At least one person has died and several others injured in an accident on the Otedola Bridge axis of the Lagos-Ibadan expressway. The accident, which happened earlier today, involved three vehicles, including a petrol tanker, a commuter bus and a private car. Head of Operations of the Lagos Sector Command of the Federal Road Safety Corps, MATTHEW…
The Lagos State Government is considering home isolation of Covid-19 patients due to the problem of stigmatization. This is because of many persons who test positive for Covid-19 usually fail to present themselves for admission into isolation centres. The Commissioner of Health, Professor AKIN ABAYOMI, said many confirmed Covid-19 cases could not be traced because of false…
The Lagos State branch of the Nigerian Medical Association, NMA, has reversed the stay-at-home order to its members, which began Wednesday evening, May 20, 2020. The no-work protest was because of allegations of police harassment of medical doctors in Lagos State while enforcing the night-time curfew to check the spread of Covid-19. However; in a statement today,…
President MUHAMMADU BUHARI has approved the replacement of Professor CHARLES UWAKWE with ABUBAKAR GANA as registrar and chief executive officer of the National Examinations Council, NECO. GANA assumed the leadership of NECO in acting capacity, following the removal of Professor UWAKWE over allegation of misconduct, two years after his suspension in May, 2018. The Permanent Secretary of…
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, is reviewing a new strategy for the operation of interstate transport companies in compliance with the Covid-19 guidelines. NCDC Director General, CHIKWE IHEKWEAZU, confirmed the development while speaking on a television programme monitored in Lagos. IHEKWEAZU commended the transporters for the move, stressing that it was necessary for every organization…
A fifty-year-old father man has been remanded in police custody for allegedly raping his nineteen-year-old daughter for eight years at their family residence around Ikotun, Lagos State. The man identified as Ede Tyndale was reported to the police by his wife and mother of the nineteen-year-old victim. Lagos State Police Command spokesman, Bala Elkana, said that the…