Metro
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FULL LIST: Lagos ranks above Dubai, Miami, emerges 19th best city in 2024
Lagos has been ranked as the 19th best city to visit in the world, according to Time Out that publishes guides and magazines. Apart from Lagos, South Africa’s Cape Town (ranked second) and Ghana’s Accra (44th) were the only African cities that featured on the list. Time Out said it…
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Kwankwaso opens up on meeting Tinubu in France
Rabiu Kwankwaso, the presidential candidate of the NNPP in the 2023 presidential election, has confirmed meeting President-elect, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, in Paris, France. Recall on Tuesday, the meeting of the duo which lasted for hours was reportedly brokered by Kwankwaso’s ally, Hon. Abdulmumin Jibrin, the House of Representatives member who…
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‘Agberocracy’ has produced your illegitimate govt – LP’s GRV hits Sanwo
Labour Party governorship candidate in Lagos, Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, GRV, has said the March 18 election has produced what he described as an “Agberocracy.” GRV disclosed this via his Twitter handle in his reaction to a post by US Mission Nigeria on the just last concluded election. “Agberocracy has Produced an…
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Ogun ex-permanent secretary, Adefemi Egbeoluwa, wife found dead in Lagos home
The family of an ex-permanent secretary in Ogun State, Adefemi Egbeoluwa, and his wife, Oluwafunmilayo, have been grieving after their lifeless bodies were found at their residence around Allen Avenue, in the Ikeja area of Lagos State. PUNCH Metro gathered that the couple were at home with their domestic worker…
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APC youth start jogging from Yenagoa to Lagos for Tinubu
The All Progressives Congress youths in the South-East and South-South regions, on Thursday, commenced jogging from Yenagoa to Lagos to drum support for the party’s presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu.
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Nigerian father allegedly drugs 14-year-old daughter, rapes her
A 50-year-old man, Olukayode Joseph, has reportedly sedated her 14-year-old daughter with drugs and defiled her in Ogun State.
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Buhari meets freed Abuja-Kaduna train passengers
In an unscheduled visit on Thursday in Kaduna, President Muhammadu Buhari met with the freed 23 passengers of the March 28, 2022, Abuja-Kaduna train attack at the Nigerian Defence Academy hospital.
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2 killed, others injured as petrol tanker explodes in Ogun
Two yet-to-be-identified persons have been burnt to death, and others severely injured after a petrol-laden tanker exploded in the early hours of Thursday at the toll gate area of Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway, Ogun state.
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Terrorists free 23 remaining Abuja-Kaduna train attack victims
This was disclosed by the Secretary of the Chief of Defence Staff Action Committee, Usman Yusuf.
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Traders praise Soludo for evicting agberos from Anambra motor parks, markets
Traders in Onitsha, Anambra State, have commended the state governor, Professor Chukwuma Soludo, as well as the Commissioner for Commerce and Industry, Obinna Ngonadi, for their fight against touts and illegal levy collectors in markets across the state.