Author: TheLagosianMagazine

The lifeless body of an Uber driver based in Lagos, who was declared missing by his wife in December 2018, has been found in a lagoon in Lagos State. According to Adeola Tade, the wife of the deceased (Adekunle Tade), the deceased had his car snatched by armed robbers at gunpoint along Ikeja airport road in December. Adekunle was said to have reported the case at the Police station nearest to the robbery scene. He was detained and tortured after he and his friend went to report the incident to the owner of the stolen vehicle, Mrs. Andry Nwokedi. His family never…

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In Kenya, mobile money is almost synonymous with Safaricom’s M-Pesa. With more than 110,000 M-Pesa agents in the country, the telecom has about 40 times the number of bank ATMs. Although it’s not the only option, competing services like Equitel Money, Airtel Money, Mobile Pay and T-Kash are far behind the mobile money pioneer. In the third quarter of 2018, Airtel Money had the second highest number of active mobile money subscribers after M-Pesa, but with a meagre 3.4 million subscribers compared to M-Pesa’s 24.2 million. When Kenya’s leading telco Safaricom introduced M-Pesa in 2007, it started out as a simple transfer service…

The national working committee, NWC,  of the All Progressives Congress, APC,  has suspended the governors of Ogun and Imo states, Ibikunle Amosun and Rochas Okorocha over anti-party activities. APC took the decision at its National Working Committee meeting held on Friday in Abuja. The NWC of the party further recommended the expulsion of the duo from the party for brazen anti-party activities. Both governors are supporting different candidates for the governorship election in their states. Okorocha, who won a Senate seat as APC candidate, is backing his son-in-law, Uche Nwosu campaigning for Imo governor as the candidate of Action Alliance. Amosun,…

President Muhammadu Buhari polled 15,191,847 votes to win the 2019 Presidential elections. He recently received his Certificate of Return from INEC and there have been celebrations on-going in parts of the country as his supporters and allies prepare for the next 4 years of his government. President Buhari seems to have passed the celebratory phase; he spoke about the challenges that lay ahead when members of the Federal Executive Council (FEC) paid him a congratulatory visit yesterday. Among those present at the meeting were the vice president, Yemi Osinbajo, the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, (SGF) Boss Mustapha,…

Festus Okoye, the INEC commissioner for information and voter education has revealed in a statement that some of INEC’s staff were abducted and raped during Saturday’s elections. In the statement on Friday, Festus Okoye said while the elections were generally peaceful, there was “high level of violence” in some places, he also noted “the subjugation of some of our electoral officials to threats, harassment, intimidation, assault, abduction and even rape.” “The Commission condoles with the families of its ad-hoc staff who lost their lives while on this national assignment, as well as other Nigerians who died in the course of…

By Dolapo Omole-Ohonsi Honourable Beni Lar, one of the longest serving members of the House of Representatives has been returned the National Assembly by her people. Hon. Lar of the PDP polled 53,726 votes to defeat Bako Nandang of the APC, who scored 27,353 votes for Langtang North/Langtang South Federal Constituency in the February 23 Presidential and National Assembly elections. This will be her 4th term in the house, a record achievement as no other females representative has been able to hold on to their seat for that long. Beni Lar is the first daughter of Solomon Daushep Lar (April…

“Poor people get beliefs from the family: ‘You cant get rich, who do you think you are?!'” The Jesuits said it all: “Give me a child until its 7 and I will show you the man”. Whatever you struggle with, its because there’s a program in your mind that does not support what you’re doing. You have to override it. The only way to override a mind older than 7 is repetition. That’s how you train your subconscious mind. That’s how you learn to drive till you no longer have to think of it. Either that or hypnosis.