Lagos Task Force News Today

On the fateful day of September 10, 2023, Rabiu Musa embarked on a routine journey from his home in Jos to deliver a shipment of tomatoes to a client in the oil-rich city of Port-Harcourt. Little did he know that the trip would turn..

The Lagos State Government on Sunday shutdown the Auto Parts and Machinery Market Association (ASPAMDA) as well as other market association within the Trade Fair Complex in the Ojo area of the state over what it describe as environmental infractions. This is coming few days after the Ladipo Auto Market in Mushin was reopened after…

“The enforcement was carried out by officials of Lagos Waste Management Authority (LAWMA) in partnership with Lagos Task Force on Environmental Sanitation and Special Offenses and Lagos Environmental Sanitation Corps (LAGESC) for poor waste disposal practices, non-payment for waste disposal and general environmental sanitation infractions.”

The state government also sealed off some markets within the Trade Fair in Ojo area of the state.

Oloye Sope, one of the victims who were forcibly evicted and their houses demolished in Oworonshoki community in the Kosofe Local Government Area of Lagos State by Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu's administration, has lamented how his only son died during the demolition exercise.   Speaking in a one-minute 29-second video recorded by the Take It Back Movement, Oloye lamented that the state government did not only demolish his house and render him homeless but the demolition took away his only ...

The Oworo Youths Forum (OYF) has asked the Lagos State Government to stop the ongoing demolition of houses in Mosafejo, Oke-Eri, Odunifa and other communities in the state.  This is contained in a press statement issued by the group and signed by its President, Aderibigbe Yemi and Public Relations Officer, Towolawi Jamiu, lamenting that the Lagos Task Force, in accordance with the state Ministry of Environment's directives, has been demolishing houses in some communities in the state witho...

SUBAIR MOHAMMED and DAYO AYEYEMI tell the untold story of Alaba Market demolition. TRADERS affected by the controversial demolition of Alaba International

The Eyin Osa Resettlement Committee, Lagos State, has lamented the continued encroachment on their land by suspected land grabbers.

The agency said many notices were sent to the occupants of the buildings as far back as 2016 but they kept harassing its officials.

The Lagos government says it will demolish 17 "distressed" buildings being used for commercial purposes within the Alaba international market in Ojo LGA of the state.