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…
*COVID-19 third wave: Sanwo-Olu says 135 died in Lagos, not 500 (Guardian)*Why operatives forcefully broke into BBNaija’s Dorathy’s house -EFCC (Punch)
COVID-19 third wave: Sanwo-Olu says 135 died in Lagos, not 500 (Guardian) Lagos State Governor, Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu, on Monday, disclosed that 135 persons have died in Lagos from COVID-19 during the third wave, and not 500 as being speculated.…
Model college parents accuses Lagos officials, principals of fraud
The Coalition of Chairmen and Executive of Lagos State Model Colleges Parents’ Forum has said the authorities of the schools are expending the funds provided by the government and the feeding fees that parents paid for personal use. The chairman…