FLASH: Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu (@jidesanwoolu) will go into self-isolation immediately, after one of his close aides tested positive for COVID-19 yesterday (10th of December).
Mr. Governor and other members of his team will be tested by the Lagos State biobank today but will remain in isolation until the results of the tests are available.
We are seeing slightly increasing number of COVID-19 positive cases in clusters in Lagos and all Lagosians should adhere to the prescribed advisories of safe distancing, good hand and respiratory hygiene and avoidance of unnecessary gatherings.
This is not the first time Mr. Governor is having the COVID-19 test. He has had at least three since May when he announced that 10 of his aides had tested positive for the virus.
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Professor Akin Abayomi
Honourable Commissioner for Health
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FLASH: Following Lagos State Governor @jidesanwoolu’s exposure to a confirmed case of COVID-19, a PCR test performed yesterday the 11th of December has confirmed that he has indeed been infected with the virus.
Mr. Governor is receiving treatment and is being closely monitored at home by the very experienced State COVID-19 clinical team from IDH Yaba.
Mr. Sanwo-Olu is doing well on treatment and rest and we are confident that he will recover quickly and clear the virus. We are seeing slightly increasing number of COVID-19 positive cases in clusters in Lagos ...
Lagos State Governor, Mr @jidesanwoolu has described the death of the Publisher of @LeadershipNGA newspapers, Sam Nda-Isaiah as painful, saying Nigeria has lost another patriotic and detribalised citizen.
Governor @jidesanwoolu commiserates with President Muhammadu Buhari, All Progressives Congress (@OfficialAPCNg) leadership, the immediate family of the deceased, his friends and associates as well as the media industry, where the late Nda-Isaiah was a major player.
In a statement signed on his behalf by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr. Gboyega Akosile, on Saturday, Sanwo-Olu said the late publisher's eternal passage came at a time when Nigeria needed more of his knowledge and wealth of experience in different areas of endeavours.
Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has approved the release of funds from the equity of the Lagos State Health Scheme (LSHS) to provide free healthcare for 50,000 orphans, the elderly and the vulnerable in the State.
The wife of the Governor, Dr. Ibijoke Sanwo-Olu, who disclosed this on Thursday at the celebration of the Year 2020 Universal Healthcare Coverage (UHC) Day organised by the Lagos State Health Management Agency (LASHMA), ....
The Commander of policemen in Governor’s Monitoring Team (GMT), SP Shola Jejeloye led his team to Orile, Oshodi, Yaba and other parts of Lagos today to arrest one-way drivers and Okada riders.
Some of the vehicles arrested for one way by the GMT Anti-One Way Taskforce earlier today.
Yellow buses, Small Korope buses, Private Cars ... Etc ... @Prince_Muyen
Passengers ordered by the GMT Taskforce to come down from another commercial bus plying one way along Apapa-Oshodi Expressway. Driver arrested.
Three police officers and a naval rating are part of the offenders whose vehicles were impounded on Friday in an enforcement carried out by the Anti-Oneway and Other Traffic Offences Squad of the Lagos State Government.
The traffic offenders met their Waterloo during the Squad’s operations along Apapa-Oshodi Expressway and Mile 2 area of the State.
The Lagos State Government has assured residents of Agbado-Okeodo, Mosan Okunola and Ayobo Ipaja Local Council Development Areas (LCDAs) of a qualitative finish as work commences on the Akinola/Aboru drainage channel to permanently curb the menace of flooding in the area.
Addressing stakeholders at a meeting held in Abule Egba, Lagos, the Commissioner for the Environment and Water Resources, Mr. Tunji Bello said the flooding had almost become intractable, ....