Day: January 28, 2021

Again! Third Mainland Bridge To Be Shutdown

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The Lagos State Government, on Thursday( today), announced plans to totally close the Third Mainland Bridge to all traffic for three days. The closure, according to the government, commences from Saturday, January 30 – February 1, 2021, to enable completion of repair works on the double-sized expansion joints without any interruptions, particularly from vehicular movement on the bridge. In a statement issued today, the Lagos State Commissioner for Transportation, Dr. Frederic Oladeinde, assured that the bridge repair works are being done assiduously to ensure that the set deadline for reopening…

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LASG Meets Truck Driver Unions On Proposed Movement Time, Route Restrictions

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In order to stem the upsurge of road crashes attributed to operations of heavy-duty vehicles in the metropolis, the Lagos State Government has proposed route and movement period restrictions for trailer and truck drivers operating within the State. Speaking at the stakeholders’ meeting with representatives of the Truck Driver Unions held at the Secretariat, Alausa, Ikeja, on Wednesday (yesterday), the Commissioner for Transportation, Dr. Frederic Oladeinde, announced that the current administration has mapped out dedicated routes to be plied between 9:00 pm and 6:00 am daily. He elaborated that the…

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Lagos Government Should Give Ikorodu Division Special Security Attention – Traditional Rulers

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Kunle Adelabu The traditional rulers in Ikorodu Division have charged the Lagos State Government and Nigerian Police Authority to grant the division a special security attention in dealing with the enormous insecurity facing its residents. The Lagos Commissioner of Police (CP) was also charged to put in motion actions that will effectively tackle cultism, land grabbing and other insecurity challenges as a way of reassuring the teeming residents of the division of the security of their lives and properties. This was the position of His Royal Majesty, Oba (Barr.) Semiudeen…

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Hon. Benson Facilitates Agura-Gberigbe Road Rehabilitation

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Kunle Adelabu Relief may be coming the way of residents and other road users in the Agura/Gberigbe axis of the Ikorodu division as the road, which has been completely collapsed for many years and inflicting untoward hardship on the users, is set for rehabilitation. THE IMPACT gathered that the rehabilitation is being facilitated by no other person than the representative of the Ikorodu Federal Constituency in the House of Representatives, Hon. Babajimi Benson. A source informed our reporter that the two – term lawmaker who has been lobbying for the…

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