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One evening in early September last year, Pius Adesanmi, telephoned me frantically from his base in Ontario. He had been calling for days and due to my excessively busy schedule at the time and the […]

Four people have been rescued from the building which collapsed at Egerton Square, Oke Arin, Lagos Island, on Monday. The Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA) announced this in a statement. “The building had been […]

On February 23, 2019, some hoodlums in Lagos attempted to disrupt voting in the neighbourhoods of Lagos that are occupied predominantly by Igbos. By the way the definition of “Igbo” is any man or woman […]

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has been reported to have stormed on Saturday a farm in Nasarawa State, belonging to the suspended Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Walter Onnoghen. The operatives, who must […]

Rotimi Amaechi, Nigeria’s Minister of Transportation, says the China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation (CCECC), in charge of the construction of the train station in Iju-Abeokuta suspended the free ride during elections for security reasons. Speaking […]

Tunde Oyekola One of the five persons standing trial for last year’s bank robberies in Offa, Kwara State, Ayoade Akinnibosun, on Friday told an Ilorin High Court that the police deliberately killed Michael Adikwu, a […]

The Ooni of Ife, Oba Enitan Ogunwusi, has said that the greatest misfortune that has ever befallen Nigeria as a nation was the discovery of oil and gas. Ogunwusi said this late on Friday during […]

Many people are feared dead as two-storey building collapsed at Bode area of Ibadan, Oyo State, on Friday evening. It was gathered that the building caved in around 5:50pm. Large number of people and sympathisers […]

The Lagos State Government on Friday began the demolition of distressed buildings on Lagos Island. The move is as a result of the collapsed three-storey building at Ita-Faji area of Lagos Islands in which several […]

The Lagos State Government on Friday released the official figures of pupils and adult who died in Wednesday’s collapsed building on Lagos Island. At a news conference at the Lagos Island General Hospital, Lagos, State […]

The Lagos State Government on Thursday shutdown 45 unapproved schools and buildings on Lagos Island following collapse of a three-storey building at Ita-Faji which killed several pupils. The Lagos State Government, through the Lagos State […]

National President, Building Collapse Prevention Guild (BCPG), Kunle Awobodu, says there are over one thousand buildings unfit for human habitation in Lagos Island. Awobodu made the disclosure in an interview with the News Agency of […]

Nigeria’s former capital city Lagos is missing on the list of 48 best cities in 2019 released on Monday. The list, an annual index published by Time Out, a global magazine in partnership with Tapestry […]

Adeshina Tiamiyu, general manager of Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA), says there is no casualty left under the debris of the collapsed three-storey building in the Ita-Faaji area of Lagos Island. Tiamiyu spoke with […]

On Tuesday, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) announced that supplementary elections in the five states where the gubernatorial elections were declared inconclusive would be held on March 23. In a statement signed by Festus […]

The National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) and the Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS) have resolved to include the National Identification Number (NIN) in the new e-passport. The agencies made the resolution when Aliyu Aziz, director general […]

Many primary school pupils were feared dead on Wednesday after a three-storeyed building at Ita Faji, Lagos Island, collapsed around 10am. The school was said to be on the last floor. A resident of the […]

THE Lagos State Task Force on Environmental Sanitation and Special Offences, on Tuesday, impounded 115 motorcycles, including 22 branded commercial motorcycles called ‘Gokada’ and ‘Maxokada’, for violating the state road traffic laws. The Chairman of […]

A passenger on Delta Flight DL54 travelling from Atlanta to Lagos yesterday died onboard. The airlines’ crew, according to the airlines, found the deceased unresponsive before landing. The development, however, caused other passengers to be […]