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  • Man trapped inside underground drainage in Lagos

    Man trapped inside underground drainage in Lagos

  • 3 die as bus rams into truck in Lagos

    3 die as bus rams into truck in Lagos

    The Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA) on Sunday said three persons died instantly in an auto crash involving a commercial bus and a truck.

    A statement by the agency’s Permanent Secretary, Dr Olufemi Oke-Osanyintolu, on Saturday, said the incident happened at Gbagada, by Charlie Boy bus stop.

    “Following a distress call received at 22:01hrs through the agency’s toll-free lines, LASEMA activated the Lagos State Emergency Response Plans with an arrival time of 22:17hrs.

    “Upon arrival of the agency’s LRT at the scene, it was observed that a white commercial bus lost control and crashed into a moving truck.

    “The 18-passenger commercial bus, with registration number JJJ-844YA and loaded to capacity, was heading to Ajah from Oshodi.

    “It lost control while on motion, rammed into a moving truck from behind and three people died instantly.

    “Two males and one female, all adults immediately lost their lives to the incident, while others sustained various degrees and categories of injuries,” he said.

    He added that out of the seven people injured, three were promptly administered pre-hospital care and ferried to Gbagada General Hospital for further treatment by the agency’s paramedics.

    “The three commodities have been bagged awaiting arrival of the State Environmental Health Monitoring Unit, (SEHMU), to convey them to the morgue.

    “Light Tow Truck has been deployed to recover the affected vehicle from the busy road to forestall secondary incidents.

    “The LASEMA Response Team, LASEMA Pre-Hospital Care Team, Nigeria Police and Lagos Fire and Rescue Services were all present at the incident,” he said.

     

  • Lagdo Dam: Lagos fully prepared for flooding – LASEMA

    Lagdo Dam: Lagos fully prepared for flooding – LASEMA

    The Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA) says it is prepared for the flood opening as  Cameroun is set to open the flood gates of Lagdo Dam on the Benue River.

    The LASEMA Permanent Secretary, Dr  Olufemi Oke-Osanyintolu, in a statement on Monday,  said the agency was fully prepared for the flood opening.

    “In line with the paradigm shift from response to effective and efficient disaster management ,preparedness and prevention, the state  has carried out holistic measures.

    “This holistic measures include the sensitisation and advocacy in historically affected areas and empowerment of local emergency management committees.

    “This also includes strengthening of the early warning systems and clearing of drainage and gutters at the state and local government area  levels.

    “We remain at high alert with improved infrastructure to manage any imminent challenges,” he said.

    He, however, appealed to residents to remain calm.

    Recalled that there had been alert over a possible flood along the River Benue basin in a few days.

    The alert was issued by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in a letter dated Aug. 21,  and signed by Umar Salisu, the ministry’s Director of African Affairs.

  • Rescue team recovers man’s dead body from Lagos lagoon

    Rescue team recovers man’s dead body from Lagos lagoon

    The Lagos State Fire and Rescue Service said the body of a male adult that jumped into the lagoon on Tuesday afternoon from Lekki-Ikoyi link bridge has been recovered.

    The Director of the service, Mrs Margaret Adeseye confirmed this in a statement on Thursday.

    Adeseye said that the search and rescue operations began in earnest immediately when the alert of the incident was received at 14:53 p.m. on Tuesday.

    She said the team had been in search until the body was recovered at about 9:15 a.m. on Thursday at the LASEMA end of the Lagoon Bank.

    “The collaborative efforts include those of the Lagos State Fire and Rescue Service, Lagos State Waterways Authority, Lagos State Emergency Management Agency, Lagos State Health, Environmental Monitoring Unit and the locals to foreclose the joint operations,”she said.

  • Seven orphans rescued from home engulfed by fire in Lagos

    Seven orphans rescued from home engulfed by fire in Lagos

    The Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA) rescued seven children from a fire incident at an orphanage/motherless babies home on Sunday in Lagos.

    This is contained in a statement signed by Mr Nosa Okunbor, Head, Public Affairs Unit, LASEMA, in the early hours of Monday.

