Inside Lagos waste, flood crisis: Are local governments pulling their weight?
As mountains of refuse continue to dot major roads, markets and residential communities across
Lagos, while floods repeatedly submerge neighbourhoods after heavy rainfall, a fundamental question is increasingly being asked...
Making fortunes from demolition sites
It was a case of one man’s misfortune being another man’s blessing at the Ifesowapo Iron Market, along the Lagos-Badagry expressway, at Orile Iganmu.
Desperate to go abroad
The desperation on the part of many Nigerians to travel out of the country is believed to have reached an alarming level in recent times.
When slum-based youths mobilise to change their destiny
By Jude Njoku Amukoko, Orile Iganmu, Badia and Ajegunle are unarguably some of the worst slum settlements in Lagos. Residents of these ghettos live under terrible sanitary conditions. The drainage channels are usually blocked with heaps of refuse which cause flooding at the slightest downpour. These ghettos provide a good hide-out for criminals while the […]
No more hiding place for criminals …
•As govt empowers Police with patrol vans, APC By Olasunkanmi Akoni Lagos State Government’s sustained onslaught on insecurity in the state seems to be getting a special boost from corporate organisations who have enthusiastically embraced its Public Private Partnership (PPP) policy in the area of crime prevention and control.
OPC, vigilante groups, others threat to nation’s security
…As stakeholders seek refuge in Civil Defence By Bose Adebayo They often start their beat around twelve in the night. Some of them are armed with locally made guns while others, supposedly in a bid to fortify themselves, decorate their bodies with all manner of charms.
