Tag: Lagos
Glo Launches Evergreen Series With Obey
On 28 September, Juju music maestro, Commander Ebenezer Obey, will be on stage at Intercontinental Hotels, Victoria Island, Lagos as…
FAAN Unravels Luggage Rats At Lagos Airport
Simon Ateba/Aviation correspondent The Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria FAAN, said on Sunday it has unravelled port rats behind the…
Attack On Young Shall Grow Boss: Igbo Festac Residents Plan Protest
Following the failed assassination attempt on the Managing Director of Young Shall Grow Motors Limited, Chief Vincent Obianodo, and the rising…
Woman Knocks Off Neighbour’s Teeth
A 35-year old woman has been arrested and charged before a Lagos court for allegedly assaulting her neighbour by knocking…
Lagos Shuts 13 Buildings Over Pollution
Officials of the Lagos State Environmental Protection Agency, LASEPA, have shut down 13 storey buildings located on Nnamdi Azikiwe Street…
Nigeria orders underwater inspection of Lagos bridge
Ayo Oluokun/Abuja Nigeria’s Federal Government on Wednesday approved a N290.745 million contract for a comprehensive underwater inspection of the state…
2 Trucks Crash On Ikorodu Road
There was an accident at Mile 12 axis of Ikorodu Road in Lagos, southwest Nigeria, in the early hours of…
2 Women Sent To Prison For Fighting Over Man
Two women, Ogechi Nmerenini, 23 and Bilikisu Akinyode, 22, have been remanded in prison on the orders of the Apapa…
25 Kids Rescued From Trafficker
Officials of the Lagos State Government have rescued 25 children from a suspected child trafficker at Egbeda area of Lagos,…
20 Underaged Hoodlums Arrested
At least 20 underaged suspected hoodlums and 35 others have been arrested at Oshodi area of Lagos, southwest Nigeria. Officials…
School Owner Charged Over Dud Cheque
The Director of Camp David Schools, Ogba, Lagos, southwest Nigeria, has been charged before an Ikeja Magistrate’s Court for allegedly…
Police arrest 2 quack doctors
Ayodeji Dedeigbo & Ekene Obidike Two suspected quack medical doctors were on Friday paraded by the Lagos State Police Command…
Femi Fani-Kayode’s Tangled Web (Part 1)
By Henry Chukwuemeka Onyema Nearly fifteen years ago, when I was an undergraduate student of History, my project supervisor made…
Buhari, Tambuwal, 10 Govs at Prayers for Pa Fashola
Kazeem Ugbodaga&Yisa Jamiu Former Head of State, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (Rtd), Speaker of the House of Representatives, Aminu Tambuwal…
Fire Razes 3 Houses
Fire has razed three buildings at Oworonsoki area of Lagos, southwest Nigeria. Valuables worth millions of naira were also destroyed.…
Bricklayer with 2kg cocaine in stomach arrested
Nigeria’s National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) today arrested a 46-year-old bricklayer from Anambra, who attempted to smuggle 2.07kg of…
Jonathan Visits Fashola, Condoles With Family
Kazeem Ugbodaga Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan, in what looked like a charm offensive, today visited Governor Babatunde Fashola in Lagos…
Journalist Kafayat Odunsi, Accident Victim Buried
EROMOSELE EBHOMELE One of the three journalists who died in an auto crash in Ilesha, Osun state Nigeria on Friday…
Girl Set Ablaze By Nurse Dies
The 11-year old girl that was allegedly set ablaze by a nurse in Surulere area of Lagos, southwest Nigeria, is…
Fake Herbalist Dupes 10, Arrested
A suspected fraudster who posed as a herbalist, an estate agent and phone repairer to dupe at least ten people…
Ladipo Market Traders At War Over Baba Oloja
Ladipo Market traders in Lagos, southwest Nigeria, are at war over the appointment of a market leader (Baba Oloja) to…
Fashola Gives Naked Man N100k
Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State recently rescued a 22-year old vulcanizer, Akin Abayomi, who was found stark naked at…
Video of the week: Rage of stranded Arik Air passengers
Arik Air New York bound passengers enraged after the airline failed to lift them Wednesday at the Murtala Muhammed Airport…
Veteran Journalist, Odunewu Buried Amidst Tributes
Jamiu Yisa Late Veteran journalist, Alhaji Alade Odunewu, popularly known as Allah De, was on Friday afternoon, buried amidst glowing…
How kidnapped Briton was rescued by police
A special squad of the Nigerian police in Lagos State has rescued a Briton, Lee Dixon, who was kidnapped in…
Collapsed house kills 5 In Lagos
Kazeem Ugbodaga Several persons have been confirmed dead as another two-storey building under construction collapsed today in Surulere area of…
Briton kidnapped in Lagos
A yet to be identified British national has been kidnapped by gunmen shortly after landing at the international airport in…
Fake Army General Dupes Governor
Operatives of International Criminal Police Organisation, INTERPOL, at the Nigerian Police Force, Force CID, Alagbon Close, Lagos, southwest Nigeria, have…
500 Illegal Shanties Demolished In Agege
Over 500 illegal shanties have been demolished by officials of the Lagos State Taskforce on Environmental and Special Offences (Enforcement)…
7 Killed As 3-Storey Building Collapses
Six bodies have so far been removed from the rubble of a three-storey building which collapsed at Ebute Meta, Lagos,…