Tag: Lagos
Ladipo Market leader arraigned over N52m fraud
Henry Ojelu Nigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC today arraigned the embattled President of Aguiyi Ironsi Market, popularly known…
Bamigbetan: My Ordeal In The Hands Of Kidnappers
Kazeem Ugbodaga& Jamiu Yisa Kehinde Bamigbetan, Chairman of the Ejigbo Local Council Development Area, LCDA, in the Nigerian state of…
Kidnappers release Bamigbetan
Kazeem Ugbodaga Chairman, Ejigbo Local Council Development Area, LCDA, Kehinde Bamigbetan has been released by his captors. P.M.NEWS gathered that…
Mechanic charged with gang-raping teenager
The police in Lagos on Wednesday charged a 30-year-old mechanic, Taofik Ogunshola, with leading a five-man gang that abducted and…
Paedophile, 48, remanded after assaulting baby 15 mths old
Cyriacus Izuekwe A 48-year old Nigerian paedophile, Slyvester Ehiyele, who allegedly raped his own daughter, 7, and 15 month-old grand-daughter…
5 petrol thieves arrested in Lagos
Five petrol thieves, who siphon fuel from the pipelines of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, have been arrested in Lagos.…
West Africans tame traffic beast with technology
ACCRA(AFP) – If you own a mobile phone and spend sunup to sundown watching the traffic pass in Ghana’s capital,…
Cattle traders at Karra Market get quit notice
The government of the western Nigerian state of Ogun has handed a final quit notice to cattle traders and other…
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Omotoso, Jacobs, Blecher’s Otelo win Big at AMVCA
FUNSHO AROGUNDADE Nigeria’s Akin Omotoso may not have earned recognition from the Jury in the Best Movie Overall category, but…
Fashola, with Okorocha, revisits Ladipo Market
Lagos State Governor, Mr Babatunde Fashola (SAN) accompanied by his Imo State counterpart, Owelle Rochas Okorocha on Thursday visited the…
Tinubu: Nigeria operates voodoo economy
EROMOSELE EBHOMELE Former governor of Nigeria’s Lagos state and national leader of the Action Congress of Nigeria, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed…
Fire Guts Sunny Ajose’s house
AYODELE EFUNLA Fire Wednesday afternoon gutted the home of Mr. Sunny Ajose, the former Lagos State Head Of Service and…
Blackout at Lagos MM Airport
A blackout Monday night at Nigeria’s Murtala Muhammed Airport in Lagos forced the diversion of an Emirates Flight EK781, an…
Fashola insists on clean up of Ladipo auto parts market
Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, Sunday undertook an inspection of Nigeria’s biggest Auto Spare parts Market, in Ladipo, Mushin…
M-Net Africa Loses Studios To Strange Fire
FUNSHO AROGUNDADE The multi-million naira state-of-the-art MNet Africa studios in Ojota Lagos, Nigeria was gutted by a strange fire Saturday.…
Atiku backs Rotary Club polio campaign with $500k
Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has donated half a million US Dollars ($.5m) donation to the Rotary Club District 9110…
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Jonathan, Clinton, Fashola launch Eko Atlantic city site
President Goodluck Jonathan on Thursday said that the Atlantic City Initiative in Lagos was another major addition to the nation’s…
Female banker jailed 9 years for fraud
Justice Adeniyi Onigbanjo of the Lagos High Court sitting in Ikeja has sentenced a former banker, Vera Ogbonna Akanni to…
Jonathan for Lagos and Malabo summit
President Goodluck Jonathan will leave Abuja for Malabo, Equatorial Guinea tomorrow to participate in the 3rd Summit of Heads of…
MD Faces Trial Over N29m Theft
The Managing Director of Fintrack Asset Management Company, Limited in Lagos, southwest Nigeria, Mr. Abiodun Simeon Jegede, 39, has been…
Excited Kim Kirdashian lands in Lagos for concert
US reality TV star, Kim Kirdashian arrived Nigeria Saturday , on an Air France flight, ahead of Sunday’s Love…Like A…
Atuche: Court summons officials of Keystone Bank
Henry Ojelu A Nigerian High Court sitting in Ikeja, Lagos today issued a subpoena on Keystone Bank Plc (formerly Bank…
Lagos Prosecuting 1,204 Cases In Court —Ipaye
The Lagos State Government is currently prosecuting 1,204 cases in various courts across the state, says the Attorney General and…
Senator, FG Disagree Over 3rd Mainland Bridge
Senator Gbenga Ashafa, the lawmaker representing Lagos East Senatorial District and the Federal Government have disagreed over the condition of…
Fani-Kayode Re-Arraigned
Former Aviation minister, Femi Fani-Kayode, was Monday morning re-arraigned before a Federal High court in Lagos, southwest Nigeria, for alleged…
Trial begins of suspected killers of Facebook girl, Cynthia
Henry Ojelu The four suspected killers of Cynthia Osokogu, a Nasarawa state based Nigerian lady who was killed by her…
Nigerian Police Arraign Fake Pastor Over N.8m Fraud
The police in Lagos on Wednesday arraigned a 46-year old pastor, Obinna Obi, over an alleged fraud of N820,000. Obi,…
Okada Rider Rapes Woman
A commercial motorcycle operator has been arrested by the police and charged to Ejigbo Magistrate’s Court for allegedly raping a…
Nigerian Man Bites Another Man’s Penis
It is common to hear that a woman has bitten a man’s penis because of infidelity, but the reverse is…
Lagos White Cap Chief Murdered
A Lagos white cap chief and the Onimole of Lagos, Chief Kayode Adeshina, 73, has been shot dead, by unidentified…