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A 29-year-old man, Pastor Oghale Ighele, and his bride, Dr. Clementina Agbate, 28, got married recently as virgins. The couple exchanged vows at the Holy Spirit Mission at Marcillina’s Place, GRA Ikeja, Lagos, Nigeria, where the officiating Minister and Presiding Bishop, Charles Ighele, revealed to the guests that both the bride and groom were virgins at […]
Continue ReadingLagos is not just the place of the “indecency, lies and immoral acts of a typically rustic, countryside lady who went to Lagos and became sophisticated” as chronicled in Niyi Oniororo’s novel, Lagos Is A Wicked Place, the stuff of Onitsha Market Literature that Chinua Achebe described as “chronicles of social problems of a somewhat mixed-up, but […]
Continue ReadingThe Monday collapse of the 21-storey building under construction on Gerard Road, Ikoyi, Lagos State is one too many. With an undetermined number of people still trapped under the rubble, so much is unknown yet. In the coming weeks, some of the truth of the official negligence that led to such a gigantic structure becoming […]
Continue ReadingAt least 20 people have been confirmed dead in the 21-storey building that collapsed on Monday on Gerrard Road, in the Ikoyi area of Lagos State, Nigeria. The building crumbled around 2pm when workers were on the site. Earlier reports revealed that 10 people were feared dead when the incident happened, as many others were […]
Continue ReadingOyo State Police Command, Nigeria, has arrested two suspected ritualists, Ismaila Wasiu and Mutairu Shittu who allegedly murdered a woman identified simply as Mujidat. Spokesperson of the command, DSP Adewale Osifeso, who disclosed this in a statement on Wednesday, October 27, said the suspects were arrested following credible intelligence received from residents of Ayekale, Saki Area […]
Continue ReadingA man reportedly attempted to jump down from a telecommunication mast at Iyana-Ipaja area of Lagos State on Tuesday morning. Reports say, the man who climbed to the top of the mast around 8.30am, but was rescued by a combined team of policemen, officials of the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) and those from the Lagos State […]
Continue ReadingBig Brother Naija (BBNaija) star, Boma, has taken to Instagram to celebrate his moving from Yaba to Ikoyi area of Lagos state. He did not say whether it is an office or dwelling habitation that he was upgrading from Yaba to Ikoyi and also didn’t say whether it is a rental or a house owned […]
Continue ReadingNigerians are currently mourning event host, Evelyn Adewunmi, popularly known as MC Eve, who died untimely in a car crash. The host, famously called The Energy Goddess, was said to have been in a car with her boyfriend on October 12, when they were involved in an accident along Lekki-Epe Expressway, Lagos, Nigeria. The boyfriend, […]
Continue ReadingAir Vice Marshal Sikiru Smith (retd.), has been kidnapped by masked gunmen in the Ajah area of Lagos State, Nigeria. AVM Smith is a cousin to a former Inspector-General of Police and current Chairman of the Police Service Commission, Mr. Musiliu Smith. The retired General, who is currently the Chairman of Double Wealth Ventures Limited […]
Continue ReadingA Chief Magistrate court sitting in Yaba, Lagos state, has remanded the dismissed Police Sergeant, Samuel Philips in prison custody over the alleged shooting dead of a teenage girl at her home in the Ijeshatedo area of Lagos state on September 10. Phillips, 30, was arraigned before Chief Magistrate Adeola Adedayo by the police on […]
Continue ReadingLagos State Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources and the Ikeja Electric Plc (IE) has signed a Memorandum of Agreement (MoA) to boost power supply in the state. The agreement, signed at the Ministry on Tuesday, states that the Lagos State government would be financing the project, procuring and providing meters that comply with Ikeja […]
Continue ReadingNigeria’s Court of Appeal, Abuja Division, Nigeria, has ordered the government of Rivers and Lagos states to refrain from any action giving effect to the August 9, 2021 judgment of the Federal High court sitting in Rivers State, which conferred powers on Rivers State to collect Value Added Tax (VAT) and Personal Income Tax. Delivering […]
Continue ReadingMorenikeji Oluwaniyi, a medical doctor, has been reportedly strangled by a four-man gang in the Abule Egba area of Lagos State, Nigeria. The 27-year-old was said to have converted his Toyota Corolla to a Uber ride to raise money for his sustenance. According to Punch Metro, one of the hoodlums, identified only as Ahmed, requested to be […]
Continue ReadingJumoke Oyeleke, the 25-year-old saleswoman killed by stray bullets during the Yoruba Nation rally on July 3, has been buried. Oyeleke was buried on Friday, August 20, at the Atan Cemetery in Yaba, Lagos, Nigeria. Recall that Jumoke, a sachet water seller, was found dead in a pool of her own blood during the rally […]
Continue ReadingThe salesgirl who was allegedly killed by a stray bullet during the Yoruba Nation rally in Lagos on July 3, Jumoke Oyeleke, died from a missile injury, according to the report of an autopsy conducted on the remains of the 25-year-old on Monday. Reporters on July 3 had put her age at 14, maybe because […]
Continue ReadingSo many cars and other vehicles were submerged in water following the heavy downpour witnessed in Lagos state on Friday July 16. The areas that were most affected were in Lagos Island.
Continue ReadingVice Chairman of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW), Samuel Kayode, popularly known as Epo Kinkin, has been killed at the Agboju area of Lagos State, Nigeria. Channels TV reports that Epo who was a member of the ruling All Progressives Congress was at a rally organized by the party at Oriade Local […]
Continue ReadingFuneral rites of popular tele evangelist, founder and General Overseer of The Synagogue Church Of All Nations (SCOAN), late Prophet T.B Joshua, continued on Thursday morning July 8 with his body laid-in-state in his church in Lagos, Nigeria. His wife, children, family members as well as church members took turns to pay their respect to […]
Continue ReadingLagos authorities have slammed a N20,000 levy on Lagosians planning to host any event in Ikeja Local Government. The local government decision was contained in a memo signed by the chairman of Ikeja local government, Mojeed Balogun, in line with the Lagos State Government harmonized approved rates/levies payable, which was sent to event organisers and […]
Continue ReadingLagos lawyer and rights activist, Funmi Falana, has filed a formal request for a coroner inquest into the killing of a salesgirl during Saturday’s mega rally of Yoruba Nation agitators at the Gani Fawehinmi Freedom Park, Ojota, Lagos. The teenage girl, whose name, is given as Jumoke Oyeleke, was found drenched in her blood and […]
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