Nearly seven out of every 10 calls made to Lagos emergency hotlines over the past 16 months were fake, prank or non-emergency calls, according to operational data released by the Lagos State Government.
This exposed mounting pressure on the state’s emergency response system and raised questions over weak enforcement against offenders.
The revelation was made by the Commissioner for Special Duties and Intergovernmental Relations, Olugbenga Oyerinde, during the annual ministerial press briefing held in Alausa, Ikeja, as part of the Lagos State Government’s end-of-term performance review.
Figures presented by the ministry show that the Lagos State Command and Control Centre received 24.15 million calls through emergency numbers 767 and 112 between January 2025 and April 2026.
Of that number, 16.39 million calls, about 67.9 per cent, were classified as nuisance calls.
