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The Commissioner for Energy and Mineral Resources, Mr. Olawale Oluwo, has said that no fewer than 54 private firms will be engaged by the Lagos State Government to manage streetlights in the state. Oluwo, spoke on Tuesday during a briefing on the activities of the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources in the state. He also added that the government ...

The Lagos State Government has reaffirmed its commitment to ensure zero tolerance for building collapse in the state, just as it revealed that about 500 buildings that are either defective or abandoned have been discovered, threatening to take appropriate actions on the building if the owners refuse to take ownership of their structures. Commissioner for Physical Planning and Urban Development, ...

The Lagos State Government on Monday said it had introduced the Rent-to-Own Policy to support the Lagos Mortgage Scheme for home ownership in the state. The Commissioner for Housing, Mr. Gbolahan Lawal, said at a ministerial news conference in Ikeja that the scheme had already become effective. Lawal said that the policy was aimed at making housing more accessible and ...

Lagos State Government yesterday, blamed the persistent traffic gridlock on the Apapa-Oshodi and Lagos-Abeokuta expressway partly on the failure on the road as well as the poor design. The state government stressed that the roads were not designed for the pressure they are presently subjected to. Also, the state government said litigations and slow pace of work by contractors appointed ...

At the 2015 ministerial press briefing of the Ministry of Works and Infrastructure in Lagos, which was said to be the last for the second term of Governor Babtunde Fashola’s administration, the commissioner for works and infrastructure, Dr. Obafemi Hamzat said the Lagos State Government constructed 281 roads between 2011 and now, while another 201 are currently undergoing construction. According ...

Dwellers on Yeye Street, Iwaya in the Yaba area of Lagos State have petitioned the Lagos State Governor, Babatunde Fashola, the state’s House of Assembly and the ministry of justice, among others on the alleged blockade of the street by one Alhaji Wahab Adamson It was learnt that Adamson fenced the area after a court ruling which vested on him ...