20 SUSPECTED MISCREANTS NABBED IN LAGOS. (PHOTO).

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 20 suspected miscreants nabbed in Lagos Officials of the Lagos State Environmental Sanitation Corps also known as KAI, on Tuesday, arrested 20 suspected miscreants terrorising the Oshodi area of the state. The state Commissioner for Environment and Water Resources, Tokunbo Wahab, disclosed this in a terse message shared on his X.com page on Tuesday. According to him, the suspected miscreants were arrested in the early hours of Tuesday during a patrol. He said, “Twenty miscreants arrested by the operatives of the Lagos State Environmental Sanitation Corps at Oshodi during early morning patrol.”  Last Wednesday that officials of the state task force said it would prosecute the 28 miscreants it arrested in some parts of the state for terrorising and extorting motorists. The agency’s Director of Press and Public Affairs, Gbadeyan Abdulraheem, had in a statement noted that the miscreants were always extorting motorists whose vehicles broke down on the highway under the guise of collecting

LASSA FEVER CASES SURGE IN ONDO, EDO- NCDC. (PHOTO).


 Lassa Fever cases surge in Ondo, Edo — NCDC 


The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) recorded a rise in Lassa fever cases in week 39 of 2024, with Ondo and Edo states reporting nine new confirmed cases.


The NCDC stated this on its official website, based on latest Lassa Fever Situation Report.


The agency said that this marked an increase from four cases reported in  previous week, raising the total number of infection and deaths in the year to alarming levels.


The NCDC revealed that “the country is witnessing a surge in Lassa fever cases, with the total number of infections in 2024 rising to 1,018 across 28 states.


“As of week 39 (September 23-29), 172 deaths have been reported, reflecting a slight increase in the Case Fatality Rate (CFR) to 16.9 per cent, compared to 16.8 per cent in the same period in 2023.”

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