Category: Lagos State

History was made and then swiftly rewritten as Mojisola Lasbat Meranda, the first female Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, resigned on Monday after a brief 49-day tenure. Her departure, along with that of the Deputy Speaker, Chief Whip, and Deputy Chief Whip, plunged the Assembly into a moment of emotional upheaval, leaving […]

A tense legal battle unfolded at the Lagos State High Court today as 35 members of the Lagos State House of Assembly arrived to defend their decision to remove Mudashiru Obasa as Speaker. The lawmakers are facing a lawsuit filed by Obasa, who claims his January 13, 2025, removal was unlawful. Photos captured the arrival […]

Justice Yetunde Pinheiro of a Lagos High Court sitting in Ikeja has fixed March 7 for the hearing of all preliminary applications filed in the suit instituted by the embattled former Lagos Speaker, Mudashiru Obasa challenging his alleged unlawful removal as Lagos State House of Assembly speaker. The judge fixed the date after counsel representing […]

The embattled member of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Mudashiru Obasa, has said he would always do the right thing even without the approval of President Bola Tinubu. Obasa said this during an interview on Channels Television’s Politics Today programme on Thursday. The lawmaker representing Agege Constituency 1 had been removed from office as […]

Speaker in high spirits Lagos State House of Assembly Speaker, Mojisola Meranda, remains the substantive speaker, contrary to fresh reports of her resignation. An aide to Meranda, who described the reported resignation as fake news and requested anonymity, confirmed this to Vanguard on Wednesday while addressing the circulating rumors on social media. The clarification follows […]

Lagos State House of Assembly Speaker, Princess Mojisola Meranda on Wednesday debunked her reported resignation, saying she had no plan to resign. Reacting to her reported resignation through her spokesman, Segun Ajiboye, she said, “It is a lie from the pit of hell. There is no truth in the story. “I am doing my work […]

Former Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Mudashiru Obasa, has taken legal action against the Assembly and his successor, Mojisola Meranda, challenging the legitimacy of his removal from office. He filed the suit at the Lagos State High Court in Ikeja, arguing that his impeachment on January 13, 2025, was unconstitutional as it […]

Lagos State Government, in collaboration with Huawei Technologies, has deployed four new Intelligent Transport System sites to monitor and detect speeding and manage traffic flows. The Commissioner for Transportation, Oluwaseun Osiyemi, announced this during a press briefing on Thursday, stating that the new installations would complement the existing Automatic Number Plate Recognition cameras and other […]

A member of the Lagos State House of Assembly has debunked the report that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu had ordered the reinstatement of the sacked Speaker, Mudashiru Obasa. He described the report as “fake news” meant to distract the new Speaker, Mojisola Lasbat Meranda. Speaking off record, the lawmaker said: “This is nothing but fake […]

The Department of State Services on Thursday grilled members of the Lagos State House of Assembly in connection to a petition reportedly written by the former Speaker of the House, Mudashiru Obasa. According to reliable sources, more than half of the lawmakers were interrogated by the DSS for hours on Thursday before they were released […]