Lagos State government

Lagos demolishes shanties around schools

5 months ago905 min

The Lagos State Government has continued its ongoing removal of illegal structures around school premises with the exercise extended to the Ikotun area on Wednesday. PUNCH Metro learnt that the operatives from the Enforcement Unit of the Lagos State Ministry of the Environment and Water Resources and the Environmental Taskforce Team stormed the Community Senior Grammar School in the morning, and ordered the traders occupying the structures to vacate them. This was followed by an...

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LASG begins probe as five killed in building collapse

5 months ago9111 min

The Lagos State Government has initiated an investigation to determine the causes behind the collapse of a two-storey building on Wilson Mba Street, Arowojobe Estate, Maryland, area of the state, which resulted in the death of five construction workers. The Permanent Secretary of the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency, Olufemi Oke-Osanyintolu, confirmed the fatalities in a statement obtained by our correspondent on Thursday noting that five other workers were rescued from the rubble. Speaking with...