Ayo Balogun, Lagos The Executive Chairman of Amuwo Odofin Local Government Area of Lagos, Nigeria, Comrade Ayodele Adewale on Monday leads a protest against police harassment of council officials. The protesters carried placards and decried the arrest of some officials of the council by the police, calling for their immediate release of some Man O’ […]
Ayo Balogun, Lagos The All Progressives Congress (APC) has dismissed as reckless, baseless and completely unfounded the report published by a local newspaper that the party has zoned its vice presidential slot to the South-West instead of South-East. In a statement issued in Lagos on Monday by its Interim National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, […]
Ayo Balogun, Lagos Human rights activist, Bamidele Aturu has called for the sack of the Minister of Aviation, Princess Stella Oduah-Ogiemwonyi and other bigwigs in the sector over incessant plane crashes and the rot in the aviation sector of Nigeria. Aturu, in a statement said the latest crash that occurred in Lagos while conveying the […]
Ayo Balogun, Lagos Tragedy struck at Ikotun area of Lagos, Nigeria when three Togolese siblings were killed and their father seriously burnt when fire gutted their house. The incident, which occurred on Friday at No. 8, Odofin Close, Ikotun saw the house being razed by fire. It was gathered that the sibling’s father, one Pele […]
Ayo Balogun, Lagos It has been revealed that Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State, Nigeria apologized to the Igbo over the recent deportation of some Igbo to Anambra State because of next month’s election in the state. The governor’s apology was simply to save the face of the All Progressive Congress (APC) from defeat in […]
Ayo Balogun, Lagos Dr. Chris Ngige of Anambra State took his campaign for the forthcoming governorship election to the Igbo community in Lagos, promising that if elected governor, he will build a world class international airport in Anambra. At the rally held at the International Trade Fair Complex in Ojo, Lagos, Nigeria, the senator appealed […]
By Ayo Balogun, Lagos Mr. Feyi Agagu and his in-law, Femi Akinsanya have been discharged from the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, LASUTH, where they were rushed to after they escaped death in plane crash. Femi, the son of the late former Governor of Ondo State, Dr. Olusegun Agagu and Akinsanya were discharged from the […]
Ayo Balogun, Lagos Afenifere Renewal Group (ARG) has called on Nigerians to support the National Conference Advisory Committee recently inaugurated by President Goodluck Jonathan. The body reiterated that it fully endorsed Jonathan’s inauguration of an Advisory Committee on National Conference, saying it signaled a move for the betterment of the nation if the intention is […]
By Ayo Balogun, Lagos The Yoruba socio-political and economic group, Afenifere Renewal Group (ARG) has said a justified revenue allocation formula will go a long way in quelling some of Nigeria’s problems. The group’s National Chairman, Hon. Olawale Oshun, said this while presenting the group’s position on the proposed new Revenue Allocation Formula at the […]
Ayo Balogun, Lagos The Lagos State Government has sealed off the headquarters church of the Lord’s Chosen Charismatic Revival Movement over gross environmental abuse and erection of structures along system 6c drainage channel. While monitoring the state of Lagos Environment, the Commissioner for the Environment, Tunji Bello noticed massive trading under the Ijesha bridge along […]
Ayo Balogun, Lagos The All Progressives Congress (APC) has accused the presidency of using Rivers State as a testing ground for creeping fascism ahead of the 2015 elections, saying it is imperative for all Nigerians to pay a close attention to the apparently-instigated ugly developments in the state. APC, in a statement issued in Lagos […]
By Ayo Balogun, Lagos The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged the International Criminal Court, ICC in Hague, Netherland to urgently probe the killings of teachers and school children in some parts of northern Nigeria as crimes against humanity, and to prevail on the Nigerian government to work to prevent further attacks against […]
Ayo Balogun, Lagos The Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) Sunday Night again announced the suspension of the operating license of Dana Air over safety concerns. African Examiner reports that this is the third time the NCAA will be suspending Dana air operating license for safety issues after its last year deadly crash into a residential neighborhood […]
By Ayodele Balogun, Lagos With rampant kidnapping in Nigeria, Lagos lawyer and activist, Bamidele Aturu has called for nationwide mass protest in Nigeria that will lead to the president, governors and others being placed on house arrest as they have failed the populace. Aturu was reacting to the kidnap of the Bishop of Niger Delta […]
By Ayodele Balogun, Lagos A coalition of human rights activists, labour, journalists and lawyers have moved against the recent increase in electricity tariffs in Nigeria and petitioned Ms. Magdalena Sepúlveda Carmona, United Nations Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights. In the petition dated 6 September, 2013, the coalition requested the Special Rapporteur to send “an […]
The National Census Tribunal, sitting in Abuja, Nigeria has nullified the 2006 censors figure in 14 Local Government Areas of Lagos and ordered the National Population Commission (NPC) to conduct fresh recount in the affected areas. The NPC, had in the 2006 national censors said the population of Lagos was 9,113,605, a figure that the […]
