The Peoples Democratic Party's governorship candidate, Olajide Adediran (popularly known as Jandor), has criticized the Lagos State Government for the protest staged by staff members of the Lagos State Internal Revenue Service.
Angry LIRS employees stormed the state House of Assembly in Alausa, Ikeja, on Monday, accusing management of...
Some waste contractors in Lagos State have raised their service fees, citing a rise in the price of diesel and an increase in the exchange rate, which they claim has increased the cost of truck spare parts.
Diesel, which was sold for N255 in 2021, is now sold between N770 and N820, according to a circular issued by one of the...
The second Betsy Obaseki Women Football Tournament concluded on Friday amid pomp and circumstance, with FC Robo Queens of Lagos crowned champions after defeating hosts Edo Queens 1-0 in an exciting final.
The 10-day event concluded with thrilling cultural displays, singing, dancing, and drumming, as well as exciting displays by...
The Lagos State Government has directed that the 2022/2023 academic year begin on September 5, 2022.
This was stated in a statement issued by the state's Director-General, Office of Education Quality Assurance, Abiola Seriki-Ayeni, and made available to The Nigerianwatch on Saturday.
It was noted that this was approved by the...
Oluseyi Olatunbosun, 39, was arraigned before a Tinubu Magistrate's Court for allegedly obtaining 42,500 Australian dollars under false pretences.
Olatunbosun is charged with three counts of conspiracy, obtaining by false preferences, and stealing.
The defendant, who appeared before Magistrate O.S. Abioye on charge number...
ALMOST 40 people including a four-member flight crew miraculously escaped death when an Overland Airways aircraft crash-landed at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport in Lagos yesterday after the engine caught fire in mid air.
In an inexplicable aversion of disaster, the 37 people aboard the ATR 42 aircraft, which...
Ayo Akinfe
Unlike anywhere else in Nigeria, Lagos requires federal infrastructure as it accounts for one quarter of Nigeria's gross domestic product (GDP), one third of non-oil GDP, attracts about 70% of foreign direct investment (FDI) and half of all Nigeria's cars ply Lagos roads
With a population of about 15m, Lagos is the...
Ayo Akinfe
Given that there are 200m Nigerians with about 50% of them being 18 and over, we should have a 20-year plan to build 40m housing units over the next 20 years
Of these 40m, the federal government will build at least 5m housing units in Abuja and Lagos each
All 36 state and the 774 local...
Ayo Akinfe
If we delve into the history of the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade, it is crystal clear that without Nigeria there simply would have been no global trade in human cargo
By my estimation, about one quarter of all the slaves in the New World came from Nigeria. It is no accident that our shores were called Slave Coast and the...
Ayo Akinfe
It is criminal laziness bordering on a crime against mother nature for a country with 853km of Atlantic coastline to be importing fish. I do not know of any other nation in the same position that does so
Again, this is a another case of crude oil making us lazy. We believed we had enough money to import anything we...
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