11/07/20

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DANIELS G O

PRESS RELEASE

LAGOS STATE GOVERNMENT WARNS RESIDENTS TO VACATE HOME TO AVERT IMPENDING FLOOD TRAGEDY

Residents of four local government areas in Lagos State, especially those living on flood plains, were on Thursday told to vacate their homes immediately. Those in 15 other councils also got the warning.

Environment and Water Resources Commissioner Tunji Bello listed the councils to be worse-hit as Lagos Mainland, Mushin, Ibeju-Lekki and Ikorodu.

Bello explained that the local governments have been identified as “highly probable flood risk in 2020”.

In a statement Mr. Bello said the four listed councils will witness high intensity rainfall between now and September.

He urged residents with structures in low land areas to relocate without delay to avoid any untoward incident that may come with flooding and loss of lives and properties.

Quoting from the Annual Flood Outlook released by the Hydrological Services Agency on May 28, Bello identified 15 other local government areas as those at flood risk this year.

The local government areas put on the red alert are: Lagos Island, Alimosho, Amuwo Odofin, Ikeja, Kosofe, Eti-Osa, Apapa, Ojo, Oshodi/Isolo, Agege, Ifako Ijaiye, Badagry, Surulere and Ajeromi-Ifelodun.

Bello assured that the ministry would intensify ongoing efforts at clearing silted drains as exemplified by the efforts of the Emergency Flood Abatement Gang (EFAG) all over the black spots in the state.

He advised residents to refrain from indiscriminate discharge of waste and to stop patronising itinerant cart pushers

The commissioner described as unimaginable, the heaps of pet plastic bottles, styro foams and solid waste being excavated daily from drainage channels in Mushin, Idi Oro, Idi Araba, LUTH and Mile 2, among other areas within the Lagos metropolis.

Relying on investigation, Bello said some traders dump waste from their daily sales and articles in the markets into the drains, thus inhibiting free flow of water into its channels.

He urged residents to desist from clogging drainage channels with refuse, especially those already cleaned up, adding that the unpatriotic act of some residents is putting the lives of those working on the drains in danger.

Bello warned that anyone caught in the act will face the full wrath of the law.

He assured that the government was working tirelessly to restore drainage alignment in areas where sand-filling activities were carried out to enhance water transportation.

11/07/20

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DANIELS G. O

Another Tragedy struck in Lagos in the early hours of Saturday 11th July as a three Storey Building collapsed on the occupants.

The Body of a young Chap and two others have been recovered and 6 people have been rescued from the rubble.

The building located at Freeman street Victoria island Lagos was said to have collapsed at about 4am local time today.

The Body of the male child recovered has been transported to the mortuary while first aid treatment has been administered to the six victims by the Lagos state emergency management agency LASEMA And the state’s ambulance service LASAMBUS,

Officials of LASEMA, the building control agency LASBCA Ministry Of Physical planning ,Nigeria Police and the, Lagos state fire service were also on ground at the incident scene carrying out a multi agency search and Rescue Operation .

10/07/20

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DANIELS G. O

The body of the late lawmaker representing Kosofe constituency 11 at the Lagos State House of Assembly, Hon. Tunde Braimoh has been committed to mother earth at Ikoyi cemetery, Friday afternoon.

Tunde Braimoh who passed on in the night of Thursday/ Friday at the infectious Disease Hospital, Yaba where he had spent some days, according to sources at the Assembly, was buried at the Ikoyi cemetery according to Muslim rites.

Until his death Braimoh was the chairman of the House committee on information, strategy and security, a position he was holding for the second time consecutively .

Braimoh is speculated to have died of COVID-19 related ailment .

He was also said to have been battling underlying diseases such as diabetes and High blood pressure

08/07/20

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DANIELS G.O

The Federal Government has reversed its earlier announcement on school resumption for Senior Secondary And Junior Secondary School students to write their final year Examination.

The also said no school will participate in the West African Senior School Certificate Examinations earlier scheduled for August 4th and September 5th.

The 2020 year WASSCE examination, administered by the West African Examinations Council (WAEC), was postponed indefinitely in April after it was earlier scheduled to commence in May.

It was postponed after schools were shut down across the country in a bid to contain the spread of the ravaging corona virus disease infection.

The Minister of State for Education, Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba who announced this during a media briefing on Monday, July 6, 2020 had said that the exam will now take place between August 4 and September 5.

The Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, speaking to State House Correspondents at the end of the Virtual Weekly FEC meeting presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari, said that Nigerian schools will not re-open any time soon until it is safe to do so because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

He has therefore said that final year students preparing for the Senior Secondary Certificate Examination (SSCE) will not be allowed to return to school contrary to earlier announcement.

Adamu stated that the West African Examinations Council (WAEC) cannot determine the resumption date of schools for Nigeria.

He said he would prefer that Nigerian students lose an academic year than to expose them to dangers.