{"id":7230,"date":"2026-11-03T06:30:49","date_gmt":"2026-11-03T06:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/03\/drainage-lagos-govt-warns-against-indiscriminate-refuse-dumping\/"},"modified":"2026-11-03T06:30:49","modified_gmt":"2026-11-03T06:30:49","slug":"drainage-lagos-govt-warns-against-indiscriminate-refuse-dumping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/03\/drainage-lagos-govt-warns-against-indiscriminate-refuse-dumping\/","title":{"rendered":"Drainage: Lagos govt warns against indiscriminate refuse dumping"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"362\" height=\"273\" src=\"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Drainage-Lagos-govt-warns-against-indiscriminate-refuse-dumping.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt=\"Drainage: Lagos govt warns against indiscriminate refuse dumping\" decoding=\"async\" srcset=\"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Drainage-Lagos-govt-warns-against-indiscriminate-refuse-dumping.jpg 362w, https:\/\/cdn.vanguardngr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Sanwo-Olu-300x226.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 362px) 100vw, 362px\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By Olasunkanmi Akoni<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">LAGOS\u2014THE Lagos State government has warned residents against dumping waste into canals and drainage channels, cautioning that the illegal practice severely threatens public sanitation and heightens the risk of flash flooding across the state.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Head of Service, Bode Agoro, gave the warning during the October edition of the state\u2019s monthly environmental sanitation exercise.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He urged council chairman and community leaders to actively mobilize residents to improve environmental standards in their domains.<br \/>He stressed that \u201cmaintaining environmental hygiene requires continuous civic commitment.\u201d<br \/>Agoro stated that officials personally observed residents discarding refuse into local waterways during the exercise.<br \/>While the Ministry of the Environment has been alerted to clear the clogged channels and plans are being drawn up with drainage authorities to reconstruct key infrastructure in affected areas, Agoro warned that engineering solutions \u201cwill fail if indiscriminate waste disposal continues.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanguardngr.com\/2026\/11\/drainage-lagos-govt-warns-against-indiscriminate-refuse-dumping\/\">Drainage: Lagos govt warns against indiscriminate refuse dumping<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanguardngr.com\/\">Vanguard News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Source: <\/p>\n<div class=\"nSourse\">Vanguard News<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Olasunkanmi Akoni LAGOS\u2014THE Lagos State government has warned residents against dumping waste into canals and drainage channels, cautioning that the illegal practice severely threatens public sanitation and heightens the&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7231,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7230\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}