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Lagos, Nigeria’s economic nerve centre, and self acclaimed centre of excellence, is now the fourth worst city to live in the World. This is according to the Economist Intelligence Unit, EIU, a sister publication of The Economist of London. According to the EIU’s 2023 Global Liveability Report, Lagos was ranked above Algiers, the capital of […]
Justice Raman Oshodi of a Lagos Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court, sitting in Ikeja, has sentenced a man, Eniola Wasiu Ibrahim to life imprisonment for raping his girlfriend. The judge found him guilty as charged by the state government.The government had charged him for having sexual intercourse with his girlfriend without her consent. He […]
A Federal High Court, sitting in Lagos, has restrained Lagos State Government and the Commissioner for Environment and Physical Planning from granting permission to Axxela Gas and Power Distribution Company to built a gas pipeline in the residential area of Kuramo Waters, Victoria Island, pending the determination of the application filed by Princely Court Limited. […]
As part of efforts to drastically curb Sexual and Gender-based Violence, SGBV, and ease financial plights of Women in Lagos State, the Ministry of Women Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, WAPA, is collaborating with Women’s Rights and Health Project, WRAHP, a non-governmental organisation, which focuses on Justice and Psychosocial support services for female survivors of SGBV. […]
– Commemorates Y2023 World Blood Donor Day Celebration with Awareness Walk, Symposium Lagos State Government is working out modalities to subsidize the high cost of screening of blood products to reduce the burden of the cost incurred by healthcare providers, health facilities operators and members of the public, during blood transfusion process chain, the Governor […]
The High Court of Lagos State will on July 24, begin its annual vacation to end the 2022/2023 legal year of the state judiciary. The vacation will end on September 15, 2023. A statement signed by the acting Chief Registrar, Mr. Tajudeen Elias, said the Chief Judge of Lagos State, Hon. Justice Kazeem Alogba, had […]
An unidentified woman was severely brutalized by some police officers stationed close to the Lagos State House of Assembly, Alausa, Ikeja, on Wednesday at about 2pm. According to eyewitness accounts, the dark-skinned woman, spotting a low cut, was picked up close by the cops, who accused her of being a cultist. According to the eyewitness, […]
– Inaugurates 17-Member Technical Working Group The Lagos State Government has reiterated its determination to eradicate youth restiveness, child marriage and other practices negatively affecting youth development in the State. This was made known by the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Youth and Social Development, Pharm. (Mrs.) Toyin Oke-Osanyintolu at the inauguration of the Technical Working […]
A Lagos Special Offences Court, sitting in Ikeja, has remanded a man, Emmanuel Okpo, at the Ikoyi custodial facility, after pleading guilty to engaging in cryptocurrency fra. Justice Rahmon Oshodi ordered that Okpo should be kept at the facility pending judgment in the case on June 16. Okpo pleaded guilty to a count charge of […]
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Lagos Zonal Command, on Wednesday, June 14, 2023 continued the prosecution of one Bernard Nzenwa before Justice R.A. Oshodi of a Lagos Special Offences Court, sitting in Ikeja, by presenting two more witnesses, one Stephen Fadeyi, an official of the Nigerian Customs Service, NCS, and one Titi Osuntoki, […]
