IT is now mandatory for property owners, tenements and occupiers to landscape and beautify the perimeter areas of their properties in Lagos State and violation of this order shall attract a penalty of N250,000. Similarly, it is now an offence to walk on lawns and gardens, spit, urinate or defecate in any area of the 128 landscaped gardens and 14 parks in the State.

THE Federal Government has assured that massive reconstruction work on Lagos/Ibadan Expressway will commence at the end of the rainy season. The government has also decided to enforce the concession agreement entered into with Bi-Courtney Highway Services Ltd on the reconstruction of the ever-busy highway.

CONCERNS for the expansion of the Sahara Desert and the devastating effect of climate change found a voice in one of Africa’s novelist, Chimamanda Adichie, who urged government and corporate organizations to respond to the threats.

THE National Chairman of Urhobo Political Movement, UPM, in Delta State, Chief Ominimini Chris Obiuwevbi has appealed to the Federal Government to provide adequate funding to the Ministry of Niger Delta Affairs to enable it complete the dualisation of the East- West highway projects at the stipulated time.

Mrs Abike Afolyan (not real names) runs a maternity home in Sari-Iganmu, a sprawling slum in the Apapa Local Government Area of Lagos. Her desire to expand the Home led to the search for a bigger accommodation. She registered with one of the Agents with the sum of N5,000 to retain his services.