•Fallen Truck On Gbagada Expressway, Lagos Motorists experienced slow-moving traffic on the Gbagada Expressway in Lagos today after two separate accidents, one involving two major trucks and another involving two trailers and five other vehicles, disrupted the free flow of traffic on the busy corridor. Our correspondent, who was at the scene, ...
•Refuse dumpsite in Lagos The Lagos Environmental Sanitation Corps, popularly known as KAI, has rescued four nursing mothers and their babies from an illegal dumpsite at Agboju along the Lagos-Badagry Expressway in Lagos State. According to a statement on the agency’s X page yesterday, the rescue was carried out on Monday as part of an [&helli...
•Blackout Lagos residents are currently lamenting the darkness which has engulfed parts of the state since yesterday afternoon. The areas hit by the blackout are those covered by the Ikeja Electricity Distribution Company (IKEDC) namely: Ikeja, Abule-Egba, Akowonjo, Oshodi, Shomolu, and Ikorodu. The Frontier reports that, after the heavy rains...
The Commonwealth Institute of Advanced and Professional Studies (CIAPS) will, on Tuesday, August 11, host the public presentation of two new books by renowned academic, scientist and columnist Professor Adebayo Lamikanra, in what is expected to be a major gathering of Nigeria’s intellectual and professional community. The Frontier report...
•Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State Lagos State governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, yesterday said the state faces a deficit of about 40,000 doctors and another 40,000 nurses, while its health sector requires at least N100 billion above current budgetary provisions to meet the needs of its growing population. The governor also disclosed that...
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has alleged that senior professors in Lagos State-owned universities now earn less in monthly remuneration than secondary school principals in the state’s public service. The union described the situation as a reflection of the declining welfare of academics, while accusing the Lagos State govern...
•The protesters carrying placards The #TakeItBack Movement today staged protests in Lagos, Abuja and other parts of the country over worsening economic hardship, insecurity, inflation and what the organisers described as political repression under the Bola Tinubu administration. The protests, held under the banner of the “Festival of the Oppre...
•Scene of the building collapse in Ajuwon, Ogun /Lagos border town A two-storey building has reportedly collapsed in the Ajuwon area in Ifo Local Government Area of Ogun State, a Lagos border town, leaving an unspecified number of people trapped beneath the rubble. The incident reportedly occurred near Bada Hospital, close to Ajuwon Bus Stop, ...
A fire outbreak has gutted a branch of Justrite Superstore along Akowonjo Road in the Egbeda/Alimosho area of Lagos State, destroying goods and property estimated to be worth millions of naira. Emergency teams from the Lagos State Fire and Rescue Service and the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA) were promptly deployed to the sce...
•Students of the fake Lagos University during the raid by NSCDC The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, Badagry Area Command, has uncovered a suspected fake university operating from a three-bedroom apartment in Ilado, Olorunda Local Council Development Area of Lagos State, rescuing 106 youths allegedly recruited into the scheme. The Com...
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