L-R: Chairman, House Committee on the Environment, Hon. Rotimi Abiru; Commissioner for the Environment & Water Resources, Mr. Tunji Bello; wife of the Deputy Governor, Mrs. Oluremi Hamzat; Lagos State Deputy Governor, Dr. Obafemi Hamzat; Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu; Speaker of the State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Mudashiru Obasa; Permanent Secretary, Ministry of the Environment, Mrs. Ronke Odeneye; Special Adviser to the Governor on Drainages & Water Resources, Mr. Joe Igbokwe and Permanent Secretary, Office of Drainage Service & Water Resources, Engr. Olalekan Shodeinde, during the opening of Lagos 8th International Climate Change summit with the theme “Adapting Health, Energy, Agriculture, Transport and Waste Infrastructure to the long-term impact of climate change in Lagos”, at the Lagos Continental Hotel, Victoria Island, on Tuesday, June 8, 2021.
L-R: Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu; Commissioner for the Environment & Water Resources, Mr. Tunji Bello; Permanent Secretary, Ministry of the Environment, Mrs. Ronke Odeneye; representative of First Lady of Lagos State and the Permanent Secretary, LASIEC, Mrs. Bandele Sinatu Fadipe and Lagos APC Chieftain, Cardinal James Odunmbaku, during the opening of Lagos 8th International Climate Change summit with the theme “Adapting Health, Energy, Agriculture, Transport and Waste Infrastructure to the long-term impact of climate change in Lagos”, at the Lagos Continental Hotel, Victoria Island, on Tuesday, June 8, 2021. L-R: Commissioner for the Environment & Water Resources, Mr. Tunji Bello; wife of the Deputy Governor, Mrs. Oluremi Hamzat; Lagos State Deputy Governor, Dr. Obafemi Hamzat; Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu; Speaker of the State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Mudashiru Obasa; Permanent Secretary, Ministry of the Environment, Mrs. Ronke Odeneye and Special Adviser to the Governor on Drainages & Water Resources, Mr. Joe Igbokwe, during the opening of Lagos 8th International Climate Change summit with the theme “Adapting Health, Energy, Agriculture, Transport and Waste Infrastructure to the long-term impact of climate change in Lagos”, at the Lagos Continental Hotel, Victoria Island, on Tuesday, June 8, 2021. L-R: Commissioner for the Environment & Water Resources, Mr. Tunji Bello; wife of Lagos State Deputy Governor, Mrs. Oluremi Hamzat; her husband, Dr. Obafemi Hamzat; Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu and the Speaker of the State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Mudashiru Obasa during the opening of Lagos 8th International Climate Change summit with the theme “Adapting Health, Energy, Agriculture, Transport and Waste Infrastructure to the long-term impact of climate change in Lagos”, at the Lagos Continental Hotel, Victoria Island, on Tuesday, June 8, 2021.L-R: Permanent Secretary, Lagos Ministry of the Environment, Mrs. Ronke Odeneye; Commissioner for the Environment & Water Resources, Mr. Tunji Bello; wife of Lagos State Deputy Governor, Mrs. Oluremi Hamzat; her husband, Dr. Obafemi Hamzat and Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu, at the opening of Lagos 8th International Climate Change summit with the theme “Adapting Health, Energy, Agriculture, Transport and Waste Infrastructure to the long-term impact of climate change in Lagos”, held at the Lagos Continental Hotel, Victoria Island, on Tuesday, June 8, 2021.
Calm came the way of Rivers State on Tuesday as President Bola Tinubu waded into the political crisis and faceoff between the embattled governor Siminalayi Fubara, and his estranged godfather and Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike.
The Lagos Waste Management Authority (LAWMA) has destroyed over 400 carts confiscated from pushers who serially dump waste in unauthorised locations across the city, clearly violating state environmental laws.
Over 40 anti-corruption Civil Society Organisations gathered in Lagos on Friday to protest what they described as the incessant disobedience of court orders by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission under Abdulrasheed Bawa and the seeming politicisation of the agency’s activities.
Lagos has bid a fond farewell to one of its foremost pioneers, Surv. Olukunle Akinola, the state’s first Surveyor-General, whose vision and dedication helped chart the course of Africa’s most dynamic megacity. He passed away peacefully on October 11, 2025, at the age of 94.