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Major routes leading to Muritala Muhammad International Airport, Lagos, were blocked on Thursday morning for President Muhammadu Buhari’s visit.
The action caused pain to travellers, with some walking about two kilometres to get to the airport so as not to miss their flight.
When a PREMIUM TIMES reporter got to the General Hospital Ikeja at 5 a.m., dozens of armed police officers laid siege at Olowu bus stop to stop cars from moving.
Some passengers who spoke with PREMIUM TIMES described the action an act of infringement on people’s right.
“Is this the change we voted for?” said Kabir who kept walking fast while talking saying he did not want to miss his flight.
“This is not funny again, how can they shut the whole place down when the president’s flight is 11:30 a.m., this is wrong,” said Beauty, another passenger.
Samj Ehigiamusoe, a passenger flying from Lagos to Abuja, also condemned the situation.
“How can Lagos State Government decide to lose money because a president is coming and how can a president allow his people suffer like this,” Mr ehigiamusoe
Meanwhile Roseline Oguh who is traveling from Lagos to Uyo said the hardship is unbearable.
“This is not palatable at all,” she said after arriving the airport. ” I left my house 4 a.m., but trust Nigerians, they will always find a way around it,” she said.
PREMIUM TIMES reported how the Lagos State Government declared Thursday a work free day in the state ahead of the president’s two-day visit to the state.
As at the time of the report, our reporter who was also travelling had trekked for about 2.6 kilometres.
Meanwhile, officials of the Nigerian Army seized the reporter’s phone demanding she delete the pictures taken of the situation at various points.

A teenager identified Mary Bassey abandoned her newborn baby after delivery at Anderson Primary Health Center, in the creeks of Calabar South, Cross River State on Tuesday morning, March 20.
The Director General, Cross River State Primary Healthcare Development Agency, Dr Betta Edu, who rescued the newborn baby boy has named him Anderson Ayade.
According to the staff on duty during the incident, Mrs Elizabeth Offiong, a Chief Community Health Officer said on her arrival at the health center by 7.35am she met a young teenage girl at the door post of the facility lamenting over lower abdominal pains.
"I thought it was an infection because most teenage girls here have STIs and will usually reject condom. but when she was examined, I found out the young girl was pregnant and was passing through labour. Not quite long, she gave birth to a bouncing baby boy in our ward says Madam Elizabeth.
Madam Elizabeth said after giving birth the teenage girl refused to undergo series of tests as she outrightly rejected the food bought for her. She refused all our offers to treat her and rather insisted that she doesn't want the child.
Mrs Elizabeth also stated that the teenage girl who gave her name as Mary Bassey residing at No.5 Edem Nsa Street threatened to dump the baby in the gutter if the Government does not take ownership of the child. All effort to persuade her to receive treatment was unsuccessful as she quitely ran away and abandoned her newborn baby.
She noted that all trace to locate the residential address given by the teenage mother became unfruitful as such address and name did not exist in Bayside, Calabar South LGA.
Reacting to the incident, while on a visit to calabar south creeks, the Director General of Cross River State Primary Healthcare Development Agency, Dr Betta Edu said she thank God that the teenager managed to even come to the health center to deliver the child rather than delivering at home and dumping her in a bin or toilet that probably would have led to the death of the child.
She noted that, her Agency and the State Government led by His Excellency, Senator ( Prof) Ben Ayade believes that every child deserves to live, and every child should be wanted and be planned for or if you don't want to have children then take up family planning.
She said in Calabar South, the Cross River State Primary Healthcare Development Agency is facing challenges because there are a lot of teenage girls that are pregnant and most of them are HIV positive and it calls for great concerns.
"We stepped up health SENSITISATION in this communities and health workers have been going for house to house mobilization trying to convince them to take up family planning but the have rejected Family Planning. The culture needs to change, our chiefs need to help us, churches and prayer houses need to join in this advocacy for family planning, this young girls between 11 and 17 need to protect themselves and abstain from sex where possible so they don't have children which are not planned for or unwanted in the society with lack of motherly care," said Dr. Edu.
Finally, she said the baby which has already been named Anderson (after the facility) will be known as “ANDERSON AYADE" because State Government will take over the support for the child till proper adoption is done.
Following an thorough examination, Dr Betta Edu asserted that the 2 days old baby boy is healthy and has been feeding very well. She said the child will be undergoing another round of diagnosing in coming days. She instructed the health workers to commence Anti Retroviral Drugs to prevent transmission of any disease from mother to child since mothers status was not ascertained.
The DG, Dr Betta Edu and PHC Coordinator Cal.South later took the child to Department of Child Protection, Cross River State police Command Headquarters, Diamond Hill, Calabar for documentation of the incident and also informed Ministry of Social welfare.

A man who confessed to killing a 29-year-old woman and stuffing her body into an ice cooler in Kandal province, Cambodia told police that he did so because of a $2,000 gambling debt.
During a re-enactment of the crime on Monday, Soeu Sopheng, 31, showed police how he wired the bathroom in his house to electrocute the victim as she showered before stabbing her to death.
He then showed police how he sold the victim’s motorbike, bought an ice cooler, put her body inside and drove to the bridge.
Kandal Provincial Police Chief Eav Chamreoun said Sopheng, a phone repairman in Sen Sok district’s Phnom Penh Thmey commune, will be sent to Kandal Provincial Court next Tuesdayand is expected to be charged with premeditated murder.
Two other suspects arrested on Sunday – Sopheng’s brother and wife. They were released later that day after questioning. One other man has been arrested for receiving stolen goods after he allegedly bought the victim’s motorbike.
The victim, Yoeun Theany, of Kampong Cham province, had moved back to Cambodia from South Korea about a year ago, Chamroeun said.