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Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has commissioned a Permanent Triage and Oxygen Therapy Centre at Eti-Osa Local Government to provide swift emergency oxygen therapy to residents who require such service. The facility, which doubles as a COVID-19 sample collection centre, is located within the premises of the Eti-Osa Maternal and Child Care Centre and is one of 10 others strategically located in 10 local governments of the State with a high burden of COVID-19 cases. Speaking during the official launch of the facility, Sanwo-Olu disclosed that the need to better manage severe-to-critical COVID-19 cases spurred the State government to build…
A recent unplanned fact-finding visit to Apapa by Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu to ascertain the cause of incessant gridlock on roads leading to the seaports has revealed several causes responsible for the congestion. The visit which happens to be the fourth by Governor Sanwo-Olu and members of the State cabinet to Apapa over traffic congestion, has impacted negatively on businesses and lives in the environ. As the Governor assessed the complexity of the situation that allowed heavy-duty trucks to clog up the access roads, a blame game ensued between stakeholders operating within and around the Apapa seaports. While the…
The Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON) has sealed a plaza at the Trade Fair Complex, Lagos over adulteration of established lubricants. SON Director General, Mallam Farouk Salim said the move was to guard against prevalence of motor accidents and machine breakdown, particularly during the yuletide resulting from the use of adulterated lubricants. Mallam Salim who was represented by SON Coordinator, Surveillance, Intelligence and Monitoring (SIM) Unit,Isa Sulieman, stressed the organization’s commitment to the production of quality locally manufactured lubricants. According to the DG, lubricants and packaging materials worth millions of Naira were seized during the operation. He revealed that two…
A ThIrty-five-year-old woman, Mrs. Comfort Innocent, has confessed that she trafficked teenagers from Nigeria to Italy through the crisis-ridden Libya for prostitution. Comfort, who was arrested by the police in Ogun State, said she had been in the trade for a long time adding that, her husband, who lived in Italy, receive the trafficked girls. The suspect was arrested on December 22 in connection with the abduction and trafficking of two underage girls. Her arrest followed a report by Oluwaseun Aduratola and Sakirat Fasasi, residents of Siun town in Obafemi Owode Local Government, who told detectives at Owode Egba Police…
Gunmen have ‘killed PDP leader in Niger, abduct his three daughters’ Gunmen, suspected to be bandits, have killed a man identified as Ahmodu Mohammed, chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Kampala ward, Bosso local government area of Niger state. The deceased’s three daughters were also reportedly kidnapped by the gunmen. Mohammed was said to have been killed on Thursday when the attackers, said to have numbered about 15, invaded his house around 2am, after two previous raids in the community and at a neighbourhood market. The ward chairman has, however, been reportedly buried according to Islamic rites. The…
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo says with the kind of impact and interest already generated among Nigerians by the ongoing implementation of the Survival Fund under the Economic Sustainability Plan, there is a need to expand the scope and reach of the benefits to an even larger number of the populace. This hint was dropped at a virtual meeting held just before the Christmas holidays between the vice president and the Steering Committee of the MSMEs Survival Fund. According to a statement by Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Laolu Akande, the meeting was attended by Minister…
President Muhammadu Buhari has dispelled the trending allegation that he was dead and had been replaced by his clone, one Jubril Aminu from Sudan. The President’s aides had also waved it aside on several occasions, meaning it doesn’t deserve any attention. Yet the rumour sown by Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, in 2017, has continued to grow luxuriantly like a seed planted by the riverside. And not only do many Nigerians believe that narrative wholeheartedly, they are ready to stake their lives on it. However, Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Femi…
Senior Special Assistant to the Deputy Governor of Edo State on media, Mr Benjamin Atu, has called on the Chairman Media of the All Progressives Congress, APC Campaign Organization and the Ize-Iyamu campaign Organization to complete his first round of apologies by immediately extending his retraction to Nigerians, Edo State indigenes and the Deputy Governor of Edo State, Comrade Philip Shaibu and his wife Comrade Mrs Maryann Philip-Shaibu, for the embarrassment and stigmatisation against them during the September 2020 Governorship election. According to Atu, “John Mayaki should realise that the allegation against Mr. Mike Igini of INEC can’t be compared…
Nigerian veteran movie producer and director Chico Ejiro is dead. The news of his death was announced by the Ejiro family of Ozoro, Isoko North Local Government Area of Delta State in a statement, signed by his elder brother Zeb Ejiro. According to the announcement, the untimely passing to eternity of their most cherished son, Chico Ejiro on Christmas day, December 25, 2020 followed complications arising from high blood pressure for which he had been treated . Zeb stated that,” Chiko had returned delightfully to the only business he was so passionate about and had concluded his movie shoot barely…
Social media provides websites and applications that enable users to create and share content or to participate in social networking. Social media are interactive computer-mediated technologies that facilitate the creation or sharing of information, ideas, career interests, and other forms of expression via virtual communities and networks. It helps family members, colleagues, old school mates and people with common interests to connect, share ideas, celebrate happy moments and even keep abreast with current affairs. Keeping abreast with current affairs is the kernel of concern to every newsman (journalist). Because billions of social media users across the globe are likely to…