By Daniel Oluwatobiloba Popoola
The Lagos State Informal Space Management Authority has announced plans to strengthen its collaboration with the Agege Local Government in the effective management of Informal Urban Spaces and the enforcement of physical planning regulations within the council area.
The development was disclosed in a statement issued on Thursday, 6 August, 2026 by the Head of the Public Affairs Unit at LASISMA, Chioma Amaechi, following a courtesy visit by the General Manager of LASISMA, Daisi Oso, and the agency’s management team to the Chairman of Agege Local Government, Abdulganiyu Obasa, at the council secretariat.
Amaechi stressed that the visit was aimed at strengthening collaboration between LASISMA and the local government in the effective management of Informal Urban Spaces and the enforcement of physical planning regulations as they pertain to such spaces and Incidental Open Spaces within the council area.
Speaking during the meeting, Oso stated that the visit was to intimate the Agege LG Chairman with the statutory mandate of LASISMA and the Setbacks, Common Areas, Roadsides Administration, Monitoring Project, designed to regulate, manage and coordinate Informal Urban Spaces and Incidental Open Spaces across Lagos State in a manner that promotes physical orderliness, environmental aesthetics, public safety and revenue optimisation for both the state and local governments.
He explained that the visit served a two-fold purpose, firstly affording the agency the opportunity to formally introduce LASISMA to the Executive Chairman, the Executive Council members and the management of Agege Local Government, while providing detailed information on the agency’s mandate, functions and operational framework as enshrined in the Lagos State Urban and Regional Planning and Physical Development Law 2019, as amended.
He noted that the engagement was to identify areas of collaboration between LASISMA and the local government, particularly in the management of Informal Urban Spaces, protection of public setbacks, prevention of encroachment on public infrastructure right-of-way and promotion of compliance with physical planning regulations.
He emphasised that a strong partnership between LASISMA and local government councils remains strategic to enhancing the council’s urban face by achieving orderly urban development, protecting public assets’ right-of-way and promoting sustainable management of informal spaces across Lagos State.
Responding, Obasa commended the initiative and expressed readiness to collaborate with LASISMA in promoting environmental physical orderliness and ensuring proper management of public spaces within the local government in accordance with extant laws.
He assured the agency of the council’s support in stakeholders’ engagement, public sensitisation and other initiatives that would encourage compliance with physical planning regulations while fostering a cleaner, safer and more organised Agege.
The meeting ended with a renewed commitment by both parties to work together in advancing the vision of the administration’s T.H.E.M.E.S+ Agenda for a well-planned, orderly and sustainable urban environment.
The visit was marked by the presentation of a gift by Oso to Obasa, symbolising the understanding and cooperation between both parties for sustainable urban development in Lagos State.
Obasa also led the combined teams to an ongoing project involving the cordoning and improvement of a high-tension corridor, aimed at mitigating the safety challenges of the infrastructure on Akilo Road, Agege.
