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Lagos (Nigeria)

Type: City

Name: Lagos (Nigeria)

Country: Nigeria

Latitude: 6.45

Longitude: 3.47

population: 8,789,133

First reported 1 hour ago - Updated 1 hour ago - 1 reports

Born2learn set for album launch

IF you are still one of those believing that outside Lagos, nothing good can come out of other states in terms of hip-hop music, it’s high time you have a re-think.The duo of Kingsley Adene and Richard Adene better known as KC Kash and Mr. Rhymes respectively ... [Published Nigerian Compass - 1 hour ago]

Entities: Lagos (Nigeria), Radio Station

First reported 4 hours ago - Updated 4 hours ago - 1 reports

Curlicues

Americanah. By Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Knopf; 496 pages; $26.95. Fourth Estate; £20. Buy from Amazon.com, Amazon.co.ukWith her Fountain of irrepressible corkscrew curls, it is hardly surprising that Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is preoccupied with hair. ... [Published This Day Online - 4 hours ago]

Entities: Lagos (Nigeria), Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, African-Americans, Fourth Estate

First reported 8 hours ago - Updated 8 hours ago - 1 reports

Toyota Sienna

Free riders risk all on Lagos expressway

May 19, 2013 by MOTUNRAYO ABODERIN Leave a CommentDespite stories of missing persons on Lagos-Ibadan Expressway and the increase in the number of kidnappers, free ride seekers still continue to damn the consequences, writes MOTUNRAYO ABODERINWith hundreds ... [Published Nigeria Punch - 8 hours ago]

Entities: Lagos (Nigeria), Kidnapping, Transportation, Toyota Sienna

First reported May 18 2013 - Updated 19 hours ago - 2 reports

Lagos & Ogun consumers to experience blackout - TCN

Electricity Consumers in parts of Lagos and Ogun States will experience frequent power-cut by the transmission company of Nigeria following the fire incident that destroyed the 33KVA substation transformer in Ikeja.In a statement by the TCN Assistant ... [Published Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria - 19 hours ago]

Entities: Lagos (Nigeria), Public Affairs, Nigeria

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 18 2013 - 4 reports

Nigerian forces bombard Islamist militant camps from the [+]

LAGOS (Reuters) - Nigerian forces used jets and attack helicopters to bombard Islamist militant camps in the northeast on Friday, killing a number of insurgents, the defense headquarters spokesman said. ... [Published Great China Brokerage Ltd - May 17 2013]

Entities: Lagos (Nigeria), Helicopter

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 18 2013 - 2 reports

UPDATE 5-Nigeria bombs Islamists, U.S. sounds alarm

9:45pm BST* Military offensive aims to destroy Boko Haram bases* U.S. "deeply concerned" army abuses fuel violence* Islamist militants control part of the northeast* Previous efforts to end insurgency have failed (Adds Kerry comments)By Lanre OlaMAIDUGURI, ... [Published Reuters UK - May 17 2013]

Entities: Boko Haram, Maiduguri, State of Emergency, Nigeria

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 18 2013 - 3 reports

Lagos State

Lagos could soon be Africa’s 13th biggest economy – equivalent to that of Ghana

Lagos, Nigeria’s commercial hub, could soon have a US$45 billion economy – equivalent to that of Ghana, according to a recent report produced by Renaissance Capital economist Yvonne Mhango.Mhango says that the size of Lagos State’s economy is currently ... [Published 234Pulse.com - May 18 2013]

Entities: Nigeria, Lagos (Nigeria), Ghana, Lagos State

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 18 2013 - 5 reports

I didn’t raise any alarm because I was in the midst of kidnappers – Olaoye

At the resumed hearing of the trial of the seven kidnap suspects, who allegedly kidnapped a 28-year-old man, Ayodele Olaoye, by a lady he met at Pegas Club in Opebi Lagos, the victim has told the court that he did not raise any alarm because he was in ... [Published Vanguard - May 18 2013]

Entities: Kidnapping, Esther Phillips, Lagos (Nigeria), Deponent, Lagos State University

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 18 2013 - 2 reports

Court jails My Pikin workers 28yrs, dissolves firm

May 18, 2013 by Ade Adesomoju Leave a CommentScales of Justice| credits:A Federal High Court, Lagos has wound up Barewa Pharmaceutical Ltd, the manufacturer of My Pikin baby teething mixture, which allegedly killed about 80 babies in 2008.Justice Okechukwu ... [Published Nigeria Punch - May 18 2013]

