A foremost Nigerian novelist, Professor Chinua Achebe once said: “I have written in my small book entitled The Trouble with Nigeria that Nigerians will probably achieve consensus on no other matter than their common resentment of the Igbo.” Ndigbo have gone through a lot and still go through a...
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President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday inaugurated the first phase of the Lagos Mass Transit Blue Line Rail Project. The first phase is a 13 kilometres stretch from Marina to Mile 2 and has five stations — the Marina Iconic station; National Theatre; Orile-Iganmu; Suru-Alaba and Mile 2. The Blue...
Public transport system in Lagos State is set to wear a new face as the Lagos Rail Mass Transit (LRMT) Blue Rail Line project will be officially launched on Tuesday, Jan. 24, in Marina. With the first phase now completed, President Muhammadu Buhari is expected to officially inaugurate the...
What does a free trade zone mean? A free trade zone is an area within which goods may be landed, handled, manufactured, reconfigured, and re-exported without the intervention of customs authorities. It is a region where a group of countries has agreed to reduce or eliminate trade barriers, the...
T he Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Ikeja Branch, has concluded plans to hold the 19th Gani Fawehinmi Annual Lecture aimed at preserving the legacies of the late legal luminary. In a statement on Friday in Lagos, the branch said that the lecture would take place on Jan. 15 at...
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has contacted and consoled the husband and family of Mrs Bolanle Raheem, who was killed by a policeman on Christmas day in Lagos. Raheem, who was pregnant, was fatally shot on Dec. 25 by a police officer attached to the Ajiwe police division in the...
The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Lagos State on Friday inaugurated its 110-member East Senatorial Campaign Committee to mobilise votes for the party, ahead of the 2023 general elections. Inaugurating the committee, Sen. Ganiyu Solomon, the Director General, APC Presidential Campaign Committee (PCC) for Lagos State, said the committee...
The Independent Campaign Group (ICG) of the entertainment sector for Tinubu-Shettima and Sanwo-Olu -Hamzat, on Thursday called for unity to attain victory in the 2023 general elections. The group made the call during a meeting at the APC House, Ikeja. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the...
Gov. Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State, on Tuesday called on youths to join him on Peace Walk, for healing of Lagos State. Sanwo-Olu made the call in Lagos, during a news conference on the State Government’s position on the recommendations of the Judicial Panel of Inquiry on EndSARS, submitted...
The remains of Abdul-Sobur Olayiwola Olawale, a Lagos State lawmaker who passed on in Jos, Plateau during an APC Presidential rally on Tuesday, has been laid to rest. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the remains of the lawmaker arrived the Murtala Muhammed Airport in the afternoon...
Special Adviser to Gov. Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State on Housing, Mrs Toke Benson-Awoyinka, says Lagos State is a choice place for investors and investees in the real estate sector. Benson-Awoyinka said this while delivering a presentation at the Real Estate Developers Association of Nigeria (REDAN), Lagos State Chapter’s...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship candidate in Lagos State Olajide Adediran better known as Jandor says he is not “surprised” by Governor Nyesom Wike’s endorsement of his All Progressives Congress (APC) rival Babajide Sanwo-Olu. Wike, a PDP chieftain, had on Tuesday endorsed Governor Sanwo-Olu during a visit to...
Thousands of supporters of the APC on Sunday, embarked on five million solidarity walk in support of the Presidential Candidate of the party, Sen. Bola Tinubu and his running mate Sen. Kashim Shettima in Lagos State. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the political rally was organised...
The Chairman of Lagos State Parks and Garages Management Committee, Musiliu Akinsanya, popularly known as MC Oluomo, has held a solidarity walk for the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu and Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu. MC Oluomo had earlier postponed the scheduled rally citing logistics problems....
Members of the women’s wing of the All Progressives Congress held a march in parts of Lagos State on Monday to rally support for the party’s presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu, and his running mate, Kashim Shettima, ahead of the February polls. The rally was attended by some APC bigwigs...
By OLA MUDOPE, Lagos – Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu has called on youths to join him on Peace Walk, for healing of the state. Governor Sanwo-Olu made the call on Tuesday in Lagos, during a news conference on the State Government’s position on the recommendations of the Judicial...
Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo has assured the business community of Federal Government’s unrelenting efforts to restore the country to a path of economic growth. VP Osinbajo said the target was to make the growth rate higher than population growth rate. He gave the assurance on Friday at the 2021 Presidential...
Four persons have died and five others rescued as a building under construction collapsed in the Badagry area of Lagos State on Wednesday. The Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA), confirmed the figures in an update. “Nine Casualties who were construction workers were recorded of which five adult males...