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His Royal Majesty, Oba Saheed Ademola Elegushi of Ikate Kingdom has lost his only son to the cold hands of death. The entire royal household has been hit by agony following the death of the heir apparent. The Oba and…
Kidnap kingpin, Chukwudimeme Onwuamadike aka Evans, and two others have been sentenced to life imprisonment for conspiracy and kidnapping of a businessman, Donatus Duru. The other two convicts are Uche Amadi and…
A medical doctor with Dowen College, Lagos, Dr. Mojisola Bisiriyu, yesterday told a Lagos coroner that she treated Sylvester Oromoni Jnr. for hip pain and not leg injury. Dr. Bisiriyu told Magistrate Mikhail Kadiri that…
The first defence witness in the trial of Nollywood actor, Olanrewaju James alias Baba Ijesha, charged with defilement, on Thursday, claimed that portions of the Closed-Circuit Television (CCTV) footage on the…
Mr Sylvester Oromoni Snr., father of the late Dowen College student, has alleged a cover-up between the Nigeria Police Force and Lagos State Directorate of Public Prosecutions (DPP) over the circumstances surrounding…
A businesswoman, Uduak Oluyede, has been shot dead by gunmen who robbed her bakery on Adetola Street, Aguda, in the Surulere area of Lagos State. According to PUNCH, the 37-year-old Uduak was alone at her shop when the…
The Lagos State Government has arrested the developer of a collapsed building at No. 16 Akanbi Crescent, Onike, Yaba for breaking the government seal on the property and violating the stop-work order. It was earlier…
Lagos State has banned the use of amplifiers, megaphones and other sound amplifying types of equipment at motor parks, saying the people have a right to live in a noiseless environment. At a joint news conference,…
Barely a week after operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, seized 14,080kg of Codeine based syrup at the Apapa seaport, Lagos, they have again intercepted 40,250 kilograms of the schedule 2…
Dowen College, Lagos, on Monday alleged before an Ikeja Coroner’s Court that it was ‘ambushed’ by Sylvester Oromoni Snr, father of a late student of school, Sylvester Oromoni Jnr. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN)…
Amid the speculations that the Lagos State Government is planning to reopen Dowen College, security operatives have been stationed at the school in Lekki. According to Vanguard, armed policemen with Armoured Personnel…
Lagos state chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) as berated the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for inviting the state's governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu to decamp ahead of the 2023 governorship election in the…
Former Lagos state governorship aspirant and a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Dr Ade Dosunmu, has given the condition the party needs to meet to emerge victorious in the 2023 governorship election in…
A 27-year-old trader, Somadina Umeh, has emerged as the sixth millionaire in the ongoing ‘5for5’ promo by ALAT by Wema Bank. The trader received his cheque for ₦1 million on Friday, January 27, 2022, during the…
Dowen College yesterday said its Board of Governors, including Founder and Chairman, Dr O. Olumide Phillips, had “chosen to retire” as part of its reorganisation following the death of one of its pupils, Sylvester…
The United States (US) Mission in Nigeria has extended visa fee validity to September 2023 to accommodate applicants facing difficulty in booking appointments for a non-immigrant visa. Thousands of applicants have been…
Nigerian rapper, Emeka Akumefule, better known as Blaqbonez has announced that his headline concert will take place a day before Valentine’s Day. The rapper signed to Chocolate City popular with his anti-love campaign…
When it comes to attractiveness for startups, Lagos leads the ranking of African cities according to data by StartupBlink. The Nigerian capital managed to outperform its direct competitors Nairobi, Cape Town and…
As vast and multi-coloured as this world is, change is the only constant. While we like to declare this fact in the negative, there are times when the constancy of change proves to be uplifting. For former Lagos State…
The Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association, MACBAN, has expressed their support behind the APC National Leader, Bola Tinubu, on his presidential ambition in 2023 general elections. The Fulani leaders made this known…
