Sources: The Punch
At least ten people are killed and 25 others are injured when a fire breaks out in a high-rise office building in Lagos, Nigeria. 2025-09-18
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 building three days ago in Ikoyi, Lagos, Nigeria, increases to 36. 2021-11-4
Dozens of protesters in the Nigerian cities of Lagos and Abuja are arrested or injured after police fired tear gas at the crowds. The protests, coinciding with a public holiday marking Nigeria's transition to democracy, were organized to protest President Muhammadu Buhari's Twitter ban and numerous other issues plaguing his administration, with protestors calling for his resignation. 2021-06-12
A court in Nigeria grants 47 men another delay in their trial over homosexuality and public displays of affection with members of the same sex. Judge Rilwan Aikawa says it is the last accepted delay at the Lagos court. The men face up to 10-year imprisonment if convicted in a closely watched trial. 2020-02-5
A building in Lagos, Nigeria, collapses, killing ten people and leaving more than 100 others trapped under the rubble. 2019-03-13
Chinua Achebe's body is flown into Lagos to be greeted by a funeral processional. His remains await burial in Ogidi, the author's hometown. 2013-05-21
Nigeria is to question an Iranian citizen over a shipment of arms seized in Lagos, warning that it could report Iran to the United Nations Security Council if sanctions had been breached. 2010-11-12
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
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