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  • COVID-19 lockdown: Our relief packages not meant for all Lagosians – LASG clarifies

    COVID-19 lockdown: Our relief packages not meant for all Lagosians – LASG clarifies

    The Lagos State Government on Monday said food and other relief packages being distributed across the State were not meant for all Lagosians but for the indigents and vulnerable.

    Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Gbenga Omotoso, in a statement said in the past few days, the social media had been awash with biased opinions about the welfare package initiative of the Lagos State Government to support the indigent and the vulnerable.

    “The welfare package was one of the various decisions taken by the Lagos State Executive Council to ease the discomfort thrust on Lagosians by the lockdown announced by the Federal Government, especially on those who earn daily income.

    “It has become necessary to reiterate the modus of distribution of the welfare package as well as the category of beneficiaries of the government’s compassionate gesture, which is deliberately being distorted by mischief-makers.

    “For the avoidance of doubt, the first stage of the welfare package was designed to cater for 200,000 households, comprising of a father, mother and four children across the 20 local governments and the 37 local council development authorities. It is a misconception that it was meant for all Lagosians. No,” he said.

    According to him, all aged residents who were above 60 years old and registered with the Lagos State Residents’ Registration Agency, LASRRA, were sent text messages and requested to confirm the accuracy of their details, such as name and home address.

    “They have since responded to the text messages so as to benefit from the package. The food relief materials for the above 60 group are being delivered directly to the beneficiaries by representatives of the State Government based on the data with the Lagos State Residents Registration Agency.

    “The other category of beneficiaries comprises the indigent and vulnerable within the various communities at the grassroots.

    “As part of strategies to ensure that the relief packages reach the deserving beneficiaries, the State government involved Community Development Associations and their Committees as well as Community and Religious Leaders to collate the names of community members who deserve to benefit from the palliative measure.

    “The CDAs were also tasked to ensure the items were judiciously distributed. The government is constantly monitoring the process and has observed some lapses that gave rise to the negative comments on some social media platforms,” he said.

    He added that the issues were being addressed to fine-tune the strategies adopted in getting the food items across to the intended recipients of the package.

    “In all, about 100,000 households across the State have been reached since the exercise started.

    “Lagosians should remain confident that the State Government is working to ensure that the lapses are addressed so that the vulnerable, who Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu said will not suffer, will benefit from this laudable intervention,” he stated.

  • Lagos COVID-19 Lockdown: Sanwo-Olu appraises compliance on day one, appeals for more understanding

    Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu has appraised the compliance level of Lagosians on the presidential ‘stay-at-home’ order in the state.

    Sanwo-Olu, in a statement to review the first day of lockdown in the state, said the enemies of Lagosians were those who refused to observe the lockdown order.

    “It is on this note that I would like to warn those who may wish to breach the restriction that their action is against the Public Health interest of all Lagosians,” he said.

    Sanwo-Olu commended Lagosians for keeping to the presidential directive.

    “I would like to note the high level of our people’s compliance with this presidential directive. It has shown that we realise the enormity of the challenge that we are facing and the choice that we have made – fighting to stave off a massive attack of COVID-19 and staying alive to reclaim our life that has been disrupted by this unseen enemy.

    “The restriction, I would like to remind us, is to contain the community spreading of this disease by enlisting everybody in the fight and ensuring that many more do not contract it.

    “On the medical front, I have been informed that all our COVID 19 patients are stable. Five of them were discharged on Monday and – by the grace of The Almighty- more will soon be out of hospital. Our medical staff – exceptional men and women all – are doing their all to ensure that the patients do well, regain their health and return home to their families. We will be doing a lot to encourage them and lighten their burden by staying indoors,” he said.

    He said only those rendering essential services, who must be well identified; were allowed to go out when necessary.

    According to him, “Our Welfare Package remains on course. As I have often said, those at the bottom of the economic ladder, the underprivileged and the most vulnerable among us, will not be left to fend for themselves at this difficult time, Our Relief Package, which is to reach about 200,000 households in the first instance, has continued.

    “Parts of the following local governments are being covered: Amuwo Odofin, Epe, Ikeja, Badagry, Ibeju – Lekki, Agege,Oshodi-Isolo, Apapa and Lagos Mainland. Others will soon be reached. May I seize this opportunity to thank those worthy Lagosians, who have demonstrated the true spirit of “A Greater Lagos” by coming forward to help at this time.

