Panic erupted this afternoon after a mini gas tanker caught fire along the Owode-Elede corridor inward Ikorodu, Lagos, following a gas leak. Emergency responders said there were no reported casualties as of the time of filing this report. The Lagos State Fire and Rescue Service, in collaboration with the Lagos State Traffic Management Authorit...
•Fire guts fuel terminal in Lagos The Lagos State Fire and Rescue Service is currently battling a fire outbreak at the Bono Energy Terminal in Coconut, Apapa area of the state. The spokesperson for the LSFRS, Shakiru Amodu, confirmed this in a terse message sent to journalists today. He wrote, “The Lagos State Fire and […]
The Air Peace aircraft carrying the fourth batch of Nigerians from South Africa arrived this morning The aircraft conveying Nigerians repatriated from South Africa amid the ongoing hostilities against black migrants has arrived. The plane touched down at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport at about 10:42 a.m. One of the returnees who ar...
•Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State The Lagos State government has dismissed reports indicating that it recorded the highest number of new HIV infections in Nigeria in 2025. Dr Folakemi Animashaun, Chief Executive Officer of the Lagos State AIDS Control Agency (LSACA), while dismissing the report during a press briefing in Alausa, Ikej...
•Lagos flood Barely two days after Sunday floods, several hours of torrential rains Tuesday again triggered severe flooding in Nigeria’s commercial capital of Lagos this week, as the country’s weather agency warned of more rains in the coming days. Heavy rains sweep Nigeria between May and November, often resulting in dangerous floods where po...
The third batch of Nigerians evacuated from South Africa has arrived in Lagos following weeks of anti-immigration protests and xenophobic tensions in the country. The evacuees arrived aboard an Air Peace aircraft, which landed at the cargo terminal of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja, at about 10:54 a.m. today. … develop...
A total of 102,025 new HIV infections were recorded across Nigeria’s 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory in 2025, with Lagos State accounting for the highest number of new cases at 10,430, according to data obtained from the Federal Ministry of Health and Social Welfare’s State of the Health of the Nation Report 2025. […]
•Blackout Fresh concerns have emerged over the health of Nigeria’s naÂtional electricity grid following last week’s major disturbance on the Lagos transmission corridor, with power sector experts warnÂing that the country’s transmisÂsion infrastructure is dangerousÂly overstretched, underfunded and increasingly vulnerable to collapse. The alar...
Security operatives from Lagos and Ogun states have launched a joint offensive against criminal networks operating along the border corridor between the two states, leading to the arrest of 88 suspects, the rescue of five kidnapped victims, the recovery of arms and ammunition, and the death of four suspected criminals during encounters with se...
•Terrorists Finding No. 45, Abimbola Street, off Capitol Road in Lagos’ bustling Agege area was anything but straightforward. House numbers appeared to have been assigned without any discernible order. Number 63 sat before 41, while another property bore 55, reports Sunday Vanguard. Residents pointed in different directions whenever enquiries ...
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