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The Lagos State Emergency Management  Agency (LASEMA) , has disclosed that a boat enroute Ojo from Liverpool capsized a few minutes after take off at about 8.00pm on wednesday. General Manager of the agency, Adesina Timayu, who disclosed this on Thursday, said the LASEMA Response unit officials who got to the scene of the incident almost immediately discovered the boat carrying 20 passengers capsized between Liverpool and Coconut under the bridge. Futher information from the officials of the Lagos State Waterways Authority (LSWA) , revealed that twelve of the passengers were rescued alive with the assistance of local divers while three of the passengers on board, comprising two males, one female were confirmed dead. "The three dead  bodies are however been bagged and handed to the State Environment Health Monitoring Unit (SEHMU) while the woman identified as Alhaja was handed over to her family after proper documentation from the marine police officers."  A statemen

Ali Baba, the veteran comedian has siad if the current exchange rate in the parallel market remains, and fuel is still being imported. The current approval of  N30, 000 makes no difference to the masses. He said this while reacting to the increased in minimum wage from N18,000 to N30,000, as avocated by the Nigeria Labour Congress. He said: "Market forces will swallow up the salary increase in 3-months. The quality of life has to be much better.The exchange rate has to drop to say N100 to $1 , and with fuel still being imported no chance of that happening". However, just to make himself happy he had to celebrate the increase. "Hey let's celebrate, minimum wage is now N30,000. Some Governors who were unable to pay N18,000 now pay N30,000. Oya let's dance jare", he wrote on his Instagram page.