•Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State The Lagos State government has announced a major shift in fever management after revealing that 95 percent of fever cases in the state are not caused by malaria, warning healthcare providers against treating patients without laboratory confirmation. The government declared that only about five per ce...
The presidential candidate of the Nigeria Democratic Congress for the 2027 election, Peter Obi, says he may not be alive to contest the poll, alleging that the government is frustrating his activities and targeting opposition figures. Obi made the remarks during an interview on “With Chude”, which media personality Chude Jideonwo p...
•Flood The Director General and Chief Executive Officer, Nigeria Hydrological Services Agency, NiHSA, Umar Mohammed, says last week’s devastating floods in Lagos State and some other states across the country were not a surprise. The DG added that NiHSA’s forecasts and warnings were disregarded, reports Sunday Vanguard. According to him, befor...
•Lagos floods Heavy rainfall that swept across Lagos over the weekend has triggered widespread outrage, with many residents criticising the Lagos State government over recurring flooding that submerged major roads, stranded motorists, disrupted commercial activities and left homes underwater across the metropolis. The downpour, which lasted fo...
The Lagos State government has ordered the immediate demolition of illegal structures built on drainage channels and canal rights of way in Agungi, Ajiran, and Ikota. A statement by the Commissioner for the Environment and Water Resources, Tokunbo Wahab, via his X handle yesterday, said the move is part of efforts to tackle persistent flooding...
•Flood The Lagos State government has warned that some parts of the state may experience heavy rainfall, rising water levels, riverbank overflows and flash floods between June 14 and June 21, 2026. The State Permanent Secretary, Office of Drainage Services and Water Resources, Mahamood Adegbite, citing a flood prediction update issued by the F...
•Sunday Igboho and Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State Following recent kidnapping of over forty pupils, a principal, and vice principal in Oriire Local Government Area of Oyo State, Chief Sunday Adeyemo, popularly known as ‘Sunday Igboho’ and Founder of Iru Ekun Security Network, has written to the Oyo State government, requesting comprehensi...
Major General Abubakar Rabe (rtd) and his wife who were abducted along the Karaduwa–Matazu Road in Katsina State exactly a week ago have begged the government to come to their aid. Their abductors released a video showing the couple in captivity, reports Sunday Trust. In the four-minute, two-second video circulated on social media, the couple ...
•School children Civil society organisations and activists have condemned the federal government over the continued captivity of 81 Nigerian schoolchildren abducted by terrorists, declaring that any government unable to protect children has failed in its primary responsibility. The groups, in a statement after the 2026 Children’s Day celebrati...
•Brain experts International brain health experts have called on the Nigerian government to increase funding for dementia care and introduce a national policy to address the growing burden of neurological disorders among the ageing population. Speaking at a one-day interactive workshop organised by the International Dementia Academy Africa in ...
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