    LASEMA said that the home was engulfed by a domestic fire which reportedly started from an air conditioning unit in the house due to power surge on Sunday afternoon.

    It said that the seven male children were all rescued by the agency from the one-storey building housing the home which is located at No. 7 Wole Madariola St., off Enitan Kusimo Street, Aguda, Lagos.

    “A one-storey building housing an orphanage/motherless babies home was engulfed by fire which reportedly started from an air conditioning unit in the house as a result of power surge which was said to have quickly spread out.

    “A total of seven boys with ages ranging between one and seven years were quickly evacuated from the home and safely relocated to the compound opposite the home.

    “Management team of the home informed LASEMA of plans to relocate the children to the house of the owner of the home temporarily, to ensure their welfare was sustained.

    “The fire which had initially spread to the storage room of the home has been extinguished with dampening down concluded.

    “Post disaster assessment revealed that the whole of the first floor was salvaged, while the fire was contained in the store room and the rest of the ground floor was also salvaged,” LASEMA said.

    The agency said that the children were formally handed over to officials of the Child Protection Unit of the Lagos State Ministry of Youth and Social Development who formally handed them over to the Red Cross.

    LASEMA said that neither injuries nor casualties were recorded in the near fatal incident, adding that the operation was successfully concluded in record time.

  • FG orders probe into cause of Lagos train-bus crash, as NRC, LASEMA react

    FG orders probe into cause of Lagos train-bus crash, as NRC, LASEMA react

    The Federal Government has ordered probe into the cause of Thursday’s Lagos train-bus crash that occurred at PWD area of the state, killing six people and injured 96.

    This was as the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA) and the Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) have blamed the driver of the Lagos State Government staff bus for the fatal train accident.

    Tragedy struck in Lagos a few minutes before 8am on Thursday when a passenger train collided with a fully-loaded staff bus belonging to the Lagos State Government at the PWD rail crossing, off the Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway.

    Giving reasons for the deadly crash, the Permanent Secretary of LASEMA, Dr Olufemi Oke-Osanyintolu, told journalists that the bus driver ignored signals from the NRC officials as he was in a hurry to cross the rail.

    Also, the NRC, in a statement by its Deputy Director Public Relations, Yakub Mahmood, said the bus failed to obey the instruction of the corporation officials as he overtook other vehicles waiting for the train to pass.

    TheNewsGuru.com(TNG) reports that the Federal Government has ordered an investigation into the accident.

    The ill-fated bus with registration no 04A- 48LA was navigating its way to connect the Government Residential Area, Ikeja en route to the state secretariat, Alausa, when it collided with the train at the PWD rail crossing.

    FG orders probe into cause of Lagos train-bus crash: NRC, LASEMA react

    The bus was said to be coming from Isolo while the train was heading to Ido from Ijoko, Ogun State.

    According to eyewitnesses, the train dragged the bus on its rail for about 100 metres from PWD to Sogunle before getting stuck.

    Some panic-stricken passengers of the bus, especially those close to the exit doors, reportedly made frantic efforts to jump off the bus being dragged by the train.

    By the time the train and the bus finally stopped on the rail, the bus passengers fell upon one another in their attempts to find their way out of the trapped vehicle.

    Two passengers were said to have died on the spot while others sustained various degrees of injuries.

    Rescue workers who were mobilised to the scene evacuated the victims and rushed them to the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, Ikeja.

    Nigeria Railway Corporation reacts

    The Chief Mechanical Engineer and Lagos District Manager, Nigeria Railway Corporation, Augustine Arisa, confirmed that the train pushed the bus for about 100 metres before stopping.

    This, according to him, is because of the high speed of the train.

    Arisa disclosed this in an interview with one of our correspondents at the scene of the accident.

    He noted that at 7.50 am, he received a distress call from one of the drivers of the NRC, alerting him of a train-bus accident at the Shogunle Level Crossing.

    Arisa said, “At 7.50 am, we got a distress call from our driver that there has been an accident at the Shogunle Level Crossing.

    “On further interaction, we found out that the level-crossing keeper was there. The LCK is the man with the red and yellow flags at all times at the level crossing.

