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Lagos State Government To Seal Dowen College Over Waste Disposal Violation by eyesoflagos(op): 7:21am On Aug 13, 2025
Wahab stressed that the government will not hesitate to take firm action against any institution or organization that violates waste management regulations. Eyes Of Lagos reports,

Not the First Controversy

This is not Dowen College’s first run-in with the authorities. In 2021, the school was temporarily closed by the Lagos State Government during investigations into the death of Sylvester Oromoni Jnr, a student whose case sparked nationwide outrage.

Government’s Warning

The Commissioner reiterated that the State is committed to enforcing environmental sanitation laws to protect public health and the environment. Institutions are urged to adopt proper waste management practices or face sanctions and possible closure.
https://eyesoflagos.com/lagos-state-government-to-seal-dowen-college-over-waste-disposal-violation/

Re: Lagos State Government To Seal Dowen College Over Waste Disposal Violation by eddychukwu(m): 8:47am On Aug 13, 2025
Dowen again in the news not long after the death of Sylvester's mother.
Re: Lagos State Government To Seal Dowen College Over Waste Disposal Violation by Godswillu(m): 8:48am On Aug 13, 2025
wow make the school quickly comply before school resume
Re: Lagos State Government To Seal Dowen College Over Waste Disposal Violation by Starships4u(m): 8:49am On Aug 13, 2025
Isn't it necessary to show us how their waste management failures harms the environment?

Buh then again, power and money changes hands in Nigeria... Why shut the school during holidays and not school days...

Before August ends, this matter would die a natural death before school resumes normally Sept.
Re: Lagos State Government To Seal Dowen College Over Waste Disposal Violation by Owaincouncil: 8:50am On Aug 13, 2025
The school can't afford to be in the bad book of the public again. They mist do something fast.
As for the commissioner, hope he is sure of this huh
Re: Lagos State Government To Seal Dowen College Over Waste Disposal Violation by Blitzking: 8:53am On Aug 13, 2025
Wat is the school teaching its students when simple civic education and other basic instruction on hygiene they don't know
Re: Lagos State Government To Seal Dowen College Over Waste Disposal Violation by seborrhic: 8:53am On Aug 13, 2025
Tokunboh trying to be ingenious by half.
School would be sealed when not in session.
Before resumption,it would be unsealed with claims they have complied.
Re: Lagos State Government To Seal Dowen College Over Waste Disposal Violation by Houseofglam7(f): 8:56am On Aug 13, 2025
This school againhuh
Constantly in the news for the wrong reasons.
Re: Lagos State Government To Seal Dowen College Over Waste Disposal Violation by Ezmans: 8:56am On Aug 13, 2025
Godswillu:
wow make the school quickly comply before school resume
dowen should comply all market in lagos have all comply even street markets if you you know
Re: Lagos State Government To Seal Dowen College Over Waste Disposal Violation by omooba969(m): 8:59am On Aug 13, 2025
Why not impose a fine, do you have to seal the college?

Application of regulations and laws in this country is just so appalling...GOSH ! angry
Re: Lagos State Government To Seal Dowen College Over Waste Disposal Violation by maiunguwar: 9:02am On Aug 13, 2025
Lagos state suffers from over population.50% of the population should be dispersed to other parts of the country for sanity to prevail in Lagos
Re: Lagos State Government To Seal Dowen College Over Waste Disposal Violation by BreconHills(m): 9:12am On Aug 13, 2025
seborrhic:
Tokunboh trying to be ingenious by half.
School would be sealed when not in session.
Before resumption,it would be unsealed with claims they have complied.
You would rather the school was sealed while in session and hundreds of students sent home?

Netflix governance ❌️
Re: Lagos State Government To Seal Dowen College Over Waste Disposal Violation by Fido24: 9:12am On Aug 13, 2025
it will be proper and just to show the world where the school disposed the refuse first of all. secondly has the school confirmed that the refuse was taken from their compound? Did the school uses direct Laboure to evacuate the waste or contracted a waste disposal agent to do so? if indeed the school uses direct Laboure to disposed off the waste in a wrong place, then they deserve the punishment as no one is above the law. But if the school contracted a waste disposal agent to evacuate the refuse, then, the government should punish the agent and not the school as the school do not have control of the operations of the contractor.
Re: Lagos State Government To Seal Dowen College Over Waste Disposal Violation by merits(m): 9:16am On Aug 13, 2025
Godswillu:
wow make the school quickly comply before school resume
You get wards there or wetin be your own?let them no comply na
Re: Lagos State Government To Seal Dowen College Over Waste Disposal Violation by panpan(m): 9:25am On Aug 13, 2025
Has Dowen College been paying waste disposal bills to a Lagos State approved contractor?
If yes, then it is the responsibility of the contractor to find a suitable place to dispose waste, not Dowen College.
Re: Lagos State Government To Seal Dowen College Over Waste Disposal Violation by GardenOfGod(m): 9:36am On Aug 13, 2025
Sealing a learning institution because of an infringement is the best method of prosecution in Nigeria. What a joke!

What happens to inviting the Proprietor or arresting a principal or using other legal means instead of just "authoritarianically" locking up the place like we are in a banana republic.
Re: Lagos State Government To Seal Dowen College Over Waste Disposal Violation by AmazingELixir: 9:59am On Aug 13, 2025
Starships4u:
Isn't it necessary to show us how their waste management failures harms the environment?

