A tragic accident occurred in the early hours of Saturday as a female driver lost her life after her vehicle plunged into the Lagos lagoon from the Third Mainland Bridge. According to the Lagos State Fire and Rescue Service on Sunday, the incident took place at approximately 05:11 a.m. near the RRS (Rapid Response Squad)…
State chairmen of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), former governors, National Assembly members, serving and former National Working Committee members and other notable stakeholders from Southern Nigeria have disowned the meeting scheduled for Lagos Thursday (today), by some group in the party with the aim of zoning positions. The PDP leaders dismissed “any resolutions, communiqués,…
The family of the late Managing Director and Editor-in-Chief of the defunct National Concord Newspapers, Dr Doyin Abiola, has confirmed that her burial will take place from 9 to 12 September in Lagos. According to the family’s statement, further information on the arrangements will be released in due course. Colleagues from the defunct Concord Newspapers,…
The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) has emerged as the top destination for foreign investment into Nigeria, according to a report by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS). The report titled Nigeria Capital importation, Q1 2025, said the FCT attracted $3.04bn to come first from the $2.54bn Lagos attracted during the period. Daily Trust reports that…
Troops of the Nigerian Army operating under Operation Hadin Kai on Monday apprehended a suspected foreign terrorist while attempting to infiltrate a security perimeter in Yobe State, just as it arrested two men sent by an inmate of a prison in Lagos State to purchase arms in Ondo State for bandits in Zamfara State. The…
LASTMA officer at work No fewer than 18 private and commercial drivers have been scheduled to undergo a mandatory psychiatric tests by the Lagos state government after they were apprehended by the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA) for driving against traffic across the state. The decision to subject the 18 motorists apprehended for driving…
Bode George A former spokesperson for the late President Muhammadu Buhari, Garba Shehu, has stated that Bode George and other members of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Lagos still hold a grudge against Atiku Abubakar. Shehu said the anger goes back to the 2003 general elections when Atiku was Vice President. In a video…
The whereabouts of two lecturers from the University of Cross River (UNICROSS), Engr. Emmanuel Odu and Engr. Vincent Ndifon, have remained unknown for close to two months after they were declared missing by the institution’s management. The lecturers, both from the Department of Mechanical Engineering, were last seen on Friday, May 23, 2025, near Imo…
A Lagos State Coroner’s Court in Ikorodu has ordered the trial of the auxiliary nurse Feyisayo Ogedengbe who allegedly injected late rapper and singer Ilerioluwa Aloba a.k.a Mohbad. The unregistered nurse was invited to come and treat the late singer after he sustained a cut in his hand during a scuffle, but the tetanus injection…
The Department of State Security (DSS) has arrested a businessman, Ajah Johnson Uchenna, and his wife, Rosemary Uchenna, along with their two daughters – Stella Uchenna and Ngozi Uchenna – as well as their family friend, Okoro Elijah, have been taken into custody by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) in a major drug…
