By OLA MUDOPE, Lagos – Recent statistics released by the International Maritime Bureau (IMB), has showed that piracy incidents in Gulf of Guinea dropped from 81 in year 2020 to 34 in 2021. This is according to a statement issued on Sunday by The Director General of The Nigerian...
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Availability of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS), also known as petrol, is improving in Lagos State, after days of scarcity of the product, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), reports. A NAN correspondent who monitored some petroleum products retail outlets on Friday in Ikeja, Abule-Egba, Iyana-Ipaja and Oshodi areas of...
An investigator with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Ms Adewunmi Omotosho on Monday told an Ikeja Special Offences Court how alleged Access Bank hacker, Chris Ihebuzo was apprehended by the anti-graft agency. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Ihebuzo in a video that went viral...
Some residents of Agric community in Ojo Local Government, Lagos state, are bemoaning the increase in armed robbery attacks at their major bus stops. The residents also alleged that the hoodlums sell and smoke hard drugs with reckless abandon and at night rob people of their valuables. The residents...
By OLA MODUPE, Lagos – The Muslim Students’ Society of Nigeria (MSSN), has called on the Lagos State Government to remind school administrators of a court ruling allowing Muslim students to wear hijab in schools. The President of MSSN, Lagos State Area Unit, Miss Basheerah Majekodunmi, made the appeal...
Royal families in Ikeja, the capital of Lagos State, have kicked against the nomination of 33-year-old Temitope Ibikunle as the king-designate for the vacant stool of Olu of Ikeja. Ibikunle, who is of Oshoja Ruling House, was a youth representative on the now-defunct Lagos State Judicial Panel of Inquiry...
Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu has said the two new high-speed trains recently purchased by the sate government will be on track latest by the fourth quarter of the year. Governor Sanwo-Olu disclosed this on Friday during an interview on Sunrise Daily where he outlined efforts being made by...
On the one hand, there is a sense in which it can be said that political leadership in Lagos has come of age. Supporting this claim is the ongoing Greater Lagos Vision, by the Governor Babajide Sanwoolu led state government, which has formulated some far reaching sustainable development programmes...
The Coroner of the Epe District of Lagos, Magistrate Mikail Olukayode Kadiri has fixed Saturday, the 15th of January for the commencement of inquest into the cause of death of Sylvester Oromoni, a 12-year-old student of Dowen College, Lekki. In a letter dated, 4th January 2022 and addressed to...
Family of the late Sylvester Oromoni (Jnr), on Wednesday, decried the legal advice reportedly issued by the Directorate of Public Prosecution (DPP), Lagos, over the death of their son. Mr Sylvester Oromoni, father of Oromoni Junior, in a statement made available to newsmen in Asaba, called on President Muhammadu...
The National leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Ahmed Bola Tinubu has said he would consult widely before making a decision on whether to run for the Presidency in 2023. Tinubu made the remark after a closed-door meeting with leaders of the Northern Alliance Committee in Abuja. “I...
The Coordinator, National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), Lagos State, Mr Lucas Koyejo, has advised residents in the state to speak out whenever their rights are violated. Koyejo gave the advice on Friday in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos, on the sidelines of a...
President Muhammadu Buhari has arrived in Lagos State on Thursday. Buhari touched down at the Presidential Lounge of the Murtala Muhammed Airport in Lagos in the early hours of the day. The President was received at the airport by Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu and other officials. During the...
Traditional leaders from Badagry Division of Lagos State has pledged support for the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state. The royal fathers pledged the commitment in Lagos in a communique issued at the end of a parley organised by the Lagos APC Chairman-elect, Mr Cornelius Ojelabi, for traditional...
The Agbara-Seme border section of Lagos-Badagry expressway project will receive N15 billion of NNPC tax credit fund, Federal Controller of Works in Lagos, Olukayode Popoola, has said. Popoola told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos on Sunday that the intervention funding would fast track the ongoing reconstruction...
A 32-year-old woman, Foluke Olubu, who allegedly stole an iron savings box containing N2.5 million, on Friday appeared before an Ikeja Magistrates’ Court. Olubu, whose address is unknown, is facing a count charge of stealing but she pleaded not guilty. The prosecutor, Insp Christopher John, alleged that the box...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), has again interrogated a former Aviation Minister, Femi Fani-Kayode. He was arrested on Tuesday after he attended a court proceeding at the Federal High Court in Ikoyi, Lagos following investigations into alleged document falsification. Sources close to him, however, stated that he...
More than 15 hours after fire outbreak at one of the biggest auto spare part warehouses in Ladipo, Mushin, Lagos State, firefighters have continued to struggle to rescue goods worth more than N500 million. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the fire spread to the three-storey building...