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Why Coronavirus Cases In Lagos May Surge To 39,000 – Health Commissioner

27Mar

By Debo OmilaniNo Comments

Lagos News, News, Nigeria, Safety

Why Coronavirus Cases In Lagos May Surge To 39,000 – Health Commissioner

Lagos State Health Commissioner Prof. Akin Abayomi has warned on Friday that coronavirus cases in the state may surge to 39,000 in the coming weeks if proactive measures were not put in place to avoid the situation. Lagos currently has 44 confirmed cases, which include 41 active cases and 3 discharged patients. He disclosed this at a news conference that about 3,000 primary contacts of those infected with the disease were being traced on daily basis. He warned that infected cases may increase if the contacts were not observing self-isolation or social distancing. According to him, the mathematical projection was that the state could have up to 39,000 cases. He said this has not happened because of the state’s strat...

COVID-19: Citizens Should Practice ‘Social Distancing’ – Lagos Govt

19Mar

By Debo OmilaniNo Comments

Lagos News, News, Nigeria

COVID-19: Citizens Should Practice ‘Social Distancing’ – Lagos Govt

Lagos State Government has urged residents to reduce all forms of public and social gatherings as part of the preventive measure to curtail the spread of the Coronavirus disease in the State. Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi who stated this today while giving updates on COVID19 in Lagos advised that citizens should observe and practice the principle of ‘Social Distancing’ which is a public health strategy to slow down the spread of contagious diseases such as COVID19. In keeping with the advisory on ‘Social Distancing’, Abayomi tasked citizens to keep long possible distance between people, avoid body contact like shaking of hands and hugs, avoid social and public gatherings and observe good respiratory hygiene. Said he, “During this period, we should keep long...

Breaking: Lagos Assembly Removes Deputy Majority Leader, Chief Whip, Suspends Two Others

9Mar

By Debo OmilaniNo Comments

Lagos News, News, Nigeria

Breaking: Lagos Assembly Removes Deputy Majority Leader, Chief Whip, Suspends Two Others

Lagos State House of Assembly on Monday suspended two of its principal officers including the Chief Whip of the House, Hon. Rotimi Abiru and the Deputy Majority Leader, Hon. Olumuyiwa Jimoh. Two members of the House, Hon. Moshood Oshun (Lagos Mainland Constituency 2) and Hon. Kazeem Raheem Adewale (Ibeji Lekki Constituency 2) were suspended indefinitely during plenary. In announcing the suspension of the members, the Speaker of the House, Rt. Hon. Mudashiru Obasa stated that the House is the hope of the people and the heartbeat of democracy and that it should be well guided. "I hereby invoke Section 68 and Section 70 4 (a, b) 2 and 3 of the House rules in respect of gross misconduct, insurbodination and action that can destablise this House i ...

Lagos inaugurates FADAMA Food Market in Badagry

21Feb

By Debo OmilaniNo Comments

Agriculture, Economy, Lagos News, Nigeria

Lagos inaugurates FADAMA Food Market in Badagry

Lagos State Government today inaugurated a new Food Market at Agbalata, in Badagry Local Government in order to structure agricultural produce marketing for traceability and quality assurance. The Special Adviser to the Governor on Agriculture, Ms. Abisola Olusanya, who inaugurated the market, explained that the new FADAMA Food Market would also promote availability of wholesome food to the populace at affordable prices as well as create farmgate price advantage through the elimination of middlemen. She noted that the market which was a product of a collaborative effort with multilateral Agencies, especially the World Bank and the Federal Government, would also reduce post-harvest losses whilst giving optimum returns to farmers for their efforts. Acco...

Osun Govt Reviews its Policies on Education

20Feb

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Education, Nigeria

Osun Govt Reviews its Policies on Education

Governor State of Osun, Mr Gboyega Oyetola has said his administration is very desirous of getting its education policies right and employ them as the driver of sustainable governance. Governor Oyetola stated this on Thursday while declaring open a two day Policy Review Roundtable Summit on some extant policies in the education sector held at Regina suite, Osogbo, the State Capital Mr Oyetola said it is the intention of his government to review some extant policies towards improving the education sector in Osun. The Governor who was represented by his Deputy Mr Benedict Alabi said the decision to review the education policies was borne out of the recommendations of stakeholders in the education sector upon the dialogue he had with them He expressed...

