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Some telecommunications subscribers expressed displeasure on Wednesday over the barring of their lines by telcos, despite having linked their National Identification Number (NIN) with their SIM cards. The subscribers expressed their displeasure in separate interviews with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos. NAN reports that telecommunications (Telcos) operators in Nigeria, including MTN, Airtel, […]
In the wake of the recent report of a 7-month pregnant woman who lost her life as a result of domestic violence, the Lagos State Domestic and Sexual Violence Agency has received yet another distress call from a mandated reporter in the early hours of today of an alleged case of domestic violence involving another […]
There is an ugly rash of sand filling of the Lagos Lagoon and the Atlantic Ocean going on that should concern Lagos residents, particularly homeowners and businesses in the neighbourhood of these disturbing activities. Bennett Oghifo writes For what it is worth, some believe it is a good business decision to create land from the Lagos Lagoon […]
The Lagos State Physical Planning Permit Authority (LASPPPA) on Tuesday said it sealed more than 700 buildings for various contraventions in 2023. Mr Kehinde Osinaike, General Manager, LASPPPA, disclosed this while leading an enforcement team of the authority across Ikeja Local Government area of the state. Osinaike said that the authority was embarking on early […]
The Lagos State Government has stressed the need for green and improved air quality across the State to ensure healthy living for the citizens. The government stated that the present air quality in many parts of the State as indicated in the State’s Air Quality Index is unhealthy. As a result, the State government through […]
The Lagos State Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court in Ikeja, on Tuesday, remanded a man Onyeka Mbaka in the Nigerian Correctional Centre for the alleged defilement of a 15-year-old girl. Justice Rahman Oshodi made the remand order of the defendant after he was arraigned on a count of defilement preferred against him by the […]
The family of a three-month-old pregnant mother of six, Deborah Fawolere, who died at the Gbagada General Hospital in the early hours of Tuesday, has accused the husband of having a hand in the death of his wife. PUNCH Metro learnt from the sister of the late wife, Toluwalase Adedoyin, that the husband, Idowu Fawolere, did […]
The Federal Government through the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission has issued 13 new licences for the generation of off-grid and embedded power, independent electricity distribution, as well as for the trading of electricity. It said the new licences were issued in the third quarter of 2023, as the cumulative quantum of electricity to be generated […]
by Ray Morphy As last year was ending, the youth of Nigeria began adopting for the coming new year, a slogan: “No gree for anybody!” The slogan represented their aspirations for a new Nigeria that progressive, accountable and responsive to the demands and needs of modern nationhood. They had apparently surveyed the past few years and […]
As global elites, political leaders and influential personalities converge on Davos, Switzerland for the yearly World Economic Forum (WEF), a report by Oxfam has revealed that Africa’s seven richest men own more wealth than the 700 million people, who make up the poorest half of the continent’s population. The document, which is on inequality and […]
