‘Please, don’t demolish our market’
Some traders at the market…on Tuesday Daleko Market traders beg Ambode, local council <em TRADERS at the popular Daleko Rice Market in Mushin Local Council of Lagos State are lamenting the plan by...
View ArticleFire razes over 200 Ketu shops, MRS station in Lawanson
Scene of the Lawanson fire …yesterday. PHOTO: ISAAC TAIWOKETU neighbourhood of Lagos State was rudely jolted to life in the early hours of Thursday when fire broke in the popular Ketu sawmill market....
View ArticleIjegun community protests over non-replacement of transformer
The place where the transformer was taken awayRESIDENTS of Kudeyibu Estate in Ijegun has protested at Ikeja Electric in Alausa over the non-replacement of the community’s transformer after an earlier...
View ArticleSealed… Work halted on Lagos ex-deputy governor’s mansion
The house…yesterday EIGHT months after dropping the saddle as the deputy governor of Lagos State, Mrs. Adejoke Orelope-Adefulire on Wednesday evening was caught on the wrong side of the law when...
View ArticleLocal gin consumption kills two in Edo
Ogororo in bottle, final product of the local processing Female-led robbery gang snatches bus <em TWO persons have reportedly died after consuming local gin, popularly known as Ogogoro, in South...
View ArticleOoni thrills Lagos audience with Christian songs
Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi, the Ojaja IIIT was a joyful homecoming at the weekend for members of the Lagos Country Club, one of the biggest and popular clubs in Nigeria. The club’s 2016...
View ArticleLagos Assembly gives quit notice to illegal occupants of Ejigbo hospital land
Lagos-State-House-of-AssemblyLAGOS State House of Assembly has issued a quit notice to occupants of a ground designated to Primary Healthcare Centre (PHC) in Ilamoshe ward, Ejigbo, Lagos. Describing...
View ArticleCourt remands NURTW boss for murder
MAGISTRATE’S Court sitting in Ebute-Metta has remanded in prison custody the Chairman of Meiran branch of National Union of Road Transport Worker (NURTW), Mr. Wasiu Onibudo, over allegation of...
View ArticleRotary Club admonishes pupils in Surulere on career choice
A cross-section of students at the event IT was a day of empowerment for students of Jubril Martins Secondary School, Issa Williams Memorial School and Iponri Grammar School, in Surulere, Lagos, when...
View ArticleRelief as Lagos replaces 58-year-old transformer
Gov. Akinwunmi Ambode Kudeyibu Estate in Ijegun, Alapere also get AS part of the ongoing ‘Light Up Lagos’ initiative, the Lagos State governor, Akinwunmi Ambode, on Saturday donated a 500KVA...
View ArticleAmbode orders stoppage of sand dredging in Lagos State
Lagos State Governor, Akinwunmi Ambode Gov. Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos State has ordered sand dredgers operating in waterways in the state to stop their operations and vacate the sites immediately. Mr...
View ArticleThe city of Lagos and security
The day was Thursday, the 7th of January 2016; the city of Lagos was still not in full swing, as vehicular traffic jam was practically non-existent. Lugubrious faces of Lagosians going about their...
View ArticleCadbury inaugurates alumni forum
Medical Advisor, Dr. Segun Dosunmu (left), Director, Corporate and Government Affairs, Mr. Bala Yesufu (middle) and Human Resources Director, Mr. Tope Phillips Aikhuemelo (right) with a cross-section...
View ArticleThose who demolished my property must be prosecuted, cleric tells police
Inspector-General of Police, Solomon Arase THE Director-General of the Police Assistance Committee/Association of Tradesmen/Women and Artisans of Nigeria, Prophet Oni Martins, has urged the...
View ArticleOgudu… A tale of two worlds
Residents fetching water from a tap in the neigbourhood PHOTO: AYOBAMI ADEOYE AT the mention of Ogudu GRA in Lagos, one thing that comes to mind is a calm, serene and lovely estate tucked in the suburb...
View ArticleCourt sentences man to two years for car theft
Magistrate’s Court sitting in Ikeja yesterday sentenced a middle-aged man, George Augustine Orhaware, to two years imprisonment for stealing a car worth N2.3 million. The convict was sentenced after...
View ArticleDriver lands in police net over attack on officer
Shittu A commercial bus driver, Idris Shittu, has landed in police net over an alleged attack on a member of the Lagos State Environmental and Special Offences Unit, otherwise called Taskforce. The...
View ArticleResidents worry over Enugu killing field
Babangida Again is the presence of two police stations, the Independence Layout Police Station and the Anti-terrorism Base, whose men also maintain regular presence with a stationed patrol van about...
View Article‘My life is on the brink of collapse’
Olakotan cries over ordeal after accident involving Dangote’s truck FOR the family of Mr. Sodiq Olakotan, this is certainly not the best of times. Since his involvement in an accident along Papa-Ilaro...
View ArticleRMD, Zack Orji, Victor Olaotun are ‘The Three Wise Men’
Nollywood veterans Mofe-Damijo, Zark Orji and Victor Olaotun are featuring in a latest hilarious blockbuster entitled, “The Three Wise men,’’ produced by Opa Williams, ace filmmaker and comedy...
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