Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has debunked the rumoured rift between him and President Bola Tinubu. He dismissef the rumour as baseless media speculation driven by outsiders “crying more than the bereaved.” Sanwo-Olu spoke to journalists on Sunday shortly after attending a high-level closed-door meeting with President Tinubu at his private residence in Ikoyi, Lagos. […]
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– Protests rock councils over controversial list – Party defends consensus, denies allegations Crisis is brewing within the Lagos State chapter of the All Progressives Congress ahead of the July 12 local government elections, as many chairmanship aspirants and party leaders have kicked against what they described as a plot to impose candidates. The aggrieved […]
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Agency Report The Lagos State Independent Electoral Commission has officially announced July 12, 2025, as the date for the much-anticipated local government election across the state. The announcement, made by LASIEC’s Head of Public Affairs, Tope Ojo, on Friday, signals the formal commencement of the electoral process for the 57 council chairmanship seats and 376 […]
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Lagos State Government has constructed about 1,290 classroom blocks and rehabilitated 386 others in six years. It has also supplied about 208,000 composite furniture pieces that address the ergonomics problems in schools. The Special Committee on Rehabilitation of Public Schools (SCRPS), chairman, Mr. Hakeem Smith, disclosed this on Tuesday during a briefing to provide an […]
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Lagos State’s Peoples Democratic Party’s governorship candidate in the last election, Dr. Abdul-Azeez Adediran, aka Jandor, on Monday defected from the party and moved over to the ruling All Progressives Congress. He announced his defection at a press conference in his Ikeja office on Monday, complaining of internal crises, indiscipline, and anti-party activities, which allegedly […]
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Lagos State has cemented its position as one of Africa’s economic powerhouses, with its Gross Domestic Product (GDP) hitting $259 billion based on purchasing power parity (PPP). This milestone places Lagos as the second-largest city economy on the continent. This was revealed during the official launch of the Lagos Economic Development Update (LEDU) 2025 on […]
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President Bola Tinubu has supported the return of Mudashiru Obasa as the Speaker of the embattled Lagos State House of Assembly despite an earlier recommendation by closest associates for his resignation. He took this decision as his way of resolving the leadership crisis that has for about two months been rocking the assembly of his […]
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Lagos State Police Command, on Wednesday, March 12, 2025, exhumed the body of a 28-year-old graduate of Lagos State University (LASU), Adedamola Ogunbode. The corpse was buried in a shallow grave behind LASU fence in the Ojo area of Lagos. The deceased, a Political Science Education graduate, was declared missing on January 16. The police […]
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Chairman of the Lagos State House of Assembly Committee on Information, Strategy, and Security, Ogundipe Olukayode, has dismissed claims that 25 lawmakers are planning to defect from the All Progressives Congress to an unnamed party. According to Leadership, Olukayode described in a Tuesday statement that the report is “entirely false and without merit.” “We categorically […]
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The Lagos State Police Command on Tuesday confirmed the location where the Lagos State University graduate, Adedamola Ogunbode, was buried, following the arrest of the principal suspect, Olaoluwa Ajisomo. Punch Metro exclusively learnt that the prime suspect, rumoured to have fled to the Benin Republic, was leading police detectives in locating the burial site of […]
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