Tag:Environment law

Waste Management

LAWMA arrests 13 cart pushers for violating environmental laws

The Lagos State Waste Management Authority (LAWMA) has arrested 13 cart pushers and seized 29 carts for violating environmental laws of the state. Mr Ibrahim...

Michael Simire - August 9, 2020

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World Water Day: Lagosians decry environment law, water privatisation

Though the new Lagos Environment Law was signed into law by Governor Akinwunmi Ambode some three weeks ago, Lagosians only decided to challenge it...

admin - March 22, 2017

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Applause as Lagos discards ‘anti-people’ sections of environment law

The Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria (ERA/FoEN) has hailed the decision of the Lagos State Government to discard what it tags “anti-people”...

Michael Simire - March 20, 2017

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Campaigners want Lagos to make new environment law public

Civil society and grassroots stakeholders in Lagos have demanded that Governor Akinwunmi Ambode make public the new environment law which, they said, he signed...

admin - March 15, 2017

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Campaigners flay ‘hasty’ passage of Lagos environment law

Civil society and grassroots groups' aversion to the Lagos Environment Bill when it went for Public Hearing on February 9, 2017 not withstanding, the...

admin - February 21, 2017