Babatunde Fashola Before the coming of the Babatunde Fashola administration, many commuters used to dread passing any route leading to Oshodi because of the traffic gridlock in that area. The coming of the administration brought normalcy to the place. The yellow-painted commercial buses that used to ply the Oshodi routes seem to have relocated to […]
Muslim pupils during a protest against hijab ban in Lagos public schools | credits: Stanley Ogidi Muslim pupils under the umbrella body of the Muslim Students’ Society of Nigeria marched through some major streets in Lagos State on Saturday, protesting against the hijab ban in public schools. The procession was peaceful and many of […]
Views: 4573 Lagos State University students went on the rampage Thursday, disrupting the university’s second semester examination and destroying properties in the process. The protest which started Wednesday over the closure of the university’s registration portal, led to stoning of the University Vice Chancellor Prof. John Obafunwa, as he tried to evade the riotous students […]
Chief Bode George The Chairman, Lagos State House of Assembly Committee on Information and Publicity, Mr. Segun Olulade, has faulted Chief Bode George’s attack on members of the House. George, a former national Vice-Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party in the South-West Zone, was said to have described the Lagos State House of Assembly as […]
LCC Toll gate Some time towards the end of 2013, Olalekan Liadi left his Lekki home in his SUV for Victoria Island. He is a regular motorist who shuttles between Lekki and other parts of the Lagos Island. But this day, he had already passed through the toll plaza at Admiralty Way before he […]
Activities in Oshodi Local Government Area of Lagos, Nigeria were halted for hours when residents stormed the office of the Ikeja Electricity Distribution Company, IKEDC, Mafoluku, Oshodi, to protest against extortion from IKEDC officials and incessant blackout that has plagued the council. The residents, who defied the early morning sleep to storm the office of […]
It’s peace of the graveyard in Lagos APC BY EMMANUEL AZIKEN, POLITICAL EDITOR Senator Musiliu Obanikoro has been one of the leading political lights in Lagos State since the advent of the Fourth Republic. He was Commissioner for Works in 1999, Senator in 2003 and the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP gubernatorial candidate in 2007. Following […]
LAGOS — The police in Lagos State, yesterday, said they have arrested an 18-year-old boy, Ikechukwu Friday, who allegedly killed a 12-year-old girl for money ritual. The suspect, who is currently being interrogated at the State Criminal Investigation Department, SCID, Panti, Yaba, was paraded before newsmen. According to him, a pastor he asked for money […]
It is rare to find wild animals roaming free in neighbourhoods, so Omole estate in Lagos was recently thrown into a state of excitement when a crocodile was caught in the gated neighbourhood. The animal, which residents described as “very large”, became a spectacle at one of the gates to the estate, on Sunday, […]
The car used for the operation and the recovered phones | credits: Eniola Akinkuotu The Lagos State Police Command has arrested two men, Femi Akogun and Tubosun Adenekan, for alleged armed robbery. PUNCH Metro learnt that the suspects belonged to a three-man robbery gang that terrorised residents of Jakande Estate, Isolo in the wee […]
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