Stop-work orders have been issued to 10 illegal dredging sites at Awoyaya area of the State and its environs The orders came from the Lagos State Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources who embarked on a monitoring exercise of the area. Speaking on the incident, the Director of Mineral Resources and Solid Minerals, Mr. Emilio Read More…
Work has commenced on the System 3C and Alara/Adeshina collector drains to permanently curb the menace of flooding in the Majaro, Iwaya, Alara and Adeshina neighbourhoods of Lagos Mainland LGA. For this reason, the Lagos State Government, on Wednesday, rallied the support and cooperation of stakeholders and residents of these areas to sensitise them on Read More…
They were told not to bother about going to Ikoyi because Ikoyi was meant to be clean, but by the time they had spent three hours there, members of the Statewide Waste and Environmental Education Foundation (SWEEP) had picked up 136kg of plastic waste. The clean-up is part of a new environmental sustainability initiative, titled Read More…
The United Nations (UN) has renewed call for developed nations to fulfill their pledge to provide 100 billion dollars a year for developing countries to support both climate mitigation and adaptation. UN Secretary General António Guterres made the call at the virtual 2021 UN Climate Change Conference Roundtable on Clean Power Transition, according to a Read More…
Lagos State is the cleanest state in the South West of Nigeria while the overall 2020 Cleanest State in Nigeria index ratings has been won by Akwa Ibom State with Abuja emerging as the cleanest city in Nigeria. Ikeja is the third cleanest city in the country. The results were the outcome of a 15 Read More…
The Nigerian Institute of Surveyors (NIS), Lagos branch, has restated its commitment to use real-time technology to deal with environmental issues, especially flooding, in Lagos State, NIS spokesperson, Mrs Folakemi Odunewu said on Wednesday in Lagos. In a statement issued the institution said it reached the decision at a virtual conference on the institution’s 2020 Read More…
The Lagos State Environmental and Special Offences Task Force has issued a seven-day quit notice to squatters in illegal structures at Fagba on Abbatior Road in Oko-Oba, Agege, near Lagos. The Head of Public Affairs of the taskforce, Mr Taofiq Adebayo, issued the notice in a statement in Lagos on Sunday. Adebayo said the illegal structures Read More…
The Lagos State Environmental Sanitation Corps (LAGESC) has reiterated its readiness to ensure continuous orderliness and sanity on the roads, market places as well as nooks and crannies of the state. The Corp Marshal of the Agency CP Gbemisola Akinpelu (retired), said this in a statement after a meeting with Divisional Heads at the Command Read More…
In a bid to restore cleanliness to housing estates and other parts of the state, the Lagos Environmental Sanitation Corps (LAGESC) has reiterated its readiness to promote hygienic environment. This restoration, according to the Corps Marshal of the agency, CP Gbemisola Akinpelu (retd), in a statement issued on Wednesday, will be through constant monitoring of Read More…
BBC Africa Eye uncovers new evidence that contradicts the official explanation for the Lagos explosion in March New evidence obtained by BBC Africa Eye contradicts the official explanation for the cause of an explosion which killed 23 people and destroyed a girls boarding school in Lagos, Nigeria. The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), the country’s Read More…