Boss Mustapha, Secretary to the Government of the Federation, alerted Nigerians of the existence of a Twitter account fraudulently purporting to represent the Presidential Transition Council (PTC) on Sunday in Abuja. The PTC’s chairman is Mustapha. “The attention of the PTC has been drawn to a fake Twitter handle, @TransitionNgr (https://twitter.com/TransitionNgr) created by unscrupulous persons Read More…
In a unanimous decision victory over American Jermaine Franklin on Saturday at London’s 02 Arena, former heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua returned to winning ways after suffering two straight losses. The 33-year-old Nigerian-British fighter was making his ring comeback after losing four straight fights to Ukrainian champion Oleksandr Usyk, who holds the WBA, IBF, WBO, and Read More…
The countdown to the third anniversary of Lagos Metropolitan newspaper (LM) has begun. The online publication was launched at the onset of the global pandemic – COVID-19 – on 13 April 2020. Since then it has been an arduous journey that has taken LM through many encounters, one of which was the #endsars crisis, which Read More…
Wild Africa Fund has partnered Laycon Cares Foundation (LCF) and its client, Laycon, to raise awareness on illegal bushmeat trade in Nigeria. This is contained in a statement signed by Mr Festus Iyorah, Nigeria Representative Wild Africa Fund on Friday in Lagos. The statement said that Wild Africa Fund had signed agreement with the Big Read More…
Emirates Airline reported on Friday that it had “substantial” sums of ticket sales money stranded in Nigeria and has made little headway remitting the monies out of the continent’s largest economy. Hadi Sirika, Nigeria’s minister of aviation, had earlier told reporters that the Dubai-based airline had gotten the majority of its funding outside of Nigeria Read More…
A REUTERS REPORT Nigerian artist Adebayo Ayodeji is targeting children to play traditional instruments like drums, which he worries could become extinct and erase an important aspect of the culture in Africa’s most populous country. In the megacity of Lagos, parents bring children to his twice-a-month drumming workshops to learn how to play drums and Read More…
The Lagos State National and State House of Assembly Election Petition Tribunal has received 25 complaints from aggrieved parties thus far. The Rosaline Omotosho Courthouse in Ikeja, which serves as the location of the tribunal sittings, had the petitions taped to its walls. In one of the lawsuits, the Labour Party candidates for the National Read More…
The Most Rev. Alfred Adewale Martins, the Catholic Archbishop of Lagos, has denounced all expressions of ethnic profiling as well as the violence that was seen in some areas of Lagos State before, during, and after the most recent elections. The prelate urged the state government to call all parties to order and put in Read More…
The opposition Labour Party candidate in Nigeria, Peter Obi, has filed a court lawsuit challenging last month’s disputed presidential election, according to the party, starting off what could be a lengthy legal battle spanning several months. There have been numerous legal challenges to previous Nigerian presidential election results, but none have been successful. Obi campaigned Read More…
A two-storey building holding the Onitsha main market Police Station and stores selling lace fabrics was destroyed by fire on Tuesday early in the morning. Firefighters fought for hours to put out the fire while some traders managed to save their wares and others stood aside helplessly by as their stores were destroyed. Firefighters and Read More…
