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Boko Haram, Borno, Delta, Ekiti, Lagos, State News, Top Stories
Friday, July 15th, 2011
Following the degenerating security situation in Borno state as a result of the activities of Boko Haram, Lagos, Ekiti , Edo and Delta state governments yesterday commenced the evacuation of their indigenes from the University of Maiduguri (UNIMAID). No fewer than 14 of the 200 Lagos students from Lagos state arrived the General Aviation Terminal […]
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Headlines, Lagos, State News
Thursday, July 14th, 2011
A Lagos High Court sitting in Ikeja, on Thursday, dismissed the suit filed by a former deputy governor of Lagos State, Mr Femi Pedro, against the state House of Assembly and state government. Pedro had filed the case in 2007, to ask the court to make an order declaring his impeachment as deputy governor of […]
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Headlines, Lagos, State News
Monday, July 11th, 2011
For over 14 hours on Sunday, Lagos metropolis witnessed a massive downpour and the result: Unprecedented floods that wreaked havoc in the Centre of Execellence. No fewer thatn19 residents were swept away by the menacing flood. By yesterday, the state government ordered the closure of public schools to save pupils from possible tragedy. Their premises […]
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Headlines, Lagos, Oyo, State News, Taraba
Sunday, July 10th, 2011
IT was like a replay of the Great Flood during the time of the biblical Noah in some states in the country, especially Lagos, Ogun and Oyo, on Sunday, as long hours of ceaseless rain caused havoc and resulted in casualties, as well as huge material losses. As early as 7.00a.m, the downpour forced residents […]
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Headlines, Lagos, Oyo, State News
Tuesday, July 5th, 2011
ABUJA— PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan, yesterday, announced far-reaching measures towards accelerating the nation’s economic growth through boosting agricultural output and provision of infrastructure in which a Lagos-Ibadan speed train line contract would soon be awarded. President Jonathan who was represented by Vice President Namadi Sambo said at the opening of the Nigeria Incentive-Based Risk Sharing System […]
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Headlines, Lagos, State News
Saturday, July 2nd, 2011
Lagos State governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola (SAN), on Friday reiterated the commitment of his administration to reducing, to its barest minimum, the number of medical cases taken abroad from the state for treatment, saying the capital flight resulting from such foreign treatments was not good for the state. Fashola, who spoke at the Lagos House, […]
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Headlines, Lagos, State News
Saturday, July 2nd, 2011
ALL the 37 cabinet nominees sent to the Lagos State House of Assembly by Governor, Babatunde Fashola, have scaled through the screening process and had their nominations confirmed. The Speaker, Mr. Ikuforiji Adeyemi, said that 21 of them would be Commissioners while 16 would be Special Advisers. The exercise, which lasted three […]
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Headlines, Lagos, State News
Wednesday, June 22nd, 2011
LAWMA procures new equipment, targets waste to wealth conversion MANY Lagosians still remember when the streets and highways were homes to heaps of refuse. Those were the days the city of Lagos was ranked as among the dirtiest in the country. Fortunately, those days now belong to a past, which Lagosians and their government […]
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Governors, Headlines, Lagos, State News
Sunday, June 19th, 2011
Bola Tinubu , ACN National Leader Former Lagos State governor and leader of the Action Congress of Nigeria, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, Saturday described as sheer baloney, insinuations that Osun State governor, Mr. Rauf Aregbesola, has been trying to influence the composition of the Lagos State executive council. Tinubu, in a telephone interview with THISDAY, however, […]
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Lagos, Latest Politics, State News
Friday, June 17th, 2011
SECURITY in the Lagos metropolis and the state police command in Government Reserved Area (GRA), Ikeja, has been beefed up following the bombing at the Louis Edet House, Headquarters of the Nigeria Police Force, in Abuja yesterday. Besides, the Lagos State chapter of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) has warned that Nigeria risks descending […]
