in lagos

A 28-year-old unemployed woman identified as Temitope Abiodun, who was arrested for allegedly bathing her neighbour, Mrs Mercy Ifijah with faeces has been released on N100,000 bail. The accused, a resident of Agege, a Lagos suburb, is standing trial on charges of assault, breach of peace...

A Junior Secondary School pupil I of the Lekki British International School, Lekki, Lagos, has been expelled for allegedly putting sulphuric acid and ethanol in the water bottle of his classmate. The 12-year-old was envious of the 11-year-old female classmate, who had beaten him to the first...

A sad and unfortunate incident has claimed the lives of five family members who were murdered by the dreaded Badoo cult gang after they attacked the family of five at Olopomeji, Odogunyan area of Ikorodu, Lagos state. It was gathered that the dreaded members of the cult killed the man, his wife...

Detectives are on the trail of a yet to be identified middle-aged man for allegedly depositing a 10-year-old boy whom he abducted in exchange for three bags of rice worth N48,000. The suspect allegedly abducted the boy while he was on an errand for his mother at Prince bus stop, Isheri Osun...

A 26-year-old woman, Oluchi Paul, has been arraigned before an Ikeja chief magistrate’s court over the alleged kidnap of a teenage boy for the purpose of regular sex. The accused, a trader, who resides at 6, Yanusa Lane, Water Works, Iju, a suburb of Lagos, is facing a three-count charge...

Kidnappers have written the Lagos State Model College, Kankon, Badagry, with a vow to abduct some pupils and staff members of the school. Punch reports that the kidnappers sent two letters of the same content to the junior and senior sections of the college respectively. In the letters, the...

A lady in her early 30s was yesterday caught at Elepe, Ikorodu area Lagos state. She was allegedly caught trying to take a child from her mother's room. The mother raised alarm when she saw the kidnapper chanting incantations on the child. She was thereafter held by people around. According to...

An orphan, Friday Paul, is currently fighting to live after his uncle drove a three-inch nail into his head for stealing N500. The eight-year-old Friday lives with his uncle and his immediate family in a room apartment at 6, Anjolarin Street, Odogunyan, Ikorodu, after the death of his (Friday)...

The Lagos State Police Command has arrested a 19-year-old woman, Ayomide Adebayo, for allegedly dumping her two-month-old baby in a bush in the Ikorodu area of the state. Adebayo, a secondary school leaver, was allegedly impregnated by one Martins Tewogbade, who lives in the Bariga area of...

Two men — Promise Oluwabunkenoye and Kehinde Abiola — on Wednesday appeared before a Surulere Chief Magistrates’ Court in Lagos charged with anal sex. The accused — Oluwabunkenoye, 24, and Abiola, 29 — whose addresses are unknown, are facing a two-count charge of same-sex, having sexual...

Parents of kidnapped students of the Lagos State Model College, Igbonla, Epe stormed the Lagos state Governor’s Office demanding for the release of their children 14 days after they were abducted by gunmen at Lagos House, Alausa, Ikeja, Wednesday. See photos below:

Teenage daughter of a pastor with the Assemblies of God Church, Rev. Uche Okereke of Iyana Ipaja branch, Lagos State, Chioma, has abandoned her home and followed her Muslim lover, Sadiq Moruf. There has been a serious fight playing out between Pastor Okereke and his daughter over Moruf...

A gang of four last week stormed the Christ Apostolic Church, Sanctuary of Blessing, in the Iju Ishaga area of Lagos State and stabbed the head of the ministry, Pastor Ibukun Adeyinka. They, however, did not leave with any property of the church as they immediately scaled the fence of the...

A Lagos based pastor, Lewa Timothy of First Born Of The Spirit Ministries, Lagos, has been arrested and will be arraigned at a Lagos state magistrate court for allegedly having sex and impregnating 14 year old Chineye, the daughter of one of his members. In an interview with LIB, Barrister...

The Lagos State Government has distanced itself from the demolition of Sabo market on Itoikin road in Ikorodu. In a statement issued on Friday by the Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Mr. Steve Ayorinde, the Government said it did not demolish the market and would not demolish any...

The Lagos State Government has allegedly demolished Sabo market, in Ikorodu area of the state. Photos and video below show distraught shop owners wailing as they woke up to see their places of business destroyed. See photos and video below:

The Minister of Aviation, Senator Hadi Sirika, has explained that the vibrations experienced at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), were not in any way a structural issue at the foremost airport but was rather as a result of the unlatched doors where some coolers which have just...

The man who committed suicide at FESTAC link bridge yesterday has been identified as Bayode Ahmad Lawal, a graduate of UNILORIN. Bayo reportedly struggled with his friends who tried stop him, before he finally jumped inside the canal. See his photo below:

A 29- year- old man, Ajao Olalekan, was on Friday arraigned in an Ikorodu Chief Magistrates’ Court, Lagos State, for alleged forceful sexual intercourse with his 19-year -old girlfriend. Olalekan, the resident of Morayo Benson Street, Ikorodu, is facing a charge of forceful sexual...

The police in Lagos State have recovered the body of a banker, identified only as Ken, who reportedly died on top of a woman during marathon sex at a popular hotel located at NNPC junction in Ejigbo area of the state. Ken, who worked with one of the new generation banks in the state (name...