Threelucky and talented Nigerians have emerged millionaires on Chief Dele Momodu’s Instagram Live show as they went home with one million naira each.
The awards were courtesy of vibrant England- based Nigerian born preacher, Pastor Tobi Adegboyega.
The winners which include Olajide Olamide Olatomiwa, who showcased expertise in show manufacturing enterprise with her Shoeniverseleathers brand.
Adeniji Mustapha Opeyemi, a popcorn producer and owner of Zhal Food.
And Sontan Mabel Omogueme, the Chief Executive Officer of Belarushpap, were selected from a multiple entries sent in from entrepreneurship minded Nigerians across the length and breadth of the country.
Subsequent to close contact with persons feeling unwell and testing positive for the COVID-19 infection, the Honorable Commissioner for Health, Prof Akin Abayomi, has tested positive for the virus.
He became aware of his status following the required testing protocol of contact tracing procedures.
However, he is doing well with no symptoms. Adhering to the protocol of the homebased strategy in Lagos State, the Honorable Commissioner will be isolating in his home for the next 14 days but will continue to discharge his duties both as the Deputy Incident Commander of the Incident Command System for COVID-19 and most especially, as the Honorable Commissioner for Health.
Our prayers are with him and his family during his period of isolation.
More than a thousand people have died from COVID-19 complications in Nigeria, authorities have said.
Five deaths were recorded on Sunday, taking the total fatalities in the West African nation to 1002.
Despite the toll of over a thousand deaths from Covid-19 complications, Only 10 of the 36 states in Nigeria have teams of trained staff for handling COVID-19 burials, a report found.
Also, Nigeria’s total coronavirus cases surpassed 52,000 on Sunday after 322 new infections were reported.
This was disclosed by the NCDC, the agency heading Nigeria’s national response to the COVID-19 outbreak, the deadly pneumonia-like disease that has spread to over 200 countries, infecting more than 22 million.
According to the NCDC data, there are still over 12,000 active cases across the country.
A total of 38,945 infected persons have recovered and have been discharged after treatment in the country’s 36 states and federal capital, Abuja.
The 322 new cases are from the following 18 states:
With a daily tally of about 130 on Sunday, Lagos further stretched it’s lead on the number of infections to almost 18,000, about a third of the country’s total.
While Nigeria continues to record more COVID-19 cases daily, the country has reopened its economy after months of shut down.
Last week Monday at the bi-weekly Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19 briefing, the Minister of Aviation, Hadi Sirika, announced that international flights will resume on August 29.
Hon Rotimi Ogunleye is a former commissioner to the Lagos State Government for Commerce, Industry & Cooperatives from 2015-2018 and from there he was reshuffled to serve as commissioner for Physical Planning & Urban Development from 2018-2019. A Former Editior for Daily Times Group as A Journalist And A Legal Practisioner (Chartered Arbitrator) who is Based In Ikorodu.
INN: Can You Briefly Summarise your tenure in the government during the last Administration?
Hon Rotimi Ogunleye: Just like I told you my roles During my time working for the Government, We achieved alot, And i thank God because i feel fulfilled.
Though there are things we could not achieve due to circumstances beyond our control for example A shopping Mall was supposed to be erected in Ikorodu & The Eko Theatre was also supposed to be built here, Because in Ikorodu we are to be open to massive inflow of investment.But due to some circumstances beyond our control we could not Achieve it.
If we have open inflow of infrastructural development it will help our sector to improve and also bring better opportunities for education and employment. I believe the best is yet to come in Ikorodu as i remain positive.
INN: What can you say going forward as regards the after effect of Covid-19?
Hon Rotimi Ogunleye: It has been so unfortunate for us all because it is a pandemic and not epidemic, May God bless the souls of those the virus has claimed away from us.
With that said going forward, As stiff as the challenge it has also brought some other fallout in terms of procedures and approaches to life. In terms of technological approaches to the way of life and business in general.
I cannot say the effect of this pandemic would leave immediately but i believe we shall be adjusting as time goes on. Things have changed drastically, People now work from home, Holding series of meetings and conferences online.
Look at the Democratic convention just held in America was done virtually, That is how far life has changed in 2020. The reason for all this guidelines is to break the chain of infection going around which is for our own good.
INN: So the decision has been taken by your party for a selected candidate to occupy the Lagos East Senatorial seat, What can you add to your conceding publication?
Hon Rotimi Ogunleye: The Party is supreme, And when the party decides to move to a particular direction we must move along with the leadership.
INN: What about the candidate chosen for the seat, I want to believe at this point after conceding you should be making moves to support him?
Yes offcourse, Mr Tokunbo Abiru is well known to me, He was the Commissioner for Finance during Former Governor Babajide Raji Fashola’s tenure, And there after we had personal encounter, so i know him & am in full support of our party’s decision to rally round him. At the end of the day we want our party to be victorious, Thats the essence of it all.
INN: What Is Leadership to you?
Leadership is not plucked from the tree, It is inbuilt and also developed. It comes in with exponential situation. It brings unique challenges that we have not read in books due to our own unique pathway in life.
There are some issues that arise in leadership, even if you have PHD in business management you cannot handle it onless you have the inbuilt quality to overcome it.
Reading books has also been a plus for me coming up because it enriched me with alot of ideas on directions to take in my career path which our youth should also subscribe to.
Coming to Ikorodu our youths are all trying their best, I believe if they are given more opportunities they will thrive better. We have highly qualified youths rooming about because they lack guidance and mentorship to help them chase their vision vigorously.
Now on politics even our educated youths must partake more in it, I started partaking in Politics even when i was an undergraduate because i was keen on knowing the rudiments of politics even though i was operating at the private sector.
The government should also work more on creating better opportunities for our youths because we have alot of bright intellectual individuals out there.
Am not a fan of sitting in the office all day, I like delving into endeavours that will broaden my insight and so our youth must be versatile in their search for a great future because relying on the government might not be fair enough for them.
INN 
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