UPDATED: INVESTIGATION: How public laboratories redirect suspected COVID-19 patients to fee-charging private labs
Contrary to the claim of the Lagos State government that residents with coronavirus symptoms can get tested for free at some designated public health facilities, residents who show up for the test are being redirected to private, fee-charging laboratories.
Despite the announcement by the
Lagos State government that residents with coronavirus-like symptoms can go to designated government-run facilities to get tested for free, these laboratories are instead redirecting patients to private laboratories where they are charged as much as N50,000 for the test.
This reporter deliberately exposed himself to cold for four days and came down with symptoms similar to those of coronavirus – cough, headache, runny nose and fever – and presented himself for testing at some public laboratories in the city but officials at the laboratories declined to test him.
Problem-solving mindset critical to business success Aladejuyigbe
Aderonke Aladejuyigbe is the Chief Executive Officer of JnB Designs. She tells TOFARATI IGE about her business
What is your educational qualification?
I had my elementary education at Federal Housing Estate Primary School, Victoria Island, Lagos. Then, I went on to Lagos African Church Grammar School in Ogba, also in Lagos.
I have a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Literature in English from Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife, Osun State.
When and why did you set up JnB Designs?
I decided to follow my passion after working for a few years in the corporate world. The company was registered in 2013.
Building Effective Leadership, By Kehinde David Folarin
The real test of the effectiveness of leadership is this: Are your people better off when they leave than when they arrived?
As a leader, you should have a multi-generational approach that equips younger leaders/followers to be more effective than the previous generation. These include intentionally integrating young leaders into your decision-making processes, as well as major organisational initiatives. These also involve creating opportunities for them to express creativity, to make mistakes and become better leaders.
In the light of the tremendous pressures placed upon leadership and its role in both the secular and religious worlds, it is a general principle that we can influence and lead others only so far as we ourselves have experienced the rites of passage. The person most likely to be successful is the one who leads, not by merely pointing the way but by having trodden the path herself. We are leaders to the extent
Give us state police, resource control now, El-Rufai tells FG
Tobi Aworinde
The Governor of Kaduna State, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, has called on the Federal Government to immediately implement three specific recommendations of the All Progressives Congress Committee on True Federalism to address the insecurity in the country.
El-Rufai, who was one of the speakers on a live broadcast tagged ‘The Fierce Urgency of Now: Tactics and Strategies to Pull Nigeria from the Brink,’ on Friday, stated that Nigeria had failed “jealously and consistently protect its prerogatives and status as a leviathan, the ultimate guarantor of security, the protector of rights and the promoter of the rule of law.”