Lagos is already Nigeria’s largest city, but it’s still growing and fast.
The population of Lagos is predicted to increase by an astonishing 77 people every hour between 2010 and 2030, according to United Nations data, making it the fastest-growing city in Africa.
Strong economic growth, led...
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Eko Electricity Distribution Company (EKEDC) on Monday announced that, there will be power rationing in Lekki, Ikoyi, Victoria Island and some parts of Ajah.
This will commence from May 3.
In a statement signed by the General Manager, Corporate Communications Unit of EKEDC, Godwin Idemudia...
Lagos State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode, has appealed to Lagosians to bear with the government over the lingering shortage of fuel and power across the state.
In a statement issued on Wednesday by the State’s Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Steve Ayorinde, the Governor said Lagos...
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A 41-year-old woman, Antinlola Adeyemi, declared missing for about four days by family members, has been found dead in a deep well on Monday in Lagos.
The Director of Lagos State Fire Service, Mr Fadipe Rasaq, confirmed this to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN).
Rasaq said that the family had...
There was an explosion in Niger Biscuit, makers of Oxford biscuits and other confectionery in Apapa, Lagos State on Sunday.
Although men of the Lagos State fire service and the Nigerian Ports Authority are working hard to put out the fire caused by gas explosion, the company has been badly...
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About 10 persons were crushed to death on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway on Wednesday after an 18-seater Mazda bus collided with a truck opposite the Four Square camp, in the Ajebo area of Ogun State.
Eyewitnesses said that those who died were initially taken to the roadside before they were taken...
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Babatunde Ibrahim, twenty-eight years old suspect was arrested by operatives of Rapid Response Squad, RRS, in Lagos, where he confessed that he had stolen over hundred mobile phones, adding that stealing had become part of him since childhood.
Ibrahim, who was nabbed in Ikeja, where he told the...
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Six people are reportedly killed while some policemen have been critically injured by hoodlums in a riot at the Lagos popular perishable market in Mile 12.
Daily Trust reports that Ikorodu road was inaccessible from Ketu at the time of filing this report while trading is said to have been put...
Daniel Barnney, a Liberian, has been arrested for allegedly selling his son Emmanuel, to a 43-year-old woman, Ekah Richard, for N250,000. Barnney, one Pastor Samuel Osavitu and a worker at an orphanage, Alhaji Sunkanmi Adamu, are being quizzed at Festac Police Station over the matter.
The...
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A fatal accident happened this morning around Agric Bus Stop, Ikorodu area of Lagos State.
According to online reports, one of the new BRT buses crushed a bike man, smashing his head to pieces in the process.
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Olajide Olaoye, a photographer reportedly damaged the scrotum of his 13 years old apprentice, Pelumi Fawibe while beating him with a wire for being stubborn.
It was learnt that the boy had been living with the boss for three years before the incident happened on Sunday, February 15, at his shop...
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The Managing Director (MD), Spectranet Ltd., Mr David Venn, on Wednesday said Nigerians would no longer pay for calls and Short Message Services (SMS), on mobile networks before the end of 2019.
Venn made this prediction at an interactive session with newsmen in Lagos.
He noted that with the...
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An early morning fire in the Idimu, Ikotun area of Lagos State, has consumed a mechanic workshop and no fewer than 10 shops and three vehicles.
The fire started around 4am on Monday and was caused by an electrical surge.
Firefighters from the Lagos State Fire Service, Ikotun station, were said...
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Prince Agina, a middle-aged man, on Wednesday told an Igando Customary Court in Lagos State that his wife, Obianuju, has been poisoning his meals since 2008.
The union which was consummated on Dec. 24, 2006 in Anambra had been blessed with three children. Obianuju was also accused of frequent...
The Ogun State Police command, in its efforts to get Ogun State rid of crime and criminality, has arrested four suspected armed robbers along Ode Remo Road, Sagamu in Sagamu local Government Area of Ogun State, southwest, Nigeria.
The police detectives attached to Sagamu Division of the command...
Lagos State Government has given seven days ultimatum to residents to keep to the directives that gates or barricades leading to major roads in the state, is locked between 12 mid night and 5am with manned security guards to allow free flow of vehicular movement.
State Commissioner for Local...
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An aide to the Commissioner of Police, Railway Command, Lagos State, identified as Agu, has been arrested for allegedly raping and beating a lady until she fell into a coma, last Sunday.
PUNCH Metro gathered that the incident happened inside the policeman’s apartment in the Railway Police...
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A native doctor, Babatunde Ajisoloye, was on Friday arraigned before an Ikeja High Court for alleged sexual assault and rape.
Ajisoloye, however denied the two-count charge with no legal representation in court.
The prosecutor, Mrs A.B. Awosika, told the court that the accused committed the...
The Lagos State government, in the alert issued through the Ministry of Health and signed by the Commissioner, Dr Jide Idris, had stated that, “For prevention and control of Lassa fever, the general public is urged to avoid contact between rats and human beings; observe good personal hygiene...
A 25-year-old company driver who stole his company’s vehicle to transfer it from Lagos state to Ogun state has been arrested by the Rapid Response Squad (RRS).
Vanguard reports that Oguntade was directed to pick up a client at the airport and, thereafter, drop N150,000 with other persons on...
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