Lagos state government has approved the creation of two specialist centres at Gbagada General Hospital treating cardiac and kidney patients and burns and trauma victims respectively. The cardiac and kidney centre will be located in a new two-storey building and have...

Nigeria’s president Umaru Yar’Adua has dismissed the country’s chief of the defence staff and the heads of the army and navy in the first military shake-up since he took office in 2007. The three men were all known to be close...

The partial closure of Third Mainland Bridge linking Lagos Island to the mainland for emergency repairs in early August has led to traffic jams and transport price hikes and caused a slow-down of business in the city. On the first working...

Nigeria will lose up to 30 per cent of its projected revenue for 2008 due to the crisis in the oil-rich Niger Delta, president Umaru Yar’Adua has said. The loss is the result of violence by militants in the area, which...

Several people were killed and many more injured when an oil tanker exploded in the Orile-Iganmu area of Lagos. The tragedy occurred early in the morning of 24 July after the driver of the tanker allegedly lost control of the vehicle...

A nationwide recruitment drive for the Nigerian Immigration Service has left at least 13 people dead and many more injured across the country, local news sources report. Some job seekers were killed in stampedes as they tried to enter the recruitment...

Two former aviation ministers, Femi Fani-Kayode and Babalola Borishade, have been arrested as art of an investigation into the presumed misappropriation of a N19.5 billion fund set up by former president Olusegun Obasanjo to improve aviation safety in the country. The...

Six bridges in Lagos state are in critical condition according to a team of Nigerian and foreign engineers. The problem bridges include Third Mainland bridge, the longest of three bridges connecting Lagos Island to the mainland. Lagos state commissioner for waterfront...

A new information and communications technology (ICT) centre has opened in Lagos, taking to two the number of such facilities in the state. Occupying a modern two-storey building in Alusa, Ikeja Digital Village will help bridge the digital divide by promoting...

A Nigerian project using cassava waste is among the 16 winning entries in a World Bank-sponsored competition to provide off-grid energy efficient lighting in sub-Saharan Africa. The idea, developed by Joseph Adelegan of Global Network for Environment and Economic Development Research,...