Lagos probes pupil’s floggings by principal, teachers

Lagos probes pupil’s floggings by principal, teachers   Ogechi Anyalewechi    advertisement     Samson Folarin   The Lagos State Government has launched an investigation into an alleged case of child brutality at the Eva Adelaja Girls Secondary School in the Bariga area of the state.   PUNCH Metro learnt that a 14-year-old pupil of the […]

Amosun wades into Awujale, Alake feud

Amosun wades into Awujale, Alake feud — 17th March 2016 …Holds secret meeting with royal fathers From Segun Olatunji, Abeokuta OGUN State Governor, Ibikunle Amosun, yester­day intervened in the su­premacy feud between the Awujale and paramount ruler of Ijebuland, Oba Sikiru Kayode Adetona and Alake of Abeokuta, Oba Adedotun Aremu Gbadebo. Amosun held a three-hour […]

Lekki collapse: Ambode fires building agency boss, others

The Lagos State Governor, Akinwunmi Ambode, on Monday dismissed the General Manager of the Lagos State Building Control Agency, Olushola Adeigbe. Adeigbe’s sacking, according to the government, is as a result of the last week collapse of a five-storeyed building in Lekki, Lagos. The governor also approved the dismissal of the Head of Inspection and […]

Police arrest LASU worker for lover’s death

Police arrest LASU worker for lover’s death March 14, 2016 Ambe, Mata Photos: Afeez Hanafi 45033 Afeez Hanafi An official of the Lagos State University, Samuel Ambe, has been arrested by the police for allegedly killing his lover, Mata Jidonu. Thirty-two-year-old Mata was married to a lawyer, Sunday Jidonu, for whom she had three children. […]

Lagos school girls’ abduction: Negotiation over ransom ongoing

By Evelyn Usman, Olasunkanmi Akoni, Ebun Sessou, Bose Adelaja & Josephine Agbonkhese LAGOS—Tension is still mounting at Babington Macaulay Junior Seminary, Ikorodu, Lagos, following the delay in the release of the three Senior Secondary School girls abducted by gunmen Tuesday night. School-2This is just as one of the girls was said to have fallen ill […]

30 die in Lagos/Ibadan expressway accident

— February 8, 2016 Trailer conveying cattle, goats, collide with stationary vehicle By Omoniyi Ayedun and Oluseye Ojo, Ibadan A trailer carrying goats, motorcycles and about 100 passengers from the northern part of the country, collided with a parked bus along Lagos-Ibadan Expressway (immediately after Ibadan) resulting in the death of about 30 people. Somehow, […]

The making of new LASU VC

  The making of new LASU VC How the battle was fought and won, and the challenges ahead By Gabriel Dike Peace and stability seem to have returned to the one-time crisis-ridden Lagos State University (LASU), with the appointment, last week, by the Lagos State Governor, Akinwunmi Ambode, of Prof. Olarenwaju Fagbohun as the eighth […]

Lagos and the ‘Lagoon’ Challenge: Confronting the Native/Settler Discourse – By Raheem Oluwafunminiyi

By Raheem Oluwafunminiyi | Ibadan, Nigeria | January 16, 2016 – No doubt, the 2015 election in Nigeria will remain one of the most discussed political events in many years to come. This is because a lot of surprises sprang up in its wake and thereafter. Nobody would forget in a hurry the telephone conversation […]

Ambode’s convoy apprehends Airforce cadets for locking boy in car trunk Ambode’s convoy apprehends Airforce cadets for locking boy in car trunk

The convoy of the Lagos State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode on Wednesday apprehended two Airforce cadets in Mile 12 area of the State while dehumanizing an artisan, Dahiru Lawal for allegedly breaking the windscreen of a Chrysler Stratus car with registration number KRD 267 DV. The cadets – Peters O. Solomon and Abdullahi Fahad, who […]

Conductor kills man in Lagos over N50, one week to US travel

    Babatunde Photo: Samson Folarin       TOP HEADLINES     Babatunde Omoyeni, a web designer who planned to spend his Christmas and New Year celebrations in the United States of America, has been killed in Lagos over N50. He was to travel on December 10. After obtaining all travel documents, the 38-year-old […]

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