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Lagos Police Withdraw Taskforce from Traffic Enforcement
The Lagos State Police Command has ordered the immediate withdrawal of the Lagos State Environmental Sanitation and Special Offences Unit (Taskforce) from all traffic control and enforcement duties across the state.
01/04/2026
Lagos Taskforce Debunks Bribery Allegation, Reaffirms Commitment to Lawful Enforcement
The Lagos State Taskforce has dismissed as false and malicious a report circulating online which alleged that its officials collect bribes before releasing impounded vehicles.
13/03/2026
Lagos Taskforce Arrests 32 Street Urchins for Highway Nuisance
The Lagos State Taskforce has apprehended 32 street urchins, popularly known as Omotaku, during a coordinated enforcement operation aimed at curbing public nuisance and improving safety on major highways across the state.
06/01/2026
Lagos Taskforce serves eviction notices to squatters at Lekki Coastal Road/ Fagba Railway Crossing
The Lagos State Taskforce has carried out a follow up eviction operation and also served a five day eviction notice to squatters and suspected miscreants around Lekki Coastal Road and Marwa Gardens.
21/06/2023
Lagos State Taskforce raids illegal street traders, miscreants, visa racketeers in Ikeja
The Lagos State Taskforce has carried out a cleanup exercise of indiscriminate roadside trading and illegal visa racketeering being perpetrated by unscrupulous individuals along Otunba Yomi Oshikoya Drive in Ikeja and its environs.
08/07/2022
Taskforce arrests robbery suspect, serves removal notices
Lagos State Environmental and Special Offences Unit (Taskforce) has arrested a traffic robbery suspect in Brewery/Ijora, just as it served owners of structures and kiosks in Owode road set – back a three-day removal notice.
26/08/2021
Lagos taskforce arrest 16 miscreants over ‘violence’
Lagos State Environmental and Special Offences Unit (Taskforce) has arrested 16 miscreants believed to have masterminded violence and robbing of commuters in Iyana Cele and Iyana Isolo.
24/08/2021
Lagos Taskforce didn’t kill anyone – Chairman
Lagos State Environmental and Enforcement and Special Offences Unit (Taskforce) has said it would not abdicate its statutory duty of enforcing traffic laws in the metropolis because penchant disregard of some motorists to traffic laws in the state just as it debunked fake news that its personnel killed a driver and a conductor.
17/08/2021
Lagos Govt. demolishes shanties on Lekki Coastal Road
Lagos State Government has reiterated its preparedness to monitor and prevent future encroachment and illegal occupation of any part of Lekki Coastal Road, which serves as alternate route to Lekki – Epe Road, just as it demolished thousands of shanties and kiosks on the road.
01/08/2021
One-way drive: Lagos gets court’s order to auction 88 forfeited vehicles
The Lagos State Environmental and Special Offences (Enforcement) Unit (Taskforce) has obtained a court order authorising it for a public auction of 88 vehicles forfeited to government by the Lagos State Mobile Court for plying one way.
18/01/2021
