ERA/FoEN to Lagos Speaker: Privatisation not solution to water crisis in Lagos

The Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria (ERA/FoEN) has asked the Speaker of Lagos State House of Assembly, Hon. Obasa Mudashiru to side with Lagos people in rejecting Public Private Partnerships (PPPs) in the water sector. ERA/FoEN, in a letter to the Speaker titled PRIVATISATION IS NOT SOLUTION TO LAGOS WATER PROBLEM, frowned at […]

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The Looting of Lagos State Treasury by Ex-Gov. Fashola

Nigerians have been expressing outrage on the revelation that former Lagos Governor Babatunde Fashola spent N78.3 million of taxpayers’ money upgrading his personal website in 2014. This revelation is just an indication of the wasteful spending by Fashola as governor of Lagos State. Back in 2010, a group emerged and issued a petition against Fashola, […]

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Collapsed TB Joshua church building had no approval – Lagos Govt.

The Lagos State Government on Thursdaysaid that the collapsed guest house within the premises of Synagogue Church of All Nations in Ikotun Egbe area of the state had no building permit. The building collapsed on September 12 and killed 116 people, mostly South Africans. The Lagos State Commissioner for Physical Planning and Urban Development, Olutoyin Ayinde, made the […]

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