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Olubunmi Dada While some of her physically challenged contemporaries are worried sick and depends on relatives, especially the sighted for survival, Olubunmi Dada has gone past that, as she carves a niche for herself in music and now beads making and … Read more via The Guardian Nigeria...

The National Youths Service Corps (NYSC) in Lagos State has confirmed the death of a corps member, Nneka Odili, who was crushed to death by a train along the Ikeja axis rail line. DAILY POST recalls that efforts to drag the corps member back when an oncoming … Read more via Daily Post Nigeria –...

Residents Allege Diversion Of Power Supply To Industrial Estates Residents of Araromi-Alade Community, via Owode-Ijako, along Lagos/Abeokuta Expressway in Ado-Odo/Ota Local Council of Ogun State are livid with the Ibadan Electricity Distribution Company (IBEDC) for keeping them in darkness for...

A businessman has been found out to be in the unusual habit of wearing high feels to work everyday just a woman would do. Read more via Tori News – http://ift.tt/2FKb95b Get More Nigeria Metro News

Nigerian billionaire, Femi Otedola, brought his A-game dance moves to the floor, as he vibed to Davido’s hit single ‘Dami Duro’ with his kids and wife. The excited dad who shared the video on his Instagram page, captioned it; Getting down with my girls! Cc: @davidoofficial… … Read more via...

The Unilag Alumni Association has pledged that N408.5m in scholarships will be given to indigent, first class students of the varsity. News reports have revealed that the Unilag Alumni Association, Lagos State branch has proposed a total of N408.5million in scholarships to … Read more via...

By Rose Moses At the Senate the other week, another controversial subject was thrown into the political space as Senator Aliyu Sabi Abdullahi (APC, Niger) proposed a Bill seeking for establishment of an Independent National Commission for Hate Speeches. The Bill also prescribes death sentence...

Intensifies construction of landfill sites to clear refuse By Olasunkanmi Akoni Determined to tackle the menace of increasing waste challenges in Lagos State, Visionscape Sanitation Solutions, VSS, an environmental utility group, under the Cleaner Lagos Initiative, CLI, of the state has...

A man who appeared invalid has been accused of robbing a bank in broad daylight. The man, who appeared bound to the wheel chair, with a pitiable brace around his neck, and a cast on his leg, is actually a member of four-man robbery gang that unleashed terror … Read more via Punch Newspapers –...

For repeatedly having sex his 16-year-old sister-in-law, a 52-year-old, Olusola Williams, is to cool his heels in prison, an Ikeja Chief Magistrates’ Court ruled on Friday. Olusola is to remain in Kirikiri Prisons, Lagos, for the next 38 days, according to Chief Magistrate Taiwo Akanni, … Read...

A truck reportedly conveying kegs of petrol was gutted by fire at the early hours of Friday at Allen Junction, Ikeja, Lagos. Though the vehicle was completely burnt in the inferno, it was gathered that nobody died in the incident. According to eyewitnesses, the fire was triggered … Read more...

A Junior Secondary School student at Ohafia in Arochukwu Local Government of Abia State has reportedly gave up the ghost after excessive consumption of Tramadol, which was said to be 10 tablets of the drug. The statement which followed the incident was made by … Read more via Gossip Mill...

Fiona was groomed into prostitution at 15 and has now won the legal right not to have to tell employers. Read more via BBC – http://ift.tt/2oVOE3x Get More Nigeria Metro News

As the debate over the recently revised Lagos State Land Use Charges (LUC) rages on, a Price Waterhouse Coopers (PWC) report has compared Lagos state to the fictional Wakanda, setting for the wildly popular Black Panther film. According to an excerpt of the report, the consulting suggested that...

The United Kingdom government has concluded arrangements to build a £695,525 wing at KiriKiri prison in Lagos state, Nigeria. The construction of the new section, is a fulfilment of a 2014 prisoners’ transfer agreement reached between Nigeria and British governments. Nigerians currently serving...

Black Africa’s Richest Female Magnate, Folorunso Alakija has said women are not in fierce competition with the men. Alakija stated this during a visit to The Nation Headquarters in Lagos on Thursday which coincided with the commemoration of the International Women’s Day. “We are not in...

Washington – Researchers said they have discovered an HIV antibody that can suppress the virus for nearly six months without additional treatment. RESISTANCE: HIV drugs are fast losing potency causing widespread panic The new study involved about half of a group of monkeys, infused with a...

We’ve all made bad decisions when drunk, such as eating uncooked food, calling people in the dead of the night, and sometimes spending more than we should have, which is what a certain Kenny Bachman did when he got drunk after a night out partying with his friends where … Get More Nigeria...

DSS detains Daily Independent’s Abuja Bureau Chief, Tony Ezimakora Authorities of the Department of State Services (DSS) have detained Independent Newspapers’ Abuja Bureau Chief, Tony Ezimakor. Ezimakor was invited and detained on Wednesday, February 28, at the DSS Headquarters in Abuja at about...

The security system is to blame – Aliyu Modibbo, Entrepreneur In my opinion government and their the security agencies should be blamed. There are lapses in those villages that are close to the bush where the terrorists are located hence the abduction. There is need for the government … Read...