Edited by Frank Meke
** Scarcity of new naira notes may pitch customers against the banks and the Central Bank of Nigeria as date for the transition from the old to new notes is just few hours away. On Sunday, automatic teller machines of about five banks visited by creative Nigeria, in Surulere, were not dispensing and few that dispensed , still pay with the old notes.
** This is not the best of times for railways users and the nigerian Railways Corporation as the itakpe to warri service, derailed, leaving about 148 passengers in distraught position in the middle of nowhere. Two recent incidents, involving the recalibrated railways services on Abuja / kaduna route and Edo state kidnappings, took shine off the resuscitation efforts of the railways mode of transportation in Nigeria.
Fresh outbreak of Covid pandemic may force government to reintroduce stringent protocols which was called off about few months ago. Reports of Nigerians dying from the infection, particularly the Diaspora communities in China, may force government hands. On Tuesday in Abuja, Minister of Health, Osagie Ehanire denied knowledge of any fresh flu outbreak in china. Meanwhile, Centre for Disease Control, has raised alarm about 34 deaths caused by Diphtheria infection across the country, with lagos and kano states as hot beds. Diphtheria is a serious bacterial infection caused by the bacterium called corynebacterium species that affects the nose, throat, and sometimes, skin of an individual.
***Signs that the rains will make an early entry, surfaced on Sunday last week, with varied intensity recorded in various parts of lagos. Aguda, lawanson, Masha, all in Surulere, witnessed the morning showers, and also Apapa Road, Costain and oyingbo areas.
** The Board of Trustees, Association of Tourism Practitioners of Nigeria ( Atpn) has appointed Prince Femi Fadina as Chairman, AGM organising committee. He is mandated to work with select like minds in the association to birth the conclave which will set tunes for elected executives to run the affairs of the oldest private sector tourism practitioners body.