Entities: Drugs, Solvent, Lagos (Nigeria), Conviction

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 2 reports

Lagos residents spend N1b monthly on merriment, says commissioner

(NAN) Lagos State Government says residents of Lagos spend more than N1 billion on merriment and entertainment monthly.The state Commissioner for Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs, Mr Ademorin Kuye, gave the figure at a news conference organised ... [Published News Agency of Nigeria - May 17 2013]

Entities: Lagos (Nigeria), Lagos State, Taxes, Babatunde Fashola, Elongation

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 3 reports

‘My Pikin’ manufacturers get seven-year sentence

… Court ‘winds up’ firmA Federal High Court sitting in Lagos on Friday sentenced two employees of Barewa Pharmaceutical Company Limited, Adeyemo Abiodun and Ebele Eromosele to seven years imprisonment.The company was the manufacturer of “My Pikin” a killer ... [Published The Nation Nigeria - May 17 2013]

Entities: Arraignment, Drugs, Lagos (Nigeria), Discharge

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 2 reports

Gunmen attack police station beyond Nigeria emergency zone

KANO, Nigeria (Reuters) - Gunmen stormed a police station and a bank in a town in Nigeria's northwest, beyond a region covered by a military crackdown on a Islamist insurgency, a sign the offensive could provoke violence by smaller militant cells across ... [Published Morning Call - May 17 2013]

Entities: Nigeria, Boko Haram, Katsina

Quotes

In a statement, the JSE says: "The JSE upgraded the commodities and derivatives market technology to handle the increased volumes and is planning to replace the equity derivatives trading engine completely in 2014/2015"

Finance in Africa -Capital Markets -African hub and cross li. . . [Published Equities.com - 1 hour ago]

Dr. C Peter Wagner, in an article titled 'Those Amazing Post-Denominational Churches' wrote: "By far, the most rapidly growing segment of Christianity on all six continents is a type of church that does not fit traditional categories or classifications. But Missiologists have recognised its presence for some time, but it is such a recent phenomenon that they have not yet agreed on a name for it."

Secret behind Deeper Life’s success [Published Nigerian Compass - 1 hour ago]

Quoting directly from the book, former president Olusegun Obasanjo once said …. "the late Prof. had a great zeal for building a greater Nigeria and it can be said that he truly played his own part in this process. He was a distinguished academic and scholar of no mean repute who not only made a mark in his field but also served with integrity, dedication and courage as a University Administrator with a noble vision"

One year after, UNILAG remembers Prof. Sofoluwe [Published Nigerian Compass - 7 hours ago]

He added that in the Gamburu ward of Maiduguri, the biggest city in the northeast and the place where the Boko Haram uprising began, "a total of 10 suspected terrorists were confirmed dead while weapons such as Rocket Propelled Grenade launchers, assorted ammunition and rifle magazines were recovered"

Nigeria military says 10 insurgents killed, 65 arrested [Published Morning Call - 18 hours ago]

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POLICE RESCUE KIDNAPPED LEBANESE NATIONAL IN LAGOS [Published Beegeagle's Blog - May 17 2013] Men of the Police Mobile Force(MOPOL) on foot patrol in a terror-afflicted zone NEWS AGENCY OF NIGERIA 16 May, 2013 A 61-year-old Lebanese woman, Alhaja Essa Dannawi, who was kidnapped at her residence in Lagos on May 2, has been rescued by the ...
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Nigeria's president declares state of emergency... [Published Atlas Shrugs - May 15 2013] The jihad against Nigeria was previously confined to Muslim majority areas where sharia was practiced (as is their want). But as is the 1,400 pattern, Islamic supremacism and imperialism never sleep. The jihad attacks have spread to Christian majority ...
PAKISTAN AIR FORCE, NIGERIAN AIR FORCE TO STREN... [Published Beegeagle's Blog - May 15 2013] A NAF F7 AirGuard jet pilots and foreign counterparts at a NAF airbase PANA Abuja, Nigeria(with additional reporting by CHANNELS TELEVISION)15 May, 2013 Pakistan has pledged to cooperate fully with Nigeria to enable the West African nation’s Air ...
ubalert: Pupils Sustain Injuries Trying to Esca... [Published Twitter - ubalert - May 15 2013] ubalert: Pupils Sustain Injuries Trying to Escape Drowning in Lagos Flood- http://t.co/oqrNmYrTrk #flood #fb ...

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