Yaba traders close shops as Fashola commissions Tejuosho market

Six years after Tejuosho market was closed for renewal due to fire incident, the Lagos state governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, has reopened the market now known as Main Tejuosho Shoping Complex.

Newly conmissioned Tejuosho Market

The market which was named after the popular Tejuosho family from Abeokuta, Ogun State has been modernized and facilitated with 4,000 shops, 800 parking lots, power generators, lifts and escalators.

However, the presence of the governor in Yaba for the commissioning of the new market partly truncated commercial activities in the area as traders closed their shops and hanged around waiting for the governor to leave the vicinity.

Explaining why some shops are closed, one of the shop owners identified as Daniel selling wears at Rotel Collections said they don’t want their wares to be confiscated because the governor does not know that some parts of the Old Tejousho market are still being used as market place.

traders closed shops and hanged arround

While some shops by the road side were locked, buying and selling still took place amid fear at the inner parts of the market as some shops and shanties were partly opened for transactions.

Meanwhile the commissioning of the new market took place amid heavy security presence as mobile Police, Department of State Security officers, Kick Against Indiscipline Brigade,(KAI) Lagos State Traffic Management Authority,  (LASTMA) and other security personnel manned the various entrances to the commissioning venue to wade off invaders and hoodlums.

The men in Uniform dutifully disallowed everyone who intended to enter or pass through the market including motorists and residents of the area, except the few with invitation cards and people who wore Tejousho market customized Ankara that were granted free entry and exit.

ECOWAS staff dies of Ebola as Nigeria confirms 11th patient.

Nigeria has confirmed 11 cases of Ebola, after a doctor who treated the Liberian man who brought the disease to Lagos fell ill, the health minister said on Thursday.

The doctor had been one of those involved in the initial treatment of Patrick Sawyer, who collapsed at Lagos airport on July 20, Health Minister Onyebuchi Chukwu told a news conference in the capital Abuja.

A member of staff of West African regional economic body ECOWAS this week became the third person in Nigeria to die of the disease, which has no proven cure and has killed more than 1,000 people across four West African countries.

“Eight (others) are still alive, more than half of them are doing very well and actually showing signs of recovery … under treatment,” Chukwu said.

A nurse with Ebola, which she caught from Sawyer, skipped quarantine in Lagos and headed to her home in the southeastern city of Enugu, where she was suspected to have had contact with 20 other people.

However, Chukwu said after initial screening, they realized only six people had been in contact with her, and they put those six under surveillance.

A total of 169 people were under surveillance in Lagos, after eight others were cleared, including all of Sawyer’s primary contacts from when he came in.

The government also announced that Dangote Group, owned by Africa’s richest man Aliko Dangote, had donated $150 million to halt the spread of the virus.

The World Health Organization has called this Ebola outbreak, whose worst affected countries include Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia, an international emergency. It has killed around 55 to 60 percent of those have contracted the disease.

(Reuters)