Lagos State new estates’ blacklist stirs controversy amid ethnic tensions

Hallmarknews | 11-08-2025 09:41pm |

The Lagos State Government’s announcement last Monday that 176 estates in the Eti-Osa, Epe, Ibeju-Lekki and Ajah axis had been blacklisted as “illegal” has triggered heated debate, and revived fears in a city already grappling with deep-seated ethnic acrimony. The state, through the Permanent Secretary in the Office of Physical Planning, Oluwole Sotire, disclosed that

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