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Days of reflection over the carnage sparked by the hijack of the #EndSARS protests seems to have ended in Lagos with Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu leading the battle to rebuild razed infrastructure. The Governor on Wednesday signed an Executive Order for the formation of an eight-man Board to coordinate efforts to restore
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Nigeria, Africa’s most populous nation, has not been spared from the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. The government has recently lifted lockdown measures, which the President acknowledges imposed a heavy economic cost on the country. In the early days of the virus’ spread, it was touted as a great equaliser in
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Professor Akin Abayomi, the Commissioner for Health in Lagos State, has said that the state has passed the peak of the Coronavirus pandemic and is currently on the flattening stage. Abayomi who is currently battling the viral disease, said this in an interview with Nigeria Info FM on Wednesday August 26.
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It was a sad incident on Friday evening when a woman simply identified as Fausat lost her son when returning home from their daily routine. The woman was said to be backing her son on a motorcycle from Igando to Ayobo plying one of the wooden bridges linking the two communities.
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A young Nigerian has allegedly committed suicide after being accused of rape by a Twitter influencer who refused to provide further details. #JusticeForIzu is currently trending on Twitter after a user named Legend Izu Madubueze took his life when a Twitter influencer named Nanichi Anese published his name and other names
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Veteran Nollywood actress Bose Adewoyin is dead. The actress who got famous for her role as Madam Tinubu in ‘EFUNROYE TINUBU’ written by Professor Akinwumi Isola and directed by Gbenga Adewusi in 1989, died on Tuesday morning, June 23. Bose who was also on the contingent of the Lagos State Council for Arts and Culture that
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The last might not have been heard of the allegations of rape levelled against Ace musician and celebrity Oladapo Oyebanjo popularly known as D Banj by a lady identified as Seyitan Babatayo. Seyitan released a press statement today through her lawyers at the Stand to End Rape Initiative (STER), explaining in
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A yet-to-be-identified man was reported to have stabbed his wife to death over the paternity of their child, killing himself afterwards on Sunday in the Lekki area of Lagos State. The couple were reported to be seen jogging together on Saturday before the unfortunate incident on Saturday. Details are still sketchy as
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Lagos State COVID-19 cases have increased to 8,177 after 281 new cases were recorded on Friday. The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control made this known on its website. It added that COVID-19 fatalities have risen to 108 in the state. Breakdown of data on the NCDC’s website showed that 6,664 patients are on
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The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Thursday declared Nigeria free of the Polio virus. The organisation on its Twitter handle said the devastating disease was at the moment endemic in only two countries, thereby bringing the world one major step closer to achieving the goal of ending polio for good. SEE TWEET https://twitter.com/WHONigeria/status/1273640962548523010?s=20 Nigeria
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