Police Inspector Plunges To Death
A police inspector and his wife fell from the balcony of their apartment on the second floor of a two-storey…
Sex workers scramble for disabled men
Cyriacus Izuekwe There are strong indications that commercial sex workers have shifted their business target to physically challenged men because…
Tension In Police Over Transfer
Cyriacus Izuekwe There are indications that police officers attached to Lagos State Command, Southwest Nigeria are now living in fear…
Fashion designers seeks N150m to build production hub, retail store
The Fashion Designers’ Association of Nigeria (FADAN), Lagos Chapter, on Thursday said that it would need about N150 million to…
Resident doctors refuses to resume work in Lagos
Five days after the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) suspended its strike, resident doctors in the Federal Government-owned hospitals in Lagos…
Dr. Ameyo Adadevoh: That We May Truly Remember Her
By Adewale Stephen There exists a statue of a white-mustached man who stands proudly in front of the 15-storey Church…
Encourage reading culture, SUBEB chairman tells principals
The Lagos State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB) says it has mandated principals in public schools in the state to…
Why I Want Fashola’s Job —Hamzat
Kazeem Ugbodaga Lagos State Commissioner for Works and Infrastructure, Dr. Kadri Hamzat has finally broken his silence, saying he is…
FG’s Ebola Intervention Fund To Lagos
Every Nigerian of cognitive ability is aware of the presence of the Ebola Virus Disease, EVD, in the country. This…
2015 Lagos Gov Race: I’m Ready To Battle Agbaje —Dosunmu
Kazeem Ugbodaga Former Governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Dr Ade Dosunmu says he is ready to battle…
LASU To Get N1.3b From FG
Kazeem Ugbodaga The Lagos State University, LASU, is to get N1.3 billion from the Federal Government to upgrade infrastructure in…
Ebola War: FG Fails To Release N200m To Lagos
Kazeem Ugbodaga Lagos State Governor, Babatunde Fashola, says the state is yet to receive the N200 million the Federal Government…
Man Kills Male Sex Partner In Hotel Room
Cyriacus Izuekwe Another social media love tragedy has occurred in Lagos after a homosexual allegedly murdered the male sex partner…