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Tinubu’s Lagos-Centric Yorubaization Of Nigeria

Global UpfrontApr 19, 2025April 19, 20250

By Farooq A. Kperogi, Saturday April 19, 2025 Last week, in response to mounting, difficult-to-controvert, empirically impregnable accusations that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu disproportionately favors

Take-It-Back Movement: Youths Defy Warning, Stage Protests In Lagos, Abuja, Rivers, Others As Police Fire Teargas At Demonstrators

Global UpfrontApr 7, 2025April 7, 20250

Young demonstrators under the aegis of the Take-It-Back Movement on Monday defied police warning and staged protests in Abuja, Lagos, Oyo, Rivers, among other states.

Man Arrested With $578,000 Jailed Six Months in Lagos For Money Laundering

Global UpfrontMar 27, 2025March 27, 20250

Justice Deinde I. Dipeolu of the Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos, on Wednesday, March 26, 2025, convicted and sentenced Okorie Sylvernus Sunday to

Lagos And The Slide To Anarchy

Global UpfrontMar 9, 2025March 9, 20250

By Dele Sobowale “In every community, there is a class of people profoundly dangerous to the rest. I don’t mean the criminals. For them we

Fears Over Safety Of Bombs, Other Weapons Stored At NAF Base Ikeja Lagos As Power Blackout Persists

Global UpfrontMar 9, 2025March 9, 20250

There is growing fear and concern over the safety of bombs and other high-calibre weapons and armaments reportedly stored at the Nigerian Air Force (NAF)

With A Heavy Heart, I Pity Sanwo-Olu

Global UpfrontMar 3, 2025March 3, 20250

By Lasisi Olagunju There is a royal family in Lagos called Oniru. In the earliest times when there was no Lagos and Eko knew its

Obasa, Aláàfin Ṣàngó And The Capture Of Lagos

Global UpfrontMar 2, 2025March 2, 20250

By Festus Adedayo On Wednesday, February 25, 2025, a very toxic but innocuous advertorial was published in the Punch newspaper. It was authored by a group which called itself

CAS In Lagos, Reaffirms Commitment To Operational Excellence As He Commissions Key Infrastructure Projects

Global UpfrontFeb 28, 2025February 28, 20250

Chief of the Air Staff (CAS), Air Marshal Hasan Abubakar, on Friday reaffirmed the commitment of the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) to professional excellence, international

Our Closure Of Lagos, Aba, and Onitsha Open Drug Markets Is To Save Human Lives, Not Disrupt Trade – NAFDAC

Global UpfrontFeb 23, 2025February 23, 20250

The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has said its ongoing enforcement operations were aimed at protecting the safety and lives

EFCC Arraigns 18 More Chinese For Alleged Cyber-terrorism, Internet Fraud in Lagos

Global UpfrontFeb 21, 2025February 21, 20250

The Lagos Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Thursday, February 20, 2025 arraigned additional 18 Chinese before Justice Daniel Osiagor of