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CJPAN, LAWMA Clean Up Lagos

-CJPAN, LAWMA in a group photo Sequel to the Clean Up Lagos partnership agreement between the Celebrity Journal Publishers Association of Nigeria ( CJPAN) and The Lagos Waste Management Authority (LAWMA). The maiden edition of the environmental sanitation exercise kicked off at Agege Local government in Lagos, Nigeria on Thursday.. CJPAN led by the President Mr. Joshua Uloko and other members of the executives commenced… []

Nigeria drops to 31 in latest FIFA Ranking

-Super Eagles At a time when the three top teams in Africa – Senegal, Morocco, and Tunisia moved up in their ranking, Nigeria’s Super Eagles dropped by a step to be ranked 31 in the June 2002 FIFA Ranking released yesterday by the world football governing body. Despite recording two wins in their 2023 AFCON qualifiers with a record 10-0 win over Sao Tome and… []

Organ Harvesting: Ekweremadu, Wife Risk Life Imprisonment In UK

-Ekweremadu & Wife Former Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu and his wife, Beatrice, charged with alleged conspiracy to harvest the organs of a child in the United Kingdom, face life imprisonment if found guilty and convicted to maximum sentence under the UK’s Modern Slavery Act 2015 (MSA 2015). The couple, who were arrested following an investigation by the London Metropolitan Police’s Specialist Crime team, were… []

APC Under Threat As 20 Senators Set To Dump Party

All Progressives Congress members within the Senate is at the moment beneath menace as no fewer than 20 APC senators have concluded plans to defect to the Peoples Democratic Get together, Labour Get together, New Nigeria Peoples Get together and others. APC, which had earlier misplaced 13 senators to the opposition events, would possibly lose extra parliamentarians aggrieved for dropping their return tickets to the… []

Man bags life imprisonment for defiling 15-year-old girl

One Ayokunle Bailey has been sentenced to life imprisonment by an Ikeja Domestic Violence and Sexual Offences Court on Wednesday for defiling a 15-year-old girl. Delivering judgment, Justice Abiola Soladoye held that the prosecution proved its case of defilement against the convict. Soladoye held that the convict was a brutal, crude and unkind man who messed up with the minor’s purity and innocence. She held:… []

Mompha: Court Revokes Accused’s Bail As EFCC Nabs Fake Lawyer

–Mompha in court with EFCC official Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Wednesday nabbed an alleged fake lawyer, Aladejobi and Aladejobi & Co in Justice Mojisola Dada’s Special offences Court in Lagos. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the alleged fake lawyer according to findings was said to have claimed to be a lawyer to one of the sureties… []

Kano Deputy Speaker Resigns, Assembly Swears In Dashi

-Gov. Abdulllahi Ganduje Kano State House of Assembly at its sitting yesterday presided over by the Speaker, Hamisu Ibrahim Chidari nominated Kabiru Hassan Dashi, a member representing Kiru Constituency as the new deputy speaker of the House following the resignation of the former occupant, Zubairu Hamza Massu, the member representing Sumaila Constituency. After the resignation letter forwarded to the House by Massu was read at… []

EFCC Arraigns Macmillan Publishers Over $156,711 Fraud

Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arraigned Macmillan Nigeria Publishers Limited before the Lagos State Special Offences Court in Ikeja over an alleged $156,711.87 fraud. The EFCC docked Macmillan Nigerian Publishers Limited alongside one Fasasi Bola before Justice Mojisola Dada an amended six-count charge bordering on obtaining goods by false pretence at their re-arraignment yesterday. The anti-graft agency in the charge to the charge… []

BRT Driver Flees As Bus Crushes Mother To Death, Daughter Hospitalised

A 26-year-old mother of one, Reini Akakpo has been killed by a BRT bus in the commercial city of Lagos The driver of the vehicle is said to have fled the accident scene and is nowhere to be found at the time of this report The victim’s daughter who was with her during the incident, however, survived with injuries according to eye-witnesses, A Bus Rapid… []

Gunmen Behead Ex-Lawmaker In Anambra

A former lawmaker representing Nnewi South 2 Constituency in the state assembly during the administration of former governor, Chris Ngige, bin Anambra State, Nigeria’s South-east was reported beheaded by unknown gunmen. The victim, Nelson Achukwu, was reportedly abducted a few months ago by gunmen who accused him of providing information to military authorities. He was, however, released after his abductors realised he was not guilty… []

