The Lagos State Government says it will demolish the three-storey floating school built on Makoko waterfront the school is illegal. The government also said it needs N16 billion to remove the 200 wrecked ships on its coastline. Commissioner for Waterfront and Infrastructure Development, Prince Adesegun Oniru disclosed this on Thursday at a ministerial press conference, [...]
The Lagos State government has issued two weeks quit notice to occupants of three distressed two-storey buildings at Oke-Afa Housing Estate, Ejigbo area of Lagos, Southwest Nigeria and gave them money to rent apartments pending the reconstruction of the buildings. Each of the 15 families living in the distressed buildings were given N200,000 to rent [...]
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The Lagos state government, southwest Nigeria, Thursday shut all the shops on Awolowo Way, Ikeja. The exercise which was carried out by a team of Kick Against Indiscipline, KAI, the law enforcement arm of the Lagos State Ministry of the Environment, led by Commander Mariam Seke. According to Captain Danjuma Maigeri (retd), KAI was only [...]
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Read More » The Lagos State Government has sued 20 companies in the state for defaulting in tax payment as it steps up campaign to recover billions of naira owed the government by tax evaders. The state government also said it had been able to drag 400,000 new tax payers into the tax net in the last one [...]
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The Lagos State Government has recorded a fall in first quarter of the 2013 budget performance as it posts four percent short of the 65 percent budget performance it recorded in the first quarter of 2012 budget review. Speaking after the first quarter budget review at the weekend at the State House, Ikeja, Lagos, Southwest [...]
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Read More » The Lagos State Government, southwest Nigeria, has accused the Federal Government of frustrating plans to regenerate Apapa, saying that the central government has failed to fulfil its part of the agreement. Commissioner for the Environment, Mr. Tunji Bello disclosed this on Thursday at a Ministerial Press Conference to mark the 6th year of Governor Babatunde [...]
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Read More »The Lagos State Government says it will allocate 80 percent of the slots given to the state to intending pilgrims who are going for the hajj operation in Saudi Arabia for the first time. This is in compliance with the directive from the National Hajj Commission of Nigeria, NAHCON directing that 80% of state allocation [...]
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