Opinion: The North and Vanity of Power by Charles Ogbu

16Feb

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Boko Haram, Fulani Herdsmen, News, Nigeria, Safety, Security, Terrorism

Opinion: The North and Vanity of Power by Charles Ogbu

Northern Nigeria is a tragic paradox. A walking contradiction, I mean. For over 40 years, the North has ruled Nigeria and controlled every aspect of her national life. The current President of Nigeria is from the North and virtually every security agencies in Nigeria including the paramilitary ones are in the hands of Northerners. Yet, almost half of the North is firmly in the hands of terrorists, bandits and other criminal elements operating under different names. Both our Army Chief, Defence minister and even the Commander-In-Chief now need to be escorted by almost the entire Nigerian armed forces before they visit their home towns all in the North. As I type, some of the bodies of dozenS of people butchered by bandits Friday evening in President Buhari's own home state of Katsina are...

Opinion: An Open Letter to President Muhammadu Buhari – Fani-Kayode

15Feb

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Boko Haram, Fulani Herdsmen, Human Rights, Justice, News, Nigeria, Security, Terrorism

Opinion: An Open Letter to President Muhammadu Buhari – Fani-Kayode

Mr. President, many believe that you cannot read and those that believe that you can claim that you cannot go beyond three lines. They say outside of that you can only comprehend cartoons. I do not share either view. I know you well enough to concede that when you consider a literary submission of sufficient importance you have the presence of mind, discipline, health, intelligence and ability to read through it very slowly and very carefully weighing up every word. And that is precisely as it should be. The first open letter that I wrote to you was in December 2015 and the following serves as the second. You will forgive me because this is a long letter and I am fully aware that your attention span or ability to retain too much information in one fell swoop may not be as good as...

Sanwo-Olu opens 11 Road Network, Health Centre in Bariga

14Feb

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Lagos News, News, Nigeria

Sanwo-Olu opens 11 Road Network, Health Centre in Bariga

…Says Projects Symbolise ‘True Transformation’ At Grassroots Residents of Bariga Local Council Development Area (LCDA) in the eastern part of Lagos State have reaped what could be termed “bountiful dividends” of local government autonomy entrenched in the State. Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu was in the area on Friday to inaugurate 11 road network recently completed by the council chairman, Hon. Alabi Kolade. Governor Sanwo-Olu’s intervention accelerated the completion of the 1.6-kilometre long road projects, two years after they started. The Governor, accompanied by his deputy, Dr. Obafemi Hamzat, and members of the State Executive Council, commissioned a state-of-the-art CMS Primary Health Centre and fully furnished three blocks of classrooms bui...

Lagos to give Agric Estates, Farm Settlements Facelift – Sanwo-Olu

13Feb

By Debo OmilaniNo Comments

Agriculture, Economy, Lagos News, News, Nigeria

Lagos to give Agric Estates, Farm Settlements Facelift – Sanwo-Olu

Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu has reiterated the commitment of the State Government towards changing the face of the various agricultural estates and farm settlements in the State in order to boost production and encourage youth participation in agriculture. Sanwo-Olu, who disclosed this on Thursday at the maiden edition of the Ecobank Agribusiness Summit held in Lagos, noted that efforts have already started towards achieving this goal through the recently concluded appraisal of the current state of the estates. He reiterated that the State Government is focussed on enhancing its competitive and comparative advantage in agricultural value chains towards the attainment of self-sufficiency in food production and moving from the current 18% to 40% by 2025...

GENCED, NED Trains Young Women on Political Leadership

12Feb

By Debo OmilaniNo Comments

News, Nigeria, Youths

GENCED, NED Trains Young Women on Political Leadership

The Gender Centre for Empowering Development (GenCED) collaborated National Endowment for Democracy (NED), USA on Wednesday trained young Women aspirants contesting for seats in Ghana's upcoming 2020 general election on political leadership and public life. The 3 Days training organised by GenCED entitled "Young Women Political Leadership School" held at the Miklin Hotel, East Legon, Ghana, aimed to share inter-generational experience between older and younger women in politics and to increased women participation in politics. Honorable Mrs. Sophia Karen Ackuaku, Member of Parliament for Domeabra- Obom in a lecture delivered recounted the sleepless nights and excessive spending that had to be done in order to satisfy constituents so an aspirant can win votes. She urged young...