₦airaland Forum

A lot has been said about the City Hall fire
incident. I have reacted several times to
clarify the ambiguity created by those who
have cashed in on the incident for cheap
political advantage.
Let me say for the umpteenth time that I did
not have anything to do with the fire
incident at City Hall.
I am reacting again for the following
reasons;
First, for the new generation of Nigerians to
know what really transpired at that time
and also to further educate those who do
not know what happened on that
unfortunate day.
Second is for the mischief-makers to know
that no matter how fast lies travel, truth will
definitely catch up.
This is my story.
The day the fire incident occurred was a
working day in the morning and I was not
in the office when the fire started.
Based on the briefings I received,
immediately my staff discovered the fire
outbreak, they tried to contact the fire
service and at the same time while waiting
for the fire service to come, they were also
trying everything humanly possible to put
out the fire.
The fire affected only the office of the
Chairman and also the council chamber
where legislative discussions are held. The
office of the Secretary to the local
government where administrative records
are kept was not affected at all.
More importantly, the office of the Treasurer
to the council was also not affected. For
emphasis, the only section, of City Hall that
was affected was my office as the
Chairman, which was badly damaged.
Meanwhile the council chamber that was
affected was just an open space where
legislative discussions are held. No records
or files of any importance are kept there at
all.
The insinuation and allegations that the fire
was generated or created to cover up for
anything is an unkind attempt to give a dog
a bad name in order to hang it. I also
consider it much ado about nothing
because no document of strategic
importance was missing at that point.
Let us not forget that this incident
happened under the regime of the late
General Sani Abacha, a military dictator.
However, at this time, we had a very
responsible and progressive administrator
of Lagos State in person of Brigadier
General Buba Marwa (rtd) who came by
himself to inspect the scene of the fire
outbreak and immediately set up a panel to
probe the incident. The panel was headed
by no other person but the late Engr.
Pinhero, a respected Lagosian who was
then Commissioner for Works in Lagos
State.
At the end of their investigations and
findings, the Pinhero panel came up with a
report that it was a power surge from an
electrical point that created the fire incident.
I am a proud Lagosian and there is no way
that I will do anything that will affect our
heritage. I am committed to Lagos and I
am very passionate about Lagos.
Fortunately in 1999, I was appointed as
Commissioner for Home Affairs and Culture
and the Fire Service Department was
directly placed under my office. Realizing
what transpired at City Hall when there was
a fire incident and we couldn’t get a good
response time or an efficient fire service
operation, I decided to make that challenge
something we needed to overcome. I sent
in a memo asking to make it a Lagos State
Government policy to build at least one fire
service station in every local government
area of the state and also create an
institution where studies on fire service and
emergency management issues will be
handled. Unfortunately that memo was
thrown out by the then Governor of Lagos
State, Chief Bola Ahmed Tinubu who did
not approve the memo. Otherwise it would
have become a policy and today we would
have had at least one fire service station in
every local government area of Lagos State
and also by extension the only Emergency
and Fire Service Training Institute in
Nigeria. But as I speak, there is none.

Yazmin:
We are gradually getting there.

We would also sweep Borno,Sokoto and Ebonyi due to hold next week.

By November,we would sweep Taraba,Kwara and Ogun.

Peace.....#Team 2019

What kind of democracy do we have in Nigeria? so LGA Elections haven't held in the states mentioned... Jesu Kristi

Omimah:
It's Jonathan that should be told this because Buhari is winning him in 2015. He should be aware of what Buhari/Idiagbon did to the politicians in the second republic (1979-1983): They were sentenced to various terms imprisonment on the grounds of corruption. Umaru Dikko who escaped to London abducted and put in a crate to be taken to Nigeria for trial, but fortunate for him he was rescued.

Can you people stop thinking this way...Its democracy now. you can't sentence people to jail or whatever just like tgat anymore

voltron:
Na project or Masters Dissertation

Its no project, Its just something worth and knowing discussing before I become of the leaders of this great nation so as to help me in making decisions about the fuel pump price.

Can someone who's reasonable explain the dynamics
of Petrol pump price increase and its advantages and
demerits on the Nigerian economy?

I want to find out this in preparing me for the future please

I need a job too .
I studied Ecotoxicology and Environmental Conservation from the University of Lagos.... I can fit into any organization whatsoever o....

