Lagos

  Governor Fashola has signed the No Smoking in Public Places Bill into law. It means it is now illegal to lit your cigarettes in public places e.g public toilets, museums, nurseries, any facility used for the care of children etc. According to the law, people who smoke in public ...

    A 14-seater bus is reported to have gone up in flames at Iyana Oworosoki. This accident has caused a standstill on the ever busy bridge. Unconfirmed reports say one person died.

Some male residents of a Lagos community yesterday made a startling discovery in one of the rivers in the area. The young men found an enormous python-like snake in the Majidun River in the Ikorodu area of the state. They managed to kill it and they put it on display ...

Two unidentified persons were stoned to death in the Sabo, Yaba area of Lagos State after being apprehended by youths for allegedly robbing a resident of his phones. Punch reports that their correspondent, who visited McNeil Road, where the incident occurred, learnt that the alleged robbers attacked a 79-year-old man, ...

According to Punch,a bride narrowly escaped death in an auto crash while on her way from her wedding. The accident involving a NNPC �tanker with number plate XG 321 MKA, a cargo truck and two saloon cars happened at about 4: 45pm on Saturday, close to the Otedola bridge, Alausa, ...

Maybach Music Group rapper, Wale arrived Lagos Nigeria hours ago. Here are photos of the American-Nigerian rapper as he arrived the airport. Wale is in town for the “Step Up to VI” event by Johnnie Walker holding this Saturday November 30, 2013 at Oriental Hotel, Victoria island, Lagos

�Aero Contractors has�reportedly�changed its name to Nigerian Eagle and will be the national carrier. A Boeing 737-500 wearing the national colours is currently parked in a private hangar at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos. The new national carrier will be unveiled in the coming days. Photos courtesy – Auto ...

There’s serious pandemonium on Ajah Road in Lagos as you read this. Area boys and passers-by are clashing with policemen after a trailer crushed five students as they were crossing the road. The sad incident happened close to Ikota Primary School and the dead pupils are believed to be making ...

A newly married woman has passed away in Lagos State Nigeria after she contracted Cholera from a popular Igbo salad named Abacha. The victim identified as Blessing passed away yesterday at the Military Hospital in Yaba Lagos just 2 weeks after her wedding. Since last week Thursday when she contracted ...

According to sources, it was a beautiful performance from the sensational artiste, Iyanya and his dancers but the end really justified the means when the Lagos State Deputy Governor, Orelope Adefulire fired one of iyanya’s female dancers. Read their conversation held at the closing ceremony of the MTN Lagos Street ...

An associated�airline plane�carrying 30 people to Akure has crashed this morning in Lagos. divThe engine failed and it crash-landed and burst into flames. No airport authority has confirmed that the crashed plane was carrying late Agagu’s body. More details later.UPDATE: Agagu’s body was on board. His family members and friends ...

According to the Lagos State�Drivers’ Institute LASDRI, which has trained about 65,000�drivers�since August 2009, about 22 per cent of the trained�drivers�or 14,300 were discovered to be partially blind. According to LASDRI boss, before the commencement of operation, various researches were carried out where it showed that 75 percent of auto ...

In a recent ranking by Economist Intelligence Unit [E.I.U] Lagos has been ranked as the 4th worst city in the whole world. The good news is that Lagos was also ranked as 2nd fastest growing city in Africa.According to the list which has countries from Africa and Asia in the ...

A commercial bus driver and his conductor this morning stripped naked at the Allen Avenue/Obafemi Awolowo Way roundabout in Ikeja to prevent some policemen (seen in the pic) from towing their vehicle and arresting them for alleged traffic violation. Their stunt caused heavy traffic around the area this morning and ...

A teenager beat airline and airport security at the Benin Airport and sneaked into the tyre compartment of a Lagos-bound Arik plane, where he flew safely to the Murtala Muhammed Airport, Lagos, on Saturday morning. There was, however, pandemonium at the airside of the Lagos airport when passengers disembarking from ...

The Lagos State Police Command have commenced investigations into the murder of a 72-year-old man, Alhaji Abdulkareem Kadiru, in the Ijora Badia area of Lagos. According to police, the victim was killed in error by an Oodua Peoples Congress member, Ismaila Rahmon, who was in charge of security at a ...

Another baby was today found abandoned in a Lagos canal. The baby who still had its umbilical cord is suspected to be about 3-day-old. The baby was found dead floating atop a canal located at Orisan street, by Iyana bus stop, Ajangbadi, Lagos. The heart of man is desperately wicked. ...

ANAYO, an orphan and teenager of 17, decided to relocate to Lagos when it became obvious that his future in the village was bleak. There was no job after managing to complete his secondary school education. The only alternative left for him was to engage in subsistent farming.� Unfortunately for ...

Policemen attached to the Badagry Police Division, Lagos State, and some hoodlums have been accused of killing a 25-year-old undergraduate of Delta State University, Ifechukwude Nwainokpor, and his�friend, identified simply as Kazeem. An eight-minute video clip�of the gruesome killing, which was made available to PUNCH Metro, showed the two victims ...

After getting high on mixtures of alcohol and other stuffs am yet to decipher, the guy who’s pics appear above and below decided that the best way to reduce he effect of the Alcohol was to stab himself with a Mac Dowels bottle. It was reported that his state of ...