Emergencies: Sanwo-Olu seeks regional support for enhanced performance

Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State has reaffirmed the state’s enactment relation successful catastrophe preparedness and response, declaring that the existent spot of Nigeria lies successful its shared readiness and unity of the radical erstwhile confronting emergencies and nationalist challenges.

Sanwo-Olu, who was represented by his Deputy, Dr. Obafemi Hamzat, yesterday, astatine the first-ever National State Emergency Management Agencies, SEMA, Conference, successful Lagos, with the theme:”Strengthening Sub-National Emergency Management for a Resilient Nigeria,” held astatine Balmoral Convention Centre, Ikeja, stressed that nary authorities successful the state tin tackle disasters successful isolation.

According to him, “Every State successful Nigeria faces its ain acceptable of challenges, beryllium it floods, fires, epidemics, concern accidents, oregon the unpredictable impacts of clime change. These issues bash not admit borders; they enactment our systems, our leadership, and our committedness to safeguarding lives and livelihoods to the test. This league is simply a important measurement towards collaboration and forging the beardown partnerships that volition specify the aboriginal of exigency absorption successful the country.”

Sanwo-Olu outlined cardinal investments his medication has made done the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency, LASEMA, which include: Lagos Emergency Response Rescue Unit, LRU, the LASEMA Mobile App and Call Centre Upgrade, among different initiatives.

“We request to support weaving catastrophe hazard simplification into our governance astatine each level, clasp caller technologies and innovations, and, astir importantly, empower our citizens with the consciousness and strategies they request to beryllium prepared for,” Sanwo-Olu charged.

Commissioner for Special Duties and Intergovernmental Relations, Olugbenga Oyerinde, noted that the league provided an avenue for States’ exigency absorption agencies to beryllium agreed by a communal intent to fortify Nigerian residents successful the look of emergencies and disasters.

Director-General, National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA, Zubaida Abubakar, reiterated the agency’s committedness to moving with each and each authorities exigency absorption bureau to support and tackle disasters successful the country.

In his code titled “From Risk to Readiness: Strengthening Disaster Preparedness astatine the Sub-National Level,” the Guest Speaker, Dr. Leke Pitan, recalled the intent down the constitution of LASEMBUS, noting that it was created to heighten exigency absorption with ambulances strategically stationed crossed cardinal locations.

Lagos acceptable for information confab

Meanwhile, Sanwo-Olu, is expected to pb different dignitaries and experts arsenic planetary leaders, policymakers, and manufacture stakeholders are acceptable for the Lagos State Occupational Safety and Health, LASOSH, Conference 2025, themed “Occupational Safety and Health (OSH), arsenic a Catalyst for Nation Building,”  scheduled to instrumentality spot connected October 7, 2025, astatine Victoria Island, Lagos, being organised by Lagos State Safety Commission, LSSC.

Director General, LSSC, Mr Lanre Mojola, said, “”Occupational Safety and Health is not conscionable astir compliance; it is astir protecting lives, preserving dignity, and driving Lagos’s maturation story. At LASOSH 2025, we are going beyond the rhetoric and gathering a Lagos wherever information is simply a culture, innovation drives resilience, and each beingness is valued.

“The LASOSH Conference 2025 comes astatine a defining infinitesimal successful Lagos State’s improvement journey. With accelerated urbanization, concern expansion, and rising colonisation density, the authorities faces analyzable information challenges ranging from managing ample events & concerts, gathering collapses and transport accidents to concern hazards, exigency preparedness, and risks successful informal sectors.

“The acme volition presumption OSH arsenic a argumentation and developmental imperative, cardinal to Governor Sanwo-Olu’s imaginativeness of making Lagos Africa’s Model Megacity and a Global Economic Hub that is Safe, Secure, Functional, and Productive.

“The keynote address,”OSH arsenic the Cornerstone of Sustainable Nation Building,” Special Policy Dialogue, to beryllium delivered by Dr. Olasupo Olusi, Managing Director, Bank of Industry, BOI, focusing connected however entree to finance, public–private partnerships, and concern information standards tin accelerate nationalist competitiveness,” Mojola stated.

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