Lagos adopts digital mapping, GIS for land administration

By Olasunkanmi Akoni & Monsur Olowopejo
As part of a comprehensive vision to transform Lagos into the model mega-city in Africa, Governor Babatunde Fashola yesterday declared open the second stakeholders’ forum on digital mapping, Geographic Information System (GIS) in the state.

Fashola, who led other members of the State Executive Council at the forum held at the state Secretariat Auditorium, Alausa, Ikeja, described GIS as a total life change that is capable of confronting the challenges of emerging planets.

As part of efforts to smoothen the process of land administration in Lagos State, the governor explained that the programme aimed at creating wealth by awakening dead assets through a series of initiatives to give an identity to every inch of real estate in Lagos.

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Beautiful Birds Of Lekki And Alpha Beach..By Seth Of Ribi

Klaas's Cuckoo (m)
Chrysococcyx klaas
16th May, 2009

Location: Roadside behind Alpha Beach, Lekki, SW Nigeria

Beautiful Birds Of Lekki And Alpha Beach..By Seth Of Ribi

Orange-cheeked Waxbill
Estrilda melpoda (nom.)
23rd May, 2009

Location: Woodland edge behind Alpha Beach, Lekki, SW Nigeria


Copper Sunbird (m)
Cinnyris cupreus (nom.)
29th May, 2009

Location: Scrub behind Alpha Beach, Lekki, SW Nigeria

Beautiful Birds Of Lekki And Alpha Beach..By Seth Rabi

Spur-winged Lapwing
Vanellus spinosus
1st June, 2009

Location: Roadside behind Alpha Beach, Lekki, SW Nigeria





















African Jacana
Actophilornis africana
1st June, 2009

Location: Open swamp behind Alpha Beach, Lekki, SW Nigeria

Beautiful Birds Of Lekki And Alpha Beach..By Seth Of Ribi

Olive-bellied Sunbird (m)
Cinnyris chloropygius kempi
12th September, 2007

Location: Garden behind Alpha Beach, Lekki, SW Nigeria

Grey-headed Kingfisher
Halcyon leucocephala (nom.)
28th February, 2009

Location: Wooded savanna behind Alpha Beach, Lekki, SW Nigeria

by Seth of Rabi

Lagos Seals Five Firms over Tax Evasion.

Lagos Seals Five Firms over Tax Evasion

Finance Jun 7, 2009

The Lagos State Internal Revenue Service (LIRS) has sealed-off premises of five companies for allegedly evading tax to the tune of over N100 million. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the companies were sealed for not remitting their tax liabilities from 2000 to 2007 to the coffers of the state government.

One of the LIRS officials, who requested anonymity, told NAN that the government had sensitised firms in the state on the need to remit their taxes promptly but some would not comply. “In this modern day of tax awareness in the country some companies still say that they are not aware of tax payment to the government.

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