Is Lagos State for Everybody or Only a Selected Few?
Around 3:20 a.m. last night, our 7-month-old baby girl started crying with a very high fever. She had been running a temperature for the past two days, but it became worse during the night. When I checked with the thermometer, her temperature had risen to 38.5°C.
My wife and I were worried. It was raining heavily, and without a car, we didn't know how we would get her to the hospital.
We used a towel soaked in water to gently wipe her body and help reduce the fever while we waited for the rain to ease.
Then I remembered the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency-LASEMA number, 112. I called at about 4:07 a.m., hoping they could help. A lady answered and asked about the emergency. I explained that my 7-month-old baby had a high fever, it was raining heavily, and we couldn't get to the hospital. She could hear my baby crying in the background.
I asked if they could send an ambulance. She immediately took my address and a nearby landmark.
At about 4:27 a.m., I received another call from the Lagos Emergency Response Call Centre. The officer informed me that an ambulance had already been dispatched. He asked how the team could locate my house because it was still dark and there might not be anyone outside to direct them. I asked if I could send my live location, but he explained that he was calling from the control centre and was not with the ambulance team.
By 5:07 a.m., the rain had stopped. I received another call informing me that the ambulance was waiting at Checkpoint Bus Stop. My wife, our baby, and I quickly took a motorcycle there, and to my surprise, the ambulance was already waiting for us.
The medical personnel welcomed us into the ambulance and asked about our baby's condition. They asked which hospital we normally used. I mentioned the new Primary Health Centre at Ilepo, but explained that it does not operate 24 hours a day. They agreed and advised us that the best option was to take our baby to GeneralHospital Badagry where she could receive proper emergency care.
I believe the ambulance couldn't reach our house because of the heavy rain and the poor condition of the Ibiye–Checkpoint–Magbon road to our street. This is another reason why that road needs urgent attention from the Lagos State Government and the local government. Good roads save lives during emergencies.
One thing that amazed me was that the ambulance came all the way from Badagry General Hospital about 24 kilometres to Checkpoint Bus Stop just to respond to our emergency. Wow. Honestly we are still shock. I only see this happen in developed countries.
For that, I sincerely commend the Lagos State Emergency Response Team. They proved that the emergency service is working and that lives truly matter.
The journey to the hospital was smooth. The Lagos–Badagry Expressway from Agbara Junction to Badagry is now a modern six-lane road with no potholes. Credit goes to former President Muhammadu Buhari for starting the project, President Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu for continuing it, and Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu for ensuring the reconstruction around Badagry, including the road leading to the General Hospital. Good roads make emergency response faster and more effective.
At the hospital, we were asked to open a new patient file because records from the Primary Health Centre could not be accessed there. I believe Lagos State should work towards creating a unified electronic medical record system so that patients' records can be accessed at any government hospital. I no there is existing smart card, we have that with our Lagos health insurance but had expired. I'll renew it.
We paid ₦2,000 to open a new file. The doctor attended to our baby immediately and requested a Full Blood Count (FBC) test and a malaria test, which cost ₦8,000. We also bought the prescribed injections and medications from the hospital pharmacy for about ₦4,000.
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This is utter bullshit. When Indonesia refused to grant the Israeli under 17 team visa’s for the 2023 U-20 World Cup, FIFA stripped Indonesia’s hosting rights and moved it to Argentina. So @FIFAcom can stop with the lies.
You can't have the jobs in your states all to yourselves then start fighting for inclusion elsewhere.
Alex Otti posted a job opening in his state while saying it's specifically for Abia indigenes and you hypocrites were nowhere to be found.
You people always use Canada or the UK as an example and not SE or SS, until you start bringing proof of other tribes holding such positions in your region.
An American man displays his grandmother’s passport, issued in 1932 by the U.S. consulate in Jerusalem,
the capital of Palestine…
A time when the truth was clear,
before the occupying entity was established,
and before history was rewritten.
"Nobody has invested in education more than Peter Obi"
BUT
you this same person called Peter Obi "THE MOST USELESS GOVERNOR IN 2013" 😂😂😂
- Agulu man himself said he didn't build any school all through his 8 years!
