The Lagos Waste Management Authority has rehabilitated and reopened a major access road within the Olusosun Landfill in Ojota following a Sunday PUNCH investigation that exposed the facility’s deteriorating infrastructure and its crippling impact on waste evacuation across Lagos.
The intervention, which comes weeks after the report, is expected to ease the movement of compactor trucks into the landfill, improve waste disposal operations, and help clear the backlog of refuse that has left heaps of garbage littering roads, markets, and residential communities across the state.
The Managing Director of LAWMA, Dr Muyiwa Gbadegesin, disclosed this on Tuesday, July 28, 2026, during an inspection of the rehabilitated Road E and the E2 waste-charging platforms at the Olusosun Landfill.
Sunday PUNCH had earlier conducted an undercover investigation into activities at the landfill to find out why compactor trucks were spending days in queues and why many were unable to discharge waste, a situation that contributed to the growing accumulation of refuse on roads, streets, and in markets across Lagos.
The investigation, published on June, 21, 2026, under the headline, “Olusosun: Lagos’ largest dumpsite where ageing equipment, mounting waste fuel disease fears,” revealed that the landfill’s internal roads had become severely deteriorated, with several sections collapsing and trapping waste trucks, resulting in prolonged traffic gridlock within the facility.
