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Democratic Peoples’ Alliance (DPA) has asked the Lagos State Government to institute an independent panel of enquiry, and ensure the Commissioner of Police respects the rights of 24 people arrested over the disturbance that broke out in the Egbeda area of Lagos after police shot dead a commercial bus driver.

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There is an air of uncertainty over who will be the flag bearer of the Action Congress (AC) in Lagos State, come 2011. The party is yet to decide who will represent it in the coming general election. However, some political observers still believe that Governor Babatunde Fashola should complete his second term, due to the marvellous projects he has embarked upon in Lagos State since he came into office. (more…)

Lagos State Opposition party, the Democratic Peoples’ Alliance (DPA) has charged private refuse disposal operators with gross irresponsibility and asked the Lagos State Government and the Lagos State House of Assembly to bar them from dragging Lagosians to court over unpaid garbage bills. (more…)

Democratic Peoples’ Alliance (DPA) has thrown its weight behind Lagos State’s initiative of organising remedial classes for secondary school leaving candidates. The party however urged the government to also pay urgent attention to the dearth of school facilities.

Describing the government’s move as commendable, DPA said it was a fitting response to students’ cry for help. (more…)

Democratic Peoples’ Alliance (DPA) has asked the Lagos State Government to free those it is detaining in detention facilities throughout the state in the spirit of Christmas and New Year.

The party also demanded the freeing of all seized vehicles and business implements, like commercial motorcycles and buses, confiscated by the government and its agencies. (more…)

United Airlines will inaugurate its first-ever service to Lagos, via Accra, Ghana  on May 2, 2010, says Kein Knight, senior vice president of planning.

The flight, which will be be operated by Boeing 767 aircraft on the following schedule: (more…)

Manufacturers Association of Nigeria (MAN) and West-Pac Petroleum Incorporation, a US based firm, have agreed a strategic partnership to install a 2,000 megawatt (mw) of electricity plants in Lagos within the next four years.

 400 mw of electricity is expected to be generated by end-2010, with plans to develop 5 industrial clusters in Lagos. MAN member-companies are expected to benefit from electricity supplied from the power plant.

 The Democratic Peoples’ Alliance (DPA) is drawing the attention of Lagos Governor Babatunde Fashola  and Commissioner of the Environment, Dr. Muiz Banire, to a looming epidemic around the Alimosho General Hospital, Igando, where a neighbouring acreage has been converted into a refuse dumpsite.

DPA warned that the operations could contaminate the Igando water-table and the surrounding air (more…)

 Climate change and population migration could put an additional 52 million people in the path of coastal flooding from storm surges in the next century, according to a report from the Center for Global Development.

The report looks specifically at the impact of storm surges on the land, populations and economies of 84 developing countries and 577 coastal cities within them. (more…)

The Democratic Peoples Alliance (DPA) has cast its vote with Lagos State in its face-off with the Federal Government over the creation of more local governments, although it wrote off the councils for failing to make the desired developmental impact on the polity.

 

The party believed that the Federal Government over-extended itself in meddling in the matter of council creation as the Constitution gave it no role on the issue, apart from the fact that such interference violated the principle of Federalism. (more…)