    “I salute our law enforcement agents who have been working tirelessly to ensure that the presidential directive is enforced. I enjoin them to continue in that spirit. They should be firm but courteous in discharging their responsibilities.

    “Again, I have no doubt that if we continue to fight in unity, COVID-19 will be defeated and we will come out victorious as we always do,” he said.

  • Photos: Lagosians scooping fuel from a fallen tanker

    Some residents of Victoria Island, highbrow Lagos Friday morning trooped out with kegs to scoop diesel from a fallen 33,000 litre tanker along Ozumba Mbadiwe Avenue.

    The truck with registration number KRD280XN was said to have lost a tyre while in motion around 5am which caused a flip through the highway median.

    It was gathered that the two compartments of 11,000 litres each detached from the truck and fell on the ground spilling their contents.

    In no time, some residents and street urchins surrounded the tanker with jerrycans leaching on the liquid substance.

    But for the timely intervention of the police, who chased the young people away and seized some of the jerrycans, there would have been an explosion with devastating casualties on the busy expressway.

  • Lagosians to start obtaining licence to drill borehole from 2020

    Lagosians to start obtaining licence to drill borehole from 2020

    Lagos State government has said by the first quarter of next year, it would begin to issue licences and permits before any borehole is drilled for water in any part of the state.

    Executive Secretary of the Lagos State Water Regulatory Commission, Mrs Funke Femi Adepoju, while addressing stakeholders at a meeting, explained that this move was to safeguard residents of the metropolis.

    The meeting was attended by members of the Manufacturers Association of Nigeria (MAN), Nigeria Employers Consultative Association (NECA), Financial Institutions, Association of Table Water Producers (ATWAP) and Association of Water Well Drilling Rig Owners Operators among others.

    According to her, the exercise, which is to be launched by Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu, is to regulate the process of water abstraction in the state.

    Mrs Adepoju affirmed that licensing was a significant process in the regulation of any industry as the commission was determined to ensure its availability and sustainability to prevent the effect on unregulated water abstraction.

    “What is paramount to government is how abstraction affects us as a people not just today but the future with emphases on pollution, contamination of water bodies, saline filtration into the system, over-abstraction and unregulated abstraction,” she stated.

    While assuring that only registered companies captured in data will be issued a 2-year renewable license with unique and personalized number, the Executive Secretary explained that the commission was not established for a punitive purpose, but rather to establish standard in the water extraction industry in order to ensure that the health and safety of citizens are not compromised.

    According to her, the essence of the engagement was to improve the relationship between stakeholders and government by developing ways to sanitize the industry, stressing that the agency has acquired mobile water test kits which are to be used in testing samples during operation and that approval for the acquisition of a standard laboratory for water testing is on the way.

  • A Man meets a people : Mobolaji Johnson and Lagosians – Owei lakemfa

    By Owei Lakemfa

    Mobolaji Johnson was an officer in a profession with a command structure where people were trained to obey the last order. But as Military Governor of Lagos State, Johnson was known not to obey the last order; on a number of times, he insisted on practicing federalism in a military regime. He asserted that Lagos lands belong to Lagosians not the Federal Government. When there was a national census by the Federal Government in 1973, he challenged the figures.

    Johnson, a Brigadier General, was Military Governor of Lagos State from May 27, 1967 until the Murtala coup of July 29, 1975. The new coup plotters who claimed to be anti-corruption crusaders came with a fury. They assumed all the political office holders were corrupt, but tried as they could, Johnson was exonerated. Then four months after his forced exit, he got a two-paragraph letter from his successor, Captain Shamusideen Adekunle Lawal. It read: “ I was shocked at the excuses you gave for removing the special Security Cabinet in the office. This in fact is least expected from you considering your training and background. Your offer of paying for the cabinet is not accepted. You are therefore requested to release the cabinet to the bearer immediately”

    An obviously angry Johnson retorted in a December 6, 1975 response: “ Your administration must no doubt have been conducting series of investigations into the conduct of my administration. You must no doubt be getting worried about not finding a black mud to smear on my person. If Your Excellency thinks that out of the Millions of Naira at my disposal it is a cabinet I will steal from a government I created and established and the achievements for which I am sure are so transparent for the most jaundiced eye to see, then I must say with all due respect that you will still have to be educated on a lot of things not only about my administration of Lagos State but about my person in particular”

    Twelve days later, the new regime tried to appease Johnson telling him: “the whole episode was purely a misunderstanding which should not have happened at all” adding that: “ errors could occur out of genuine zeal or omission…”

    Last Thursday, November 28, at the Lagos state Secretariat, Alausa, I co-convened, with Professor Siyan Oyeweso, noted historian and Biographer of Johnson, a National Colloquium on: “ The Life and Legacies of Brigadier Mobolaji Johnson, The First Governor of Lagos State.” Five professors, four senior academics, leading journalist, Dare Babarinsa, an architect, Victor Rotimi Buraimoh and former Minister of Works, Senator Adeseye Ogunlewe took vibrant participants through presentations that dug into the Johnson phenomenon.

