After months of controversy, Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu has approved the appointment of Professor Ibiyemi Olatunji-Bello as the 9th substantive Vice-Chancellor of the Lagos State University (LASU). In a statement on Thursday by the Commissioner for Information and Strategy,…
*Fake nurse arrested after collecting three-month salaries in Lagos (Punch)*Singer, Terry Apala, Robbed On Third Mainland Bridge In Lagos (DailyTrust)
Fake nurse arrested after collecting three-month salaries in Lagos (Punch) A woman, Olufunke Adegbenro, who was employed in July 2021 as a nurse in the Isolo General Hospital by the Lagos State Health Service Commission, has been arrested for allegedly…
*EFCC investigating SCOAN petition, says spokesperson (Punch)*Sanwo-Olu appoints new LASTMA GM (Guardian)
EFCC investigating SCOAN petition, says spokesperson (Punch) The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has said the agency was investigating a petition from the Synagogue Church of all Nations against some members of the church. The church had claimed that it…
*Suspected drug addict beats father to death in Kogi (Guardian)*Lagos Assembly passes VAT, open grazing bills (Punch)
Suspected drug addict beats father to death in Kogi (Guardian) A 21-year-old suspected drug addict, identified as Muhammed Yusuf, has allegedly committed patricide by beating his septuagenarian father, Alhaji Ibrahim Yusuf, to death. The suspect was said to have been…
*Families throng Lagos cemetery as fallen tree breaks graves (Punch)*Lagos communities fret over exposed vandalised petroleum pipeline (Guardian)
Families throng Lagos cemetery as fallen tree breaks graves (Punch) A windstorm, which uprooted an ancient tree at Abari Cemetery, in the Lagos Island East Local Council Development Area of Lagos State, has disrupted the peace and quiet in the…
*Sanwo-Olu meets doctors, grants their requests (Guardian)*Open grazing, VAT bills scale second reading at Lagos Assembly (Punch)*”The Wire” star Michael K Williams found dead (BBC)
Sanwo-Olu meets doctors, grants their requests (Guardian) Lagos State Government, yesterday, said there was no need for doctors in the state to have joined their colleagues in other states to embark on the strike called by the National Association of…
After 2 extensions, Lagos #EndSARS panel in race against October deadline
Barely a year after Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu set up a nine –man judicial panel to investigate police brutality, especially activities of the dissolved Special Anti-Robbery Squard (SARS) in the aftermath of the October 2020 Lagos State #EndSARS protests that allegedly…
Lagos evacuates 3-week-old baby, students from Plateau
Lagos State Government has evacuated a three-week-old baby, its mother and 64 other undergraduate students of Lagos studying at the University of Jos (UniJos), Plateau State. The evacuation followed recent attacks and killings in the state. The first set of…
*Angry father allegedly kills 7-year-old daughter to avenge wife’s infidelity (Vanguard)*Students laud LASG for evacuating colleagues from Plateau (Guardian)
Angry father allegedly kills 7-year-old daughter to avenge wife’s infidelity (Vanguard) Her name is Favour. The last time she set her eyes on her mother was in December 2019, when she was barely five years old. With tears in her…
*Tension in Abia as family of 7 die after eating suya (Sun)*Police arraign 25-year-old man over social media post (Punch)
Tension in Abia as family of 7 die after eating suya (Sun) There was palpable tension, yesterday, in Umueze, Umuakanu community in Umuahia North Local Government Area of Abia State, after seven people from the same family died after eating…