Tag: Lagos
Still on Lagos special status
Tayo Ogunbiyi Lagos is currently experiencing such phenomenal population explosion that it is being projected to be the 3rd largest…
In Pursuit Of Public Good
Dr Wumi Raji’s review of The Great Leap and In Bold Prints edited by Hakeem Bello presented during the public…
Ambode cancels Falomo Shopping Centre redevelopment contract
Kazeem Ugbodaga Lagos State Governor, Akinwunmi Ambode has approved the termination of the concession granted by the Lagos State Development…
Why I denied my husband sex, says housewife
A housewife, Esther Laizer, has told an Ikorodu Customary Court, Lagos, western Nigeria, that she denied her husband sex because…
RRS arrests 200 suspects
Kazeem Ugbodaga Officials of the Rapid Response Squad, RRS, have arrested 200 suspected criminals in different parts of the Lagos…
Bursar in police net for stealing school fees
Bursar in police net for stealing school fees Cyriacus Izukwe A 27-year-old private school bursar has been arrested after she…
I’m not a big time robber- convict
Cyriacus Izuekwe A 23-year old man, Leke Adebowale, who has spent the last four years in and out of the…
LAWMA staff amputated after being hit by bus
Cyriacus Izuekwe A commuter bus driver, Obi Chinedu, has been arrested and charged before Magistrates’ Court, Ejigbo for allegedly knocking…
2 die, one injured in Lagos train accident
Two passengers reportedly died while one sustained severe injuries when two trains collided on Sunday in the Agege Area of…
Lagos APC asks Shelle to resign for deceiving PDP and Lagosians
The All Progressives Congress Lagos state Chapter has asked the chairman of Lagos PDP Mr. Tunji Shelle to resign for…
Ambode to pay N2.2bn to 658 retirees
Kazeem Ugbodaga In a move to enhance workers’ welfare, the administration of Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode is set to pay N2.2…
Our 61-Year Sojourn In Lagos —Hopwood & Godwin
Gillian Hopwood and her husband, John Godwin, are British-Nigerians. John has been awarded OBE and OFR while Gillian has been…
Ambode receives Namibian President, says Lagos is investors destination
Lagos state governor, Akinwunmi Ambode on Saturday received the President of Namibia, Dr Hage Geingob on a courtesy visit at…
Fashola To Lagosians: Ignore the lies of PDP
The Lagos State Government at the weekend debunked the propaganda of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Minimum Wage in…
LASU Crisis: VC Must Go, Workers Insist
Kazeem Ugbodaga The crisis engulfing Lagos State University, LASU, Lagos, southwest Nigeria, seems to know no end as lecturers and…
Brig-general, 14 colonels, 6 others face court martial in Lagos
Nigeria has ordered a brigadier general and 21 other army officers to face a court martial over alleged sabotage in…
Lagos, Port Harcourt hit by bird flu
Thousands of chickens have been culled in southern Nigeria after the discovery of bird flu in some poultry farms, the…
FG awards N12bn contracts for sea port projects in Lagos, Makurdi
The Federal Government on Wednesday approved a 59-million-dollar (N9 billion) contract for the construction of Berth 21 at the Terminal…
Electrical fault responsible for fire at MMIA
A fire incident that occurred at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA) Lagos on Thursday has been traced to an…
Woman Arrested For Attempting To Kill 2-year Old Boy
Cyriacus Izuekwe A 30-year old woman, Uju Okeke has been arrested by the police for attempting to kill her neighbour’s…
Breaking: 4 drown, one missing in latest ferry tragedy
Kazeem Ugbodaga A passenger boat has capsized at Bayeku area of Lagos, Southwest Nigeria with four persons reportedly drowned and…
Ebola could spread faster in Port Harcourt than Lagos – WHO
An Ebola outbreak in Nigeria’s oil producing hub of Port Harcourt could spread wider and faster than in Lagos, the…
Ebola: Infected nurse leaves Lagos for Enugu, breaking quarantine
A nurse who contracted Ebola at a Lagos hospital travelled to the eastern part of Nigeria before falling sick, raising…
Ebola kills Nigerian nurse, FG confirms five more cases
Federal Government on Wednesday confirmed five new cases of Ebola in Lagos and a second death from the virus, bringing…
Boko Haram claims Abuja, Lagos attacks in new video
The head of Nigeria’s Boko Haram Islamists has claimed responsibility for a June 25 bombing in the capital Abuja and…
Police arrest man with human head
The Police Command in Lagos State has arrested a 38-year old man for allegedly being in possession of a fresh…
Oldest Catholic priest laid to rest in Lagos
The oldest Catholic priest in Nigeria, the late Monsignor Pedro Martins, was on Tuesday laid to rest in Lagos amidst…
Teenager imprisoned for stealing 14 cell phones
An Ojo Chief Magistrates’ Court in Lagos on Wednesday sentenced a teenager, Sikiru Akorede, 19, to six months in prison…
Drunk driver crashes on rooftop in Lagos
An ostensibly drunk driver careered off the Akerele Street in Oworonshoki area of Lagos, western Nigeria Sunday night and landed…
JAMB: Lagos records hitch-free CBT examination
The Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) Computer Based Test (CBT), conducted by JAMB on Saturday was hitch-free at the Federal…