#Covid19: Pastor Bakare Donates Lagos Church As Isolation Centre

AgegePulse Magazine

Ademola Aderele

Tunde Bakare, Serving Overseer of Citadel Global Community Church, formerly known as Latter Rain Assembly, has donated church halls in Ogun and Lagos states as isolation centres.

In a statement issued by the church, Bakare said it was the church’s way of contributing to the fight against COVID-19 in the country.

The statement read:
We, the Citadel Global Community Church (formerly, The Latter Rain Assembly, hereinafter called the CGCC) offer our heartfelt condolences to the grieving families who have lost loved ones as a result of the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic. We pray that God will comfort and strengthen those left behind in Jesus mighty name. Amen.

Our community has held daily prayers across electronic channels to unite various households together in pleading for the mercies of God to triumph over judgement, and for Christ to heal the sick and shorten the scope and impact of this plague on Nigeria, and the nations of the earth.

Drawing inspiration from the parable of the Good Samaritan as told by our Lord Jesus Christ, the CGCC launched a campaign #IamMyBrothersKeeper to provide meal support to Lagosians irrespective of faith through the houses of our members. This campaign has already been launched and we encourage others to join us and do the same.

To further spread the mandate given by the Good Samaritan in the parable, the CGCC offers parts of our current Church facilities located at Plot 4 Akilo Road Ogba for the use of the Lagos State Government as an isolation Centre for the treatment of Covid-19 cases. The CGCC Medical Missions shall onboard LASG officials to ensure the best utilization of this space as an isolation centre.

We commend the Lagos State Government and well meaning individuals and corporate bodies for the spirited efforts at controlling the spread of this pandemic in Lagos and by extension in Nigeria. We pray for divine health, wisdom and energy for the leadership of Lagos State and frontline healthcare workers.

We continue to urge obedience to social distancing regulations by the people of Lagos and urge well meaning Nigerians to self organize and fund meal support initiatives to the less privileged members of our communities as part of #IamMyBrothersKeeper campaign.

May God extend mercy to Nigeria and the nations of the earth at this challenging time.

Proposed NOUN centre will create employment for Agege residents – LG chairman, monarch

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Alhaji Ganiyu Egunjobi, the Chairman, Agege Local Government Council says the proposed National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN) Study Centre in Agege community will create employment for hundreds of residents of the community.

Egunjobi made this known in an interview with the Nigeria News Agency in Lagos on Wednesday.

The Nigeria News Agency reports that the NOUN management had in November solicited the council’s support to establish a study centre in the area.

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The council chairman was optimistic that many youths would benefit from such a development in Agege community.

“This is a welcome development in Agege area. With such a learning institution coming to our community, many of our youths will be employed.

“Such an institution will also improve the economic standard of the area in terms of demand and supply of goods and services.

“The university authorities have reached an understanding with the management of Agege Local Government Area to site a study centre in the suburb,’’ he said.

According to him, part of the agreements reached was the constitution of a six-man committee comprising of three from each side, charged with drafting a Memorandum of Understanding that will be binding on both parties.

He said the parties decided that the council would provide land on which the study centre would be built, while NOUN would construct the buildings.

Egunjobi said that the university authorities conceded to the council’s demand to have Agege residents dominate the centre’s workforce, particularly the non-academic staff when it comes into operation.

NAN reports that the Olu of Agege Kingdom, Oba Kamila Oyedeji-Isiba, recently received a delegation of the Advocacy Committee of the university in his palace.

The delegation was led by the Director of the Lagos Study Centre, Prof Abubakar Sulaimon.

The monarch appreciated the management of the school for counting Agege worthy of having a study centre of the university.

He pledged his total support toward realising the goals of the university and assured the university authorities of his people’s warm hospitality afterGB CNN establishing the study centre in Agege.

Edited by: Adeleye Ajayi
(NAN)

Education: NOUN To Open Study Centre In Agege

...Visits Olu Agege, Other Stakeholders

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The literacy level of the people of Agege is set to witness a great lift if the information at our disposal comes to reality. This is because the National Open University of Nigeria  (NOUN) says it will set up a branch of the University in Agege, a surbub of Lagos State.

This great news was disclosed yesterday during a courtesy call on the palace of Olu of Agege kingdom, HRM Oba Kamila Oyedeji Isiba, Alaige of Orile Agege, HRM, Oba Hakeem Ambaliu Agbedeyi, and Sarkin Hausawan, Alhaji Musa Muhammed Dongo Kadai by the delegate members of the Advocacy Committee of the National Open University of Nigeria  (NOUN). The team was led by the Director of NOUN'S Lagos study center, Prof. A.G. Sulaimon.
 
