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By Adedapo Adesanya  The Lagos State Chapter of the Nigeria Medical Association (NMA) on Wednesday directed doctors working in three hospitals, General Hospital Lagos, Lagos Island Maternity Hospital, and Massey Street Children Hospital, to commence an indefinite strike action. This followed the tragic death of their colleague, Dr Diaso Vwaere, a medical house officer, from injuries sustained when a faulty elevator crashed at the hospital. The occurrence which is generating buzz and conversation around the handling of medical practitioners, happened at the Lagos General Hospital on Tuesday night. The deceased was reportedly trapped for more than 40 minutes. The medical

By Modupe Gbadeyanka The Lagos State House of Assembly has called for the immediate arrest of a doctor who performed surgery on a boy, Adebola Akin-Bright, whose intestines went missing in the process of going under the knife. At the plenary on Tuesday, the parliament urged the Lagos State Governor, Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu, to provide funds for the treatment of the boy outside the country. It was alleged that the 12-year-old Adebola underwent surgery at a private hospital, Obitoks Medical Centre, in the Alimosho area of the state. He is currently at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH) receiving

By Adedapo Adesanya The Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) has restated its striking position as it insists that the federal government was yet to accept its demands, indicating that the nationwide strike would continue after the proposal of a N25,000 increment. The NARD President, Dr Emeka Orji, during a press conference in Lagos State on Saturday, July 29, affirmed the development. According to him, the action will go on “until reasonable progress is made by the government to address our demands as contained in the ultimatum issued to the Federal Government on the 15th of July, 2023”. The NARD

By Dipo Olowookere The monthly environmental sanitation in Lagos State for the month of September will hold, the State Commissioner for the Environment, Dr Babatunde Adejare, has disclosed. The Commissioner said the exercise will hold on Saturday, September 24, 2016 between the hours of 7am and 10am. He declared that the present administration was determined to clamp down on all infractions like shanties, illegal overhanging structures, attachments to all tenements and obstruction to drainage channels on setbacks or right of way in violation of the prescribed distances from the highway in its renewed cleanup campaign. A statement issued by the

By Investors Hub The major U.S. index futures are pointing to a higher opening on Monday, with stocks poised to add to the gains posted last week. Stocks may benefit from optimism about the outlook for Republican tax reform, which would cut corporate and individual tax rates. ?The House and Senate have agreed to a unified tax plan, and we will deliver it to the President?s desk just in time for Christmas,? said House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif. He added, ?We have been working toward this for years, and now the American people are closer to a plan that

By Adedapo Adesanya The Association of Bureaux De Change Operators of Nigeria (ABCON) has made an appeal to the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to allow its members to trade foreign exchange (FX) electronically. President of ABCON, Mr Aminu Gwadabe, who made this appeal on behalf of his member, argued that electronic forex trading by BDC operators will ease the demand pressure on the local currency and create value for the economy. “Technology is a threat whether we like it or not and we have been urging the CBN to allow us to operate within the payment space. Our request

By Aduragbemi Omiyale Deposit Money Banks (DMBs) have been directed by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to pay their customers the new Naira notes a maximum of N20,000 daily. This was contained in a statement issued on Thursday, February 2, 2023, by the apex bank, signed by its spokesman, Mr Osita Nwanisobi. According to the CBN, this development is to ease the sufferings Nigerians are going through to access the new banknotes from their banks and other channels. Earlier, Business Post reported that commercial banks were not paying their customers because of a cash crunch. Most banks were unable

By Dipo Olowookere The popular content streaming platform, Boomplay, has honoured a fast-rising music act in Nigeria, Adedamola Adefolahan, professionally known as Fireboy, for attracting over 100 million streams. The singer is an artist signed to YBNL Nation, a record label established by a popular Nigerian rapper, Olamide Adedeji, otherwise known as Olamide. With the latest feat, Fireboy has joined his boss, Olamide, and Burna Boy, who are already in Boomplay’s Golden Club with over 100 million streams on the platform. A statement issued by the organisation disclosed that Fireboy’s music, according to an in-depth analysis of data, has enjoyed

By Adedapo Adesanya Normalcy seems to have returned to the currency market in Nigeria as the Naira further appreciated against the United States Dollar at the various segments of the ecosystem. In the Investors and Exporters (I&E) segment of the foreign exchange (forex) market, the Nigerian currency gained 50 Kobo or 0.11 per cent to quote at N445.33/$1, in contrast to Thursday’s rate of N445.83/$1. It was observed that domestic currency withstood significant FX demand pressure during the trading session as forex traders completed transactions worth $159.02 million compared with the $99.50 million executed a day earlier, indicating a 59.1

By Nneka Okumazie There are African countries with an intermittent high-intensity crisis that often seem like the face of hell. The people there unleash the worse possible hell on each other. There is often an issue at stake in every crisis. However, some watchers often wonder where does this cruelty come from or how do these people do this to each other? There are people who blame colonisation or the incursion of foreigners, saying Africa had morals and a value system before they came, that it what afterwards that Africa lost a lot of those. They say enticing elite Africans

The CEO/Co-founder of Edves, Sunday Falana and the Provost of the Nigerian Institute of Journalism (NIJ), Gbemiga Ogunleye are among the panelists for the Lagos Chambers of Commerce and Industry (LCCI) International Conference on Teaching, Education & Learning (ICTEL) Expo which commenced on Tuesday July 16 (today) and is expected to finish on Wednesday July 17, 2019. The event, in its 5th edition, is themed ‘The Fourth Industrial Revolution: the Nigerian Story’ and is aimed at giving visibility to new trends in innovations and provides an excellent networking opportunity for businesses. Apart from the above two personalities, the 2019 ICTEL