I can use SPSS very well
I can also use Corel Draw and Photoshop too
I can also work as a social media manager

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There is a great similarity between Di Matteo's Chelsea fc
and Stephen Keshi's Nigeria Super Eagles which is that the
success achieved by both teams was mainly due to the
players and devoid of the coach and that's why Keshi was
crying foul that players were not playing to instructions
during the world cup.
Emenike and Keshi troubles didn't just start now, I thought
Uche was the player with anger issues, Martins was the
over-aged player in a team where Shola Ameobi would make
the 23 man list and Iheanacho is too small to play in a
world where Oscar, Hazard, Dey bruyne, Lukaku, Walcott at
16 and so on play for their respective National teams.
Stephen Okechuchukwu Keshi is not a tactical coach and if
our football must move forward like Chelsea did back then,
WE NEED TO SACK KESHI and bring on people like Olisheh
Sunday or a foreign man who has tactical sense because
our football have not grown to a level where money will not
change hands to get played in all National Teams.
2 hrs ·

I think this Gwoza must be out of his mind.....Northern Nigeria will find it hard to get power again even after GEJ in 2019 because that might make us go separate ways in Nigeria

I need information on how to.go about ghosting this service year please....my PPA is an eyesore and NYSC is a waste of time....Thanks...No insults but advises please....Thanks

CFCfan: I heard Jimi Agbaje is the Labour Party's strongman, so she may find it tough there.

Accord Party sounds plausible. If she defects to the Party, and become their flag-bearer, the guber battle will uniquely be a 4-way race amongst the APC, PDP, AP and Labour parties!

Where are you from Sir, Jimi is in PDP.......

Ttalk: Haba! How can a person with questionable character be a good governor?

Does being controversial affect your output performance, now you be sincere with yourself....The difference between all these set pf people if that one set knows where the shoe pinches the masses and I refer to them as the grassroots people while some people believe in infrastructural development whereas ignoring human capital development and I refer to them as the elites people


Now the question is which category of people come out to vote.......I rep the grassroots for life...

I wonder why some people would just sit in their homes and post rubbish on the internet....Any of these men are welcomed in the APC and you tag them as questionable characters.....

You can have a questionable character for all I care....just be a good governor....

temmyt20: kk am ede north, 13c

Do u have an idea if they r posted to the barracks? I mean the football players?

ajoskele: Get your kits ready. Trust me, you will me p et peeps in camp playing with the fake NYSC tennis. Most don't get called up by the NYSC scouts simply because of their kits.

Do u have an idea if they r posted to the barracks?

Any Batch A serving corp member in Ede here or can confirm if corp members esp football cds are posted to the barracks?

