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Headlines, Lagos, State News
Sunday, October 5th, 2014
TB Joshua The Lagos State Government has said the coroner it inaugurated to probe the circumstances surrounding the collapse of a six-storey building belonging to the Synagogue Church of All of Nations will commence sitting on October 13, 2014. This was contained in a statement released by the Lagos State Ministry of Justice on Friday. […]
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Headlines, Lagos, State News
Tuesday, September 16th, 2014
Says Nigeria should help neighbouring countries By Olasunkanmi Akoni & Monsur Olowoopejo Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State, yesterday, gave insight into how the government was able to contain the out-break of Ebola Virus Disease, EVD, even as he said Nigeria needed to assist neighbouring countries still battling to contain the EVD pandemic.. The governor […]
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Headlines, Lagos, State News
Thursday, September 11th, 2014
*WHO cautions FG, states Olasunkanmi Akoni & Monsuru Olowoopejo Despite the Federal Government’s insistence on September 22 resumption date for schools, indications emerged yesterday, that Lagos State Government might not respect the date. Governor Babatunde Fashola gave this hint when he received the Country Representative of the World Health Organization, Mr. Rui Van Gaz who paid him a courtesy visit […]
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Lagos, Latest Politics, Nigerian Police, State News
Monday, September 8th, 2014
By KINGSLEY OMONOBI-ABUJA Following recent promotions and retirements in the Nigerian Police force which led to vacancies in position of Command helmsmen, the Acting Inspector General of Police, Suleiman Abba Monday appointed new Commissioners of Police for 21 states of the federation with CP Kayode Aderanti moving to Lagos as the new CP. He takes […]
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Headlines, Lagos, State News
Wednesday, August 20th, 2014
As Nigerians continued to mourn Dr. Stella Adadevoh on Wednesday, another sad news broke on Wednesday that five fresh suspected cases of Ebola Virus Disease had been reported in Lagos State. The state Commsioner for Health, Dr. Jide Idris, who announced this shortly after the Federal Government gave an indication that it might immortalise Adadevoh, […]
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Headlines, Lagos, State News
Tuesday, August 12th, 2014
| credits: Photo: Samson Folarin A medical doctor has revealed how a nursing mother contracted the deadly Ebola virus at a Lagos hospital. PUNCH Metro learnt that the woman was the patient who visited the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation staff clinic on Muri Okunola Street in the Victoria Island area of Lagos. NNPC had issued […]
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Headlines, Lagos, State News
Tuesday, August 12th, 2014
The suspect, a lady, was said to have been instantly chased out of the hospital by nurses on duty. Sources in the hospital told journalists that the frail looking lady had blood oozing from her nostrils and mouth. The discovery led to commotion in the area as the lady was told to go to the […]
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Headlines, Lagos, State News
Monday, August 11th, 2014
Disagreements over the equity contributions of partners in the Lekki deep seaport are currently threatening the takeoff of the project, COMFORT OSEGHALE writes Disagreements over the value of land donated by the Lagos State Government for the establishment of the Lekki Deep Seaport have been identified as the cause of the delay in the takeoff […]
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Headlines, Lagos, Nigerian Police, State News
Thursday, July 31st, 2014
Two policemen were stabbed yesterday in Alakija area of Lagos metropolis as they tried to drive an insane woman away from the premises of a popular pentecostal church. According to an eyewitness, who did not want to be named, “trouble started when the woman was standing in front of the church and policemen deployed to […]
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Governors, Headlines, Lagos, State News
Thursday, July 31st, 2014
As the tenure of Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State gradually inches towards its end, some politicians eyeing his office have started making moves to succeed him, ahead of the 2015 general election. Online findings by iPUNCH on Wednesday showed that no fewer than three aspirants have since registered their presence on major social networking […]