Lagos State Government has reiterated its commitment to ensuring flattening of the curve of COVID-19 pandemic in the state. The Commissioner for the Environment and Water Resources, Mr Tunji Bello, made this known in a statement made available on Tuesday by the Director of Public Affairs in the ministry, Mr Kunle Adeshina. The ministry received Read More…
The Lagos State Police Command says it has arrested four persons, including a couple, over alleged theft of one-month-old baby. Spokesman for the police in Lagos, DSP Bala Elkana, confirmed the arrest to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Tuesday, saying that the suspects were arrested on Sunday by Anthony Village Police Division led Read More…
Sen. Solomon Adeola (APC, Lagos- West) has partnered with Lagos State Government to provide massive food relief for 10 local government areas and 18 local council development authorities of Lagos West senatorial district. The senator who had earlier distributed cash palliatives and personal protection equipment for constituents across the senatorial district said the last week Read More…
The Chief Judge of Lagos State, Justice Kazeem .O. Alogba, has issued a new Practice Direction for the Judiciary in the state, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports. The new practice direction, signed on April 27, is to take effect from May 4. The 26-paragraph practice direction, which was made available to NAN in Read More…
As Lagosians anticipate the ease of restrictions on Monday, 4th May, after a five-week lockdown to stem the tide of the COVID19 scourge, the Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwoolu, has advised businesses to still operate from home as the government continues testing and contact tracing. The governor was responding to the nationwide broadcast by the Read More…
Thirty four new cases of COVID19 have been reported in Lagos on a day that its total number of confirmed cases rose to 764. According to the NCDC on its verified Twitter account, 64 new cases of COVID19 were breported; 34 in Lagos 15 in FCT, 11 in Borno, two in Taraba, and two in Read More…
President Muhammadu Buhari has signed the Proclamation Order on the General Management of COVID-19 in Lagos, Ogun, Kano, the Federal Capital Territory and other states in Nigeria as contained in his broadcast of April 27. Mr Femi Adesina, the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, confirmed this in a statement in Abuja Read More…
The Trade Union Congress of Nigeria (TUC) has urged Lagos State Government to ensure the safety and health of people of Lagos, and the frontline health workers in view of the spread of the Novel Coronavirus. The Chairman and Secretary of Lagos State Council of TUC, Mr Gbenga Ekundayo and Secretary, Mr Aladetan Abiodun, respectively, made the plea Read More…
President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday approved a phased and gradual easing of lockdown measures in FCT, Lagos and Ogun States effective from May 4, to safeguard the economy. The president, in a nationwide broadcast in Abuja, however, said that the current lockdown would remain in place until these new ones come into effect on May Read More…
Following their treatment at the Infectious Disease Centre, Yaba and Onikan Isolation Centre, 15 COVID-19 patients have recovered and subsequently discharged, says the Lagos State Ministry of Health. The ministry, through its verified Twitter handle on Monday, said the patients were 11 females and four females, including an India national, have now tested negative twice Read More…