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US authorises exit of non-emergency personnel from Nigeria

Due to the increased risk of terrorist attacks in Nigeria, the U.S. State Department approved on Tuesday that non-emergency U.S. government workers and their families should leave the country. The most recent travel information comes after the United States and the United Kingdom issued a Sunday warning about a potential terrorist assault in the capital Read More…

Crime Domestic Violence Legal Metro

Lagos authorises auto dealer’s wife’s death inquest

The Lagos State Government has mandated a coroner’s inquest to determine the exact cause of death of the late Bimbo, the famous auto dealer Ikechukwu Ogbonna’s (also known as IVD) wife, who was recently reported to have passed away from serious burns. The instruction was given in a statement on Tuesday by Mr. Moyosore Onigbanjo, Read More…

Crime Legal Metro

Unemployed in court for supposedly pickpocketing woman N25,000 phone

Taofeek Alabi, an unemployed guy, appeared before a Lagos High Court in Tafawa Balewa Square on Tuesday for allegedly robbing a pedestrian of a phone. Alabi, whose home location was omitted, is awaiting trial on two counts of robbery and conspiracy to commit robbery. The Lagos State Government’s charge against the defendant, however, was one Read More…

Business Oil & Gas

Operators in the downstream sector criticise politicians’ role as corporate watchdogs

Oil and gas downstream enterprises have expressed worry about the role of lawmakers in policing private corporations. They bemoaned the time wasted attending to the MPs’ summonses and criticised the oversight role played by politicians over private enterprises that were being monitored and regulated by government authorities. The operators voiced their objections on Tuesday in Read More…

Motor Accident Nigeria

2 die, 4 injured in road crash on Lagos-Abeokuta expressway

Two individuals were killed and four others were injured in a collision involving a commercial bus, truck, and motorcycle on Tuesday near the Conoil Bus-Stop on the Lagos-Abeokuta expressway, according to The Ogun Traffic Compliance and Enforcement Corps (TRACE). Newsmen in Ota were informed by Mrs. Temitope Oseni, the Owode-Ijako Unit Commander of TRACE, who Read More…

Emergency Relief Nigeria

NEMA receives 137 stranded Nigerians from Libya

Another group of 137 Nigerians who were trapped in Libya have been brought to the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA). In a statement issued on Tuesday in Lagos, the agency reaffirmed this. The returnees, according to NEMA, boarded an Al Buraq Air Boeing 737-800 and arrived at Ikeja’s Murtala Mohammed International Airport’s Cargo Wing around Read More…

Assault Crime Metro Politics

Police looking into attack on Lagos PDP gubernatorial candidate

The Lagos State Police Command says it is investigating the attack on Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) gubernatorial candidate Mr. Olajide Adediran aboard his campaign train on Sunday. This was revealed on Monday by its spokesperson, Mr. Benjamin Hundeyin, on his verified Twitter account. “It is imperative to clarify that the party notified the Divisional Police Read More…