    Professor Oyeweso said the appointment of the then Major Johnson as the Military Administrator of Lagos, was the first time an indigene took charge of Lagos since Colonial Britain seized it in 1861.The post-colonial Ministers of Lagos Affairs, Muhammadu Ribadu and Musa Yar’Adua were from other parts of the country.

    Senator Ogunlewe who was employed by Johnson as an Admin Officer in 1967 when Lagos attained the status of a state, traced the Johnson phenomenon to the Methodist Boys’ High School (MBHS) Lagos which produced him. He praised the MBHS, Lagos Old Boys’ National Association which had teamed up with the Osun State University to organize the colloquium, as: “light in this state and in the federation”

    The MHBS Old Boys President, Victor Buraimoh dwelt on the twin issues of leadership and governance which he said was an emphasis of the school leading it to produce not just Johnson and his father, Pa Joshua Motola Johnson, but also his successor, Captain Lawal, former Ogun State governor, Aremo Olusegun Osoba, the first President of the country, Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe and past Ministers like Chiefs Hezekiah Oladipo Davies, Olu Awotesu and Rasheed Gbadamosi.

    Professor Ayodeji Olukoju of the University of Lagos and former Vice Chancellor of the Caleb University who spoke on “ The Brigadier and the Bridge” said Johnson, unlike the American leaders who built a “Bridge To Nowhere” built bridges linking various parts of the state and neigbouring Benin Republic.

    He pointed out that before Johnson, only the 430- metre Carter Bridge built in 1901, linked Lagos Island and Mainland. But that Johnson built the second bridge, the Eko Bridge and started the 11.8 kilometre Third Mainland Bridge, which when it was opened in 1990, fifteen years after the coup that saw him out of office, was the longest bridge in Africa. Johnson’s plan to build a Fourth Mainland Bridge whose Master Plan he developed with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) remains a dream, 44 years after he left office.

    Olukoju emphasized Johnson’s contribution to federalism. He said although a soldier, Johnson as Military Governor insisted that Lagos, even though a Federal Capital Territory, had constitutional rights to lands in the state.

    Professor Olatunde Gabriel Babawale, Political Economist and former CEO of the Centre for Black and African Arts and Civilization, (CBAAC) said Johnson took: “ Lagos State from penury to financial independence.” Adding: “For about eight years he kept recording budget surplus” He said under Johnson: “The idea of good governance was taken for granted; he felt that government has to impact positively on the lives of the people.” He added: “We are not in short supply of heroes and models” and that the study of such Nigerians should be included in our school curriculum.

    Samuel Gbadebo Odewumi, Professor of Transport Studies argued that Johnson was a clinical finisher: “ the Badagry road took two years of planning and two years of building” He described Johnson who amongst others, built the Falomo, Itoikin, Eko and Third Mainland bridges, and the Badagry, Malu-Kirikiri, and Ikorodu-Ikeja roads , as the man who constructed: “ The spinal cord of Lagos State”

    Dr. Monsuru Muritala and Dare Babarisa dwelt on Johnson’s fight for federalism with the later pointing out that such a struggle later led to the removal of Akin Aduwo as Military Governor of Western Nigeria for refusing to handover the then University of Ife to the Federal Government.

    Dr. Tunji Ogunyemi, A Budget Historian said Johnson could not be indicted for corruption because he had a culture at the end of every budget circle, of returning all unspent funds to the treasury before new appropriation.

    Dr. Wale Adeyemi, Military Historian who described Johnson as: “ A Visionary and Humanist ” said he took risks and “damned the consequences” because of the culture MBHS Lagos instilled in him.

    There was a consensus that given his pioneering work, Johnson, who left on October 30 and will be interred this Thursday, deserves a monument named in his honour either in Lagos State or the country.

