Davido set to perform at 79th UNGA, Davido performs as Ethiopia celebrates 2017 New Year Popular Nigerian singer, songwriter and record producer, David Adeleke, popularly known as Davido, is set to perform at the 79th United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) after a Nigerian billionaire businessman daughter, DJ Cuppy, hosts the opening session. This marks his debut at the prestigious global forum, where he will perform at an official event. In an update shared via his X handle on Tuesday, September 24, Davido expressed his excitement, stating, “Touch down New York City for the #UN General Assembly… My first time attending…
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Former two-time heavyweight world champion, Anthony Joshua, has been urged to retire from boxing following his knockout defeat to fellow Brit, Daniel Dubois. The call came from former boxing champion Prince Naseem Hamed, who believes Joshua should bow out of the sport after suffering his fourth professional loss. Speaking to iFL TV, Hamed said, “Whether he can or he can’t, I’d prefer him not to. He’s had his day in the sun like we all have. He’s done great; he won amazing world titles; he’s defended them; he’s earned his dough. Listen, he should bow out gracefully, and that’s it,…
A total of eighty-eight suspected miscreants were apprehended by the operatives of the Lagos State Task Force on the Environment and Other Related Offences in the Oshodi area of Lagos State. As stated by Gbadeyan Abdulraheem, the director of press and public affairs of the agency, the suspects were arrested during two separate operations. The spokesperson for the Task Force mentioned, “In a continued effort to rid the State of the menace of miscreants, touts, and street urchins, the Lagos State Task Force has apprehended 88 suspected miscreants and criminals in two separate operations.” The operations, which were conducted at…
The Lagos State Government, on Monday, said over 448 vehicles had been impounded for breaching the Bus Rapid Transit lane regulations between January and August 2024. The spokesperson for the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority, Adebayo Taofiq, in a statement obtained, stated that LASTMA operatives apprehended the vehicles at various locations, including Ikorodu, Maryland, Anthony, Apongbon, Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway, Ojuelegba, and Oyingbo areas of the state. He disclosed that the offenders had been charged to the Lagos State Mobile Court for prosecution. Taofiq also noted that the agency admonished all motorists, both private and commercial, to desist forthwith from the continued…
President Bola Tinubu has stated that his administration is prioritising investment in Nigeria’s financial system to attract both local and foreign investment into the country. In a statement issued by the Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, on Thursday, following a meeting between the President and the global leadership team of Coca-Cola Company, led by Mr John Murphy, its President and Chief Financial Officer, and the Chairman of Nigerian Bottling Company, Ambassador Segun Apata, Tinubu reiterated his administration’s commitment to creating a robust financial system and a business-friendly economy that will attract more foreign direct…
Operatives of the Onikan Division of Lagos Police Command have arrested one Suspect, Yakubu Yusuf, for vandalising a segment of the Third Mainland Bridge railings. This was disclosed in a statement on X.com by the Lagos State Police Command on Wednesday. According to the statement, Yusuf was arrested following information received by the division on the activities of some vandals operating along the Old School of Nursing area of the Third Mainland Bridge. The statement reads, “Officers of Onikan Division after receiving information of the activities of some vandals who were vandalizing the railings of the bridge by Old School…
Parents of students at Lajo Community Junior Senior Secondary School in Ikorodu Local Government Area, Lagos State, have expressed frustration over the government’s failure to repair a classroom damaged by a rainstorm on April 21, 2024. Reports have it that despite serving over a hundred students in the community school, the classroom remains in disrepair five months after the storm, and the state government has taken no action to address the damage. It was also reported that despite the poor state of the school’s learning environment and repeated pleas from the community for the state government’s intervention, students will be…
* Says Even IGP Can’t Punish Her Known for her unruly behavior to senior colleagues over the years, Inspector Blessing Ajeeva has been threatening police officers with boldness and that she is untouchable. Ajeeva also boasts that not even the Inspector General of Police has the power to punish her. Her boldness of daring all her senior colleagues to do their worst as she routinely disregard set rules and orders of Nigerian Police Force is unprecedented. This errant attitudes of Ajeeva who bluntly refuses to adhere to the tenets of the force need be checked before she set a very…
No fewer than six persons comprising two males and four females lost their lives in an auto crash along the Ogere axis of the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway on Friday. This is just as three others sustained varying degrees of injuries in the accident which occurred at about 8 am. The Public Education Officer of the Ogun State Federal Road Safety Corps, Florence Okpe, disclosed this in a statement on Friday. She noted that the bus conveying the victims rammed into a truck from the rear as a result of speeding, the impact, which led to the crash. Okpe identified the vehicles…
A 39-year-old man, Bassey Ikpi, accused of posing as a forex trader, has been arraigned before the Lagos State Chief Magistrate Court in Ebute-Metta for allegedly defrauding several individuals and companies of large sums in multiple currencies. The defendant, facing four counts bordering on conspiracy, obtaining by false pretence, fraud and breach of public peace, preferred against him by the police. Ikpi allegedly obtained N1,066,311,503, $355,000, and €13,000 under fraudulent circumstances from his victims. Police prosecutor, Inspector Cyriacus Osuji, told the court that Ikpi, along with his accomplices still at large, committed the alleged offences. “The defendant, in conspiracy with…