Lagos, Nigeria News

Asserts the Nigerian libertarian blogger, who has been traveling throughout West Africa : " It was inspiring to see women run the security and protocols at the in Togo but one's spirit was dampened by the sight of queues for the rest room and the fact that tissues were rationed to users.

As a celebrated author, Professor Chinua Achebe's final burial rites hold this week, I was on the road between Abeokuta and Lagos when I first learned about his death.

Feelings of shame and despair at being conned out of $300,000 by a convincing Nigerian based email scam led Queensland interior decorator Jill Ambrose to attempt suicide twice.

Emotions ran high, Tuesday, at Lagos State Police Command, Ikeja, following startling revelations by suspected members of three syndicates, who specialised in selling human parts to herbalists and persons suspected to be clerics.

Both the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency and Arik Air are investigating the circumstances that led to the drug trafficking by the duo said to be cabin crew members of the airline.

The exercise was organised by the Copyright Society of Nigeria as part of efforts to create awareness about the industry and bring music to the doorstep of every Nigerian.

Kehinde Aina on May 15, 2013, outside the Lagos High Court, where he started the Multi-Door Courthouse to improve efficiency of the judiciary.

Scores of air passengers were yesterday stranded at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport as unions at the Nigeria Airspace Management Agency embarked on an indefinite strike.

A view of the Nigeria stock exchange building in the central business district in Lagos April 10, 2013.

Vital Voices Global Partnership and Women in Management, Business, and Public Service today announced the hosting of the Supporting Public Advocacy for Regional Competitiveness Program and Forum in Lagos, Nigeria.

We do not believe implementing a selected import ban on pharmaceuticals should be considered by the government as a means of reducing import reliance.

A view is seen of the Nigeria stock exchange building in the central business district in Lagos, April 10, 2013.

ALMOST six years after he left office, erstwhile President Olusegun Obasanjo Sunday reflected on his administration and deplored the failure of his successor, the late President Umaru Yar'Adua, to continue with his policies.

The planes are returning after being grounded for four months by the federal government because of smoldering batteries on 787s owned by other airlines.

It reads like a sequel to Lorraine Hansberry's 'Raisin in the Sun'. What happened between Beneatha Younger and Joseph Asagai? Enter 'Beneatha's Place', a play written by artistic director Kwame Kwei-Armah, directed by Derrick Sanders and now playing at Baltimore's Center Stage.

"Love Is Power, or Something Like That," a collection of stories set in modern-day Nigeria, pulses with an indomitable life force that is, by turns, tender and fierce.

Popular TV host, Frank Edoho of 'Who Wants To Be A Millionaire' game show, will anchor the COSON songs awards holding on Saturday, May 25, 2013, at the New Ballroom of Oriental Hotel, Lekki, Lagos.

The person you are at 15 is not - thankfully - the person you are at 30. The time in-between can be a period of great exploration and change, especially for those who move abroad and then attempt to return "home." This fleeting, often romantic notion of "home" is just one of many themes in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's brilliant new novel, ... (more)

A baby delivery syndicate was recently unearthed by the Police and a key suspect arrested and paraded in Lagos, alongside two other women who were believed to have paid certain sums of money respectively, to be delivered of babies.

The Nigerian Airspace Management Agency staff have suspended the industrial action slated to start on Monday to press home their demand for additional welfare package.