A major fire outbreak has been reported at a commercial building housing a Polaris BankPolaris Bank branch on Broad Street, Lagos Island. While reports of casualties have emerged online, authorities are yet to officially confirm the number of deaths or injuries. Emergency responders are reportedly at the scene battling the blaze and assessing ...
•Flood The Lagos State government has warned that some parts of the state may experience heavy rainfall, rising water levels, riverbank overflows and flash floods between June 14 and June 21, 2026. The State Permanent Secretary, Office of Drainage Services and Water Resources, Mahamood Adegbite, citing a flood prediction update issued by the F...
•Ebola outbreak The Lagos State government has launched a statewide Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) awareness campaign, codenamed “Operation Lagos BioShield”, in a major preventive move aimed at shielding residents from the deadly virus amid fresh outbreaks in parts of East and Central Africa. The initiative signals heightened vigilance by authoriti...
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, has dislodged a powerful drug cartel in Mushin, a suburb of Lagos. The Frontier exclusively reports that the sting operation was carried out by the Agency in the early morning hours of yesterday, Sunday, June 14, 2026. According to our source who lives in the neighborhood and preferred […...
•#EndBadGovernance protest Protesters today took to the streets of Lagos in a renewed #EndBadGovernance protest, using the occasion of Democracy Day to demand urgent government action on worsening economic hardship, insecurity, unemployment, and the rising cost of living. The protest, which drew activists, civil society groups, and concerned c...
•Lagos Commissioner of Police, Fatai Tijani Lagos State Commissioner of Police, CP Fatai Tijani, has ordered a statewide clampdown on vehicles plying Lagos roads without number plates or with concealed registration marks, warning that offenders would be arrested and their vehicles impounded with immediate effect. The directive, according to Fa...
•Road Safety officials at an accident scene A commercial driver has lost his life in a multi-vehicle collision that occurred along the Lagos-Apapa Expressway. It was learnt from a statement yesterday by the spokesperson for the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority, Adebayo Taofiq, that the incident involved a commercial minibus and a Toyot...
Operatives of the Lagos State Environmental Sanitation Corps have arrested over 15 suspected environmental offenders around the Jibowu railway corridor in Lagos State. The Commissioner for Environment and Water Resources, Tokunbo Wahab, disclosed this in a post shared on his verified X handle today. The suspects were apprehended for allegedly ...
•Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State Phillips Consulting State Performance Index (pSPI), a comprehensive assessment of governance and development outcomes across the country has announced Lagos State as Nigeria’s leading subnational government after emerging as the only state to attain a five-star rating in the 2025. The annual ranking,...
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