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UPDATED: Fire guts plaza at Tinubu Square in Lagos

Nigeria, Sept. 17 -- A massive fire on Tuesday evening engulfed a commercial plaza at Tinubu Square in the CMS area of Lagos Island, sending traders and passersby into panic. A PREMIUM TIMES reporter... Read More


Fire guts plaza at Tinubu Square, CMS, Lagos

Nigeria, Sept. 17 -- A massive fire on Tuesday evening engulfed a commercial plaza at Tinubu Square in the CMS area of Lagos Island, sending traders and passersby into panic. PREMIUM TIMES reporter s... Read More


Court refuses bail for UK-based businesswoman in alleged N500m fraud case

Nigeria, Sept. 16 -- The Federal High Court in Lagos has refused a bail application filed by Aminah Momoh-Orimoloye, a United Kingdom-based businesswoman accused of N500 million fraud. The judge, Mus... Read More


Lagos police command gets new PRO

Nigeria, Sept. 16 -- Abimbola Adebisi, a superintendent of police, has been appointed as the new spokesperson for the Lagos State Police Command. The appointment was announced on Monday in a statemen... Read More


Groups call on Tinubu to exonerate Saro-Wiwa, commit $1 trillion to Ogoni, Niger Delta clean-up

Nigeria, Sept. 16 -- Civil society organisations on Monday in Lagos called on the federal government to exonerate Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight other Ogoni activists executed in 1995, while also demanding a... Read More


Police foil fake 'Obi of Lagos' installation, arrest four

Nigeria, Sept. 11 -- The Lagos State Police Command says it has arrested a man who paraded himself as the "Obi of Lagos" along with three accomplices, disrupting a plan to unveil a N1.5 billion "palac... Read More


EFCC detains, grills ex-NNPC chief Mele Kyari

Nigeria, Sept. 11 -- The former Group Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited, Mele Kyari, is under interrogation at the headquarters of the Economic and Fina... Read More


Ex-Lagos governorshp candidate Rhodes-Vivour's defection to ADC stirs mixed reactions

Nigeria, Sept. 9 -- The recent defection of the 2023 Labour Party (LP) governorship candidate in Lagos State, Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, to the African Democratic Congress (ADC) has drawn praise and criti... Read More


Ebonyi man gets N10m from Gov Nwifuru after trekking from Lagos to Abakaliki

Nigeria, Sept. 9 -- Ebonyi State governor, Francis Nwifuru, has rewarded Jeremiah Obaji with N10 million for trekking 633 km from Lagos to Abakaliki. The 37-year-old businessman undertook the journey... Read More


Oworonshoki residents block Third Mainland Bridge over demolition

Nigeria, Sept. 9 -- Residents of Oworonshoki on Monday blocked a section of the Third Mainland Bridge in Lagos to protest the demolition of buildings in their community, Punch Newspaper reported. The... Read More