A boat enroute Ikoyi from Ilashe area of Lagos in South-West Nigeria capsized at about 7.24pm on Tuesday.
The boat according to the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency, LASEMA appears to have collided with an unidentified object.
A total of 10 persons including 9 adult males and a female were involved in the incident. They have, however, all been successfully rescued from the water.
A second boat with 7 passengers was also found to be in distress with rescue operation still on-going.
Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari has tested negative for the COVID-19 virus (Coronavirus), following a test for the disease that was carried out yesterday on the president by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), Scribbles Urban can report.
The NCDC informed the president on the outcome his negative result this morning in Abuja.
According to presidential sources, the test for the president was necessitated after his Chief of Staff, Mr. Abba Kyari tested positive for COVID-19 on Monday.
Kyari had travelled to Germany on Saturday, March 7th to meet with officials of Siemens in Munich on the Nigerian electricity expansion programme.
He returned exactly one week later on Saturday, March 14th, but did not show any symptoms.
He was said to have been at a meeting on containing the COVID-19 pandemic in Nigeria all through Sunday, where he reportedly started to cough.
Subsequently, he voluntarily submitted himself for testing and was informed of his status yesterday.
Kyari has however gone into absolute isolation following the test result.
Newsmen gathered that he is hale and hearty and showing no symptoms apart from the occasional cough.
Details later…
Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari has tested negative for the COVID-19 virus (Coronavirus), following a test for the disease that was carried out yesterday on the president by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), Scribbles Urban can report.
The NCDC informed the president on the outcome his negative result this morning in Abuja.
According to presidential sources, the test for the president was necessitated after his Chief of Staff, Mr. Abba Kyari tested positive for COVID-19 on Monday.
Kyari had travelled to Germany on Saturday, March 7th to meet with officials of Siemens in Munich on the Nigerian electricity expansion programme.
He returned exactly one week later on Saturday, March 14th, but did not show any symptoms.
He was said to have been at a meeting on containing the COVID-19 pandemic in Nigeria all through Sunday, where he reportedly started to cough.
Subsequently, he voluntarily submitted himself for testing and was informed of his status yesterday.
Kyari has however gone into absolute isolation following the test result.
Newsmen gathered that he is hale and hearty and showing no symptoms apart from the occasional cough.
Details later…
Following massive backlash from citizens online over the nonchalant treatment with which authorities have handled travellers coming into the country, the Federal Government has on Wednesday placed a travel ban on 13 high-risk Coronavirus countries.
The countries affected are China, Italy, Iran, South Korea, Spain, Japan, France, Germany, Norway, the United States of America, the United Kingdom, Netherlands and Switzerland.
More details soon…
Port Harcourt Musician, Duncan Mighty has been reportedly kidnapped in Owerri, the capital of Imo State.
His friend and billionaire club-owner, Cubana Chief Priest, made this known on Saturday via Instagram. “He was beaten and abducted by the gunmen amid gunshots,” Cubana Chief Priest said.
Details of his abduction are still sketchy as at the time of filing this report.
More news shortly…
The National Union of Electricity Employees (NUEE) has suspended its nationwide strike.
General Secretary of the Union, Joe Ajaero, said the action was called off in the early hours of Thursday following a tripartite meeting between the leaders of the union, BPE and the Minister of State for Labour, Festus Keyamo.
The union had earlier commenced the industrial action on Wednesday after a 21-day ultimatum issued to the Minister of Power Saleh Mamman.
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Eko Electricity Distribution Company (EKEDP) in a tweet on Thursday said following the suspension of the strike by NUEE, they are back to business. They also thanked their customers for their patience while the strike lasted.
“Dear customer, National Union of Electricity Employees (NUEE) has suspended its strike. Our offices & payment channels are open for business. Thank you for your patience & understanding,” the tweet read.
Part of the demands of the electricity workers is the call for the settlement of unresolved workers claims after the privatization of the power sector by the Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE).
Other unresolved issues are illegal transfer of union properties to power investors and the alleged refusal by some distribution companies (discos) to remit deducted contributory pension of their members of staff to pension managers.
The Lagos State Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Mr Adeniji Kazeem (SAN), said on Thursday that the state was determined to prosecute the driver and the owner of the fuel-laden tanker, which fell and exploded on the Otebola Bridge last year, after suffering brake failure.
Kazeem said the delay in the prosecution of the tanker driver and its owner was because the police had yet to identify them.
The incident, which happened in the evening of June 28, 2018, led to the burning of no fewer than 54 cars and loss of lives.
While briefing journalists on Thursday in Alausa, Ikeja on the scorecard of his tenure as Attorney General in the last four years, Kazeem denied that the case had been abandoned.
He said, “Yes, we said we were going to prosecute the people that caused that disaster. One of the challenges then was how to identify the perpetrators of that crime. We had said the driver and the owner (of the tanker) needed to be identified. There were all kinds of theories out there, (including) whether the driver had perished in the fire.
“But as we understand, the police traced the owner to Kano and the whole idea was that at the end of the day they would complete their investigations and get the file here in the ministry, so we can commence the prosecution process. Unfortunately, that process has not yet been concluded.”
The attorney general, however, gave the assurance that the case would not be swept under the He said, “I want to assure you that this Otedola Bridge disaster will not be swept under the carpet. Once we get the facts properly on investigations, we will commence the process of prosecuting the suspects in that matter.”
Asked why fuel tankers and other articulated vehicles, which movements were restricted to the night after the accident, were back on the road in the daytime, Kazeem said the state had to review the directive, having realised some of its implications, including security.
He said, “I recollect that that directive was given. It was enforced at some point in time but the practicality began to dawn on the state government and that issue had to be reviewed. That review is still ongoing because it is not a straightforward issue; it has all kinds of implications, including security issues.”
The Minister of Labour and Employment, Mr Chris Ngige has said that he is not bothered about the decision of medical doctors who choose to leave Nigeria to practice outside the country.
Ngige who was a guest on Channels TV Sunrise Daily said the practice is not alien to Nigeria, because he was taught by Indians in secondary school.
“I’m Not Worried, We Have Surplus (Doctors), if we have a surplus, we export. I was taught Biology and Chemistry by Indian teachers in my secondary school days.
“They are surplus in their country. We have a surplus in the medical profession in our country. I can tell you this. It is my area, we have excess. We have enough, more than enough, quote me.”
Ngige, when asked if nothing was wrong, owing to his position as a qualified medical doctor, said there was nothing wrong in their choice to practise overseas, at the detriment of Nigeria’s health sector.
“There is nothing wrong, they go out to sharpen their skills, earn money and send them back home here. Yes, we have foreign exchange earnings from them, not from oil.”
The minister said the move does not amount to brain drain when asked.
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Many people are feared dead as another building has collapsed in Lagos.
The building is located at 57, Egerton Square, Oke Arin, Lagos Island.
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The development is coming barely one week after another building collapsed at Ita Faji, Lagos Island, killing 20 persons, including school children, while more than 40 people sustained injuries.
The building was one of those marked for demolition.
More to come soon.
A case of earth tremors have been reported in Mpape, a suburb of Abuja today, Friday.
There are however unverified claims that the tremor claimed three lives.
Residents reported that the seismic disturbance occurred at about 2 a.m. when many of them were already in bed.
The tremor was said to have affected many buildings in the area. A resident named Favour, confirmed the incident to newsmen. She also said the tremor claimed three lives in the community.
She said she woke up seeing dusts in her room and many items littering the place.
Earth tremor of frightening scale jolted Mpape, a hilly enclave and a site of huge quarry activity on September 8 last year.
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