The Lagos State government continued its crackdown on illegal settlements on Monday by demolishing shanties built along a drainage channel in the Adeniji Adele area of Lagos Island. The state commissioner for the Ministry of the Environment and Water Resources, Tokunbo Wahab, disclosed this in a video of the demolition shared on X.com on Monday. His caption read, “Operatives of …

The Lagos State Ministry of the Environment and Water Resources commenced the removal of shanties and illegal business activities under the Ijora bridge on Monday. In a post on X.com on Monday, the Commissioner for the Environment and Water Resources, Barrister Tokunbo Wahab wrote: “Lagos State Ministry of the Environment and Water Resources #LasgMOE commence removal of shanties and illegal …

The minister of Works, David Umahi has stated that shanty dwellers and caravan owners along the shorelines of the Lagos-Calabar 700-kilometre coastal road project won’t be compensated by the federal government, adding that, only those with permanent structures will be compensated during the cause of demolition. Umahi gave the assertion while addressing stakeholders’ meeting on Lagos-Calabar highway project alongside property …

The Oyo State Government, on Monday, removed  359 illegal structures and shanties around public primary and secondary schools in Ibadan. The PUNCH reports that eviction notices were directly issued to owners of the illegal shops, shanties, and structures through the principals and heads of the affected schools which were acknowledged by them. The state Commissioner for Environment and Natural Resources, Abdulmojeed …

The Lagos Waste Management Authority (LAWMA) has demolished shanties and other illegal structures used by street traders and traffic vendors, along the first and second toll gates of the Lekki-Epe Expressway, in a comprehensive enforcement exercise, which lasted for hours. Of late, the corridor has become notorious, for sustained traffic congestion and other environmental nuisance, largely aided by the illegal …