Dr Joe Okei-Odumakin, President, Centre for Change, has called on Federal Government to increase the number of isolation centres and testing sites in order to contain spread of COVID-19 pandemic as cases hit 627 Okei-Odumakin made the call in a statement in Lagos on Monday. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the Nigerian Read More…
…records 70 new cases in one day Eighty-six new cases of the COVID-19 coronavirus have been reported. According to the latest NCDC situation report released late on Sunday, 70 cases were recorded in Lagos, seven in FCT, three in Katsina, three in Akwa Ibom. one in Jigawa, one in Bauchi, one in Borno. As at Read More…
…empowers tailors, seamstresses to mass produce locally made face masks In order to increase COVID19 testing capacity in Lagos, the Lagos State Government has set up sampling stations in the 20 local government areas of the State where citizens that fit the case definition of COVID-19 can visit to drop samples for testing. In order Read More…
The Commissioner of Police, Lagos State, Mr Hakeem Odumosu, and heads of other security agencies in the state have assured residents of protection of life and property during the lockdown period. The Lagos State Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) DSP Bala Elkana, made this known in a statement released on Sunday and made available to Read More…
Nurses working in all other healthcare facilities across Lagos State on Sunday appealed to the state government to extend its welfare packages to them as they are daily exposed to high hazardous environment. he nurses, under the aegis of the National Association of Nigerian Nurses and Midwives (NANNM), Lagos State chapter, made the appeal in a statement in Lagos. Read More…
The Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi, says the burial protocol of any Covid-19 related death is to ensure social distancing of people at the funeral. Abayomi, during the COVID-19 update on Sunday in Lagos, said that attendance must not exceed 25 people at such burial, including family members, clergy, grave diggers and pallbearers. According to Read More…
The Nigeria Railway Corporation (NRC) says it has commenced sterilisation of all railway compounds and stations starting from its Headquarters in Lagos and the Lagos District. The corporation in a statement by Mr Oyekunle Oyewole, Deputy Director, Research, Health, Safety and Environment on Sunday, said the exercise would cover coaches and wagons to curb spread of Read More…
The Medical Guild in Lagos State says the U.S Government’s decision to stop funding of the World Health Organisation (WHO) will affect the organisation’s ability to coordinate the response to COVID-19 pandemic. The guild’s Chairman, Dr Oluwajimi Sodipo, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Sunday in Lagosthat the U.S’ decision to stop funding Read More…
Offiong Edem, Nigeria’s Tokyo Olympic-bound Spain-based table tennis player, on Sunday said though she was bound to obey COVID-19 Stay-At-Home order in Madrid, but misses doing what she loved most. Edem, a three-time Olympian, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on telephone that it was so sad that the Coronavirus pandemic emerged in the Read More…
The Road Transport Employers’ Association of Nigeria (RTEAN), Lagos State Chapter, has lauded the Lagos State Government for giving 690 bags of garri to its members to cushion the effect of the lockdown in the state. Alhaji Mohammed Musa, the State Chairman of RTEAN, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Sunday in Lagos Read More…