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Lagos Metropolitan goes full commercial

Launches marketplace LAGOS METROPOLITAN newspaper (https://lagosmetropolitan.com) introduces online classifieds advertising for households and micro & small businesses. Advertisers can now make obituary announcements, promote the sale of used items, offer properties for sale or rent, trade-off used or brand-new cars, or seek life partners on the paper’s self-service portal. They can also post advertisements for Read More…

Entertainment Top Story

LM’s WHAT’S ON! takes on a life of its own

The lifestyle section of Lagos Metropolitan, What’s On!, now has it’s own standalone portal. This can be found at https://whatson.lagosmetropolitan.com What’s On! features unique stories on personalities, lifestyle tips, culture, couture, history, fine, literary and performing arts including reviews on literature, music, film, theatre and general entertainment. It will endeavour to bring news and reviews Read More…

Football Sports Top Story

Mane double eases Liverpool to 2-0 win over 10-man Chelsea

Two goals from Sadio Mane just after halftime eased champions Liverpool to a 2-0 win over 10-man Chelsea in the Premier League season’s first heavyweight clash at Stamford Bridge on Sunday. The game never threatened to live up to the eight-goal thriller when the side’s met in July, and it proved all-too-easy for Liverpool to Read More…

Health Metro Top Story

LASG shuts down 30 Health Facilities for regulatory noncompliance

…Reopens Five Facilities No fewer than 30 health facilities across the State were sealed in the months of July and August, 2020 by the Health Facilities Monitoring and Accreditation Agency, HEFAMAA, for non-compliance with regulatory standards. The Executive Secretary of the Agency, Dr. Abiola Idowu, who disclosed this today at the Secretariat, Alausa, Ikeja, explained Read More…

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Featured Metro Travel

Ember months: FRSC tasks Lagos motorists, transport unions

The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) on Wednesday called on road users to shun impatience while driving, to prevent unnecessary human and material losses during the 2020 “Ember” months in Lagos. The Sector Commander of FRSC in Lagos State, Mr Olusegun Ogungbemide, made the call in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) Read More…

Business Consumer Featured Power

Electricity consumer group threatens to sue NERC over tariff increment

A group, the All Electricity Protection Forum, says it will sue the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC), if the recent increment in electricity tariffs is not reversed. Its Public Relations Officer, Mr Gideon Balogun, on Wednesday in Lagos decried the tariffs increment as announced by the electricity Distribution Companies on Sept. 1. Balogun said the increment Read More…

Business Commodities Featured

Africa launches $14m coffee sector enhancement amid COVID-19

The Inter-African Coffee Organisation (IACO) said on Wednesday it has jointly launched a $14.3 million intervention programme to alleviate the impact of COVID-19 on the continent’s coffee sector. IACO said it has teamed up with the International Coffee Organisation (ICO) and the Centre for Agriculture and Biosciences International (CABI) to design an emergency intervention programme Read More…

Sports Tennis Top Story

Muchova sends Venus to first opening round loss at U.S. Open

Karolina Muchova took advantage of an error-prone Venus Williams to advance 6-3 7-5 into the second round of the U.S. Open on Tuesday. With this, she handed the two-times champion her first opening round loss at the tournament. Muchova broke Williams to start the match. She deployed a wide variety of shot-making, including a pinpoint Read More…

Infrastructure Metro Top Story Travel

Sanwo-Olu calls for remodeling of Lagos airport

Gov. Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State on Tuesday called for remodeling of the Murtala Mohammed International Airport (MMIA) to increase traffic and revenue. Sanwo-Olu made the call in Ikeja when  the Federal Airport Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) management paid him a courtesy visit, ahead of the re-opening of airspace for international flights. He advised the Read More…

Featured Metro

Surveyor General Office, NDLEA partner to check menace of cannabis

The Office of Surveyor-General of the Federation (OSGF) has mapped out suspected locations of cannabis plantations across the country. Mr  Yusuf Aro-Lambo, Principal Surveyor, OSGF, made this known on Tuesday in Abuja, when he made presentation at the 2020 Virtual Survey Coordination Conference and Meeting of the Advisory Board on Survey Training, organised by the Read More…