  • 19 Lagosians murdered in one month – Police

    19 Lagosians murdered in one month – Police

    …31 robbery attempt foiled

    No fewer than 19 Lagosians have been murdered in Lagos and 31 armed robbery attempt foiled, the Lagos State Police Commissioner, Zubairu Muazu disclosed on Monday.

    Muazu, at a news conference in Ikeja, Lagos, Southwest Nigeria, however, said Lagos witnessed a huge reduction in violent crimes over the last few months, a situation he said, could be attributed to the robust crime prevention strategies put in place by the Command.

    According to him, the Command arrested 40 armed robbery suspects, 29 suspects for cultism, and 19 suspects for murder within one month.

    He disclosed that 19 firearms and 51 ammunition rounds of live ammunition were recovered, while 31 armed robbery attempts were foiled.

    In one of the command’s achievement, Muazu said the police arrested 11 notorious traffic robbery suspects on 14 September, 2019 at Igando area of the state.

    He listed the names of the suspects as Ahmed Durojaiye, Waheed Oseni Rilwan Moshood and Taiwo Idowu, all known to be notorious armed robbers who specialised in snatching phones, money and other valuables from unsuspecting members of the public, mostly where there were traffic gridlocks.

    “They operate mostly on motorcycles. The four suspects were arrested and one locally made pistol was recovered. They also confessed to be members of Eiye confraternity. A follow up investigation by the State CID led to the arrest of additional seven suspects: Mosuru Mukaila ‘m’ 20yrs, Ahmed Oyebode ‘m’ 29yrs , Seyi Ogundele ‘m’ 36yrs, Ogunmola Akintayo ‘m’ 30yrs , Olatunji segun ‘m’ 28yrs , Ayobami Olaniyi ‘m’ 20yrs and Oladimeji Mustapha ‘m’ 27yrs .

    “They all confessed to be responsible for series of robberies at traffic points, bus stops, around Yabatech, Yaba, Ejigbo, Igando-ikotun, Ipaja and Isolo areas of the state. Other items recovered include: one Tricycle, five Bajaj motorcycles, two cutlasses and two phones.

    “Investigation revealed that Ahmed Oyebode who is a cultist and motorcycle operator gives his bike out for robbery operations and is receiving stolen phones and cash derived from the operations as reward. Seyi Ogundele and Ogunmola Akintayo are well known leaders of Eiye cult group in Ejigbo. The suspects will be charged to Court,” Muazu said.

    The commissioner also disclosed the arrest of Awawa Boys’ ring leader in an operation carried out on 21 September, 2019.

    He said “on 21st September, 2019 at about 09:45 hours, operatives of Operation Crush attached to Area G Command Ogba, arrested one Toby Akinbayo alias Scorpion. He is the number one in the hierarchy of Awawa Boys. Their strongholds are Agege, Dopemu, Elere, Ijaye-Ojokoro, Alakuko, Pen-Cinema, Abattior, Iju and Oko-Oba.

    “He is the most dreaded in the hierarchy of cult leaders and his gang is responsible for series of violent crimes and social disorders in the areas earlier mentioned. Two other members of his gang, namely Balogun Jide and Dolapo One were arrested. The suspects will be charged to Court.”

    Another achievement, Muazu said was the arrest of three suspects who specialised in blackmail and preyed on their victims, especially married men by taking video recording of them with mischievous ladies and forcefully dispossess them of their valuables.

    “The suspects are Aspita Mercy ‘m’, Jonathan Ukonues Estreem ‘m and Emmanuella Ozeegi ‘f’. Their modus operandi is to lure their victims, especially married men through unsolicited dating by Emmanuella Ozeegi and once she succeeds, she invites the victim to a hotel or residence of the kingpin Aspita Mercy. The lady will then make a phone call to her master and they will immediately enter into the room, attack their victims and order the lady and victim to be naked for video recording.

    “The victim will be searched and dispossessed of his valuables and be forced to write an undertaking for payment of ransom or be threatened with the video clips going viral. The suspects have confessed having two successful operations. In the recent attempt, the suspects lured one Musa, a bureau de change agent to a hotel based on a request made by Emmanuella Ozeegi that she had some Euros currency at home which her brother brought from abroad and she wanted naira equivalent of two million. They were however arrested in the process. The suspects will be charged to court,” he explained.

