The Ekiti State Government has commenced the allocation of six-month rent-free stalls to itinerant and street traders in a strategic move aimed at boosting commerce and curbing street trading. The initiative, which offers shops at Oja Oba main market, Agric-Olope, and Awedele markets, is part of a broader effort to commemorate the second anniversary of Governor Biodun Oyebanji’s administration. This …

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 …

Oyo State Government has disclosed that it has arrested and prosecuted no fewer than 44 violators of street trading. The offenders were arrested along Agodi Secretariat, Ibadan North and Salvation Army/Ogunpa Ibadan NorthWest. Others are; Anajere Market Academy, Iwo road, in Lagelu and Egbeda Local Government areas in Ibadan, the state capital. The exercise, according to the state government, was …

The Oyo State Government has set machinery in motion to clamp down on street traders, in the enforcement of total ban on street trading in the State. A statement by the Director, Press and Public Relations at the Ministry of Information, Culture and Tourism, Mr. Rotimi Babalola on Wednesday in Ibadan, said the move came following the state Government’s sensitization …