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Amazon launches Lagos presence with spectacular drone display

Five hundred unmanned aircraft were released into the air at once. And the spectacle was breathtaking! In Eko Atlantic, Lagos, Nigeria, Amazon hosted the first-ever show activation of drones. In the afternoon of November 2nd, 500 drones that had been unpacked and programmed to fly in unison at the same moment based on mapping and Read More…

Crime Fraud Metro

EFCC re-arraigns Shasore on 14-count money laundering charge in Abuja

Olasupo Shasore, SAN, the former A-G of Lagos State, has once again been brought before the court by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Friday on a 14-count money laundering charge, barely 24 hours after he was arraigned before Justice Mojisola Dada at the Federal High Court, Lagos division, on a four-count charge Read More…

Legal Nigeria Top Story

Court adjourns Maina’s action against Interior Minister, NCoS CG due to illness

On November 18, a Federal High Court in Abuja will issue its ruling in a lawsuit brought by Abdulrasheed Maina against Interior Minister Rauf Aregbesola and Controller General (C-G) of the Nigeria Correctional Service (NCoS) Haliru Nababa. After Ibrahim Idris, counsel for Maina, and Abdulmumin Muhammad, counsel for the respondents, followed their procedures and presented Read More…

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Environment Epe Metro

Epe LG boss cautions against indiscriminate dumping of refuse

On Friday, Ms. Surah Animashaun, Chairman of Epe Local Government in Lagos State, issued a warning to locals not to deposit trash in undesignated areas, particularly on the sides of the road. Animashaun issued the warning in an interview with the newsmen on Friday in Epe. She claims that seeing enormous amounts of trash along Read More…

Metro Politics

Nollywood actors meet Lagos Speaker in support of BAT’23

To show their support for Sen. Bola Tinubu, the Progressive Coalition of Entertainers met with Mudashiru Obasa, Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly. The group, led by Mr. Saheed Balogun, visited the speaker on Friday at the compound where the assembly meets in Lagos. Obasa urged like-minded Nollywood actors, producers, and artists to Read More…

Crime Financial Crimes Fraud Metro

Court adjourns Fayose’s alleged N6.9 billion fraud trial to January 31

Ayodele Fayose’s alleged money laundering trial has been postponed by the Federal High Court in Lagos till January 31 and February 1. Due to a scheduling error, the case’s trial was originally supposed to continue on October 26. A new trial date was to be decided by the parties and set by the court. The Read More…

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Brazil Featured Notes Owei Lakemfa World

Lula: Battered Brazil rises from the canvas

LUIZ Inácio Lula da Silva, 77 had done his duty to his long-suffering country, Brazil.  His origins were rough, like those of his motherland.  The product of a polygamous family, he learnt to read at ten and began working at 12. At 19, while working as a press operator, he lost the little finger on Read More…

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Crime Fraud Metro Top Story

Lagos businesswoman wanted for N47m scam

On Thursday, an Ikeja Special Offences Court revoked Blessing Adanu’s bail and proclaimed her wanted for allegedly scamming her client of N47 million. Adanu has been charged by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) with two charges of acquiring money by false pretence and theft. When she was arraigned on December 19, 2019, the Read More…

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Education Metro

Lagos presses 200 ambassadors on sexual, gender-based violence

The Lagos State Government’s Domestic and Sexual Violence Agency (DSVA), inducted 200 students from Education District 1 as ambassadors against sexual and gender-based violence on Thursday. At the ceremony of induction at Iyana Ipaja, Mrs. Titilola Vivour-Adeniyi, the Executive Secretary of the Lagos State Domestic and Sexual Violence Agency (DSVA), spoke to the 200 ambassadors Read More…