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Lagos evicts flood victims from Agbowa Ikosi relief camp  The Lagos State Government has shut the Agbowa Ikosi relief camp ten months after it was opened for the victims of last year’s flooding in Ajegunle, along Ikorodu road. The Commissioner for Special Duties, Doctor WALE AHMED who led the operation said the government has taken care of the one thousand, one hundred displaced people in the camp. The General Manager of the Lagos State emergency Management Agency, Doctor FEMI OKE-OSANYINTOLU said the camp would be prepared for future relief exercises. Some of the displaced persons commended the state government for coming to their assistance.           

The Federal Government has promised to support Lagos State Government on the problems of flood and coastal erosion in the state. The Minister of Trade and Investment OLUSEGUN AGANGA made this known when he led a federal government delegation to inspect areas affected by the recent flooding in Agege and Eti-Osa areas of the state. AGANGA said both NIMASA and NPA would look into the problem of ship wreck on Lekki beach.           On the looming danger on Alpha beach in Ajah, the Lagos State Commissioner for Water Front Infrastructure Development, SEGUN ONIRU said the state has lost twenty metres of coastline in the last two weeks.

The Lagos State Government has presented the third batch of retirees with retirement bond certificates. The Deputy Governor JOKE ORELOPE-ADEFULIRE made the presentations to three hundred and twenty-eight beneficiaries at a ceremony in Alausa. She said the total sum of the bond was two point one billion naira. The Director General of the Lagos State Pension Commission, KUNLE HUSSEIN who was also at the event, said over three billion naira has so far been paid to six hundred and fifty retirees in the state.