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Armed northern vigilante group causes panic in Lagos
SUBAIR MOHAMMED and LEKAN OLABULO tried to connect the links in the operation of a controversial vigilante group, causing a stir in the state.AS controversy deepens over the viral picture of an alleged member of an arm-bearing vigilante…
Our experiences writing exam in a pandemic —Lagos WASSCE candidates
TUNBOSUN OGUNDARE checked out candidates for a normal examination in an unusual season.BY next Saturday, the ongoing 2020 school-based West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) will be over, formally closing the…
How Lagos/FG war fuels illegalities, deaths on Lagos waterways
Water transportation, which has become the option for Lagos residents as the desirable land movement is hindered by bad road and bridge closure, is becoming a suicide mission. TOLA ADENUBI brings the inside story.IN Lagos State, more…
We pay N250,000 bribe per trip, Lagos truck owners cry out
TOLA ADENUBI and SEGUN KASALI bring to the fore the plights of those sustaining the largest economy in the country.On Monday last week, the Lagos State government staved off a planned strike by the Petroleum Tanker Drivers Association…
More heads to roll in UNILAG •Babalakin, Ogundipe trade words, resumption in jeopardy
MORE top officials of the embattled University of Lagos (UNILAG) are to be axed for alleged financial recklessness and mismanagement which consumed the institution’s Vice-Chancellor, Professor Oluwatoyin Ogundipe on Wednesday, the Governing…
Lagos teachers demand life insurance to handle 60,000 SSS3 students
TUNBOSUN OGUNDARE combs schools to establish the level of preparedness of stakeholders in the face of a dwindling epidemic.In Lagos State, all eyes are on senior secondary school 3 students who are now going to school just like their…
Lagos is like today’s London where an Arab is Mayor, APC tells agitating indigenes
LANRE ADEWOLE delves into the issues shaping the indigeneship narrative in Nigeria’s most cosmopolitan state.FOLLOWING the controversy that greeted the claim by a frontline chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Lagos…
Indigeneship crisis: Only 3 of our governors have clear Lagos ancestry —Oki, APC chieftain
The fissure has always been there, especially when the indigenes began to lose ground in the administration of the state as the population of the settlers and their influence in governance and politics grew. Today, real Eko indigenes now…
Traders, operators, others get sack notice as bankers take over National Theatre
SUBAIR MOHAMMED captures the bitter-sweet story of the emerging ‘new’ National Theatre.
Despite ban, okada mobs kill, maim in Lagos
OLALEKAN OLABULO and SUBAIR MOHAMMED examine the growing menace of okada riders whose operations are supposedly outlawed.DESPITE the total ban placed on the operations of commercial motorcycles, popularly known as okada, by the…