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During lunch with a Fulani friend some weeks ago, he sounded so relieved that power was shifting to the south with the election of Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu as the next president. “It is now the turn of Yoruba people to be profiled and stigmatised. The captions would soon change to ‘Yoruba terrorists’ and ‘Yoruba […]
Continue ReadingGunmen suspected to be assassins have killed a husband and his wife in Allen Avenue, Ikeja area of Lagos State, Nigeria. Engineer Femi Egbeoluwa, the Sogunro of Ilaro-Yewa in Ogun State, and his wife were murdered in the early hours of Saturday, March 18, 2023. The killers were said to have gained entrance into their […]
Continue ReadingAt least 17 people were killed in various acts of electoral violence in Lagos, Rivers, Delta, Cross River, Niger, Akwa Ibom, Osun, and Benue states as violence, apathy, and disenfranchisement of voters marred Saturday’s governorship and state House of Assembly elections. Explaining the low turnout of the voters, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party […]
Continue ReadingIndependent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has postponed Saturday’s governorship and state assembly elections in 10 polling units in the Victoria Garden City (VGC) around the Lekki area of Lagos state. Segun Agbaje, INEC Resident Electoral Commissioner, made the announcement when he addressed reporters at the VGC. According to him, corps members deployed as ad hoc […]
Continue ReadingLagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu has issued a warning to traditional institutions ahead of Saturday’s governorship and House of Assembly elections. The warning is contained in a statement signed by Lagos State Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Gbenga Omotoso on Friday. There have been reports of some traditional rulers and traditionalists scheduling Oro rites in […]
Continue ReadingA school bus conveying children of ages one to five, summersaulted and injured the occupants on Thursday, in Lagos. The accident occurred in Surulere area of the state. A News Agency of Nigeria correspondent, who witnessed the accident, reports that the bus with registration number KTU-465DN hit a median barrier and pulled off a concrete […]
Continue ReadingBeing a Press Statement by Balogun Akin Osuntokun, Director-General, the Obi-Datti Campaign Organisation Good day gentlemen and ladies of the press. Kindly permit me, as the DG of the Obi-Datti Presidential Campaign Organisation, to comment on the rising ethnic tension across the country, particularly. There has been a contrived ethnic tension in Lagos State since […]
Continue Reading*Matters Arising With The Battle For Lagos And The Purported Endorsement Of The Incumbent APC Governor Sanwo Olu In The 2023 Governorship Elections* Let’s be very clear here: the Igbos are not running for Governorship election in Lagos state. The Igbos are not in the struggle for ownership of any land, as I am yet […]
Continue ReadingGoods worth millions of naira have been destroyed in a fire incident that occurred at Akere Spare Parts Market, Ajegunle in the Apapa area of Lagos State. The lifeless body of a 65-year-old security guard was also said to have been recovered near the scene of the incident. The Director of Lagos State Fire and […]
Continue ReadingPeoples Democratic Party (PDP) chieftain, Chief Olabode George, has raised the alarm that there is a grand design to secretly eliminate Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, the governorship candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in Lagos State. While speaking at a press conference in Lagos on Monday, George said if anything happens to Rhodes-Vivour, Nigerians “should know who […]
Continue ReadingA Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP) chieftain who looks like Ladan Salihu has claimed that the votes Labour Party got in Lagos were allegedly reduced to favour the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). Speaking during an interview on live TV, the PDP chieftain revealed that results from their situation room showed Labour Party in Lagos had […]
Continue ReadingPresidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Mr Peter Obi, has floored the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Lagos State. This was based on the collation of results at the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Lagos State collation centre in Yaba. Obi polled 582,454 votes to trounce the former Lagos State […]
Continue ReadingA trailer fell alongside the container it was carrying at Ojuelegba in Lagos state, Nigeria, on Friday night, February 24. This incident came barely three weeks after nine persons including children perished after a container fell on a commercial bus at the foot of the same Ojuelegba bridge. Thankfully, no life was lost in this […]
Continue ReadingNigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has on Friday intercepted the sum of N32,400 million allegedly suspected to be used for vote buying in Lagos State. The spokesperson for the EFCC, Wilson Uwujaren, in a statement, revealed that the recovery was made by operatives of the Lagos zonal command of the commission and that […]
Continue ReadingMembers of the Obidient Movement have been attacked by suspected thugs and hoodlums while on their way to the rally of the presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Mr. Peter Obi, which took place at the Tafawa Balewa Square (TBS), Onikan, in Lagos. Report of attack of the Obidients was contained in a WhatsApp […]
Continue ReadingPresidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Mr. Peter Obi and his vice presidential candidate, Mr. Datti Baba-Ahmed, their wives and members of their campaign council were in Lagos on Saturday to hold the party’s rally for the coming general election. Mr. Obi’s supporters blocked his vehicle on his way to Tafawa Balewa Square (TBS), […]
Continue ReadingA lecturer has been arrested over an allegation of having unlawful sexual intercourse with his biological daughter in Lagos State, as the state Domestic and Sexual Violence Agency (DSVA) decries the rise in such cases in the state. In a statement, the Executive Secretary for the agency, Titilola Vivour-Adeniyi, said the agency got to know […]
Continue ReadingThe police in Lagos state, on Wednesday arraigned a man, Edmund Uzoma, before a Yaba Magistrates’ Court, Lagos State, for allegedly contracting a second marriage under the Marriage Act while the first one is still alive (bigamy). Uzoma was arraigned before Magistrate Adeola Olatunbosun on three counts of bigamy and falsification of information on a […]
Continue ReadingNigerian soldiers and policemen got into a fight in public and this was caught on camera. The physical confrontation occurred Wednesday morning, January 18, at ijaya, Apongbon area of Lagos State. The soldiers attempted to disarm a police taskforce and they put up a fight. A video shared online shows a soldier and a police officer […]
Continue ReadingThe funeral service of slain Lagos lawyer, Mrs. Bolanle Raheem, was held at the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Olive Tree Parish, in Ikoyi Lagos state, Nigeria on Tuesday January 17. Delivering a sermon at the service, Okechukwu Enelamah, a former Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment, said Mrs. Raheem’s “relatively short life” was full […]
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