Tag: Lagos
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,…
How ISL Won Basketball Championship
On 6 July, 2013, inside the Indoor Sports Hall of the National Stadium in Surulere, Lagos, International School, Lagos, ISL,…
Bus Driver Rapes 2 Daughters For 2 Years
A 35-year old bus driver, Adewale Adeleke has been arrested by the police for defiling his two daughters. The little…
Man Jailed For The 6th Time
A 25-year old man, Hope Ariyo, has been sent to prison for the sixth time for committing various crimes in…
Floods Torment Agbede Community
Whenever it rains, many Nigerians give thanks to God as they are excited by the showers of blessings, but the…
Lagos School Turns Brothel
A school that was turned into a brothel where hoodlums pay guards to allow them have sex with their female…
Fake ‘Youth Corper’ To Serve In Prison
A suspected fake National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, member, Opeyemi Ajala, 34, has been remanded in prison custody after he…
166 Suspects Arrested
At least 166 suspected hoodlums have been arrested in Oshodi, Lagos, southwest Nigeria, by the Lagos State Taskforce on Environmental…
PPMC Re-streams Vandalised Pipeline
The Pipelines and Products Marketing Company (PPMC), a subsidiary of NNPC, on Thursday said it had repaired and re-streamed the…
Robbers Strike 5 Days After Informing Residents
Armed robbers who wrote residents of New Oko Oba last Friday telling them to prepare for their visit carried out…
Robbers Raid Hotel For Dollars
Unidentified gunmen on Monday struck at a popular hotel in Ajao Estate, Lagos State, southwest Nigeria, and carted away millions…
Glo Targets Corporate Clients With Data Facility
National Telecoms Operator, Globacom has set up a world-class Internet Data Centre in Lagos to provide co-location services, disaster recovery…