Babatunde Raji Fashola CON SAN (Yoruba: Bàbátúndé Rájí Fáṣọlá (Listenⓘ); born 28 June 1963) is a Nigerian lawyer and politician who served as the federal minister of Works and Housing of Nigeria from 2019 to 2023.

[7] He is also a recipient of Lagos State public service club Platinum Award for outstanding contribution towards development.

And Alliance for Democracy "Igbogbo Bayeku Local Government Award" in recognition of activities towards the success of the party.

In October 2022, a Nigerian national honour of Commander of the Order of the Niger (CON) was conferred on him by President Muhammadu Buhari.

[21][22][23][24][25][26] In October 2009, Fashola inaugurated a garden in honour of the late Professor Ayodele Awojobi at Onike Roundabout, Yaba, Lagos, in the middle of which a statue of the famous academic was placed.

Oladejo's works such as the Eyo Masquerade and the bust of Sir Alexander Molade Okoya Thomas were commissioned by the governor.

[28] On the road to security, the Fashola government not only transformed most of the hideouts and places that previously served as bases for fraudsters and armed robbers into visually appealing environments.

[29] As soon as Haiti was struck by a magnitude 7.0 Mw earthquake, Babatunde Fashola launched an appeal to raise up to one million US dollars.

As this was in place, the Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Mr. Adeyemi Ikuforiji, said Nigerians should be prepared in events of natural disasters.

[31] In a 2012 accident, ten children from Ijora Awori, Lagos State, drowned while they were being ferried to school, because they were not wearing life jackets.

[33] In late January 2010, the Lagos State House of Assembly launched an investigation into possible waste of taxpayers' money by Fashola, mainly in connection with the ongoing Eko Atlantic City project.

The allegations range from importation of palm trees from Niger for horticulture projects to improper use of contract money involving one of the Lagos State contractors.

[35][36][37][38][39][40] Babatunde Raji Fashola's greatest achievement as governor came at the end of his second term in September 2014, when Nigeria was officially declared free of Ebola.

Three months earlier, Ebola had first spread in the country when Patrick Sawyer, the infected US-Liberian citizen and ECOWAS official, brought in the virus through Lagos airport.

The Lagos governor cut short a pilgrimage to Mecca, flew home and then set up an Ebola Emergency Operations Centre to take on the daunting task of monitoring all those who might be infected.

He made a point of visiting the country's Ebola treatment centre to impress on the Nigerian public that they should not panic unnecessarily.

[42] The Second Niger Bridge at Onitsha, which had been the subject of political debate since the 1980s and was seen as a byword for stagnation, was pushed forward under Fashola and is nearing completion (as of January 2022).