Governor Soludo says Former Nigerian Tennis Champion, Tanya Okpala who was seen begging on the street in Anambra state is now in their custody. Good news! . . . 📍- follow our Instagram backup @melodyinter.com1 📍- If you love our updates.. Kindly follow our page and "on" our notification. ...

Following the debates sparked by the Oba of Benin, Oba Ewuare II, recently on who founded Lagos, SAMUEL BOLAJI writes on oldest history books attributing the founding of Lagos to the Yoruba and not Benin.The debate over who founded Lagos has been around for some time, with different ...

LAGOS—FOLLOWING the dust raised by the Oba of Benin, Omo N’Oba N’Edo, Oba Ewuare II, over the founders and settlers of Lagos, the Olofin of Isheri and Adimula of Awori Kingdom, Oba Sulaimon Bamgbade, yesterday, insisted that the Awori people were the first settlers in Lagos.But the Erelu Kuti ...

The Federal Government, on Thursday, announced the closure of the Lagos Third Mainland Bridge, starting from midnight of Saturday, October 21, to midnight of Sunday October 22 to carry out repairs.The Federal Controller of Works in Lagos State, Mrs Olukorede Kesha, in a statement, said the ...

The Lagos State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal will deliver judgment for Lagos State on Monday, September 25, Punch Online reports.Via a post on X, formerly Twitter, on Saturday, the governorship flag bearer for the Labour Party, Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, said that he has been informed ...

The Economist Intelligence Unit, EIU’s 2023 Global Liveability report has ranked Lagos as the Fourth Worst City to live in the world.The report surveyed 173 cities and used 30 qualitative and quantitative factors across five broad categories: stability, healthcare, culture and environment, ...

For a man who has successfully pinned down his Lagos political rivals to submission, suggestions as to whether President Bola Tinubu could transform Nigeria into his political image is now a matter of debate.Considering the cavalier surrender of the likes of Chief Bode George, and before then, ...

Uthman Salami and Muhammed LawalArmed men have started seizing the opportunity of the gridlock being caused by the collapsed section of the Ijora-Olopa Bridge in Lagos to dispossess unsuspecting motorists and passers-by of their valuables.PUNCH Metro reports that a portion of the bridge ...

By Racheal AyodeleMinister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Raji Fashola has stated that the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, LP, Peter Obi’s victory in Lagos in the just concluded general election was a surprise to the All Progressives Congress, APC.Fashola, who was the ...

Seun OpejobiFollowing the arrest of Eze Igbo of Ajao Estate, Fredrick Nwajagu, the Ohanaeze Ndigbo has said the Igbo would not leave Lagos State for anybody or reason.In a statement to mark the 2023 Easter celebration, the Secretary-General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Okechukwu Isiguzoro said Igbos ...

The Eze Igbo of Ajao Estate, Lagos, Fredrick Nwajagu, has been arrested by the Operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS) over an alleged threat to invite members of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) to Lagos to secure properties of Igbo people in the state.Vanguard gathered that ...

By Evelyn Usman, LAGOSPandemonium broke out, yesterday, at Omonile, Abule-Ado community in Amuwo Odofin Local Government Area of Lagos State, after thugs launched an attack on residents of the area, leaving many of them injured.Some shops were destroyed while windscreens of cars parked on ...

By Clifford Ndujihe, Politics EditorAFTER one week of postponement, the stage is finally set. The Governorship and State Assembly elections will be held today. There will also be 11 senatorial and 35 House of Representatives polls that were not concluded or conducted on February 25.In spite ...

As the electoral battle for the soul of Lagos State  gathers momentum, the Director-general of Labour Party’s Presidential Campaign, Akin Osuntokun, yesterday, accused the All Progressives Party (APC) in Lagos State of playing the ethnic card  ahead of the saturday’s governorship and state house of ...

This is seen in a viral video in which the loyalist to Bola Tinubu was addressing a gathering and warning their Igbo neighbours not to bother going to the polling units on Saturday if they intended to vote for candidates other than the ruling party's flag bearers.The Lagos State ...

The Lagos State Labour Party governorship candidate, Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, says Nigerian youths are 90 per cent close to taking over governance and having their dream country materialise.The 40-year-old LP candidate disclosed this at a meeting tagged, “Youth O’ Clock” in Ikeja on Thursday, ...

Lagos State Governor, Babjide Sanwo-Olu, has declared a three-day mourning for those who died in the BRT train accident on Thursday morning.He also directed flags to fly at half-mast and civil servants to work half-day tomorrow (Friday).Recall that a BRT staff bus conveying workers of the ...

By Esther OnyegbulaMany have sustained an injury in an accident involving a moving train, a Lagos state Staff bus, on Thursday morning in the Shogunle area of Ikeja.It was learned that the blue staff bus was trying to cross while the train was closed by in motion. The magnet on the train ...

By Evelyn Usman, LAGOSPersonnel of the 9 Brigade of the Nigerian Army, yesterday, recovered 1,671 Permanent Voters Cards, PVCs, in an apartment in the Olodi-Apapa area of Lagos State.Three persons were subsequently arrested in the apartment, while the prime suspect was said to be on the ...

The All Progressives Congress, APC, in Lagos State and Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu are wide awake ahead of the next round of general elections.The governorship and House of Assembly polls will be held on Saturday, two weeks after the presidential and National Assembly exercise. ...

Ochogwu SundayAhead of the governorship elections coming up on Saturday, a man yet to be identified has threatened to stop supporters of the Labour Party from casting their ballots.This is coming amid reports that political thugs attacked and intimidated the LP supporters ...

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, on Monday accused the All Progressives Congress, APC, of mounting pressure to have 25 percent votes in the country.Dele Momodu, the spokesman of PDP Presidential Campaign Council, said APC was trying to manipulate election results in Lagos and the Southeast. ...

Lagos, Kano, and Kaduna among other states will determine the presidential candidate that would succeed President Muhammadu Buhari on May 29, judging from the number of Nigerians who have collected their PVCs to vote, according to statistics released by the Independent National Electoral ...

There are many reasons why no other state in Nigeria can catch up with Lagos in terms of economic development. We shall take a look at some of these reasons in the subsequent paragraphs. The fact that Lagos was a former capital of Nigeria is an advantage that will continue to work for the state. ...