     

  • Only 700,000 out of 22 million Lagosians pay taxes regularly – LASG

    Only 700,000 out of 22 million Lagosians pay taxes regularly – LASG

    The Lagos State Government has disclosed that only 700,000 out of the 4.8 million Lagosians registered as taxpayers are active taxpayers out of a population of about 22 million people.

    The state Commissioner for Economic Planning and Budget, Mr. Samuel Egube disclosed this in his address at the Lagos Central Senatorial district Y2020 Budget Consultative Forum which held at Surulere on Friday.

    He said the government would expand the tax net by engaging and encouraging the citizens to ensure that they participate in their tax obligations.

    “The more taxes we are able to collect, the more we are able to do, the more we are able to support small businesses, create and facilitate businesses, put the infrastructure in place that will be able to attract more investments and create jobs and do many other things.

    “It is important that as we want to get Lagos greater, we want citizens to participate in governance and also pay their contributions.

    Egube said the year 2020 budget is going to be based on the six developmental pillars of the government as captured in the ‘T.H.E.M.E.S’ agenda of the administration.

    While assuring that the administration will complete all inherited on-going projects, he said the administration’s dream of a greater Lagos will be realized through engagement and participation of the citizens.

    He said the focus of the budget will be woven around the present administration’s advocacy for an inclusive government that will run under the policy thrust based on the ‘THEMES’ agenda.

    “Which are: Traffic management and transportation, Health and Environment, Education and Technology, Making Lagos a 21st-century economy, Entertainment and Tourism, Security and governance.

    “The Y2020 budget is being designed to be people-oriented in order to ensure a Lagos that works for all irrespective of age, gender, tribe or status.”

    He said the government must grow the GDP at a rate faster than the ever-increasing population of the state and that while the state will deploy debt profile focus on capital expenses it would also ensure that at least 55 per cent of the budget will be on investment in capital expenditure.

    He decried the lack of support by the government in the entertainment and tourism sector, saying every achievement recorded there has been on private initiative.

    “The government is going to actively support that sector, it is our view that the government must act to support the sector this time around”, Egube said.

    The budget consultative forum which will hold in the states’ three senatorial districts, he said, is aimed at giving credence as well as greater transparency and accountability to the state’s budget preparation process.

    “We are going to gather the aspirations of the people in Lagos and ensure it comes into the budget, but I can assure you that we are going to focus the budget very squarely on the thematic areas of ‘THEMES’ which tend to capture what we look forward to hear and to see in Lagos”, the commissioner said.

  • Lagos residents express mixed reactions as Valentine’s Day holds close to general elections

    Some residents of Lagos on Tuesday expressed mixed feelings as the 2019 edition of the Valentine’s Day would hold two days before the presidential and National Assembly’s elections across the country.

     

    They told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos in separate interviews that preparations for the elections would not let them enjoy the Valentine’s Day with their friends and families as expected.

     

    They said that if the Valentine’s Day had come after the elections, it could have also helped in relieving tensions.

     

    NAN reports that the 2019 Valentine’s Day will hold on Feb. 14 while the presidential and the National Assembly’s elections will hold on Feb.16 across the country.

     

    Some said that their lovers might not be able to bond due to the restriction that would be placed on movements of the public on the day of election for some hours.

     

    They said that but for the elections, they would have loved to extend the Valentine Day’s celebrations to the weekend.

     

    Mr Folarin Adeyemo, a banker, said that celebrating love while the nation would be preparing for general elections had come at a wrong time.

     

    “I have postponed my celebration of Saint Valentine’s Day to the weekend since it falls on a working day that I will be at work.

     

    “Unfortunately, the weekend I intend to celebrate the event with my family members has been scheduled for the presidential and national assembly’s elections.

     

    “My plan is to make the weekend a memorable one for my wife since I will be at work on Thursday, but the election will likely hinder my plans.’’

     

    A student at the University of Lagos (Unilag), Emeka Nwanze, said that he had planned to express his love on Valentine’s Day by communicating with his loved ones through the various social media platforms.

     

    “ I am not planning to go out or take anyone out to celebrate Valentine’s Day because I am always careful about my movements during political periods.

     

    “I will, preferably, make the day memorable and romantic by making phone-calls and communicating through the social media networks to my loved ones,’’ he said.

     

    Another resident and an IT expert, Mr Segun Olonilua, said that the timing of the two events would not affect his celebration of love nor affect his voting on the Election Day.

