Lagos State Government on Friday announced a total ban on street trading, hawking, building of illegal structures on drainage setbacks, and the display of wares on walkways across the state. In a statement on his X handle on Friday, the Commissioner for the Environment and Water Resources, Barrister Tokunbo Wahab said that the state Environmental Sanitation Corps (LAGESC) has been …

Some civil society organisations, the Take It Back Movement and Youth Rights Campaign, have knocked the Lagos State government over the arrest of some street hawkers. The National Coordinator of the TIB, Juwon Sanyaolu, in an interview with PUNCH Metro on Thursday, said the government was only criminalising poverty and not solving any environmental problem. A statement from the state Ministry …