Repairs: Vendors cook beans, rice on Lagos-Ibadan expressway as traffic worsen

Lagos-Ibadan Expressway traffic is now so bad that vendors cook and sell rice and beans in open plates, would wait for you to finish eating, collect plates and wash to serve the next vehicle, This is how bad the gridlock…

Truck plunges into canal on Lagos-Ibadan Expressway

A tanker has reportedly plunged into the canal at Kara end on the Lagos/Ibadan Expressway. The incident was said to have occurred at about 3 pm, inward Ibadan. A motorist, Alhaji Sanni Akinlade said he was on his way from…

*Lagos to open new isolation centres (DailyTrust) *Vehicles crush homeless man, pedestrian to death in Lagos (Punch)

Lagos to open new isolation centres (DailyTrust)  The Lagos State government has disclosed that two new isolation facilities in Yaba and Ikeja would be completed and opened next week for the management of COVID-19 patients in the state. Despite the…

FG shuts Kara bridge along Lagos-Ibadan Expressway

Sequel to a tanker accident that claimed two lives on Kara bridge, Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, on Sunday, the Federal Ministry of Works has said the road will be shut for integrity tests. A letter addressed to the Lagos State Government and…

FG to open Kara Bridge on Saturday

Barring any last minute delay, the Federal Government has assured the public that the outbound Lagos end of the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, closed down for repair works would be opened this weekend. The Lagos State Director of Works in the Federal…

*Motorists lament as traffic diversion on Kara Bridge begins (Guardian) *Awo, Fela’s statues not destroyed – Lagos govt (DailyTrust)

Motorists lament as traffic diversion on Kara Bridge begins (Guardian) For motorists plying the ever-busy Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, last Wednesday was a particularly harrowing day as gridlock grounded the stretch of the highway, and the adjourning routes.The Guardian observed that traffic…

*Hoodlums stone LASTMA official to death (Punch) *Tinubu urges graduates to acquire right skills for employment (Vanguard)

Hoodlums stone LASTMA official to death (Punch) An official of the Lagos State Transport Management Authority, Ola Oyeshina, has died from an attack on him by two hoodlums in the Apapa area of the state. Oyeshina gave up the ghost…

Lagos-Ibadan Expressway: FG to open Kara Bridge on Sunday (Punch)

The Federal Controller of Works, Lagos, Mr Adedamola Kuti, has said the barricade around Kara Bridge would be removed on Sunday, December 1 to ease the traffic situation around that axis. Kuti told our correspondent on Saturday that construction work…

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