Tag: Lagos
How not to assess Lagos under Ambode
By Niyi Anibaba
I say without any equivocation that this young man who is there now - Akinwunmi Ambode - has raised the stake of...
Lagos denies alleged anti-Igbo moves by Ambode
The Lagos State Government on Thursday denied a report on social media alleging that Governor Akinwunmi Ambode was making some moves against non-indigenes especially...
Bismarck Rewane faults ranking of Lagos as third worst city to...
Chief Executive Officer, Financial Derivatives Company, Bismarck Rewane, has faulted a report rating Lagos as the third worst city to live in the world.
The...
Man slumps, dies at Lagos bus stop
An unidentified middle-aged man slumped and died on Tuesday at Orile Iganmu bus stop in Lagos, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) has reported.
Eyewitnesses...
Police arraign Okada rider over alleged threat to life
Police on Thursday arraigned a 45-year-old commercial motorcyclist, Godwin Ibeh, over alleged threat to life.
The accused, whose house address was not given, is being...
Celebrities scramble for invitation to meet Macron at Afrika Shrine
Some Nigerian entertainers are making last-minute attempts to secure invitation to the Afrika Shrine in Ikeja, Lagos as French President Emmanuel Macron comes visiting...
Ambode: Celebrating a ‘restless’ governor at 55
By Habib Aruna
Prescient Nigerian observers who are watching what’s going on in Lagos State would rightly agree that hard work in the right direction...
Court jails man 2 years for hemp trafficking
A Federal High Court in Lagos has sentenced a 28-year-old man, Yusuf Abdulkareem, to a term of two years imprisonment, for trafficking in one...
30-year-old Motorcyclist docked for allegedly assaulting his father
The Police in Lagos on Wednesday docked a 30-year-old motorcyclist, Uzor Chukwu, before a Yaba Chief Magistrates’ Court for allegedly assaulting his aged father.
Chukwu,...
5 men docked over alleged burglary, theft of ladies’ shoes worth...
Five men were on Wednesday brought before a Tinubu Magistrates’ Court in Lagos for allegedly burgling a warehouse and stole 15 cartons of ladies’...