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Former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar‘s son, Aminu, has approached the Lagos State High Court, Igbosere, to upturn a magistrates’ court verdict awarding custody of his two children to his ex-wife, Unmi Fatima Bolori Aminu told Justice Kazeem Alogba that the lower court did not grant him...

The Lagos State Police Command has uncovered an illegal distillery, where fake malt drinks, stout and ethanol are produced, at Igba Afa community in Igbogbo Bayeku area of Ikorodu. Five persons were arrested, while drums of finished malt and stout drinks waiting to be transferred to different...

Five policemen attached to the Nigeria Police Cooperative Multi-Purpose Society in Ikeja, Lagos State, have been arrested for alleged fraudulent conduct. The suspects, including senior officers and rank and file, were reportedly picked up by operatives of the Inspector-General of Police...

A woman has disappeared after her 35-year-old lover, identified simply as Sikiru, drowned in the swimming pool of a hotel in the Ishashi area of Lagos State. Sikiru and the woman had visited the hotel, Regional Hotel and Suites, when the incident happened. Click here to read more

There was confusion in the Ojota area of Lagos State after a middle-aged man, identified only as Muyibi, collapsed and died in a commercial cab. It was learnt that the victim boarded the cab after withdrawing money from a United Bank for Africa branch in the Ogudu area. Click here to read more

Lagos State governor, Mr Akinwunmi Ambode, on thursday said the state has led the way in reducing waste while increasing productivity, pointing out that the gain was partly the result of the extensive investments in knowledge and skills by his administration. Governor Ambode disclosed this...

Residents of Jerico Police Barracks and Oto community in the Ijora Badia area of Lagos State have expressed happiness over the sealing up of an asphalt producing company in the neighbourhood, Righteous Construction Company Nigeria Limited. The firm was shut down on Thursday by the state...

Brimming with confidence like the salesman of an elixir that promises to finally cure an intractable disease, the Governor of Lagos State, Akinwunmi Ambode, told participants at an environmental conference last July, that Visionscape, a foreign waste management company, was the solution to the...

Lest we become guilty of what we accuse others of doing, it is important that we, today and for posterity, say it loud and clear that based on the cost and benefit analysis of President Muhammadu Buhari’s visit to Lagos, last Thursday and Friday. we must inform the President and all those who...

The Presidency and the Governor of Lagos State, Akinwunmi Ambode, have disagreed over what President Muhammadu Buhari went to do at the Eko Atlantic City during his two-day working visit to the state. Governor Ambode said in his official Twitter handle that the President went there to...

The National Agency for Food Drug Administration and Control, (NAFDAC), has arraigned a popular traditional medical practitioner, Mr. Olayemi Lateef, before a Federal High Court, Lagos, for allegedly producing fake and counterfeit sex enhancing drugs. NAFDAC in a six-count charge, stated that...

Three weeks after operatives of the Department of State Services allegedly abducted a port worker, Moruf Ajao, at his home in the Aguda, Surulere area of Lagos State, his lawyers and family members have yet to see him. According to punch newspaper a letter to the Director General of the DSS...

Scores of security men including officials of the Department of State Security (DSS) led by DCP Operations, Lagos State Police Command, Mr A. Mohammed, have invaded the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) office, Ikeja Branch. The siege followed a threat by the NBA led by its Chairman, Mr Adesina...

THE Land Use Charge Law 2018, LUC, recently enacted by the Lagos State House of Assembly to replace the LUC of 2001, has understandably kicked off a firestorm of protests across the state because of what many see as its shylock provisions that if implemented, will be very … Read more via...

Arrangement has been concluded for the maiden VCN Wheelchair Tennis Championship holding at the Tennis Courts of the National Stadium, Lagos. The national championship is expected to bring top wheelchair tennis players from different parts of the country. Tennis coach Kayode Savage, who is the...

The 30 year old marriage between an 88-year old man and his wife has been dissolved by an Ikorodu Customary Court in Lagos on Thursday. The man Mr. Gbeminiyi Adeyiga, 88, had told the court he no longer wants to be … Read more via Naijaloaded | Nigeria’s Most Visited Music & Entertainment...

Martins Ifijeh Children are dying needlessly from vaccine preventable diseases namely measles, tuberculosis, diphtheria, pertussis, tetanus, poliomyelitis and yellow fever because parents and caregiver are uninformed about the importance of this very simple act of immunisation to the health...

Lagos State Governor Akinwunmi Ambode (middle); his wife, Bolanle (fifth right); Chief Judge of the state, Justice Opeyemi Oke (fourth right); Chief Whip, Lagos State House of Assembly, Rotimi Abiru (third right); Attorney General/Commissioner for Justice, Adeniji Kazeem (second right); Deputy...

Dr. Jide Idris, Commissioner for Health The Lagos State Government says it will soon launch its health insurance scheme. The state Commissioner for Health, Dr Jide Idris, told newsmen in Lagos on Monday that government was firming up arrangements to ensure the success of the scheme. He … Read...

Lekki-Ikoyi link bridge Despite its vast heritage, expressed in modern and contemporary monuments, Lagos still lacks an iconic spot to symbolise the city on the global tourism space.In public monuments such as architecture and art, a people’s history and value are … Read more via The Guardian...