Tag: Lagos

Breaking: Osoba to Chair Lagos/Ogun Multi-Sector Trade Fair opening ceremony

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Elder statesman and former governor of Ogun state, Chief Olusegun Osoba has accepted to chair the opening ceremony of the forthcoming Lagos/Ogun Multi-Sector International Trade Fair slated to be held from August 15-17, 2024 at OPIC Event Centre, Lagos/Ibadan Expressway. Aremo Osoba, whose professional and political life transverse Lagos and Ogun states, was a two-time governor of the Gateway state from January 1992 to November 1993 and later from May 1999 to May 2003, is a living legend and godfather of the journalism profession in Nigeria as well as a…

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Murder in Artican Beach Resort: How top Igbo billionaire was murdered and chopped into pieces inside hotel

Wura Kelani, Crime Reporter

The dismembered body of a top Igbo mogul, Ignatius Adunukwe (identified as Odunukwe on the social media), has been recovered from a bush in the Ajah area of Lagos State. PUNCH Metro gathered that Adunukwe (name provided by the police) was about to sell a landed property to some supposed buyers when he was allegedly kidnapped by the potential buyers. It was learnt that the supposed buyers and Adunukwe had agreed on a date and location to meet to perfect the transaction, but the suspects took advantage of the situation to…

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PDP demands probe of N160bn Lagos debt

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The Lagos State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party has demanded a probe of the N160bn bond the Governor Babatunde Fashola-led administration obtained from the World Bank.The party in statement by its Publicity Secretary, Taofik Gani, on Sunday, accused the state government of converting the bond to other uses rather than using it to improve the lives of Lagos residents.The party said Fashola’s defence aimed at rationalising the whereabouts of the funds was “weak, unsatisfactory and diversionary.”It said, “We are again vindicated by the Debt Management Office’s revelation on the…

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