     

    “It is all about planning. Valentine’s Day did not fall on the Election Day, and I see no reason why I should complicate things for myself.

     

    “The two days will not clash according to my plans,’’ he said.

     

    A fashion designer, Miss Cynthia Ofeagbu, said that she would be waiting for her boyfriend to use election as an excuse not to celebrate Valentine’s Day with her.

     

    She said that she would then quit the relationship.

     

    “My boyfriend is yet to tell me our plans for Thursday and I am sure he is planning to surprise me.

     

    “But if the surprise goes the other way round, there will be trouble.

     

    “I regard Valentine’s Day, also known as the lovers’ day, as a very special day and I will not expect my man to give me flimsy excuses not to celebrate love together,’’ she said.

     

    Valentine’s Day or the Feast of Saint Valentine is usually celebrated yearly on Feb. 14. It began as a liturgical celebration of one of the early Christian saints named Valentinus.

     

    During this celebration of love and affection, couples and lovers are expected to observe it by sending greeting cards and gifts to one another as well as attend church services.

  • Most Lagosians are gold diggers- Mr2kay reveals

    Most Lagosians are gold diggers- Mr2kay reveals

    Afropop star, Mr2kay has made a shocking statement about Lagosians. The ‘Banging’ singer noted that 90%of Lagosians are gold diggers .

    Mr2kay made this known via his Instagram page on Tuesday, January 22, 2019.

    In his post, he stated that most Lagosians are only out for what they can get from you after which they move on.

    “#useurhead Don’t be deceived 90% of Lagosians are gold diggers. They don’t really like u, they only like what u gat. So if you’ve got nothing they don’t fu*k with u. #betterlife #mmmboss,” he wrote.

     

    https://www.instagram.com/p/Bs71n-RBeRY/

    No one really knows what triggered his statement, we are however sure that the singer is expressing his thoughts from an experiential point of view.

    Weeks ago, Gifty’s daughter turned one and it was revealed that the child is actually Mr 2Kay’s.

     

     

     

  • Ember Months: LASEMA boss cautions Lagosians on safety

    The Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA) has urged Lagosians to be safety cautious as well as to demystify the negative report about the ember-months of September to December, periods of the year said to be often characterized by major emergency/disaster such as auto crashes, fire outbreaks and other tragedies that often claim lives and properties.

    Speaking in his office at the Secretariat, Alausa, the General Manager, Lagos State Emergency Management Agency, (LASEMA) Mr. Adesina Tiamiyu noted that the period is mostly characterized with so many activities and high vehicular movement of people and goods in and out of the State with the festive activities of Christmas and New Year celebration.

    The General Manager expressed the need for attitudinal change of the people, especially motorists/commuters who feel the ember months are the time to double their hustle, thereby rushing to make more money and to get to their various destination at the least possible time at this period thereby leading to major road accidents which are caused by over speeding/reckless driving, drinking of alcohol and not adhering to traffic rules.

    He emphasized that the ember months are just like every other month of the calendar year and as such, motorists are advised to ensure necessary safety precautions are strictly adhered to while driving, noting that erring offenders would be prosecuted by the State Government.

    Tiamiyu stressed that the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA), Lagos State Fire Service, Lagos State Ambulance Service (LASAMBUS), Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA), Nigerian Police Force, Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) and all the other Agencies that are important in the management of emergencies in the State have been put on red alert to secure and protect the lives and properties of people living and doing business in the State.

    While attributing one of the major causes of fire outbreak during ember months to air becoming dryer, thus encouraging chain reaction of fire and also not switching off of electrical appliances when not in use that sometimes result to electrical fire outbreaks in public places like markets, malls and homes e.t.c which are often difficult to control because of the dry season.

    He advised our people to adopt electrical safety measures such as: always switch off electrical appliances when not in use, avoid naked wires, avoid storage of combustible substances such as (PMS) petrol and kerosene to avoid fire outbreak.

    The General Manager, however hinted that in a bid to stem occurrences of major disasters and emergencies in the State, the Agency as part of its advocacy programme will be embarking on road show to sensitize Lagosians on the Lagos State Emergency Toll Free Line 112/767 as well as jingles on various media platforms on emergency prevention/mitigation.

    Finally, he re-affirmed the commitment of His Excellency, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode at providing necessary equipment and support as well as his Agency’s readiness in the management of emergency/disaster in the State through prompt intervention and extending its tentacles to all the nooks and crannies of the State.