Deputy governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress APC,in Lagos State in the 2019 general elections in Nigeria, Obafemi Hamzat, has disclosed that Babajide Sanwo-Olu, if elected governor of Lagos State, will enforce physical planning law of the state to ensure the state is rid of refuse, adding that the administration will equally ensure that Lagos State Waste Management Authority, LAWMA, continues to remain the regulatory agency of the government for the environment.
The former Commissioner for Works and Infrastructure in the state who made this known at an interactive session with journalists in Alausa recently, on the development agenda for the state ahead of the March 2, 2019 gubernatorial election, said the development agenda simply tagged:  Project THEME, has five pillars of development that will focus on traffic and transportation, health and the environment, education and technology, as well as entertainment and tourism aimed at making Lagos a 21st Century economy in Africa.
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The rate of mortality resulting from building collapse in Nigeria has become increasingly alarming. Every now and then, there are reports of one building collapse or another. A report by the Federal Ministry of Power, Works and Housing, showed that over fifty-four cases of collapsed buildings were recorded in 2017 across the country. In the years before that, there were some building collapses as well. There were thirty-three building collapse in Lagos and twenty-two in Abuja in 2012; seventeen building collapses in Lagos and twenty in Abuja in 2013, thirteen building collapse in Lagos and two in Abuja in 2014.This year, 2018, isn’t any better in-terms of building collapse. Just a few weeks ago, an Abuja building collapsed which claimed one life and left several injured.
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