    “If he gives you the red flag, you are to stop. If he gives you the yellow flag, you are to move with caution. If he gives the yellow flag to the train driver, that means he has asked the train driver to start coming.

    “With that, the train driver has the confidence that the rail is clear for him to drive through. This simply means all buses should wait and not move till the yellow flag is given to them. With that, the train driver has the confidence that the rail is clear for him to drive through.”

    FG orders probe into cause of Lagos train-bus crash: NRC, LASEMA react

    Arisa, narrating how the accident occurred, said the BRT driver veered off from where other buses were waiting and entered the track, ignoring the red flag by the level crossing keeper.

    “Before the train driver could stop, he had already hit the vehicle and pushed it to a distance of about 100 metres before finally stopping. This is because the train cannot stop immediately,” he added.

    He further emphasized that no one should be on the rail track for whatever reason.

    According to him, anyone seen on the rail track is an intruder and has no business being there.

    He added, “I need to emphasise this and drum it to the ears of people that a moving train cannot stop immediately.

    “So, no one has the right to stay on the track. You don’t have any business being on the track. For you being on the track, you are an intruder.

    “If anyone dies on the track, your family members will have to pay a railway fine before retrieving your corpse, because no one is supposed to be there in the first place. When the flag bearers tell you to stop, please, stop.”

    On his part, Oke-Osanyintolu said the accident was caused by reckless driving on the part of the bus driver.

    “Investigation gathered revealed that the immediate cause of the incident was due to reckless driving on the part of the bus driver while trying to beat the train traffic signal before the moving train rammed into the bus,” he added.

    TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) gathered that rescuers started taking victims to the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, Ikeja at 8.30am.

    The Chief Medical Director of LASUTH, Prof. Adetokunbo Fabamwo, in an exclusive interview with The PUNCH, said the teaching hospital admitted 102 victims of the crash.

    Fabamwo, who described the experience as overwhelming, said the hospital received 85 victims at once.

    He revealed that the health facility embarked on open space treatment also known as triage, which he said is the world’s best practice in emergencies.

    He said triage was the best option because the hospital’s emergency unit only has 30-bed spaces and that some other patients were already occupying some of the beds before the crash victims were brought in.

    Fabamwo said, “I got a call very early in the morning about the mass causalities, by the time I got to the hospital, I saw that 85 causalities had been brought to us.

    “They were on their way to work and the accident happened around 7.30am, and our emergency unit is just a 30-bed unit, imagine if they brought in 85 victims and don’t forget our bed cannot be lying fallow, they will always be occupied.

    “So, we had to do what is done internationally, international best practice, and that is called open triage which means you put all the victims on the ground, in a spacious space, luckily, we have a helipad which is spacious.

  • JUST IN: Pregnant women, children escape death as truck collides with tricycles again in Lagos

    JUST IN: Pregnant women, children escape death as truck collides with tricycles again in Lagos

    Two pregnant women and two children have escaped death after a fuel-laden truck collided with three tricycles in Lagos State.

    TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) reports the accident occurred around 12:30 pm on Tuesday around the Ikotun area of the State.

    Operatives of the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA) immediately rescued the accident victims.

    However, the driver of one of the tricycles, popularly known as Keke, with one passenger, died instantly.

    The LASTMA personnel immediately handed the rescued victims to policemen from the Ikotun Police Station, who took them to General Hospital for treatment.

    A preliminary investigation revealed that the fully loaded truck with registration number JJJ 125 had a brake failure and crushed the three tricycles by a valley around Synagogue Church of All Nations (SCOAN) when going towards Ikotun.

    The Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA) immediately moved the petrol tanker along with the crushed tricycles to Ikotun Police Station.

    Other emergency responders including the Nigerian Police men from Ikotun Police Station were at the scene of the accident.

    Meanwhile, the General Manager of LASTMA, Mr Bolaji Oreagba has warned tanker owners and drivers to always  ensure that their trucks are properly checked and in good condition before embarking on any journey.

  • Nine passengers dead as container falls on bus in Lagos

    Nine passengers dead as container falls on bus in Lagos

    An articulated truck conveying a 20ft container fell on a commercial bus at Ojuelegba, Lagos State on Sunday killing nine persons in the process.

