Fashola, N78.3m website and Lagos tax payers By AZUH AMATUS

Fashola

When will the absurd stop happening in Nigeria?

Sincerely, I still cannot believe it that the immediate past governor of Lagos State, Babatunde Raji Fashola (BRF) spent the whopping sum of N78.3 million to construct and host his personal website, www.tundefashola.com

Please, I need to know, was this website built in Pluto or Mars?

Jonathan, Fashola, lead eminent Nigerians to Nollywood Health Convention and Awards

Lagos AGN chairman, Victor Osuagwu

It will be the constellation of eminent Nigerian and showbiz stars at the third edition of the annual Nollywood Health Convention and Awards holding inside the main bowl of the National Theatre, Iganmu, Lagos on Sunday, December 7, 2014.

The laudable initiative SHOWBIZPLUSng learnt is being powered by the Saving Life for Africa Diabetes Foundation (SLAD) in collaboration with the Victor Osuagwu-led Lagos State chapter of the Actors Guild of Nigeria (AGN).

President Goodluck Jonathan is expected as the special guest of honour at this year’s event, which begins with a blue carpet at 2.p.m.

Jonathan bombs Tinubu, Fashola, says Ikimi’s defection, final blow to APC

L-R: Jonathan and Tinubu

President Goodluck Jonathan on Saturday described the defection of a former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Tom IKmi, from All Progressives Congress to the Peoples Democratic Party as spelling the end of the APC.

He also vowed that the Peoples Democratic Party would win Edo and Rivers states in the 2015 and 2016 general and governorship elections in the two states.

President Jonathan spoke during the PDP South-South unity rally held at the Samuel Ogbemudia Stadium in Benin, the Edo State capital.

While welcoming Tom Ikimi and other former members of the APC, including national and state assembly members, back to the party, he stated that the defection from the APC to the PDP, led by Ikimi, meant that “the last oxygen has been removed.”

Tears as illegal train passengers kill journalist in Lagos

Some illegal train passengers, who were hanging on a moving train at the Ikeja Along bus stop, Lagos have attacked two journalists, causing the death of one of them.

SHOWBIZPLUSng learnt that the miscreants had jumped off the train on Tuesday at about 9am and attacked the journalists.

The miscreants were said to have accused the journalists of filming them with the intention of exposing their antics through their medium.

It was learnt that the pressmen had fled for their lives, but the attackers gave them a chase, causing one of the journalists to run into the path of an oncoming commercial bus.

Lagos shifts schools resumption to Oct 8

Lagos Governor, Fashola

The Lagos State Government on Sunday said primary and secondary schools in the state would no longer resume on Monday as earlier announced.
Lagos said the schools would resume on Wednesday, October 8.
The state joined other states in the South-West, which had postponed the resumption of schools in their states to October 8.

Murder at the Synagogue: Entertainers condemn TB Joshua...Want government to shut down church

Joshua

Angry and disappointed entertainers have come out to openly condemn and berate Prophet TB Joshua following the recent tragedy that killed hundreds of people when a two storey building that was being raised to six storey collapsed at the Synagogue Church Of All Nations (SCOAN) in Ikotun, Lagos State.

The building, which collapsed last week belongs to the embattled and controversial preacher from Ondo State. 

 They also castigated TB Joshua for the tragedy, which they said was avoidable. The mourning entertainers also called on the government to sanction the church and its leaders for negligence and waste of innocent lives by shutting it down indefinitely.

Below are their reactions:

Fears as experts urge govt to seize collapsed Synagogue property

Scene of the collapsed Synagogue building

Built environment experts have urged the Lagos State Government to confiscate the site of the collapsed six-storey building belonging to the Synagogue Church of All Nations
The incident, as of Tuesday, had claimed 60 lives, while no fewer than 130 people were said to have been rescued.
A former Lagos State Commissioner for Physical Planning and Urban Development, Mr. Bolaji Abosede, said the government should check its record to see the approval granted the church. He added that if Synagogue was found to have erected any structure without approval, there should be no double standards in the application of the law.

BATN responds to anti-tobacco NGO

British American Tobacco Nigeria (BATN) Limited has restated its commitment to the successful implementation of the Lagos State Public Place Smoking Law, which came into effect on August 17. The company said that it would continue to support key stakeholders in the country to drive a fully compliant and well regulated tobacco sector in a transparent and responsible manner.

The statement sent to SHOWBIZPLUSng, came against the backdrop of a reaction to BATN's recent sensitisation of officers of the Lagos State Police Command on the Lagos State Public Place Smoking Law.

Families, colleagues cry out: Lagos Ebola patients neglected, critically ill

Relatives and associates of the female medical doctor and other health workers who contracted the Ebola Virus Disease from the late Liberian-American, Patrick Sawyer, share the gloomy experiences of the victims with Temitayo Famutimi and Afeez Hanafi

Ebola: Fears as two more people in Lagos confirmed with virus

The Federal Government has announced that two more Nigerians have been confirmed to have contacted the Ebola virus disease in Lagos.

SHOWBIZPLUSng learnt that this brings to seven new cases of Ebola in Lagos and a second death from the virus.

Ebola: Fashola’s men storm T.B Joshua’s Synagogue…Warn church against harbouring victims

Joshua

Officials of Lagos State Government and some federal delegates on Sunday paid a visit to the General Overseer of the Synagogue Church of All Nations, Prophet Temitope Joshua.

The visit, SHOWBIZPLUSng learnt was aimed at sensitising the church and its membership on the menace of the deadly Ebola virus.

The Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Dr. Jide Idris, who led the delegation, said it was also to make sure that no victim of the virus came into the church from any of the affected countries.