The Lagos State Internal Revenue Service on Thursday said it generated more than N120bn from taxation between January and June this year. The Executive Chairman of the service, Mr Tunde Fowler, told the News Agency of Nigeria in Lagos that 90 per cent of the taxes were generated from the organised private sector and civil […]
Few weeks ago, I got a call from a friend asking me out for a drink, but I was already at the Lagos airport. “I’m not going to be around for the next few days,” I told him. “I’m going to Abuja.” His immediate reaction was – “Why? What’s wrong? Do you want to bore […]
By Dr. Philip A. Ikomi | NNP | July 19, 2014 – Your Excellency and Honorable Lawmakers: I salute your hard work and diligence in the art of your exemplary executive rule and legislation respectively, in Lagos State. I lived in Lagos beginning in1967 when I was an Upper Sixth student at King’s College, Lagos, […]
A screengrab taken from a video by Boko Haram insurgent showing leader of the sect, Abubakar Shekau in centre… on Sunday. | credits: AFP. LEADER of the violent Islamic sect, Boko Haram, Abubakar Shekau, has claimed responsibility for two explosions on June 25 at a fuel depot in Apapa, Lagos. Shekau, according to Agence-France […]
Comptroller-General, Nigeria Immigration Service, Mr. David Paradang The Nigeria Immigration Service, Lagos State Command, has warned residents of Lagos to desist from hiring illegal immigrants in the state. It added that those suspected of doing such would be made to face the law. The Comptroller of Immigration in charge of the command, Mr. Julius Ogbu, […]
At the resumed trial of the Lagos State House of Assembly’s Speaker, Mr. Adeyemi Ikuforiji, and his aide, Mr. Oyebode Atoyebi, for alleged of money laundering, the defence counsel, Chief Wole Olanipekun(SAN) and Mr. Tunde Akinrinmisi, described the EFCC’s investigation and prosecution of the two accused persons as a witch-hunt. The two defence counsel made […]
Bayo Olupohunda | credits: File copy Dear Sir, I hope this appeal meets you in good health. As you wind down on the final year of your administration, I have decided to draw your attention to one of the challenges that make Lagos one of the most hazardous places to live in the world. The […]
The victim An elderly woman escaped lynching on Wednesday after being accused of being a bird and witch in the Ajegunle area of Lagos State. According to residents of Ojo Road, where the purported transformation took place, the woman was a black bird before suddenly turning into a human being. Hundreds of residents were said […]
OVER 120 shops were, early on Sunday, destroyed, and goods worth millions of naira razed as fire ravaged Daleko Market in Mushin area of Lagos. The arrival of fire fighters from Isolo, Ilupeju and Ikeja fire service stations prevented a total disaster as the market would have been completely razed by the ravaging fire. The […]
A political group under the aegis of Visioners for New Lagos (VNL) said on Friday that the purported endorsement of Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode as the next governor of Lagos State by the Oba of Lagos, Oba Rilwan Akiolu, was a ruse, adding that the monarch lacks the power to impose a candidate on the state. […]
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