Lagos State led the pack with N333.96 billion as the 36 states of the federation posted a total of N931.23billion internally generated revenue (IGR) in the 2017 fiscal year, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) has revealed in its just-released…
Lagos by-election: APC wins in Dopemu (Guardian)
The candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Mrs Rasheedat Adekunle, on Saturday emerged winner of the council by-election for Ward B(Dopemu) in Agege Local Government Area of Lagos State. Adekunle emerged winner after polling 980 votes to defeat MrAbdul-…
New era in Lagos: ‘As customers, govt. officials must treat the people with respect and dignity’ (Vanguard)
On assumption of office, Governor Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos State invested heavily in the transformation of the public service through trainings and workshops designed to bring about improved productivity, deepen knowledge, expand horizon and re-evaluate and sharpen the vision and…
Whose duty is it to bring condoms along? Ladies or Gents?
On episode 3 of MTV Shuga Naija, Tobi and Leila are caught in a situation most couples have found themselves; neither of you has a condom just when things are getting really interesting. Leila absolutely refuses to try any other…
South Africa let me down, says ousted Mugabe (Enca)
Former Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe says South Africa should have sent troops instead of a team of negotiators to prevent his ouster by the military last year. Mugabe said his regional neighbours betrayed him “in a sense”, in an interview…
* Monkeys, the thieves of Lagos posh estate (Punch) * Estate agent, 37, bolts with “Suya” man’s N.5m in Lagos (Vanguard)
THISISLAGOS MIDDAY NEWS UPDATE MARCH 24, 2018 Monkeys, the thieves of Lagos posh estate (Punch) It looks serene: sitting quietly at the boundary of Lagos and Ogun states, tucked in the middle of the chaos offered by Lagos, the…
Dapchi Schoolgirl: We were flown in Planes and taken over Rivers in Boats (ThisDay)
More curious details about how the Dapchi schoolgirls were returned to their town by Boko Haram on Wednesday morning have emerged, with one of the girls telling a British newspaper, The Guardian, that they were flown in planes, and taken over rivers…
Oba’s Curse: Come and take your pubic hairs, pants in our shrines – Native doctors beg victims of sex slavery (Vanguard)
For those, who doubted the efficacy of the curse on human traffickers by the Oba of Benin, Oba Ewuare 11, the calls on trafficked girls to come and take their pubic hairs and pants from shrines are indeed a direct…
Lagos govt, trucks battle for control of bridges, roads (DailyTrust)
The Lagos State government and the Nigerian Navy have again ordered truck drivers to vacate bridges and major roads as government battles the intractable traffic gridlock as trucks wait to access the Apapa port in Lagos. The long, snaky lines…
Police to establish Explosives Ordinance Training School in Borno (Guardian)
The Inspector General of Police (IGP), Ibrahim Idris, yesterday disclosed that the Police plan to establish an Explosive Ordinance Training School in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital, to train more personnel to address life-threatening issues relating to explosive ordinance handling…