- A man that more than 400 Miracle Centres were closed after his wasteful 8 year tenure as Governor?
ENJR
You’re wrong.
In 2023:
Hon. Ibrahim Bello Mohammed was elected as the member representing Birnin Kebbi/Kalgo/Bunza Federal Constituency in the House of Representatives at age 27.
Hon. Rukayat Motunrayo Shittu was elected to represent Owode/Onire Constituency in the Kwara State House of Assembly at age 26.
Hon. Muhammad Adamu Oyanki was elected to represent Doma North Constituency in the Nasarawa State House of Assembly. He was 26.
Hon. Abdulrasheed Kashamu was elected into the Ogun State House of Assembly to represent Ijebu North Constituency 1. He was 26.
In 2025:
Miracle Chukwu was elected at age 19 as Councilor, Ward 5, Oyigbo LGA, Rivers State.
Aaue Samuel Olubari was elected in August 2025 at age 19 as a Councilor for Bangha Ward 7, Khana LGA, Rivers State.
Dino Melaye, 52, declared himself the Youth Leader of the ADC.
It is only within the party you are trying to market, ADC, that a 49-year-old man will still be struggling to be made an aide to a Governor.
Woe to those who manipulate religion and the very name of God for their own military, economic, and political gain, dragging that which is sacred into darkness and filth. #ApostolicJourney#Cameroon https://t.co/bKteFZ3iWE
An Armenian church in Tehran has held a memorial service marking 40 days since the US-Israeli killing of Iran’s supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, in a sign of official efforts to project national unity across religious communities.
Iran is an oil rich country in the Middle East.
Before 1953, British Petroleum and other American oil companies controlled Iranian oil.
In 1953, Iran DEMOCRATICALLY elected a prime minister, Mohammed Mosaddegh who was hugely popular.
Mosaddegh passed a bill for the nationalisation of Iranian oil and this didn't go down well with the Western oil companies.
BP contacted the CIA and with the help of the American secret intelligence agency, a coup was successfully planned that saw the overthrow of the Prime Minister who eventually died in prison.
America and the West installed a Shar ( King ) in Iran and he would rule the country for 25 years.
He held on to power and suppressed the Iranian people but the Americans and the West looked away because he granted them access to Iranian oil.
In 1979, the Iranian people had had enough and a revolution happened that led to the outstering of the Shar and the rise of the Islamic Republic.
The Islamic Republic led by the Ayatollah vowed to ensure that it rooted American and Western influence from the country and by extension the region.
Tensions between Iran, America and its allies has been on knife's edge ever since.
Enter Netanyahu - He is the current Israeli Prime Minster and he has been itching for a war with Iran for more than 40 years.
The objective of Israel is different from that of America.
While America only cares for the oil, Israel is on an expansionist mission.
Israel wants to achieve what it terms the greater Israel project which would see them claim some part of Lebanon, all of Gaza, all of the West Bank, parts of Syria, Jordan, Iran, Saudi Arabia and Egypt.
Israel sees Iran as a major stumbling block to its plans and have been claiming that Iran wants to build a nuclear bomb for the longest time.
It is important to note that Israel provided the intelligence that led to the invasion of Iraq in 2003 with the claim that Iraq had nuclear weapons. It was later proven to be false.
Israel also pushed for the invasion of Libya, claiming that the removal of Gaddafi would lead to lasting peace in the Middle East. Another claim that has proven to be false.
A key point to this debate is the fact that Iran is a signatory to the nuclear non proliferation treaty but Israel has refused over the years to open its nuclear program to inspection.
It is believed that Israel has between 90 to 400 nuclear bombs but they haven't faced a single sanction.
Iran is however been bombed on the perception that it is planning to build one.
The hypocrisy of America and its allies is clear for the world to see.
English is full of Arabic words from the Islamic Golden Age, yet this influence is hidden
“Experts” trace these words to other sources to downplay our achievements
Malcolm X said:if you believe you’ve never achieved anything you’ll never achieve anything
Only thing I like about Trump is that he openly admits things other US presidents kept secret. Like arming protesters & terrorists in the Middle East to fuel an uprising.
Hope my fellow Africans know they do this to us too.