Tag: Lagos
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…
Court orders Prof. Utomi to pay N66mn debt
Akin Kuponiyi A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos has ordered professor Patrick Utomi and his company U T Roads…
Navy to investigate fire that killed two children
Lt. Way Olabisi, Spokesman, Western Naval Command, Lagos, has said that the navy was investigating the cause of a fire…
Nigeria will ‘surely’ free abducted girls – Jonathan
Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan Sunday vowed that his government will ensure the release of the 223 schoolgirls abducted by suspected…
Nigerian troops patrol airports ahead of WEF
Troops deployed Saturday to Nigeria’s main airports in a security clampdown ahead of a major international economic conference next week…
Pregnant bride, fiance among dead in Lagos boat mishap
A pregnant bride-to-be and her fiance were killed, along with another expectant mother, a small girl and four men, when…
NUPENG shuts petrol loading bay, scarcity looms
The National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG) has shut down the operations of Nigerian Independent Petroleum Company…
British economist tells Nigerian leaders to improve their acts
Nigeria needs to improve the way it does business if it is to fulfil its potential to become one of…
Suspect Knocks Down EFCC Operative
An Operative of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Mr. Jonathan Barde,has been knocked down by a Honda Accord…
13 bodies recovered from Lagos boat mishap
Nigeria’s National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), on Wednesday confirmed that 13 dead bodies have been recovered from the boat accident…
Teenager murdered for ‘being proud’
A 17-year-old student of Bowen University, Opeyemi Odusanya, has been killed by some youths in Lagos, Nigeria. The 300 level…