waste management

Lagos Court Jails Man for Indiscriminate Refuse Disposal Lagos environmental task force enforcing waste disposal laws

Lagos environmental task force enforcing waste disposal laws

Lagos Court Jails Man for Indiscriminate Refuse Disposal

Korede Abdullah December 23, 2025

LAGOS, Nigeria – A Lagos mobile court convicts a 48-year-old man, Makinde Rasaq, for indiscriminate refuse disposal,...

WHO Warns Poor Waste Management Driving Global Health Crisis WHO and Bayer representatives reaffirming global health partnership on neglected diseases

WHO and Bayer representatives reaffirming global health partnership on neglected diseases

WHO Warns Poor Waste Management Driving Global Health Crisis

Oluwatobi Adu December 16, 2025

ABUJA, Nigeria – The World Health Organisation warns that poorly managed solid waste is fuelling a growing...

LAWMA Arrests Three for Illegal Waste Dumping in Oshodi Lagos Commissioner Tokunbo Wahab addressing journalists on Ikota demolition

Lagos Commissioner Tokunbo Wahab addressing journalists on Ikota demolition

LAWMA Arrests Three for Illegal Waste Dumping in Oshodi

Mirian Gom December 16, 2025

ABUJA, Nigeria – The Lagos State Government intensifies its environmental enforcement drive as authorities arrest three suspects...

Lagos to Deploy 100 New CNG Waste Trucks in 2025, Targets 2,000-Fleet Upgrade CNG-powered waste compactor trucks at a Lagos State waste management facility

CNG-powered waste compactor trucks at a Lagos State waste management facility

Lagos to Deploy 100 New CNG Waste Trucks in 2025, Targets 2,000-Fleet Upgrade

Korede Abdullah December 4, 2025

LAGOS, Nigeria – The Lagos State Government will deploy 100 compressed natural gas (CNG)-powered compactor trucks in...

Akwa Ibom Leads Cleanliness Rankings Amid National Sanitation Decline Clean streets in Akwa Ibom following national sanitation assessment

Clean streets in Akwa Ibom following national sanitation assessment

Akwa Ibom Leads Cleanliness Rankings Amid National Sanitation Decline

Oluwafunbi Bello December 4, 2025

ABUJA, Nigeria – Akwa Ibom retains its position as Nigeria’s cleanest state for the eighth consecutive year...

Lagos Battles Waste Crisis with New Compactor Rollout LAWMA waste trucks and compactors operating in Lagos streets

LAWMA waste trucks and compactors operating in Lagos streets

Lagos Battles Waste Crisis with New Compactor Rollout

Oluwafunbi Bello December 4, 2025

LAGOS, Nigeria – The Lagos Waste Management Authority announces plans to procure 500 new mobile tricycle compactors,...

Lagos Transitions to Circular Waste Management System Lagos State warns residents against unregistered hospitals, launches HEFAMAA barcode verification system

Lagos State warns residents against unregistered hospitals, launches HEFAMAA barcode verification system

Lagos Transitions to Circular Waste Management System

Oluwafunbi Bello December 2, 2025

LAGOS, Nigeria – Lagos State is moving away from the traditional “collect and dump” waste system towards...

Nasarawa Restores Idle Recycling Plants to Tackle Waste Crisis Revitalised recycling plant facility in Nasarawa State

Revitalised recycling plant facility in Nasarawa State

Nasarawa Restores Idle Recycling Plants to Tackle Waste Crisis

Oluwafunbi Bello November 29, 2025

NASARAWA, Nigeria – The Nasarawa State Government has begun reviving two moribund recycling facilities as part of...

Environmental Group Demands Reactivation of FCT Environmental Courts Minister Nyesom Wike launches Abuja road projects in Mabushi”

Minister Nyesom Wike launches Abuja road projects in Mabushi”

Environmental Group Demands Reactivation of FCT Environmental Courts

Otamere Gladness November 27, 2025

ABUJA, Nigeria – A leading environmental rights organisation has urged the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory,...

Mountains of Hope: Inside Lagos’ High-Stakes Race to Turn Trash into Prosperity 1000326418

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Mountains of Hope: Inside Lagos’ High-Stakes Race to Turn Trash into Prosperity

Korede Abdullah November 16, 2025

LAGOS, Nigeria – Lagos’ waste economy pulses with a raw, unfiltered energy—an ecosystem where scavengers, innovators, policymakers...