Following the sudden death of the Chairman, Agbado/Oke-Odo Local Council Development Area in Lagos, Dr Augustine Adeoye Arogundade, on Tuesday, two weeks after the secretary to the Local Government (SLG) died, panic has gripped officials of the council. Officials of the council, it was gathered, are now nursing fears over fueled rumour that the death of the chairman, Dr Arogun and that of the secretary, Alhaja Gbemisola Abiodun Ayilara, might have been due to complications from the coronavirus. However, the cause of death is yet to be ascertained. Meanwhile, the Lagos State Conference of Local Government and Local Council Development Area Chairmen, in a statement signed by its chairman, Hon. It also pegged the ex-depot price band at N102.13 and N104.13/litre, weeks after the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation… Read full story

Source: Nigerian Tribune June 03, 2020 07:30 UTC