lekki Breaking News Blog

Picture taken with Lagos State NYSC Camp Commandant, Major Bashir – the most senior military man on camp               So, we, the 2015 NYSC Lagos State Stream II corps members, passed out yesterday.

                                   Bank robbery is currently occurring in Ogolonto, around Ikorodu axis, Lagos. The Nigerian Police are already there trying to avert the situation.

                               Tragedy struck at the Upper Iweka Roundabout in the commercial city of Onitsha, Anambra State, on Sunday when a fuel tanker rammed into a building and caused an inferno.

                               Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike on Monday took leaders of the state on a tour of the Government House, Port Harcourt allegedly vandalised by officials of the administration of the immediate past governor, Rotimi Amaechi.

                                  It's believed she had been trying to take pictures with the windows open when the lion attacked. Police confirmed that she was 22 years old and an American citizen and the US Embassy confirmed the incident has been reported to them.                                     The park's manager Scott Simpson said: 'We don't know exactly what happened, we do know that there was a car driving to the lion camp and the lion did come through the window and it did bite the lady. 'Unfortunately the ambulance arrived quite soon but the lady has passed away.' It is believed that the lion jumped through the window, bit the woman, and a man was injured trying to pull the lion off her, although the park are still trying to piece together the exact sequence of events. They have now ide...

                                It is a sweet coincidence that days after International Children’s Day a change of government happened the soil of Nigeria. It is even sweeter that this change of government is not just another sonorous self-succession scheme but a new person ascending the helms of power and screaming the message of a much-needed change. Yet it will be sweetest if when seated in power, Mohammadu Buhari can shed his stern stance and just for a moment, smile at our children. Children in Nigeria, one of the most endangered species in the world, need this pain-effacing smile. It may be understandable if the general’s unsmilingliness increases in light of the Augean stables that must be cleansed, of mountains that must be moved and of sacred cows that must be tied up so that Nigeria can be whipped into line again and so that the shame of a nation can end. It will be a hard time for politic...

                                 Niger-Delta political activist, Asari Dokubo is expressing his thoughts on why he thinks former president Goodluck Jonathan lost the elections.