Lagos State governor, Akinwunmi Ambode has approved the appointment of Prof. Olanrewaju Adigun Fagbohun as the new Vice-Chancellor of Lagos State University (LASU).
Fagbohun is a professor of Environmental Law, was until his appointment Director of Research at the Nigerian Institute of...
Residents of Big Daddy Street in the Atinplome, Bagadry area of Lagos State on Tuesday stormed an uncompleted building in the area, which they suspected to be a ritual killer’s den, after a female victim raised the alarm, PUNCH reports.
It was gathered that at about 12am, while a carnival went...
A Lagos-based senior doctor has died shortly after attending to a patient.
Close relations blamed the death of Dr Akingbade of Veritas Clinics Limited, College Road, Ifako-Ijaiye, Lagos on stress, but nonetheless said he had a history of hypertension.
The deceased worked at Lagos State...
The Lagos State Government, through LAGBUS and its franchises, said it would provide free bus rides to residents on Friday, to commemorate this year’s Christmas celebration.
This is contained in a press statement signed by Mr Yemi Adesoye, the LAGBUS Public Relations Officer, which was made...
The DMO was established on 4th October, 2000 to centrally coordinate the management of Nigeria’s debt, which was hitherto being done by a myriad of establishments in an uncoordinated fashion. This diffused debt management strategy led to inefficiencies.
According to recent figures released by...
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As parts of the activities by the police to forestall the incursion of members of Boko Haram in the state, the police have met with hotel and hospitality owners in Lagos state, Nigerian Tribune reports.
The state police boss, Fatai Owoseni, said the meeting was as a result of the alarm raised...
For the typical everyday bus rider, you must have experienced some very annoying mannerisms and utterances from other bus users. There are times you may have confronted them and they heed while other times the outcome is just messy. For some reason, when it comes to anything public, people sure...
The new Consul-General of the Federal Republic of Germany in Lagos, Mr Ingo Herbert, on Monday said that no fewer than 30,000 Nigerians were currently living in different parts of Germany.
Herbert told NAN in Lagos that these include: those working, doing businesses, studying, as well as those...
The Lagos State Safety Commission has shut the multi-billion multi-national shopping outlet, Shoprite located at the Ikeja Shopping Mall, Ikeja, Lagos, southwest Nigeria, for allegedly breaching safety law.
Officials of the commission were said to have stormed Shoprite on Friday afternoon and...
President Muhammadu Buhari is expected to commission three helicopters purchased by Governor Akinwunmi Ambode’s administration as part of efforts to beef up security in the state.
Buhari, who will be visiting Lagos officially for the first time since his inauguration, will be handing over the...
The Lagos State Government has defended the N225bn it raised through the bond market, saying it is to meet the infrastructural needs of the state.
The Commissioner for Finance, Dr. Mustapha Akinkunmi, made the statement on Tuesday, at a meeting of government officials with stakeholders on the...
Lagos State government has received $200m loan request following the deliberation of the report of Ad-hoc Committee on Foreign and Local debt to which the request was referred a fortnight ago to the Senate
Senator Kabiru Gaya (APC Kano South), in a motion for the consideration of the report...
The fear of Boko Haram attacks in Lagos may have caused Education authorities in the state to direct schools not to hold normal early morning assembly sessions.
Some teachers in public schools in the state told SUN Correspondent that principals and head teachers have stopped morning assemblies...
The former Governor of Lagos state and minister of Works, Power and Housing, Babatunde Raji Fashola explains in an interview how he first met his mentor, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu.
From the interview, Fashola said, “I met Tinubu when he was the Treasurer of Mobil in 1990 or 1991. Tinubu's office was...
A Lagos lawyer, Nnaemeka Iheoinu, has said that it is wrong for President Muhammadu Buhari to appoint himself the Minister for Petroleum, instead of naming someone else for the position.
In an interview Daily Independent in Lagos, Iheonu, a member of the International bar Association (IBA)...
Sarafoam building located at Ikeja in Lagos is currently on fire, according to various reports.
This is occurring few days after Ebeano supermarket at Lekki, Idumota popular market and buildings in Lagos got burnt.
Cause of the fire incident is yet unknown.
Tragedy struck at the Magodo area of Lagos on Saturday as a bungalow building collapsed and killed four siblings.
The incident occurred around 4:50am while the siblings were sleeping in the three-bedroom bungalow.
Spokesperson, Lagos State Emergency Management Agency, LASEMA, Michael Kehinde...
The Lagos State Internal Revenue Service (LIRS) has sealed six companies for failure to remit N18.73 million personal income taxes of their workers to the state government on Wednesday.
The Assistant Head of Distrain Unit of the LIRS, Mrs Oluwalomona Ekosanmi, disclosed this to the News...
Unarguably, In Nigeria, Lagos is the richest state in terms of its commercial nerve centre as well and the internal revenue by the state compared to other states in Nigeria.
In some quarters, it is believed that Lagos IGR is bigger than another country's GDP.
Some of the facts include:
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