...news, reports, issues... about Lagos
Do you know there is a fencing permit?Do you know that fixing portions of a leaking roof requires approval?How aware are you of the difference in remodeling and renovation? These and many more were the issues the LASBCA-ELP INTERACTIVE SESSION shed light on.The Arc. Gbolahan Oki-led Lagos State Building Control Agency has been a champion […]
No one will notice, but under the Dolphin Bridge in Ikoyi area of Lagos, 86 rooms have been constructed housing hundreds of Lagosians illegally. Tenant in each room paid N250,000 as rent annually. Officials of the Lagos State Ministry of the Environment began demolition of the illegal structures on Tuesday and Wednesday. Kunle Rotimi-Akodu, Special […]
About ten people have been reportedly injured in Ajegunle, Olodi Apapa, area of Lagos in a gas explosion. Gbenga Omotosho, the Lagos State commissioner for information and strategy, who confirmed the incident via his social media page, said some gas cylinders were being off-loaded into a shop on Tuesday evening when the explosion occured. “A routine offloading of gas […]
Motorists and traders have raised concerns about the illegal dumping of refuse into a drainage opposite Adebola Idowu Street in the Kosofe Local Government Area of the state. Our correspondent, who visited the area on Thursday, observed that the canal was clogged with refuse consisting mostly of disposable Styrofoam and plastics. It was also observed […]
The Nigerian Meteorological Agency, NiMet, has predicted sunshine and thunderstorms from Thursday to Saturday nationwide. NiMet’s weather outlook, released on Wednesday in Abuja, forecasts sunny skies on Thursday with a few patches of clouds over the northern region and prospects of thunderstorms over parts of Taraba during the afternoon and evening hours. The agency said […]
When a rare total solar eclipse sweeps across North America on Monday, scientists will be able to gather invaluable data on everything from the Sun’s atmosphere to strange animal behaviors — and even possible effects on humans. It comes with the Sun near the peak of its 11-year solar cycle, setting the stage for a […]
Tokunbo Wahab, Commissioner for Environment and Water Resources, Lagos State, says the state is expected to experience abnormal rainfall in 2024 with a total of 1936.2 mm predicted rainfall. Wahab said this at a news conference on 2024 Seasonal Climate Predictions (SCP) and socio-economic implications for Lagos State on Tuesday. Wahab said the average annual rainfall predicted […]
The World Meteorological Organisation (WMO), has said Nigeria is likely to witness extreme weather conditions judging from the current weather conditions experienced in various parts of the country. This is even as the organisation called on Nigerians to be responsive to weather predictions released by the Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NiMet). The WMO representative, Bernard Gomez, […]
Only seven countries in the world met safe air pollution levels in 2023, a new report by Swiss air quality technology company IQAir reveals. The World Air Quality Report, released this week, draws on data from more than 30,000 monitoring stations in 134 countries, territories and regions. Of these, 124 were found to breach safe […]
The Lagos State Government has announced plans to go after electricity distribution companies that engage in indiscriminate digging of the ground for their installations without seeking relevant approvals from required agencies. The Chief Executive Officer, Lagos State Infrastructure Maintenance and Regulatory Agency, Oyekanmi Elegushi, disclosed this during a chat with the pressmen at his office […]
