Members of the Oodua People’s Congress and policemen clashed at the Tolu Police Division, Ajegunle, Lagos State on Saturday evening. One member of the OPC, identified as Dauda Apampa, lost his life, while a police corporal, identified simply as Emeka, sustained gunshot in the incident. PUNCH Metro learnt that the fracas was caused by a […]
LAGOS – Nigerian police said Saturday they had raided a home near Lagos where eight pregnant girls were staying with plans to sell each of their newborns for nearly two thousand dollars. “Following intelligence report, we discovered and stormed on Friday a baby factory in Akute district of Ogun state,” a police spokesman, Abimbola Oyeyemi, […]
A peninsula in the Ijegun area of Lagos State was gutted by fire after a pipeline conveying petroleum product was vandalised on Saturday. Though details of the incident remained sketchy as of press time, emergency management agencies said the casualty figure could be high because the peninsula was still inaccessible to them as of Saturday […]
Lagos bar There is no doubt that pockets of gay people in the country would be living in fear as a result of a recent law that criminalises homosexuality in Nigeria, with the possibility of 14 years imprisonment. But Saturday PUNCH investigation shows that a bar by the roadside in Agege, Lagos might be offering […]
BY OLASUNKANMI AKONI LAGOS—Governor Babatunde Fashola, has said he is interested in who succeeds him next year, towards advancing the cause of the state. *Fashola When asked on who he prefers to succeed him, Fashola said: “I prefer a successor that would surpass my achievements in office and advance the cause of Lagos State.” The […]
An employee of Ecobank, Babatunde Oke, on Thursday, died in the custody of the Falomo Police Divisional Headquarters in Lagos, after he was detained for three days over his alleged involvement in a N1.2m fraud. Oke, who is survived by a wife and two children, was said to have worked at the Ogba, Lagos branch […]
…As Students Destroyed N51 Million Properties Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, on Friday directed the re-opening of the Lagos State University (LASU) from Monday February 24, in the overriding best interest of the students. This is after the state government put the value of properties destroyed by the students during the last protest at […]
… on Sunday | credits: Odutayo Odusanya Two Islamic clerics lost their lives on Saturday after their jeep collided with a bus and plunged into a canal at the Iyana Ipaja end of the Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway. PUNCH Metro learnt that the victims, Alhaji Akinsola Al-Ameen and Muyideen Thiamiyu, were coming back from Ikorodu when their […]
The Lagos State Internal Revenue Service says it has sealed eight more companies for failing to remit N66.7 million personal income tax of their workers to the state government. Folasade Coker-Afolayan, the Head of the Distrain Unit of the LIRS, told the News Agency of Nigeria on Sunday in Lagos that the companies were sealed […]
By Mohammed Idris On Monday, January 27, 2014, while watching the Channels prime news at 10pm on the 12th anniversary of the Ikeja Cantonment disaster when high caliber bombs went off from the armory following a fire at the nearby “mammy market” and killed some 1000 compatriots, I was at once filled with disgust and […]
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