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NSCDC defends detentions of suspected fake NYSC member, fraud suspect

Nigeria, March 16 -- The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) has dismissed reports alleging bribery and unlawful detention of a 69-year-old man Umar Bala and a purported National Youth Se... Read More


Four killed, four injured in another Lagos road accident

Nigeria, March 15 -- Four passengers were killed and four others injured in a road accident involving a truck and a commercial mini bus along the Lekki-Epe Expressway in Lagos, the Lagos State Traffic... Read More


Lagos to resume monthly environmental sanitation

Nigeria, March 14 -- The Lagos State Government has announced the resumption of the monthly environmental sanitation exercise nearly a decade after the programme was suspended. Residents across the s... Read More


Demolitions: Makoko residents, activists react to Lagos Assembly's relocation proposal

Nigeria, March 12 -- Residents of demolished Lagos waterfront communities, inlcuding Makoko, and civil society organisations have raised concerns over the recommendation by the Lagos State House of As... Read More


Demolitions: Court postpones Lagos protest leaders' trial

Nigeria, March 12 -- A chief magistrate's court in Yaba, Lagos, on Wednesday, adjourned the trial of Taiwo Hassan, popularly known as Soweto, and Dele Frank, leaders of a protest at the Lagos State Ho... Read More


How school children escaped shortly before collapse of building in Lagos

Nigeria, March 10 -- A three-storey building of Yemco Daycare Nursery, Primary, and Comprehensive College in Ogba, Lagos State, collapsed on Monday around midday, but no injuries were reported thanks ... Read More


Alleged $1.043m Fraud: Court adjourns Fred Ajudua's trial indefinitely

Nigeria, March 10 -- The Lagos State High Court in Ikeja has adjourned indefinitely the trial of Lagos socialite Fred Ajudua over an alleged $1,043,000 fraud. The trial judge, Mojisola Dada, took the... Read More


Group seeks probe of Lagos CP Jimoh over alleged assault on activist

Nigeria, March 9 -- A coalition of civil society organisations has petitioned the Police Service Commission (PSC) to investigate Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Moshood Jimoh, over the alleged abd... Read More


Four-storey school building collapses in Lagos

Nigeria, March 9 -- Students and teachers narrowly escaped death on Monday after a four-storey building housing a school collapsed in the Ogba area of Lagos, South-west Nigeria. The building, which h... Read More


One killed, six injured in Lagos road crash

Nigeria, March 8 -- One person has died and six others sustained injuries in a road crash involving a commercial bus and an articulated truck along the Oworonsoki-Apapa Expressway in Lagos early Sunda... Read More