Lagos state government has shut down 7 churches in the state.

On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 12:40 AM, Kabir Abdulkadir <[email protected]> wrote: 22 Feb 2012 - 05:10am

The Lagos State Government has shut down the Lord’s Chosen Charismatic Ministry and six other churches in Lagos, Southwest Nigeria over noise pollution. Officials of the Lagos State Environmental Protection Agency, LASEPA stormed a branch of the Lord’s Chosen Church at 25 Omobola Street, Lawanson, Surulere area at the weekend and shut it down. Other affected churches are Bible Church, FESTAC; The Chapter of Christ Church, Oregun, Ikeja; Assemblies of God Church, Ikeja; The Golden Gate Church, Ifako-Ijaiye and Seek and Save Ministry, Abule Egba The churches had earlier been warned about the level of noise pollution emanating from their worship centres. General Manager, LASEPA, Engr. Rasheed Shabi said the closure of the churches became imperative after several abatement notices issued to them were disregarded. According to him, some of the churches even rebuffed meetings called by the agency on how to resolve the issue. “The agency’s stance is clear on issue of noise pollution level permitted. This has been communicated to all worship centres in the state. “The level of noise pollution allowed in the state is between 55 decibel during the day and 42 to 45 decibel at night,” he said. Shabi said the state government was determined to reduce noise pollution in the state because of the anomalies and diseases related to it.

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Posted: at 23-02-2012 06:26 AM (12 years ago) | Gistmaniac

    I smell a rat here. "ENGR. RASHEED SHABI" This is foul play. How come there are no mosques in the number. I stand to be corrected but I have never seen one single mosque that can be described as quiet.

Every mosque has at least 1 horn speaker at the top and most of the time 4 horn speakers facing East, West, North and South blaring at a provocative volume.

If you live anywhere close to a mosque, you will agree with me that they annoyingly wake you up when you are not yet ready to get up. They do it not only very early in the morning but at least 5 times everyday.

So how come, there are no mosques in the number? I guess that is no noise pollution. I wonder what name to call it then.   

Posted: at 23-02-2012 03:13 PM (12 years ago) | Newbie

   In  as much as I support the fact that churches should respect constituted authority, I smell a rat here. "ENGR. RASHEED SHABI" This is foul play. How come there are no mosques in the number. I stand to be corrected but I have never seen one single mosque that can be described as quiet.

Every mosque has at least 1 horn speaker at the top and most of the time 4 horn speakers facing East, West, North and South blaring at a provocative volume.

If you live anywhere close to a mosque, you will agree with me that they annoyingly wake you up when you are not yet ready to get up. They do it not only very early in the morning but at least 5 times everyday.

So how come, there are no mosques in the number? I guess that is no noise pollution. I wonder what name to call it then.  

Posted: at 23-02-2012 03:22 PM (12 years ago) | Newbie

hmmmmm

Posted: at 4-04-2012 08:07 PM (12 years ago) | Newbie

 

Posted: at 29-05-2013 01:52 PM (10 years ago) | Hero