Lagos task force
4 Apr
Lagos State Environment and Special Offences Enforcement Unit, a.k.a the Task force has clamped down on defiant squatters along the rail tracks in the Fagba area of the state.
13 Feb
Lagos State Task Force on Environmental Sanitation and Special Offences (Task Force) yesterday, impounded 497 motorcycles (popularly called okada) along the Lagos-Badagry expressway.
7 Feb
Lagos State Task Force, yesterday, arrested 51 street urchins, popularly called ‘area boys’, for harassing and extorting truck drivers along the Apapa/Oshodi expressway.
23 Jan
Lagos State Taskforce on Environmental Sanitation and Special Offences, yesterday, raided Oshodi and environs, arresting 63 persons. Chairman of the agency, Chief Superintendent of Police (CSP) Shola Jejeloye, led the operation that lasted over three hours.
15 Jan
The Lagos State Task Force on Environmental Sanitation and Special Offences has impounded 174 motorcycles in a renewed operation against recalcitrant commercial motorcyclists across the state.
6 Dec
The Lagos State Environmental Sanitation and Special Offences Unit (Task Force), yesterday, denied killing a woman in the Abule-Egba area of the state.
17 Nov
Lagos State Environmental Sanitation and Special Offences Unit (Task Force) has raided major routes along Festac, Apple Junction, Badagry Expressway and Berger axis, and impounded 125 motorcycles. The Guardian learnt that the action was in continuation of the agency’s move to rid the state of the menace of commercial motorcyclists a.k.a Okada riders, who are attempting to reinitiate operations…
28 Aug 2023
Officials of Lagos State Lagos State Environment and Special Offences Enforcement Unit known as the Task Force have arrested 16 persons, following an attack on them by miscreants along Costain and Lagos-Badagry Expressway
25 Aug 2023
The reported displacement of about 12,000 Nigerians following recent demolition of several houses in Oke Eri, Odun-Ifa and Precious Seed communities in Oworonshoki, Kosofe Local Area of Lagos State by the Lagos State Environment and Special Offences Enforcement Unit (Task Force) is a matter of grave concern for lovers of humanity. It is not surprising…
9 Aug 2023
Operatives of Lagos State Environmental Sanitation and Special Offences Unit also known as Task Force, yesterday, arrested six suspects during a raid, and dislodgment of street traders at Pen Cinema and Agege. The Guardian gathered that the raid was in line with the state’s zero tolerance to street trading and illicit display of goods on walkways,…
8 May 2023
Lagos State Environment and Special Offences Enforcement Unit (Task Force), yesterday, arrested 38 persons during a raid and removal of shanties and criminal hideouts at the Lekki Coastal Road, Lagos.
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