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The Nigerian Medical Association on Monday faulted the
Federal Government’s directive to schools to resume on
September 22 as against October 12.
It said through its National Secretary-General, Dr. Olawunmi
Alayaki, that all schools ought to remain shut till all those
under surveillance for the Ebola Virus Disease in the country
had been certified free.
“We are not happy with this decision on the resumption of
schools. Schools should be shut till the last suspected case
or patient is certified free of the virus,” the NMA said.
Before the association made this known the Rivers State
Commissioner for Health, Dr. Sampson Parker, had disclosed
that an 18 month-old baby had been quarantined in the state
for showing symptoms of the deadly virus.
The NMA suggested that the resumption of schools could be
shifted till December or early part of next year because if
Ebola should spread to any school, it would “assume another
dimension.”
It said, “ We can shift the resumption date till next year or in
the next three months if that is the time it will take.
Government should have enough time to follow the standard
procedure for containing the virus.
“Parents have no reason to be in a hurry because if Ebola
should enter any school, it will assume another dimension.
Children cannot survive isolation like adults.
“Nigeria is peculiar because of her large population and we
should be pragmatic and proactive. It will not augur well for
the country if we have another outbreak due to carelessness.”
Also, the Lagos State chapter of NMA said that the Federal
Government should have postponed the resumption date till
the completion of surveillance and monitoring of contacts in
the affected states.
It said through its chairman, Dr. Tope Ojo, that many of the
public and private schools in the country lacked basic
hygiene and sanitary facilities that could help prevent the
spread of the EVD by pupils.
It stated, “It would not have cost the Federal Government
anything to have waited till those under surveillance have
completed the 21 days in all the states where they are being
monitored.
“The government knows that it takes a longer time for
children to get used to the idea of hygiene and sanitation.
They are even more vulnerable because they would play with
each other whether they are sick or not.
“How many children know that they should use hand
sanitisers or avoid contact with anybody that has fever?
“Waiting till October when at least the situations in Rivers and
Lagos states would have been conclusively managed is
another safety measure the government should have taken .
These kids are not studying to get a degree, so we are sure it
would not have affected schools’ curricula.”
Also the immediate president of the NMA, Dr. Osahon
Enabulele, expressed concern about the September 22
resumption date, wondered about the safety parameters
government used in fixing the date.
Enabulele said that the grouse of many parents with the
resumption date stemmed from the fact that they were not
convinced that schools had met the safety standards for the
prevention of Ebola.
He added that if the government was bent on schools
adhering to the date, it should begin now to check the
sanitary facilities put in place by their proprietors to ensure
the safety of pupils.
Enabulele said, “We must know the parameters that the
Federal Government used to arrive at the resumption date in
the first place. Has the Federal Government carried out a
safety assessment in registered schools in the country? There
should be a checklist and only those who meet it should be
certified fit to reopen.
“The minimum standard is that all schools should have a
dispensary, a sick bay where sick children, especially those
with fever, are properly managed and tested.”
Saying that he knew that such facilities were not available in
many schools, he asked: So, why the rush for their
resumption?”
Also, a consultant paediatrician with the Lagos University
Teaching Hospital, Idi- Araba, Prof. Edamisan Temiye, called
on the three tiers of government to ensure that schools had
access to water on their premises.
The former Lagos NMA chairman, also warned parents not to
force sick children to go to school as this could expose them
to infections.
Temiye said, “Governments must ensure that clean water
flows on schools’ premises so that children can wash their
hands regularly. Water is important for sanitation and it is the
duty of government to ensure that citizens have access to it.
“Also, parents should take sick children to hospital. Don’t give
them drugs and force them to go to school. Ebola can only be
caught from a sick person. School authorities should watch
out for and isolate sick children from others.
“Again school owners should give hand sanitisers to their
pupils before allowing them into their premises. They should
also have thermal thermometers to check the temperatures of
their pupils before allowing them into their school premises.”
The Minister of Health had before the doctors spoke with one
of our correspondents in Lagos, said that there was nothing
to fear over the directive to schools to resume on September
22.
Chukwu, who gave an update of EVD in Nigeria, said, “We
have contained the situation. Ebola is no longer in the streets
anywhere in Nigeria.
“We are working with the Federal Ministry of Education and
we made it clear that in institutions having students returning
from outside Nigeria, they should let us know.
“We will work with them and we have questionnaires which
we are already using on airlines and ships coming into
Nigeria as well as other means of transport. They will fill
questionnaires. We will ask questions and conduct tests to
see that they don’t have fever.”
The minister also revealed that a fiancé of one of Patrick
Sawyer’s contacts who was confirmed positive for EVD had
since recovered.
He added, “So far, all the cases that have been confirmed in
Nigeria are traceable to the index case (Sawyer). As of this
(Monday) morning, the total number of confirmed cases of
EVD in Nigeria is 19. Fifteen were in Lagos and four in
Port Harcourt.
“The 19th case is the fiancé of one of the primary contacts of
Mr. Sawyer who died of the disease. The test results were
equivocal but further tests established the disease. He had
only mild symptoms and he has since recovered from the
illness. He was quarantined but because of the equivocal test
result he was not placed on active treatment.
“The total number of deaths from EVD in Nigeria stands at
seven . Five of them died in Lagos, one in a private hospital,
the index case, and the other four in the isolation ward in
Lagos State.
“Two of the seven died in Port Harcourt, the medical doctor
who died in a private hospital and the contact, a patient in the
hospital at the time the doctor was also on admission, who
died in the isolation ward in Rivers State.”
According to him, the total number of patients who have been
successfully managed and discharged stands at nine.
He added that the latest was the sister (Chinyere) of the late
Port Harcourt doctor who was discharged from the isolation
ward in Rivers State on Sunday.
“It should be noted that the nine patients successfully
managed and discharged are among the total number of 11
survivors of EVD in Nigeria. At the moment, only one person,
the wife of the late Port Harcourt doctor, is on treatment at
the isolation ward in Lagos.
“She no longer has any symptoms and is undergoing a series
of tests preparatory to her discharge from the isolation ward
this week.
“Regarding contacts currently under surveillance, Lagos has
27 contacts surveillance as of now. A total of 339 contacts
who were previously on surveillance have been discharged
having completed the 21 days of observation. Port Harcourt
has 477 contacts under surveillance. It is a mixed group
consisting of tertiary and quaternary contacts of Sawyer.
Five contacts have already been discharged from surveillance
in Port Harcourt having completed the 21 days of
observation.”
In Port Harcourt, the Health commissioner, Parker, also
confirmed that Chinyere had been discharged. But as
journalists expressed joy over Chinyere’s recovery, he
announced that an 18 month-old baby, who showed
symptoms of Ebola had been quarantined for observation.
The commissioner however did not provide further
information as he returned to Chinyere’s recovery and
discharge.
“I am cheerful today because we have successfully treated an
Ebola patient. She (Chinyere) has been effectively treated,
cleared and discharged from our isolation treatment centre.
She deserves to be celebrated as a success story,” he said.
Parker, who explained that the state government had
reached about 479 contacts, said, “I can assure you that the
disease has been covered. People should not cause panic.
The number of deaths from Ebola is lower than deaths from
road accidents.”

