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At its plenary session on Thursday, the Lagos State House of Assembly has ordered the 20 Local Governments and 37 Local Council Development Areas (LCDAs) in the state to call on the Private Sector Partnership (PSP) operators in their areas to go back to refuse packing job with immediate effect. Speaker of the House, Rt. Hon. Mudashiru Obasa, also ordered the Clerk of the House, Mr. Azeez Sanni to invite the Commissioner for the Environment, Hon. Babatunde Durosinmi-Etti to appear before the House on the matter next week. This followed an Urgent Matter of Public Importance raised by Hon. Gbolahan Yishawu (Eti-Osa Constitueny 1l on heaps of refuse scattered all over the state. Speaker Mudahsiru Obasa emphasised that the Lagos State Government does not know about Visionscape. Obasa stated that there are three arms of government including legislative, executive and judiciary, and that the state government ought to have consulted the House on Visionscape before they star...

**The Lagos State House of Assembly dissolved its standing Committee months before now **The House On Tuesday, July 10th reconstitutes its committees **Details below Months after the dissolution of its standing committees, Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Mudashiru Ajayi Obasa has announced the reconstitution of the committees of the House. Announcing the new committees during plenary on Tuesday, Obasa revealed that while he would head the Selection Committee, the Chief Whip of the House, Hon. Rotimi Abiru would be the Chairman of the Business Rules and Ethics Committee. S/N NAMES COMMITTEES 1 Hon. Rasheed Makinde Agriculture 2 Hon. Akeem Shokunle Health Services 3 Hon. Fatai Oluwa House Services 4 Hon. Rotimi Olowo Local Government and Community Affairs, 5 Hon. Dayo Saka-Fafunmi Environment 6 Hon. Abiodun...

The police in Lagos on Saturday said they had arrested a member of the Lagos State House of Assembly and two others for alleged unlawful possession of firearms. The spokesman of the command, Chike Oti, said that the suspects were undergoing interrogations. “The first and second suspect, Wale Oye (37) and Ganiyu Ajiboluwa (47), were arrested on July 12, at about 5.45 p.m. by a team of Inspector-General of Police X-Squad operatives on patrol at Apple Junction, along Festac extension, Amuwo Odofin. “A single barrel Mossverg pump action rifle with identification No. B/NO D512429, one Zirve Magnum pump action rifle with No. B/NO 45639 and two live cartridges were recovered from the suspects. “However, during interrogation, the suspects claimed the guns were given to them by one Mr Dipo Olorunrinu, 47 years, a member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the Lagos State House of Assembly, to escort him to a political rally,” Oti said in a statement. The spokesma...