Nigeria, April 26 -- The Ogun State Government is set to begin the demolition of illegal structures encroaching on the Agro-cargo airport corridor and other government lands in the state.

Commissioner for Physical Planning and Urban Development, Olatunji Odunlami, a town planner, stated this on Friday while addressing newsmen in Abeokuta.

He lamented that the activities of encroachers were taking over most government-acquired lands.

Specifically, Mr Odunlami expressed concern with the manner illegal structures were springing up in the Agro-cargo airport corridor, adding that all the structures that contravened government regulation would be pulled down.

According to him, several contravention notices served to the encroachers in the a...