AgegePulse gathered that the delegation on behalf of the Vice Chancellor of the institution came to inform the Royal Father and his Chiefs of their intention to establish a national open university center within his domain, Agege.

Prof.Sulaimon while addressing the custodian of  the culture and tradition in Agege, expressed satisfaction on the peaceful co-existence of diversed ethnical residence of Agege kingdom, stressing that Agege kingdom is an ideal place for the establishment of NOUN.

He  therefore solicited for the support of his Royal Majesty in mobilizing prominent sons amd daughters and corporate bodies operating within the area to support the drive to bring education close  through the provision of infrastructure for the establishment of open university of Nigeria study center in Agege community.

In his response, the Olu of Agege kingdom expressed gratitude to the Management of the school for counting Agege worthy of such great establishment, he however pledged his total support towards realising this goal while reassuring the visitors of his people's warm hospitality after the establishment of NOUN in Agege.

According to Signature Magazine, high point of the visit was the presentation of a letter to the Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly who is also the leader of Agege Constituency, #RT. #Hon #MUDASHIRU #AJAYI #OBASA, sent through the palace of the Olu Agege Kingdom and the presentation of Special Souvenir to the Royal father.

 Iyalode of Agege Kingdom, Chief Mrs Azeezat Ayinde, High Chief Shakirudeen, the Olorogun of Agege Kingdom Amongst other Chiefs present

2019 UTME: JAMB To Commence Sales Of Form January 10

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The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has set January 10 date for the commencement of the sales of the 2019 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) form.

The sales of form, according to the examination body, will take place within six weeks while the examination will hold in March after the general elections.

Speaking at a stakeholders’ forum yesterday at the University of Lagos (UNILAG), Akoka, the JAMB Registrar, Prof. Isiaq Oloyede, thanked the leadership of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) for releasing its timetable on time, saying doing so has helped the examination body to plan the conduct of its examination in the new year.


Oloyede, who read out the new rules guiding the 2019 examinations to the owners and operators of the Computer-Based Test Centres (CBT), confirmed that a total of 718 CBT centres have been registered to take part in the examination.

The forum, which had in attendance the Chairman of the Governing Board of the examination body, Dr. Emmanuel Ndukwe; Vice-Chancellor of Lagos State University (LASU), Ojo, Prof. Olanrewaju Fagbohun; Head of Nigeria Office of the West African Examinations Council (WAEC), Mr. Isaac Adenipekun, among others, critically appraised the new rules guiding the conduct of the examination in 2019.

According to the Registrar, some of the new guidelines, especially in connection with the CBT operators include the abolition of the scanning of passport photographs of candidates and real-time picture capture in its place; biometric capturing of 10 fingers, entries review and correctness confirmation, printing of registration slip only by using biometric authentication to confirm valid finger-print, and collection of reading text and compact disc (CD).

Oloyede said; “We have reviewed all our activities in the past years and we must commend some of our partners who made us proud. There were the bad eggs and a total of 50 of these bad eggs among the CBT centres were sanctioned in 2018 with many of them currently facing prosecution.

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J.S Babatunde Flags Off Pediatrics Care Week

In a bid to address the issue of inadequate health care attention for children and pregnant women under his jurisdiction, the Executive Chairman of Orile Agege LCDA, Mr. Johnson Sunday Babatunde has began the second phase of the Maternal Newborn and Child Health Week.

The initiative which is regarded as first of its kind in the LCDA attracted infants, nursing mothers and pregnant women across the council.

As a clear sign that the well being and survival of the weak vessels is paramount to the Chairman, the initiative is already being twice within four months of his assumption into office.

J.S Babatunde, Vice- Chairman, Mrs Oluwatoyin Akanni-Pedro, Secretary to the LCDA, Mr James  Agboola, Supervisors, several health workers and other dignitaries across the area thronged Odunmbaku Public Health Centre in Orile - Agege LCDA yesterday to declare the one-week-long and all-encompassing pediatrics care exercise open.

It started with demonstration of Hand Washing by Environmental Health Officers to mothers before the Wife of the Executive Chairman, Mrs Mojisola Babatunde administered Vitamin-A on the children. Subsequently, mosquito nets and hygiene packs were given to the women.

Agege Pulse learnt that within the one week duration of this programme, pregnant women, nursing mothers and their babies will get attention in different areas ranging from  Malnutrition Screening, Deworming Exercise, Polio Immunization, IPT for malaria in Pregnancy and Family Planning.

Also,  it was gathered that the exercise will be carried out in all the four (4) Primary Health Centers in Orile - Agege, Lagos State.

Speaking at the flag off, Mr Babatunde urged mothers to give utmost attention to immunizing their children in order to prevent life threatening diseases adding that it's imperative for pregnant mothers to take adequate care of themselves and their unborn babies.