TUNBOSUN OGUNDARE, ELLIOT OVADJE and TUNDE ALAO bring the untold sighs and sight of the Lagos tragedy that is getting the world worried.
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Weekend Lagos
‘His eyes were open, so we knew he was alive’
The boy lay wide-eyed on a bed of outstretched arms. The men who carried him, and others looking on, cheered at the sight of the youngster who seconds earlier had been pulled from the rubble of a four-storey building that collapsed in Lagos, Nigeria. Nine-year-old Ademola Ayanbola had been in a classroom on the top […]
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Lagos and the North unknown: The entertainment face of Arewa
DUE to its cosmopolitan nature, Lagos belongs as much to the Igbo and the Yoruba as to the Hausa. Lagos is one of the large coastal cities in West Africa where Hausa-speaking communities, which are scattered throughout the region, are found. The arrival and settling down of Hausa people, for varieties of reasons that include […]
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Hard work, good catch, sometimes poor harvest
OFFIN, Bayoku, Ebute and Ibechi are a few of the communities found along the coastal area of Lagos State which stretches through the South-West bank of the Lagos Lagoon. In these parts, fishing is a traditional occupation that is passed on from generation to generation, mostly by Egun and Ilaje people. However, not many people […]
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Confusion rocks Gokada, Lagos’s modern okada
Lagos State government has replaced the regular okada with technology-driven Gokada. But there is a controversy that won’t go away. SEGUN KASALI got all sides telling their stories. Lagos is God’s experiment of the impossible, […]
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How circumcision permanently damaged us —Lagos sex hawkers, others
Its acronym, FGM, sounds funky. But Female Genital Mutilation or, better still, circumcision, is all pains and lifetime regrets for ladies of all shades, including those of red light districts. NEWTON-RAY UKWUOMA, posing as a […]
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Hijab war rages as Lagos waits on Supreme Court
An old wound likely to last humanity. Even the cosmopolitan Lagos is feeling the hijab controversy. TUNBOSUN OGUNDARE brings all perspectives to the gathering storm. LAGOS is reputed to be the land of fun which […]
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Hardship in Wealth City: Goods everywhere, no buyers at Lagos trade fair
At the just concluded Lagos International Trade Fair, the trading was fair. The pricing was also fair. Buyers came, saw, but couldn’t buy. Their pockets which had been getting leaner by the day would not […]
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Rubbish matter: How refuse crisis will shape next election —Residents
SEGUN KASALI gathers opinions of Lagos residents on the vexed issue of refuse gathering and how it may shape electing a successor to outgoing Governor Akinwunmi Ambode. AGAINST all odds, the issue of refuse disposal […]
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How to get into trouble with Oba Akiolu —Head of White Cap chiefs
In about 48 hours, the Oba of Lagos, Oba Rilwan Babatunde Osuolale Aremu Akiolu, will be 75 years old. Saturday Tribune’s duo of OLALEKAN OLABULO and SEGUN KASALI get prominent personalities making revealing notes of […]
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