    Dr Olufemi Oke-Osanyintolu, Permanent Secretary, Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA) said the truck lost control while ascending a bridge.

    “Upon arrival at the scene, a truck conveying a 20ft container was found to have landed on top of a commercial bus.

    “Investigation revealed that the bus was picking passengers when the truck lost control and fell over the side of the bridge.

    “A total of nine fatalities were recovered, comprising four adult males, three adult females, a girl and a boy.

    “After suspending the container load with the aid of LASEMA’s forklift, an adult woman was extricated alive and taken to the trauma centre,’’ he said.

    Oke-Osanyintolu said LASEMA’s heavy-duty ambulance and Lagos State Fire Service were on hand for rescue operation, just as LASTMA and Nigeria Police were on ground to control traffic.

  • [Video] LASEMA shutdown Third Mainland Bridge for retrieval of waste truck

    [Video] LASEMA shutdown Third Mainland Bridge for retrieval of waste truck

    Lagos State Emergency Management Agency, (LASEMA) has announced the shutdown of the Third Mainland Bridge in order to retrieve an ill-fated Private Sector Participant, PSP, waste truck from the Lagos Lagoon.

    According to Dr Olufemi Oke-Osanyintolu, Permanent Secretary LASEMA, who is leading the rescue operation tagged, “Operation Shark”, said that “LASEMA will commence the retrieval of a PSP truck today Sunday 23rd October at 2 pm.

    “The Agency has concluded arrangements for the retrieval using the Agency’s heavy-duty equipment. The general public is to note that partial lane closure will be in place from 2 pm until the operation is concluded on the island-bound side of Third Mainland Bridge.”

    Oke-Osanyitolu, therefore, urged motorists to use alternative routes where possible, such as: Funsho Williams to Eko Bridge, Ebute-Metta, Adekunle interchange, among other routes.

    “All stakeholders will be on standby to ensure the process runs smoothly and safely including Lagos State Traffic Management Agency, LASTMA for traffic control,” he said.

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  • S3x worker, customer perish in Lagos building collapse during s3x

    S3x worker, customer perish in Lagos building collapse during s3x

    Emergency officials, who refused to be named, have disclosed that two of the victims – a male and female – of the recent building collapse in Lagos State were engaged in intercourse when the incident happened.

    TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) recalls that the building collapsed at Oye Sonuga Street, Palm Avenue in Mushin with emergency responders recovering two males’ and two females’ dead bodies and rescuing one person.

    The victims were said to be prostitutes and their ‘clients’. “In fact, they were naked when their bodies were recovered,” one official who pleaded anonymity told Daily Trust.

    Another official who spoke on the condition of anonymity because he was not authorised to talk to the press, said:

    “We were shocked by what we saw at the scene. The last two victims whose dead bodies were recovered were actually having sexual intercourse. The man was on top of the prostitute when the building collapsed. They both died”.

    Another official said: “The place was used as a Club House/Motel and the female victims were actually prostitutes; the last female we recovered was with a man. They were having a nice time when we recovered them.”

    As of the time of filing this report, the families of the victims were yet to be found.

    “We have to reach out to their colleagues there who are all prostitutes to get information on the victims’ families,” the source said.

    LASEMA said the recovered dead bodies, which comprised of two adult males and two adult females, “were dug up from beneath the rubbles of the collapsed portion of the 3-storey building after the Agency deployed its sophisticated echo and life detection equipment which pinpointed the exact location of the trapped victims, while the light and heavy equipment were deployed in accordance with the path that was charted by the echo machine.”

    Okunbor Nosa, spokesman of LASEMA, in a statement, said the collapsed portion of the old house was recently constructed and attached to the original structure said to be over 40 years old.

    The state Commissioner for Physical Planning and Urban Development, Engr. Omotayo Bamgbose-Martins, who visited the scene directed that the adjoining building be pulled down immediately to forestall further collapse.

    LASEMA statement added that the State Building Control Agency (LASBCA) and the Materials Testing Laboratory, have been directed to unravel the immediate and remote cause (s) of the collapsed building.