The Managing Director, Lagos Waste Management Authority, LAWMA, Mr. Ola Oresanya has said that the ‘Waste-for-Food’ initiative recently introduced by the state government was to bring about development and wealth creation to state.

If some officials of the Zonal Office of Nigerian Immigration Services, NIS, did not invite Vanguard Metro, VM, to the decoration of their newly promoted personnel, our reading public may never have known the level of suffering officers and men of three uniformed organisations are passing through in this day and age.

COMMERCIAL motorcycle operators popularly called ‘Okada riders’, weekend, gathered in their hundreds on the popular Awolowo road in Ikeja as they prepared to march to the seat of government at Alausa.

Lagos State Commissioner for Works and Infrastructure, Dr. Kadri Obafemi Hamzat, is the son of one of the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, chieftains, Oba Mufutau Olatunji Hamzat, a former member Lagos State House of Assembly and also a former Commissioner for Transportation in the state (1979 – 1983) during the Alhaji Lateef Jakande administration. The Commissioner speaks on the Lagos light rail project and infrastructural development in the state. Excerpts:

University of Benin (UNIBEN) is being threatened by gully erosion. The authorities of the university took Sunday Vanguard round the erosion sites and the revelation was shocking because the problem is capable of bringing one of the leading universities in Africa into extinction. Over five houses at the senior staff quarters have already given-in to the gully while other buildings in the university and the neighboring communities are on the brink.