The Lagos Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi, says he’s responding positively to treatment after testing positive to COVID-19 virus, and remains committed to discharging his duties. The State Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Mr Gbenga Omotoso, had in a statement on Monday disclosed Abayomi’s COVID-19 status. Abayomi, in a message posted on his Twitter Read More…
Picture above credit: A general view of a food market in Lagos after Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari called for a lockdown starting tonight to limit the spread of coronavirus disease (COVID-19), March 30, 2020. Photograph by Temilade Adelaja/REUTERS The Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi, says that the active cases of COVID-19 in Read More…
PICTURE ABOVE CREDIT: FRSC The Lagos State Sector Commander, Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Olusegun Ogungbemide has commenced a tour of motor parks in Lagos to sensitise public transport operators on the need to maintain strict adherence to COVID-19 precautionary guidelines. Ogungbemide told News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Saturday that the development had become Read More…
PICTURE ABOVE CREDIT: TheCable The Lagos State Ministry of Health on Saturday said it had sealed a private medical laboratory conducting COVID-19 tests inside a pharmacy at Banana Island in Ikoyi, Lagos. The ministry, through its Twitter account, said that the lab; Acouns Medical Laboratory and Diagnostic Centre, situated inside a pharmacy,was carrying out COVID-19 Read More…
PICTURE ABOVE CREDIT: Stears Business The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said on Friday that the total public debt portfolio of the Federal and State Governments as of March 31 stood at N28.63 trillion. The NBS made this known in its Nigerian domestic and foreign debt report released in Abuja. The bureau said that further Read More…
PICTURE ABOVE:CREDIT: AFP Lagos State Government has urged residents of four local government areas to relocate from a highly probable flood risk expected between now and September. Mr Tunji Bello, Commissioner for Environment and Water Resources, made the appeal in a statement on Thursday in Lagos. Bello said that should the residents fail to relocate, Read More…
A Federal High Court in Lagos on Thursday adjourned the trial of a Lagos-based surgeon, Dr Anuoluwapo Adepoju, charged with evasion from investigation into an alleged failed plastic surgery. The defendant is charged alongside her clinic, MedContour Services Ltd., on five counts bordering on refusal to honour an invitation for investigation and failure to produce Read More…
The organisers of the annual Access Bank Lagos City Marathon on Wednesday said that the hosting of the 42km race in 2021 was not under threat yet, in spite of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Media Officer of the race, Kayode Thomas, made this known in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Read More…
The Commissioner for Environment and Water Resources, Mr Tunji Bello, has directed officials in the ministry not to compromise in clearing shanties to ensure proper flow of water through drainage in the state before June 19. Bello gave the directive during an inspection of the ongoing drainage clearance organised by the Lagos State Government on Read More…
The Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi, says the state home-based treatment for COVID-19 patients will begin in the next two to three weeks. Abayomi made this known on Friday in Lagos while giving the state’s COVID-19 update. He said that the strategies for home/community-based management of COVID-19 patients would be defined and Read More…
