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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 ...

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 a...

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...