Lagos, Nigeria News

Media Rights Agenda On 17 August 2008 at about 10.30 p.m. , Mr. Paul Abayomi Ogundeji, a member of the editorial board of the Lagos-based private daily newspaper "Thisday", was shot dead in Dopemu, a suburb of ...

Lagos State Government yesterday warned all hospitals in the state with mortuary facilities not to reject dead bodies, saying any erring hospital shall be sanctioned even as it said it would go ahead with the ...

NIGER Delta leaders and groups, Sunday, rejected an apparent plan of the Federal Government to tinker with the National Gas Masterplan to construct pipelines to channel gas, produced in the Niger Delta states ...

LEADERS of the senior staff union in the Construction and Civil Engineering companies in Nigeria under the umbrella of Construction and Civil Engineering Senior Staff Association CCESSA), weekend threatened to ...

T HE Deputy Governor of Lagos State, Princess Sarah Adebisi Sosan who doubles as the Honourable Commissioner for Education has commended DUFIL Prima Foods, manufacturers Of Indomie Instant Noodles for its bold ...

Idris is a pimp and makes no bones about it. Because of the way the sex industry works in Nigeria's northern city of Kano, he and the women he pimps have a co-dependant relationship - ' they exploit each other.

FORMER National Vice Chairman of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party , Chief Olabode George, was yesterday ordered to be remanded in the custody of EFCC till Tuesday.

Nigeria is committed to implementing international nuclear safeguards and safety regime in the process of generating electricity from nuclear power plants, local media reported Wednesday.

Somali militants have hijacked a Nigerian merchant ship, holding its captain, Graham Egbegi, and its crew hostage, local media reported Sunday.

Former Chairman of the Nigeria Ports Authority board of directors, Chief Bode George, and former Managing Director of the same authority, Alhaji Aminu Dabo, have been arrested by the Economic and Financial ...

The Independent Corrupt Practices Commission says it is investigating allegations of corruption against former President Olusegun Obasanjo.

OPERATIVES of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission in the early hours of yesterday, in Abuja, arrested former Chairman of the Nigerian Ports Authority and chieftain of the ruling People's Democratic ...

Barely 24 hours after he was arrested by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission , the former Deputy National Chairman of the PDP and Chairman Nigeria Ports Authority Board of Directors, Chief Olabode ...

T HE Nigeria-Ukraine Business Council has said that Nigeria imported steel, iron rods, fertilizers and other goods worth $200 million from Ukraine in 2007.

PRESIDENT Musa Yar' Adua, yesterday described the death of journalism icon, Alhaji Babatunde Jose, as a monumental loss not only to his family, and the people of Lagos, but to all practitioners of journalism in ...

Lagos State has launched a capacity development initiative to check growing incidence of child and maternal death in the country by introducing a two-day International Obstetric-Drill for doctors, nurses and ...

From cocktails with hip-hop stars to sushi with smooth-suited bankers, it's no wonder Nigerians moving back after decades in New York or London feel right at home among the high-rolling elite of Lagos.

Vision 2020 may be imperilled if Cybersecurity is not put in place to contain cyber crimes that have become prevalent in Nigeria, and the rest of the world even as the presidency has indicated its willingness ...

Nigeria's lead in Africa's telecom growth rate continued on the rise as statistics from the Nigerian Communications Commission showed that the nation recorded 53,332,149 Million Active Lines on the network as ...

C hief Jimi Agbaje, Democratic Peoples Alliance governorship candidate in the April 2007 polls told ABIODUN FANORO why his party is not in court like some other opposition parties, to stop the moves by the ...