Sources: The Punch
A building collapses in Lagos, Nigeria, killing nine people and wounding 27 more. 2026-06-26
Five people are killed and 34 injured after a vehicle carrying passengers from Maiduguri through Kano en route to Lagos, Nigeria, collides head-on with a truck in Niger State. 2025-11-22
Six people are killed and at least 79 others are injured in a collision between a train and a bus transporting civil servants to work in Lagos, Nigeria. 2023-03-9
Six people are killed after a building collapses in Lagos, Nigeria. 2022-09-5
Seventeen people are dead after a boat carried into a barge by the tide and capsize in Lagos, Nigeria. 2022-07-8
The death toll from the collapse of a high-rise building under construction in Ikoyi, Lagos, Nigeria, increases to 22, as the search-and-rescue operations enter their third day. 2021-11-3
At least 15 people are killed and several others are trapped when a high-rise building under construction in Ikoyi, Lagos, Nigeria, collapses. 2021-11-1
A Nigerian court throws out a case against 47 men for allegedly publicly engaging in same-sex relationships at a Lagos hotel in 2018, claiming a lack of diligence on the prosecutor's part. 2020-10-27
A court in Nigeria charges an Iranian man over an illegal weapons shipment discovered in Lagos. 2010-11-25
Erastus Akingbola, former head of the Intercontinental Bank of Nigeria, is charged with 22 counts of involvement in the bank's near collapse at a court in Lagos; he denies all counts. 2010-08-13