Street Trading
Lagos begins arrest of motorists buying goods in traffic
The Lagos State Government has started arrest and prosecution of motorists who patronizes hawkers in traffic. Officials of the state’s Environmental Sanitation Corps Agency (LASECORPS) confirmed this with the arrest of six motorists at the Ikeja along end of the Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway for allegedly buying goods in the traffic. The offenders’ vehicles, a Honda Accent, …
Ambode orders markets in Lagos to be fenced to curb street trading
Lagos State Governor, Akinwunmi Ambode has instructed that all local government councils in Lagos should embark on the fencing of markets in the state to curb the menace constituted by street trading. This was disclosed by Lagos State Commissioner for Environment, Dr. Babatunde Adejare, who was monitoring the July edition of the monthly environmental sanitation …
Like Lagos, Abia proposes bill to criminalize street trading
The government of Abia State has announced that the activities of street trading by the roadside will soon be banned in the state because it is causing the administration huge revenue loss and defacing the city centres. The Commissioner for Trade and Investment, Kate Nwosu, made this revelation yesterday, adding that a bill to criminalize …
Lagos: Street trading still on despite govt restriction
Many youths have continued with street trading and hawking in the traffic despite the stance of the state government to go tough on anyone doing so. The Punch reports that a few days after Governor Akinwunmi Ambode stated his resolve to enforce an existing law prohibiting these activities, the bustle of street trading has not …
Reckless street hawkers, a nuisance to Lagosians — Ayorinde
Lagos State Commissioner for Information, Steve Ayorinde, tells TOBI AWORINDE that the recent ban on street traders in the state is in the best interests of Lagosians Is the Lagos State Government satisfied with the reactions to its ban on street hawking? Essentially, it is not a new law but an enforcement of an existing …
Lagos: Hundreds arrested for flouting ban on street hawking
Officials of the Kick Against Indiscipline (KAI) in Lagos State on Monday commenced a crackdown on street traders and hawkers in different parts of Lagos metropolis as hundreds were arrested for hawking on the streets. The clampdown was in obedience to a directive last Friday by the state governor, Akinwunmi Ambode, that the existing law …
Ambode and the street traders of Lagos
By Rueben Abati I am writing this piece after holding a series of conversations with Lagos street traders and hawkers who seem not be aware of or are just indifferent to, or may be they are intrigued by, the fact that the State Governor, Akinwunmi Ambode has declared on television that the state government is …
Lagos prohibits street hawking
The Lagos State Government on Friday said that from July 1, 2016, it would commence a total enforcement against street trading and street hawkers, saying that the law banning their activities across the metropolis would take its full course. Speaking at a live interview session on Television Continental, the State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode said …
