Aware that the obvious absence of strict enforcement of laws, especially as it relates to building control is responsible for frequent incidences of building collapse, loss of lives and properties in the state, Lagos state governor Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu on Wednesday said he would enforce the state’s law on building …

The Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, has said the country will require N1.3 trillion to fix its roads in 2022. He also said the federal government is owing certified contractors N420 billion for road construction. Mr Fashola stated this when he appeared before the House of Representatives Committee …

Former police captain Eric Adams cruised to victory to become the next mayor of New York as voters across the United States picked new city leaders from candidates defined mainly by their stances on police and crime. Adams, who will become the second Black mayor of the nation’s largest city, …

A Lagos State High Court sitting at the Osborne area in Ikoyi has threatened to jail executives of banks who fail to disclose the amount to the credit of Imagine Global Holding Company Limited, Imagine Global Solutions Limited and the Nigerian couple, Bamise and Elizabeth Ajetunmobi. The two firms and …

The interrogation of socialite and businessman, Obinna Iyiegbu,  aka Obi Cabana, entered the third day on Wednesday, without any hint of when he would perfect his bail and leave the anti-graft agency in Abuja. An Economic and Financial Crimes Commission official confirmed to Vanguard that the businessman was still being …

  Dr. Hakeem Baba-Ahmed The Northern Elders Forum on Wednesday made a U-turn on its earlier position on northern presidency in 2023 with a promise that the North would work with other ethnic groups in Nigeria to produce a competent leader that would restore confidence in the system. The organisation …

University of Abuja main gate The Vice Chairman, Nigerian Bar Association, Gwagwalada Branch, Abuja, Ebosetale Aigbefoh, has called for increased security surveillance in the Federal Capital Territory to help address security challenges. Aigbefoh made the call on Thursday, in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Gwagwalada, to …

Gunmen who kidnapped six persons from the University of Abuja Staff Quarters on Tuesday have demanded N300 million ransom. It was gathered that the gunmen contacted the mother of one of the kidnapped boys and asked for N50 million each for the abductees. A source in the university said that …

R-Ll: Mrs. Bosede Coker, Mother of Abiodun Coker; Christopher Tokunbo Peters; Francis Tokunbo and Abiodun Coker at the burial ceremony in Lagos, recently. Share on FacebookShare On WhatsappShare On Twitter Eminent personalities from all walks of life, on Friday 22nd October, 2021, converged in Lagos, for the burial ceremony of …

Rescue operations at the site of the 21-storey building collapse. PHOTO: Sylvester Okoruwa The death toll from the 21-storey building that collapsed in Ikoyi, Lagos, on Monday has risen from 22 to 36. Out of the 36 deaths recorded so far, three are females while the remaining 33 are males. …