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For residents of Oluwakemi, Olasepe, Denro, Ishasi, Akute in the Ifo Local Government Area of Ogun State, it is faster to move from one point to the other in a canoe than in a car. The residents seemed to have given up hope on the reconstruction of a flood-ravaged road that links them to the Ojodu-Berger axis of Lagos. The road was said to have been worsened by the blocked drains in the area which could not contain the erosion resulting from perennial rainfall and discharge from an Ogun dam. It was revealed   that passersby had to take their times wading through the flooded portion of the road while children could not go to school. In a visit to the communities around 9am on Monday, The Punch Metro correspondent sighted a bus and a van submerged in the water. Workers and students, who could not dare the volume of the surge, boarded canoes while others were strapped on the back for a fee of N100 by some men in the area. A woman fell inside the water while wading through it but

The Ogun State Government has disclosed plans to make access to land easy for residents and intending investors. According to a statement from the state’s Bureau of Lands and Survey, the government has decided to transform the entire operations of the bureau through complete computerisation of its registry documents into a digital archive. The government said it would also develop a Geographic Information System to capture, store, analyse, share, manage and display all types of geographical data in the bureau and other Ministries, Departments and Agencies that deal with land issues in order to automate the business and workflow processes. The statement read in part, “Since land is central to all human activities, social, economic, religious and developmental, creating systems that enable government to fulfil its responsibilities to the populace is central to achieving good governance. The Ogun State Government, via the Bureau of Land and Survey, desires to improve the overal

Thirty-four applicants have emerged winners in the October draw of the Lagos Home Ownership Mortgage Scheme organised by the Lagos State Mortgage Board. The winners were selected out of the 93 applicants that were pre-qualified for the draw.  The Executive Secretary, LSMB, Mr. Akinola Kojo-Sagoe, said the winners met the criteria for participation in the scheme. Governor Babatunde Fashola stated that the state government would not relent on its promise to deliver at least 200 homes every month.  Fashola, who was represented at the draw by the deputy governor, Mrs. Adejoke Orelope-Adefulire, also appealed to tax-paying residents of the state to key into the scheme. He added that the scheme was the state government’s intervention strategy to reduce the housing deficit in the country.  According to the governor, the scheme is also part of the policy thrust of his administration to address the problems of education, transportation, health, food production and road constr

AGAINST claims that the Federal Government has sold the historic Tafawa Balewa Square, located in Lagos Island, the Lagos State governor, Mr. Babatunda Fashola has refuted such claims, while describing it as spurious. The governor, who made the clarification at the City Hall, Lagos, venue of the Public presentation a historic book on Lagos, ‘Possession- A History of Law and Justice In The Crown Colony of Lagos; 1861 – 1906’, authored by former Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice of the State, Mr. Olasupo Shasore (SAN), said because of ignorance of the history of Lagos, most people make spurious assumptions and statements that offend the sensibility of Lagosians such as the one by the Federal Government saying it has sold the Tafawa Balewa Square. Describing those, who say they have sold the Tafawa Balewa Square as wallowing in absolute ignorance, Fashola declared that the Square “can never be sold”, pointing out that the place used to be part of the land that belonge

The advisers of the Assets Management Corporation of Nigeria have reduced the 23 investors lining up to buy Mainstreet Bank to just seven, with the bad assets manager hoping to name the successful buyer on October 31. The successful buyer of Enterprise Bank, one of the three nationalised banks created after the 2009 banking crisis from the defunct Afribank, Bank PHB and Spring Bank, will also emerge next week after a year-long rigorous sale process. The three nationalised banks created from the failed banks are Enterprise Bank, Mainstreet Bank and Keystone Bank. The Managing Director, AMCON, Mr. Mustafa Chike-Obi, told our correspondent during an exclusive interview in Lagos on Tuesday, “The process always starts with a lot of prospective buyers and AMCON-appointed advisers always do some interactions with them and we narrow it down based on a number of objective criteria. “With Mainstreet Bank, we started with about 23 prospective buyers and I believe that we are down t

CONTROVERSY over the Federal Government’s postponement of resumption date for primary and secondary schools across the country till September 22 over the Ebola scourge continued Tuesday with the House of Representatives resolving to wade into the matter.    It has asked its Committee on Education to take another look at the issue of resumption date for private and public primary and secondary schools. The Education Minister, Mallam Ibrahim Shekarau, had announced a new resumption date for the 2014/2015 academic session so as to give the country’s health authorities enough time to contain the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) spread.    However, private school owners have vehemently opposed the one-month shift, a development that compelled the ministry to bring resumption forward to September 22, 2014, after an interface with stakeholders in the sector.    Responding to inquiries from newsmen Tuesday in Abuja, the Deputy Chairman, House Committee on Media and Public Affairs, Victor Af

Homeowners could be compensated by the state if the value of their property falls as a result of the building of new garden cities, to encourage them to accept development in their area, Nick Clegg has said. The deputy prime minister suggested that affected households could receive council tax rebates during construction, or may be able to sell their homes to the state at guaranteed prices. Clegg announced plans in April for a new generation of garden cities to ease the demand for housing in the south of England. It is expected that up to three cities of at least 15,000 homes will be built in the southeast, though no locations have yet been selected. Clegg told the Sunday Telegraph he wanted a shortlist of potential locations published by the end of the year. Speaking to BBC1's Countryfile, he said it was important to safeguard house prices in areas chosen for projects. "We could maybe give deductions on their council tax for the period of time during wh