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The Lagos State Government says it will ensure the delivery of the Lagos Resident Card, commonly called LAG-ID cards, to the homes of the residents more reliably. The LAG-ID card is a smart card introduced in July 2022 by Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu to allow residents to access state services seamlessly. At the launch of the […]
Security experts advise against using SMS messages for two-factor authentication codes due to their vulnerability to interception or compromise. Recently, a security researcher discovered an unsecured database on the internet containing millions of such codes, which could be easily accessed by anyone. 03/06 updates below. This article was originally published on March 4. The Sensitive SMS Database […]
Amid Nigeria’s food inflation crisis, new data by users has shown that it would cost a Lagos resident a little below N5,000 to feed daily. The data, which was submitted by locals on Numbeo, a platform that allows citizens and residents to provide data about cities and countries, shows that eating rice, milk, eggs and fruits […]
market survey by Peoples Gazette at Mararaba, an Abuja satellite town in Nasarawa State, shows that Indomie, groundnut oil and Irish potatoes prices have increased by over 100 per cent in recent weeks. Indomie Super pack, a popular noodles, sold for N8,500 earlier in the year, has hit N18, 000, increasing by over 100 per […]
Hi-Tech Construction Company, a local construction firm, has been constructing the Agric-Isawo road in the Ikorodu area of Lagos State for eight years now. However well intended, the construction has impacted home owners in the ways they least imagined. Olanipekun Ogunsanya, 75, acquired a piece of land in Agric in 1978 and erected a building […]
The management of Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH) is celebrating what it described as its first minimal access surgery on a 13-day-old baby at the hospital. Prof. Wasiu Adeyemo, Chief Medical Director of LUTH told journalists in Lagos that the surgery on the 13-year-old baby, a girl, is a milestone and the first of its […]
Billions of Mark Zuckerberg-led Meta’s Instagram and Facebook users were yesterday thrown into the dark as the social media platforms experienced total outage. Users across the globe reported widespread problems, including being logged out, encountering error messages, and being unable to refresh their feeds. This led to total panic across the world as users expressed […]
As the deadline given to banks to link all bank accounts to NIN elapsed last Thursday, many banks in the country are yet to implement the directive. Recall that the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN had issued a directive to all commercial banks in the country last year to restrict tier-1 accounts without proper Biometric Verification […]
The Lagos State Traffic Management Authority has disclosed that the agency arrested 19 suspected hoodlums for extorting unsuspecting members of the public in the state. The Public Relations Officer, LASTMA, Adebayo Taofiq, disclosed in a statement made available to PUNCH Metro on Tuesday, stating that a preliminary investigation had shown that the hoodlums had been caught using […]
The Manufacturers Association of Nigeria has said that 767 manufacturers shut down operations while 335 became distressed in 2023. This came against the backdrop of exchange rate volatility, rising inflation and other economic challenges that have worsened the investment climate. MAN stated this in a statement in which it condemned the recently introduced Expatriate Employment […]
