•Philip Aivoji The Lagos State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has called upon security agencies and government authorities at all levels to urgently intervene and secure the release of its chairman, Mr Philip Aivoji, who was kidnapped in the Ogere area along the Lagos/Ibadan Motorway yesterday around 6 p.m. The incident happened...
•Hoodlums No fewer than fifteen persons were last night declared missing as heavily armed policemen and suspected thugs invaded the Ijegun Egba community in the Amuwo Odofin Local Government Area area of Lagos. The image maker in charge of the state police command, Benjamin Hundeyin however told our correspondent that he was not aware of [&hel...
•Bishop Feyi Daniels An Ikeja Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court has sentenced a Lagos bishop, Feyi Daniels, to life imprisonment for raping his 23-year-old assistant (name withheld). Justice Rahman Oshodi also sentenced Daniels, the Bishop of I Reign Christian Ministry, Lagos, to three years in prison for sexually assaulting a 19-yea...
The Lagos State Taskforce yesterday, impounded at least 253 commercial motorcycles, popularly called okada, along Oshodi-Apapa Expressway, and Mile-2 axis of the state over violations of traffic laws. The okada riders were raided for operating on state highways and restricted routes after several warnings by relevant authorities, reports Vangu...
•Airport The Lagos State governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has disclosed a plan by the state to establish a commercial airline. The announcement was made yesterday during the comprehensive presentation of the administration’s achievements in the West of Lagos at the Lagos West Senatorial District People’s Town Hall Meeting. The state government is...
•Ify Aniebo and husband Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour Ify Aniebo, wife of the Lagos State governorship candidate of the Labour Party in the 2023 election, Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, has publicly apologised to an ex-worker who called her out recently for not paying his salaries. Following her husband’s intervention in settling the debt, she expressed remor...
•Tinubu The presidency has maintained that there are no plans to move the Federal Capital to Lagos as speculated in some quarters. Bayo Onanuga, the Special Adviser on Information and Strategy to President Bola Tinubu, stated this in a statement via his official X handle today. According to Onanuga, those peddling the rumour are dishonest, [&h...
•Lekki Conservation Centre The Lagos State Government has mandated the closure of the Lekki Conservation Centre for maintenance. This development follows a visitor’s lamentation on social media about the poor condition of the canopy walk bridge and several other sites, reports The Nation. A statement announcing the closure was made late yester...
•Tinubu Outrage yesterday trailed Northern senators’ position on the relocation of federal agencies to Lagos from Abuja. The senators had, aside from expressing angst against relocation of the agencies, also protested what they described as lopsided allocation between the North and South in the 2024 budget, arguing that the development was des...
•LAWMA workers clearing plastics from a canal in Lagos Lagos State Government today announced a ban on the usage and distribution of Styrofoam and other single use plastics in the state with immediate effect. This was announced by the Commissioner for the Environment and Water Resources, Tokunbo Wahab in a statement he personally signed. Accor...

