•Floods overwhelm Lagos Several areas of Lagos State were heavily impacted by flooding today following a downpour that submerged streets and disrupted movement across the city. Residents in the state on X reported difficulty leaving their homes and navigating major roads as floodwaters covered streets and blocked traffic. In Ago Palace Way, in...
•Scene of the incident The Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA) says a fully laden 40-foot container truck with registration number XP 368 AKD today overturned on a tricycle, killing a police officer and another passenger. The General Manager of LASTMA, Mr. Olalekan Bakare-Oki, stated this in a press release today in Lagos. Bakare...
•Some trapped workers struggle to jump down from the eight-storey building In the heart of Lagos Island’s bustling Broad Street, the Afriland Tower stands as a gleaming symbol of financial prowess. The glassy eight-storey building houses offices of the United Bank for Africa, Federal Inland Revenue Service, and United Capital Plc, among other...
•Lagos Police Command spokesperson, Abimbola Adebisi The Lagos State Police Command has confirmed the arrest of a member of the National Union of Road Transport Workers in Lagos State, Shamsideen Adio, for allegedly beating a dispatch rider to death in the Tapa Street, Lagos Island area of the state. It was learnt yesterday that [&helli...
•Trapped workers struggle to jump down as fire guts high-rise building in Lagos on Tuesday Survivors of the Tuesday’s fire outbreak at Afriland Towers in Lagos have blamed the incident on slow emergency response. This is just as the death toll has risen to ten. The six-storey building, located on Broad Street, Lagos Island, houses […]...
•Trapped workers in the burning high-rise building struggling to jump down Ten staff members of the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) and the United Capital Plc lost their lives in a widely reported fire at Afriland Towers on Broad Street, Lagos, on Tuesday. The deaths have been confirmed in separate statements by the FIRS and […]
•Shoprite This is not the best of times for the popular retail company, Shoprite in Nigeria as the firm struggles to stay afloat four years after the exit of its former South African owner from Nigeria’s retail business. Amidst the growing competition in the retail supermarket segment, Shoprite is fast losing its dominance in the […]...
•Charterhouse Lagos Charterhouse Lagos celebrates a major milestone as it opens its new boarding house and welcomes the first cohort of secondary pupils. It is a new chapter for the first British independent school in Lagos. Pupils, parents, and staff were present ahead of the 2025/26 academic year. There was traditional music and dance, creat...
Fire has broken out at a section of Afriland Towers, which houses a branch of the United Bank for Africa, and other companies in the Marina area of Lagos Island. The incident, captured in several videos shared on social media from different angles, showed thick smoke billowing from the high-rise building as panic spread across […]
Air Peace has announced delays on some of its flights across the country following heavy rainfall in Lagos this morning. The airline disclosed this in a statement signed by its spokesperson, Osifo-Whiskey Efe, today. According to the statement, the adverse weather conditions affected schedules but passenger safety remained paramount. “We wish ...
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