{"id":177957,"date":"2024-08-05T21:45:23","date_gmt":"2024-08-05T19:45:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-officials-in-nigerias-lagos-state-deny-that-new-street-parking-fees-target-churches\/"},"modified":"2024-08-05T21:45:23","modified_gmt":"2024-08-05T19:45:23","slug":"nigeria-officials-in-nigerias-lagos-state-deny-that-new-street-parking-fees-target-churches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-officials-in-nigerias-lagos-state-deny-that-new-street-parking-fees-target-churches\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Officials in Nigeria&#8217;s Lagos State Deny That New Street Parking Fees Target Churches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\"><strong>IN SHORT: <\/strong>The Lagos State Parking Authority says on-street parking charges apply to all cars parked in designated areas in the state, not just outside Christian worship centres.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\">In February 2024, the Lagos State Parking Authority (Laspa) <a href=\"https:\/\/lagosstate.gov.ng\/sanwo-olu-applauds-on-street-parking-scheme-of-laspa\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">launched<\/a> a street parking scheme approved by governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/lagosstate.gov.ng\/sanwo-olu-applauds-on-street-parking-scheme-of-laspa\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">on-street parking scheme <\/a>is part of a state policy to reduce indiscriminate street parking and provide additional parking in busy areas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">However, in July, several posts on Facebook&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202408050640.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IN SHORT: The Lagos State Parking Authority says on-street parking charges apply to all cars parked in designated areas in the state, not just outside Christian worship centres. In February 2024, the Lagos State Parking Authority (Laspa) launched a street parking scheme approved by governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu. The on-street parking scheme is part of a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":177958,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[258,256,9516,9583,11432,2477,257,4687,393,5761,6651,20438,254,6017,7714,7594],"class_list":["post-177957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-churches","tag-deny","tag-fees","tag-lagos","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-nigerias","tag-officials","tag-parking","tag-south-africa-today","tag-state","tag-street","tag-target"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177957\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}