Lagos State

Botched Lagos NUJ polls: NUJ national body endorses Caretaker Committee to take charge

  The apex authority of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) has ratified the Caretaker Committee constituted for the Lagos State Council of...

#EndSARS arson: Southwest governors to youths: Defend our land, people against incursions 

Aftermath of infiltration of #EndSARS protesters resulting in property destruction and carnage in the Southwest, the six Governors in the states are now...

Lekki Toll plaza military crackdown: I called Buhari twice, he wasn’t available, says Sanwo-Olu 

  Upset by the wanton destruction of property including his family house following military crackdown on #EndSARS protesters, Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu...

Soyinka grieves the death of youth with blood-soaked Nigerian flag at Lekki Toll Gate 

  Nobel laureate,  Prof. Wole Soyinka, says he is grieved  by the sight the blood-soaked Nigerian flag that one of the victims was waving...

#EndSARS latest: TVC torched in Lagos

Some suspected hoodlums have set fire to the headquarters of Television Continental (TVC) at Ketu, Lagos. According to a staff of TV station,...

Bloody #EndSARS protest: Lagos Gov. Sanwo-Olu imposes dusk-to-dawn curfew 

  After about 12-day festering carnival-like #EndSARS protest, Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu has imposed a 24-hour curfew on the state with immediate...

#ENDSARS protest in Lagos: Thugs attack, injure RRS operatives 

    By Boye Ajayi A new dimension was introduced in Lagos on Monday as #ENDSARS protesters attacked operatives of the Lagos State...

#EndSARS protest: Gov. Sanwo-Olu visits widow, family of driver felled by police bullet

  Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu on Saturday  visited the widow of the driver hit by police stray bullet during the last Monday...

N338.8m laundering charge: After three judges’ trial, ex- Lagos Speaker, Ikuforiji’s case adjourned until Nov. 25

  By Boye Ajayi   The trial of a former Speaker of Lagos State House of Assembly, Adeyemi Ikuforiji, charged with N338.8 million...

#ENDSARS Protest: Sanwo-Olu to give N200m to families of victims 

  By Boye Ajayi Lagos State Gov. Babajide Sanwo-Olu  on Tuesday said his government has set aside N200 million as compensation for families...

Breaking: World-class literary icon, Prof. Pepper Clark, passes on

Nigeria’s literary icon and playwright, Prof. John Pepper Clark, is dead. JP Clark died on Tuesday morning at a hospital in Lagos where...

Lagos collapsed building: Seven feared dead, 15 hurt

  No fewer than seven people are feared trapped and dead in a building which collapsed on Sunday in Obalende on Lagos island....

Tinubu’s Alpha Beta company ex-MD slams suit against him, accuses him of N100bn fraud 

  A former Lagos State Governor, Chief Bola Tinubu, his company — Alpha Beta Consulting (ABC) and the current Managing Director of the firm, Akin Doherty...

Another fire rocks Lagos, 8 dead, million of naira properties destroyed

  By Boye Ajayi Few weeks after experiencing a fatal  lfire incident in Lagos, another fire triggered by gas explosion has rocked the...

Citygate Group, Nigeria’s leading finance outfit, to build seven-floor corporate headquarters in Lagos

  Citygate Group, one of Nigeria’s leading finance outfits established about 14 years ago, is to build a seven-floor corporate headquarters in Ikeja,...