Lagos demolishes 17 illegal structures, seals 52 buildings over planning violations

The Lagos State Government has demolished 17 amerciable structures and sealed 52 others crossed antithetic parts of the authorities arsenic portion of ongoing efforts to enforce carnal readying laws and reconstruct bid wrong the built environment.

The Commissioner for Physical Planning and Urban Development, Dr Abiodun Oluyinka Olumide, disclosed this on Friday during the 2026 Ministerial Press Briefing held successful Alausa, Ikeja, wherever helium presented the ministry’s scorecard for the 3rd twelvemonth of Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu’s 2nd term.

Olumide explained that the enforcement operations were carried retired pursuing investigations into respective nationalist complaints and disputes relating to spot improvement crossed the state.

According to him, the ministry’s Technical Services Department received 987 petitions wrong the reappraisal period, retired of which 399 cases were resolved done mediation and compliance measures, portion 519 petitions are inactive nether investigation.

“As portion of our enforcement activities, 17 structures were removed and 52 others sealed for assorted readying infractions,” helium said.

The commissioner noted that the ministry’s interventions had helped to trim litigation, minimise conflicts arising from enforcement actions, and amended nationalist assurance successful the state’s carnal improvement power efforts.

He besides stated that the ministry recorded large achieveme...