•Lagos CP Fayoade visits school girl shot with teargas canister The Commissioner of Police in Lagos State, Adegoke Fayoade, has ordered a detailed investigation into the incident of a 12-year-old Aminat Alege allegedly hit by a teargas canister fired by officers of Dopemu Division. The officers allegedly fired the teargas while responding to p...
Chairman of Ikoyi-Obalende Local Council Development Area (LCDA) in Lagos, Mr Fuad Atanda-Lawal, has approved 100 per cent pay rise for the medical doctors attached to all the primary health centres in the council area. Atanda-Lawal made the announcement yesterday after extensive deliberations on the need to ensure that all residents of the co...
•Speaker Obasa The Lagos State House of Assembly has urged the government to support Amina Alege, a 12-year-old student of the Adam Yakubu Memorial High School in Lagos State, who suffered an eye injury after she was allegedly tear-gassed by the police. The incident occurred on Friday, February 9, 2024, in front of a mosque […]
•Scene of the explosion There was pandemonium as a yet-to-be-ascertained number of shops with goods were destroyed in a fire that occurred late last night when a gas tanker caught fire along the Agbado Road in the Toyin area of Ifako Ijaiye Local Government Area of Lagos State. The Director of the Lagos State Fire […]
•Speaker Obasa The Lagos State House of Assembly has decried the continued downward slide in the value of the naira against the dollar. As at today, a dollar hovered between N1,474 and N1,500 and the lawmakers, at plenary, advised the federal government and the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) on some bold steps to take […]
•Lagos PPRO Benjamin Hundeyin The Lagos State Police Command has alerted residents of Oworonshoki, Alapere, Ogudu and Ketu areas on the return of one-chance robbers. Lagos Police spokesman, SP Benjamin Hundeyin, in a terse statement on his verified X handle, said the Force will increase checks in these areas which may result in some delays [&h...
•Obasa In response to the growing threats of kidnapping and other forms of insecurity in Nigeria, the Lagos State House of Assembly has called on the National Assembly to commence urgent constitutional amendment to allow for the creation of state police. At a plenary session today presided over by the Speaker, Rt. Hon. Mudashiru Obasa, [&helli...
Tragedy struck midnight into this morning as a gas explosion caused a fire outbreak in residential makeshift structures covering over two acres of land at Star Road, by Horizon Heights, Ikate-Elegushi, Lekki area of Lagos State. The incident, which was attributed to negligence on the part of the occupants, destroyed properties worth millions o...
•Speaker Obasa The Lagos State House of Assembly resumed plenary today with a call on colleagues of late banker, Herbert Wigwe, to sustain his legacies. Wigwe, the Chief Executive Officer of Access Holdings, lost his life in a helicopter crash in the United States of America. He was with his wife, Doreen, son and Abimbola […]
•Bernard Sang Kenyan’s Bernard Sang has emerged winner of the Access Bank 2024 Lagos City Marathon. Sang beat about 80 other elite marathoners in the 9th edition of the race this morning to win the 42km race. He won the grand prize of $50,000. The Kenyan finished at 2 hours, 16 minutes, and 49 seconds […]

