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2023: Lagos monarchs endorse Tinubu for president

    Traditional rulers in Lagos State have endorsed All Progressives Congress (APC) National Leader Asiwaju Bola Tinubu for president in 2023. They described...

Angry father allegedly kills 7yr daughter to avenge wife’s infidelity

    Her name is Favour. The last time she set her eyes on her mother was in December 2019, when she was barely five years old.   With tears in her eyes,...

Man arraigned for alleged stealing of N1.5m telecoms parts

    A 43-year-old man, Lukman Afolabi, has been arraigned before an Ejigbo Magistrates’ Court in Lagos, for allegedly stealing telecoms parts worth N1.5m....

Court strikes out fresh motion by DSS to further detain Igboho’s 4 associates

    The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, on Tuesday, struck out a fresh motion the Department of State Services, DSS, filed for permission to further...

Court remands tailor, 24, for alleged possession of gun

    A 24-year-old tailor, Lukman Mohammed, was on Tuesday remanded at an Ikeja Magistrates’ Court for alleged possession of a gun. The police charged...

Passengers stranded as hoodlums block Lagos highway

      Passengers are stranded at Cele Bus Stop on Oshodi-Apapa Expressway following a protest against the Lagos State Taskforce by road transport workers,...

Land grabbers: Five killed, several injured in Lagos, Ogun attacks

    No fewer than five persons were killed and many others injured on Saturday when hoodlums attacked the Igbokuta/Gberigbe community, in the Ikorodu area of...

Artisan allegedly beats seven-year-old son to death over fish

    An artisan, Saviour Aniefok, has allegedly tortured his seven-year-old son, Nathaniel, to death at his residence at Amen Compound, in the Shangisha area of...

Wanted drug dealer arrested in church, man excretes heroin

    Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency have arrested a suspected drug dealer, Stephen Ikeanyionwu, who was declared wanted for allegedly...

COVID-19: Ogun lecturer tackles Lagos over detention, govt threatens prosecution

      A lecturer at the Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ago Iwoye, Ogun State, Adesola Adeleke, has accused the Lagos State Government of unfair treatment...

Tinubu support group tackle Yahaya Bello

    SUPPORTERS of the National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Ahmed Tinubu, under the aegis of Tinubu Support Group, have taken a swipe at...

Pro-APC group may approach court over ward congress

    A pro-All Progressives Congress group, the Lagos-4-Lagos Movement, has said it may seek the option of going to court if the report of the appeal panel on...

Omomeewa’s death: NANS gives Sanwo-Olu three-day ultimatum to meet five demands

      The National Association of Nigerian Students has asked Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu to probe the death of a student activist at the Lagos State...

Why Synagogue Church remains under lock

    On a Sunday morning when Christian faithful all over the world gather in churches to worship, the Synagogue Church of All Nations (SCOAN), whose founder,...

5-yr old Oyo-born kid bags chieftaincy title in Lagos

    History was made at the palace of Oba Babatunde Ishola Balogun, the Onisolu of Isolu kingdom, Ibeju Lekki, Lagos when the traditional ruler conferred a...

Why PDP hasn’t won Lagos governorship election since 1999 – Bode George

    A former Deputy National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Chief Bode George, tells TOBI AWORINDE about the crisis rocking the party and the...

Man kidnaps neighbour’s son, demands N2.5m ransom

    A resident of Aboru in the Ipaja area of Lagos, Desmond Okoroafor, has been arrested for the alleged kidnap of his neighbour’s eight-year-old son, Daniel...

LASU reacts to killing of former student

    The Management of the Lagos State University, LASU, has reacted to the killing of a former student of the institution, Mr Nurudeen Alowonle, popularly...

‘How student activist was killed hours after facing LASU panel’

The Education Rights Campaign has lamented the death of a student activist, Nurudeen Alawonle, popularly known as Omomeewa, some hours after he was invited to face a...

Land tussle: Landlord sues police for N5m

    Lagos landlord, Alhaji Ahmed Olorunnimbe, is seeking N5million from the police for alleged favouritism and breach of his family’s rights in land disputes...