2023: A New Nigeria Beckons With Tinubu As President, Says Lagos Assembly

– Obasa, Tinubu Members of the Lagos State House of Assembly resumed plenary on Monday with a resolution to write commendation letters to Northern governors on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC) for their collective decision that resulted in the victory of Asiwaju Bola Tinubu during the party’s recent convention. President Muhammadu Buhari, Southern governors on the platform of the APC, the Conference… []

BREAKING: Sanwo-Olu Places Indefinite Ban On Okada

-Gov. Babajide Sanwo-Olu Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State has banned the operations of commercial motorcycles otherwise known as Okada, in six Local Governments. The governor announced that the ban is “indefinite and total”. Sanwo-Olu asked the Lagos Police Command and other security agencies to enforce the ban. The six local governments listed by the governor are Ikeja, Surulere, Eti-Osa, Lagos Mainland, Lagos Island, and… []

Just In: Buhari Presides Over FEC Meeting, Asks Ministers Seeking Political Offices To Resign

The Federal Executive Council meeting is ongoing at the State House, Abuja. President Muhammadu Buhari is presiding over the weekly virtual meeting. A source hinted Metropolix Online that the president has ordered an immediate resignation to any minister seeking political offices in the next general elections. Details of this will be published later. The meeting holding at the council chambers is being attended by Vice… []

AMCON takes over assets of Aeroland Travels Limited over N1.8bn debt

– Mr. Segun Adewale (Aeroland) Sequel to the order of Honourable Justice D.E. Osiagor of the Federal High Court, Lagos Division, the Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON) has taken over assets belonging to Aeroland Travels Limited, and its directors over an indebtedness of N1.8bn. It would be recalled that Justice Osiagor gave the ruling on February 7, 2022, and in compliance to the enforcement… []

Former Nigerian Senator, Francis Arthur Nzeribe Dies At 83

-Sen. Arthur Nzeribe Former Nigerian Senator, Francis Arthur Nzeribe is dead. A source told Metropolix Online Nzeribe died at a foreign hospital following an undisclosed ailment Sunday morning and was aged 83. “He died this morning in a hospital abroad. The family will soon release a statement,” the source said. In 2017, the photograph of ageing and possibly sick Nzeribe, sitting languidly, with medics around… []

BREAKING: AfDB President, Akinwunmi Adesina Picks N100m APC Nomination Forms

– Akinwunmi Adesina Months after some Nigerians called for the President of the African Development Bank and former minister of Agriculture, Dr Akiwumi Adesina to vie for Nigeria’s most exalted seat. The amiable banker we gathered might have eventually given in on Saturday and obtained copies of his Nomination and Expression of Interest forms to vie for the All Progressives Congress presidential ticket. This is… []

Pandemonium As Another Two-Storey Building Collapses In Lagos

Just five days after a three-storey building caved in at Ebute Metta area of Lagos, killing 10 people, another two-storey building has collapsed at Ago Palace Way area of Lagos, Southwest Nigeria, emergency officials report. The two-storey building located at Chris Igadi Street, off Ago Palace Way, opposite Kilimanjaro/ AP filling station, collapsed around 3.00am on Saturday. Dr. Femi Oke-Osanyintolu, Permanent Secretary, Lagos State Emergency… []

Dashed Hope: Tinubu Stops Sanwo-Olu Second Term Bid, Anoints Mustapha Olorunfemi

-Mustapha Olorunfemi Weeks after the news of his second term endorsement broke, Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu may not be lucky to smell the seat again as Asiwaju Bola Tinubu and members of his inner political circle have told the governor to forget his second term bid as Governor of Lagos State. A Nigerian media platform, News of The People, report that the new anointed… []

Presidency 2023: Oshiomhole to declare today

-Comrade Adams Oshiomole Former National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Adams Oshiomhole will declare for the 2023 presidency today. His media aide, Victor Oshioke, said this in a Tuesday statement. He stated that Oshiomhole would make an official declaration at 3 pm at the Cyprian Ekwensi Centre for Arts and Culture in Abuja. “The formal declaration of Comrade Adams Aliyu Oshiomhole to… []

Ebute-Meta building collapse: Death toll now 8

-The Collapsed Building The death toll at the collapsed Ebute-Meta three-storey building had risen to eight. Mr Ibrahim Farinloye, Southwest Zonal Coordinator, National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Monday in Lagos. NAN reports that the eight dead persons include five males and three females. An old three-Storey building collapsed at N0 24 Ibadan Street, off Herbert Macaulay Way,… []