Source: Punch

stinggy: I'll wait till I read it in the dailies, can't rely on hear-says

You can't read such in the dailies because AapC is in charge of the media in Lagos if you don't know

Make them use gun kill me?? Call any Politician in Mushin APC and ask them

On Friday the 5th of September 2014, Some APC leaders in Lagos State arranged a reconciliation rally with the venue as Mushin Sports Complex popularly known as Bishop Aggey Memorial School.
All chieftains of the party in the state were I'm attendance except for the Governor and Bola Tinubu who were allegedly on their way. After hours of waiting, the man who is representing the constituency used for the meeting- BYA drove out and after 3 minutes or thereabout, the aggrieved members of the party started throwing bottles and gun shots were heard and every one started running helter skelter in safeguarding their life. Different forms of attack was made on themselves as one lady eventually lost her life with some others in coma and heavily stabbed and shot. The APC LGA Chairman- Mr Ikufisile ran away leaving his car.

Eye witness Report

Jollyjoy: are you looking for sum1 to take care of u?

Yes

I need someone to help me make inquiry as to when redeployed niggas should fall in...

Umoji or whatever your name is.....Create a Whatsapp Group as you suggested......Request for members to be added.... Post a Notice for a meeting on the group and a proper meeting should be arranged OFFLINE........... i repeat OFFLINE

NYP would be fine but Let's first fix a meeting offline to draft out the modalities.... All online meetings are Bullshits in reality....I'm in Lagos and already a Politician...I could lend my ideas....75e1cacd.

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prixxy7: tho A̶̲̥̅♏ in stream 2 lagos. Mite be able to say a thing or two. Since U̶̲̥̅̊ have been redeployed to osun state and no camp ƒø̲̣̣я̅ osun state, guess you wil have to go to osun state on d day we in stream 2 wil start our registration and talk to any of d NYSC official dea. D̶̲̥̅̊ε̲̣̣̣̥γ̲̣̣̥ would be in d best position to help you. And besides, you mite have to wait ƒø̲̣̣я̅ us (stream2) til wen we start our own PPA which mite be sept or oct. Depending on wen we collect our posting letter. But in a nutshell, try get to osun state and meet d NYSC official and talk to dem during our registration which ȋ̝̊̅§ starting next week monday. 1st of sept. Tanx.

Thanks a bunch

Who has an idea of what am supposed to do I just got redeployed to Osun State. Though I'm presently in Lagos. Thanks Former Anam Kopa

Cleoqueen: Hello...did you request to be redeployed? Or nysc just redeployed you without your knowledge

I redeployed myself....I.e I requested for Oyo State but was given Osun, though its still quite close to Lagos