The International Press Center, IPC, Lagos-Nigeria, has launched an advisory to aid journalists in the course of covering and reporting the COVID-19 pandemic in Nigeria. Journalists can access the advisory COVID-19 http//www.ipcng.org/covid-19-advisory-for-journalists/ The foremost media resource centre dedicated to building media capacities for democracy and development in a statement by its Executive Director, Mr. Lanre Arogundade, on Wednesday said that generations of Nigerian journalists were covering a pandemic for the first time and therefore needed as much professional support as possible. Mr. Arogundade also said as front men and women in the effort to disseminate information that would help combat…
Author: Funke Busari
This might not sound like a good news to many Nigerians, but the fact is that residents of Lagos, Ogun and Abuja will have to stay at home for the next 14 days again. President Muhammadu Buhari handed down the directive on Monday in his broadcast. The President acknowledged the pain and sacrifice of Nigerians in the last two weeks but added that to protect lives and means of livelihood, the lockdown continue. He however said measure have been put in place to cushion the effect and preserve the economy. According to the President, it was a difficult decision to…
A non governmental organisation, International Center for Human Rights Non Violence and Safety Awareness is calling on the government to extend palliatives beyond provision of food stuffs. The NGO stated this in a press release signed by the Chief Executive Officer Barr. Ene Unobe. It read “Government’s restriction of movement order which includes the directive for citizens to stay at home in order to contain the spread of COVID-19 is in good faith. This lockdown, no doubt, is taking its toll on individuals’ and families’ efforts to meet basic obligations. As a human right NGO, we have been inundated with communications…
The Director-General, Lagos State Safety Commission, LSC, Mr. Lanre Mojola and General Manager, Lagos State Environmental Protection Agency, LASEPA, Dr. Dolapo Fasawe have jointly urged Lagosians not to spread the COVID-19 virus by maintaining social distancing and carry out basic hygiene practices such as regular washing of hands. This assertion was made when the COVID-19 joint taskforce on enforcement of social distancing and gatherings, LSC & LASEPA, paid a courtesy call on the Oloja of Epe, Oba Kamorudeen Ishola Animashaun. Mojola declared that the joint taskforce team are in Epe to sensitize and distribute stimulus welfare packages to the community…
The Ogun State Police Command of the Nigerian Police Force has advised residents in the State to desist from setting up bonfires as the Commissioner of Police, CP Kenneth Ebrimson claimed that such act is creating apprehension among the residents. The Commissioner of Police made the appeal on Monday during a discussion via phone on TVC Your View programme. The Police boss said, “I urge everyone setting up bonfires with tyres in their streets in the name of protecting the community to desist from it as it is causing panic among residents. “As I speak to you, Police tactical teams, mobile…
The recent incidents of armed robbery cases in Lagos and Ogun state boundaries in the past few days have been described as worrisome and that the concerned states should form a joint boarder patrol or come up with partnership in the area of crime prevention and socio economic development. This view was expressed by a pan-Yoruba organisation, Coalition Of Oodua Self Determination Groups, COSEG, in a press statement released in Ikeja signed by Comrades Dayo Ogunlana and Dele Daramola the group chairman and publicity Secretary respectively, calling on Lagos State Government and Ogun State counterpart to be vigilant and go…
Residents of Alaso area of Lagos State got more than what they bargained for during this period of lockdown as armed robbers unleashed mayhem on them. Last Thursday, a man was mercilessly matched while waiting for his staff bus around six in the morning by a group of robbers who operated in a tricycle. On Saturday a group of robbers returned to the area in broad daylight robbing from house-to-house especially at Joke Ayo axis. As a result of this, the apprehensive residents organised themselves into group to form a vigilante group. They are appealing to the State police Command…
Not less than 65 suspects have been arrested in Lagos communities even as the Lagos State Police Command foiled robbery attempt in Ogun State communities on Saturday. The latest police operation was carried out by the Special Strike Force on Social Miscreants and tactical teams deployed by the Commissioner of Police, CP Hakeem Odumosu to different parts of Lagos State to tackle the menace of social miscreants. In a statement by the State Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Bala Elkana, he informed that the Commissioner of Police Lagos State Command has further ordered the immediate deployment of operatives of the…
Medical workers in Lagos are raising alarm over the risk they are expose to during the COVID-19 pandemic. Sources who want to remain anonymous at Ifako-Ijaiye and Igando General Hospitals are not happy with their managements’ attitude to safety in the course of their duty. Specifically at Ifako-Ijaiye General Hospital, they claimed that there were no sufficient protective kits for the health workers. At Igando General Hospital, a female patient was confirmed to be positive for Coronavirus. A report from LASUTH where she was referred to, confirmed this, but the health workers are apprehensive that most of them had contact…
Following reports of incidences of violence, alleged robberies and related crimes during the COVID-19 lockdown in Ogun State, the State Governor, Prince Dapo Abiodun has urged the State Command of the Nigeria Police and other relevant agencies to ensure law and order in all the affected areas, as well as the entire state. The order by the chief security officer in the state was made known on Saturday in a statement signed by Special Adviser on Security to the State Government, AIG Sola Subair. (Rtd). The government says its attention has been drawn to incidences of violence, alleged robberies and related…