Cholera: NCDC may declare emergency, Lagos issues safety guidelines

Cholera: NCDC may declare emergency, Lagos issues safety guidelines

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention said, on Wednesday, it might declare an emergency on the outbreak of cholera in the country. The NCDC Director General, Dr Jide Idris, who spoke in Lagos, said the centre was monitoring the situation and might declare an emergency if data showed that the outbreak had gone beyond a manageable threshold. Olajide spoke at the Adetokunbo Alakija Memorial Travel Medicine Lecture held […]

June 20, 2024 7

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Flights disrupted as striking workers shut Lagos, Abuja airports

The organised labour has shut down all entry points of aviation agencies at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja, Lagos and the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja to press home their demands for the implementation of a new National Minimum Wage. This action has, however, affected flight operations at the nation’s busiest airport as airlines as passengers were left stranded at the airport entrances. This is coming barely 24 […]

June 3, 2024 37

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2027: Lagos PDP holds reconciliation meeting, plans to snatch Lagos from APC

Ahead of the 2027 general elections, the Lagos State Chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party has initiated plans to reconcile all warring members of the party in a bid to wrest power from the ruling All Progressives Congress in the state. This was according to a chieftain of the party, Chief Olabode George, during Tuesday night’s edition of Newsday on Arise TV. Since the poor performance of the party at […]

May 8, 2024 16

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Flooding: Lagos property owners build on drainage channels despite govt notices

The Lagos State Ministry of Environment and Water Resources, in its effort to tackle flooding in the state, has commenced an enforcement initiative aimed at reclaiming a vital drainage channel known as the System 1 Drainage Channel midstream in Ojota and Ogudu. The Ministry’s commissioner, Tokunbo Wahab, who tweets as tokunbo_wahab on X.com disclosed this in a post on Monday. He stated that an inspection on Sunday revealed that property […]

April 29, 2024 15

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Day-old baby dumped in polythene bag rescued in Lagos

A day-old baby boy abandoned in a polythene bag has been rescued at Alhaji Masha Road, in the Surulere area of Lagos State. PUNCH Metro gathered that a yet-to-be-identified social worker attached to a hospital in Surulere, while on her way to a destination, heard the sound of a crying baby emanating from the polythene bag. Upon observing what was in the polytene bag, the social worker saw the baby boy […]

April 18, 2024 24

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10 hospitalised as police, cult groups clash in Lagos schools

There was pandemonium on Wednesday, January 31, after a fight broke out among some cult groups said to be students of Community Senior Grammar School and Ikotun High School at Ikotun in the Alimosho Local Government Area of Lagos State.

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Kidnapped Lagos PDP chairman regains freedom

The chairman of the Lagos State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, Philip Aivoji, who was abducted by some yet-to-identified gunmen along the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway has regained his freedom. Aivoji was released four days after he was abducted on Thursday. Aivoji and some other party chieftains were abducted at the Ogere area of the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway on Thursday while returning from the party’s Stakeholders’ Zonal Caucus meeting convened by Oyo State Governor, […]

January 29, 2024 37 2

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Lagos LP politician, Rhodes-Vivour, repays wife’s debt after social media bashing

Labour Party’s 2023 governorship candidate in Lagos State, Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, has repaid his wife’s debt following social media bashing. A user on X, Chike Jones, who worked as a writer and social media manager for Afroscientric.com, a project owned by Rhodes-Vivour’s wife, Ify, had alleged that he was owed for over eight months. Reacting to this, Rhodes-Vivour, wrote, “I have spoken to Chika and extended an olive branch in acknowledgement […]

January 24, 2024 58

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Policemen not permitted to search citizens’ phones – Lagos CP

The Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Fayoade Adegoke, has said that no police officer is permitted to search the phones of any Nigerian. He noted that the Police Force had a cyber section responsible for that, adding that if a police officer suspected anything, they would take the person to the station so the phone could be searched. A Sunday statement by the management of Melody FM, 107.7FM, signed by […]

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