Buh then again, power and money changes hands in Nigeria... Why shut the school during holidays and not school days...

Before August ends, this matter would die a natural death before school resumes normally Sept.
undecided

Must you criticise and blame government for everything....what is wrong with you lots anyways
Re: Lagos State Government To Seal Dowen College Over Waste Disposal Violation by MrStarskie: 10:02am On Aug 13, 2025
Make the proprietor covert to APC asap!
All his sins will be forgiven
Re: Lagos State Government To Seal Dowen College Over Waste Disposal Violation by SmartyPants(m): 10:13am On Aug 13, 2025
Starships4u:
Isn't it necessary to show us how their waste management failures harms the environment?

Buh then again, power and money changes hands in Nigeria... Why shut the school during holidays and not school days...

Before August ends, this matter would die a natural death before school resumes normally Sept.
Something was reported today, you are saying they should wait till the day after tomorrow to act on it. How do you reason?

The goal is not to stop the school from operating; rather, the obvious intention is to get them to do the needful so that they can continue their operations without harming the community around them.

That is constructive rather than destructive discipline.
Re: Lagos State Government To Seal Dowen College Over Waste Disposal Violation by omoredia: 10:23am On Aug 13, 2025
Yet public schools that don't have toilets remain open.
Re: Lagos State Government To Seal Dowen College Over Waste Disposal Violation by olajigaolamide(m): 10:23am On Aug 13, 2025
The State Government shouldn't just seal Dowen College but the entire state. Lagos state is a total squalid.
Re: Lagos State Government To Seal Dowen College Over Waste Disposal Violation by sisisioge: 10:36am On Aug 13, 2025
Some parents get mind sha....I no go fit send my pikin go there after poor Sylvester's case o.
Re: Lagos State Government To Seal Dowen College Over Waste Disposal Violation by autoez: 10:45am On Aug 13, 2025
sisisioge:
Some parents get mind sha....I no go fit send my pikin go there after poor Sylvester's case o.
As e no be their child e affect, wetin you expect. Naso most humans dey reason ooo.
Re: Lagos State Government To Seal Dowen College Over Waste Disposal Violation by seborrhic: 12:06pm On Aug 13, 2025
BreconHills:
You would rather the school was sealed while in session and hundreds of students sent home?

Netflix governance ❌️
It's the eye service and selective justice
I am against because it's likely the infringement didn't start during the break period.
I bet you if it was another college,it would have been sealed even when the school was in session
Re: Lagos State Government To Seal Dowen College Over Waste Disposal Violation by nwirinedu(m): 1:55pm On Aug 13, 2025
Lagos is one large sewer, they dump all their sewage in the same water they drink and bath with hence the shitty smell of it's residents.
It's a miracle epidemics don't occur frequently or they re suppressed.
Re: Lagos State Government To Seal Dowen College Over Waste Disposal Violation by Uninspired: 2:28pm On Aug 13, 2025
I am sad, overwhelmed, not seeing any flicker of hope at the end of the tunnel. Genuinely need someone to talk to.

sad
Re: Lagos State Government To Seal Dowen College Over Waste Disposal Violation by atobs4real(m): 3:25pm On Aug 13, 2025
Dowen college knows them all.
They know each other.
Re: Lagos State Government To Seal Dowen College Over Waste Disposal Violation by BreconHills(m): 3:36pm On Aug 13, 2025
seborrhic:
It's the eye service and selective justice
I am against because it's likely the infringement didn't start during the break period.
I bet you if it was another college,it would have been sealed even when the school was in session
I dont agree. Down has been shut before and it is shut again. It is to the credit of regulators that they have limited the impact to the owners and not the children. If Dowen can fix the issue and ensure there will be no repeat, the school should be reopened.

The infringement did not start during the break but was caught during the break. Again unless there are special reasons, Lagos does not disrupt schools during term time.

I speak as one whose wife owns two schools- one 15 years and the other 10 years old. Typically a warning letter would have been received by the school. The best way of dealing with regulators is know the law, keep the law with extra margin and be self assessed at all times.
Re: Lagos State Government To Seal Dowen College Over Waste Disposal Violation by BreconHills(m): 3:41pm On Aug 13, 2025
nwirinedu:
Lagos is one large sewer, they dump all their sewage in the same water they drink and bath with hence the shitty smell of it's residents.
It's a miracle epidemics don't occur frequently or they re suppressed.
This is true of most large highly populated cities cities including London. The only place where you will get clean mineral and untreated water in a large city is in a restaurant.

As for the tribe baiting comment - I wont rise to that.

Re: Lagos State Government To Seal Dowen College Over Waste Disposal Violation by Seequadry(m): 6:11pm On Aug 13, 2025
Ejigbo High school and it's entire environ na lawma head office
Re: Lagos State Government To Seal Dowen College Over Waste Disposal Violation by AfonjaPriest: 9:59pm On Aug 13, 2025
We said Lagos smells.
They refused to accept it.
Now this!
It's now clear they had no choice but to agree with us.
But despite that, Lagos still smells.
Eko ti baje o.
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