Communication Expert, Mr Lanre Adisa, has acknowledged the importance of Artificial Intelligence (AI) as a tool in helping both brands and consumers in making better decisions in business. Adisa, the Chief Executive Officer of Noah’s Ark Communications, made this known on Monday during a Virtual conference organised by GAGE Award Online platform. The News Agency Read More…
Information Technology (IT) expert, Mr Andrew Ughonu, on Monday said that business automation could help achieve the social distancing precaution to curb the spread of coronavirus. Ughonu, Chief Executive Officer, Optisoft Technology, made this known in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos NAN reports that one of the precautions listed Read More…
The Lagos State House of Assembly on Monday passed the Lagos State Neighborhood Safety Corps Agency (Amendment) 2019 bill, after a third reading by members of the House. The Speaker of the House, Mr Mudashiru Obasa, who presided over the plenary, said the amendment bill was passed after voice votes in favour of the amendment. Read More…
The Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA) says it has recovered the corpse of a policeman killed by a ‘hit-and-run’ driver along Lekki-Epe Expressway, Lagos. Dr Olufemi Oke-Osanyintolu, Director-General, LASEMA, made this known in a statement in Lagos on Monday. Oke-Osanyintolu said the Response Team of the agency recovered the remains of the victim at Read More…
Mr Geoffrey Onyeama, the Minister of Foreign Affairs says over 600 evacuees from different countries are already at various isolation centres in Lagos and Abuja. Onyeama said this at the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 press briefing on Monday in Abuja. He said that the the isolation centres designated for evacuees in Lagos and Abuja Read More…
The Lagos State Government has announced the recovery and discharge of 33 new COVID-19 patients, increasing the number of recoveries in the state to 502. The state Ministry of Health, through its verified Twitter handle on Monday, said the patients were nine females and 24 males, all Nigerians. It said that 17 of the patients Read More…
One third of new COVID19 infections announced late Sunday night by the Nigerian Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) came from Lagos even as it may seem that there has been a constant drop in testing. While so far, 25,951 persons have been tested nationwide, according to NCDC situation reports, only 938 tests were recorded on Read More…
Grammy award winner, vivacious Angelique Kidjo in partnership with UNICEF presented a Happy Mother’s Day treat with a remake of Miriam Makeba’s Pata Pata, aptly entitled, “No Pata Pata.” A tweet by UNICEF read: “If you’re not with your mum this #MothersDay send her something joyful-@UNICEFAfrica & @angeliquekidjo’s music video for Mama #Africa Miriam Makeba’s Read More…
The Lagos State Ministry of Health (LSMOH) has announced the discharge of 21 patients. According to an LSMOH tweet on Sunday evening, the number is made up of four females and 17 males – all Nigerians. They were discharged from the Isolation facilities at Onikan, Eti-Osa (LandMark), First Cardiology Hospital and LUTH. Three of the Read More…
With an increase by 55% Lagos figure of 97 new COVID19 cases is still steeply high. In a tweet by the NCDC on Saturday, the total number of new COVID19 cases nationwide was reported as 239. the breakdown is as follows: 97-Lagos 44-Bauchi 29-Kano 19-Katsina 17-Borno 7-FCT 6-Kwara 5-Oyo 3-Kaduna 3-Sokoto 2-Adamawa 2-Kebbi 2-Plateau 2-Ogun Read More…