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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Controversy has trailed the purchase of N5 billion vehicles for 40 lawmakers at the Lagos State House of Assembly, deepening the feud between Speaker Mudashiru Obasa and erstwhile Speaker Mojisola Meranda. It was learnt that Meranda purportedly led the purchase of about 39 vehicles for the lawmakers during the period Obasa was removed as Speaker. […]
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The Police Command in Lagos State has sealed a church over the alleged killing of a 28-year-old graduate of Lagos State University (LASU), Adedamola Ogunbode. The command’s spokesperson, CSP Benjamin Hundeyin, confirmed the development while briefing newsmen at the command headquarters in Ikeja on Monday. Hundeyin said that the church where some people alleged that […]
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The Lagos State chapter of the All Progressives Congress has disclosed that there was no agreement that the reinstated Speaker of the state’s House of Assembly, Mudashiru Obasa should resign in a bid to resolve the leadership crisis in the House. APC spokesperson in the state, Seye Oladejo, on Wednesday dismissed the claim in his […]
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The reinstated Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Mudashiru Obasa, held a meeting on Tuesday with his fellow lawmakers. The meeting held at the Assembly complex in Alausa, Ikeja was aimed at reconciling with his aggrieved colleagues following the leadership crisis which came to an end on Monday when the lawmakers reelected Obasa […]
Continue ReadingThe 49-day reign of Mojisola Meranda as Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly ended on Monday, when the lawmakers re-elected Mudashiru Obasa to lead them. The move is not unconnected to the resolutions of the mediating panel led by Chief Bisi Akande and Chief Olusegun Osoba, former governors of Osun and Ogun states, […]
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