•Power outage A power outage has hit some parts of Lagos following a gas tanker explosion that occurred on the Lekki-Epe Expressway yesterday. The affected areas are Medallion Company, Sangotedo, Majek, Awoyaya, Eputu, Lakowe, Lasoro, Fidiso to Kolajo, and Elemoro Police Station, reports Channels TV. The Eko Electricity Distribution Company co...
•Scene of the accident Tragedy struck in the early hours of today when two people, a tipper driver and his assistant, both male adults were burnt beyond recognition, and many others injured when he rammed into a fully loaded stationary truck with gas along Lekki-Epe Expressway, Tera Ahmeed Bus Stop, Sangotedo area of Lagos, causing […]...
•Tinubu back in Lagos President Bola Tinubu arrived in Lagos in the early hours of today following a two-day state visit to the United Kingdom. According to his Special Adviser on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, the President and his wife, First Lady Oluremi Tinubu, touched down at about 1:15 a.m. at the Presidential Wing […]
The Amalgamated Union of App-Based Transporters of Nigeria (AUATON), Lagos State chapter, has announced a threeday strike starting yesterday. The union’s Public Relations Officer, Steven Iwindoye, made the announcement during a news conference in Lagos yesterday. The app-based drivers in Lagos have raised concerns over what they described as p...
The Lagos State government has revived the monthly environmental sanitation exercise as Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu officially flagging off the exercise at the Mushin–Agege Motor Road corridor, alongside his deputy, Obafemi Hamzat. The exercise, which had been abandoned for years following a court ruling that nullified compulsory restriction o...
•Flooding in Lagos The Lagos State government has urged residents to avoid actions that can cause flooding, such as indiscriminate refuse dumping, clogging drains with silt or construction debris, and building within or around drainage rights-of-way and setbacks. This appeal comes after the prediction of early-to-above-normal rainfall and seas...
The Police Service Commission (PSC) has approved the promotion of 13 Commissioners of Police (CPs) to the rank of Assistant Inspectors-General of Police (AIGs). The development followed their successful performance in the recently concluded written examinations and oral interviews held at the Commission’s headquarters in Abuja, reports The Nat...
About three minutes after nursery, primary and secondary school students were evacuated from a four-storey building in Lagos, the structure collapsed. The building, located at 11 Adudatu Street, behind County Hospital in the Aguda axis of Ogba, houses Yemco Nursery, Primary and Comprehensive College. •The building before collapse It came down...
The pump price of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS), popularly known as petrol, has risen to as high as N1,040 per litre in Lagos and N1,080 per litre in Abuja, following fresh adjustments by fuel marketers. The increase comes barely a day after the Dangote Refinery raised its ex-gantry price of petrol to N995 per litre, […]
•The Wole Soyinka Centre for Culture and the Creative Arts in Iganmu, Lagos (formerly National Theater) As part of efforts to combat corruption and recover misappropriated public funds, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has handed over the sum of ₦279 million to the Wole Soyinka Centre for Culture and the Creative Arts, forme...

