Sources: The Punch
The 13-kilometre-long (8-mile) Lagos Rail Mass Transit Blue Line rapid transit system begins service in Lagos, Nigeria, after being delayed since 1983. 2023-09-4
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
Soldiers open fire against protesters for about an hour and a half during protests against police brutality in Lagos, Nigeria, killing about 20 people and wounding at least 50 others. It is reported that the soldiers had built a barricade and ambulances could not reach the protest area. 2020-10-20
Nigerian Chief of Staff to the President Abba Kyari dies from COVID-19 in Lagos. Kyari is the highest profile person to die from the virus in Nigeria so far. The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control reports 493 total cases and 17 deaths from COVID-19. 2020-04-17
A pipeline explosion causes a fire and destroys dozens of buildings in Lagos, Nigeria, killing at least 15 people. 2020-03-15
A building in Lagos, Nigeria, collapses, killing ten people and leaving more than 100 others trapped under the rubble. 2019-03-13
At least 30 people are killed after a five-story building still under construction collapses in Lagos, Nigeria. 2016-03-9
The death toll from a collapse of T. B. Joshua's The Synagogue Church of All Nations on Friday in the Ikotun area of the Nigerian largest city Lagos reaches 40. 2014-09-14
Nigeria's State Security Service intercepts an arms shipment in Lagos amid high security following bomb attacks in Abuja earlier this month. 2010-10-26