The Lagos State Government has commenced preparations for the construction of Oworonshoki community’s second access road. The state government had, a few months ago, said it would construct 114 standard access roads across the state before the end of 2016. At the demolition of an over 30-year old building, which was said to have been a major impediment to the […]
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The Lagos State Government on Wednesday announced plans to activate multi-faceted projects designed to improve the living standards and revenue generation in the State among which is the commencement of construction of a Fly-over Bridge in the popular Pen Cinema junction and to deploy 13,000 Closed Circuit Television (CCTV) Cameras, and security sensors for surveillance and crime prevention across the […]
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The Lagos State Government says it has started the construction of an alternative road from the Olopomeji area to further decongest the gridlock in the Iyana Oworoshoki area leading to the Third Mainland Bridge. The Commissioner for Transportation, Dr Dayo Mobereola, who spoke in Alausa, Ikeja, on Monday, explained that the move was part of efforts to end gridlock on […]
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The Federal and Lagos State Governments Friday disclosed plan to save Marine Beach Bridge (Apapa-Ijora Bridge), which connects Apapa Central Business District (CBD) to Lagos Island and Lagos-Ibadan expressway via Ikorodu road. Before they unveiled the new intervention, a portion of the bridge had caved in, thus putting its structural integrity to question and causing intractable gridlocks that often paralysed […]
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The Governor Akinwunmi Ambode led Government of Lagos State is indeed matching words with delightfully fast-paced actions. A couple of weeks back, commuters and Lagosians in general heaved a huge sigh of relief when the newly contructed layby at the Oworonshoki end of Third Mainland Bridge was commissioned and opened for public use. Swiftly, the Governor led his crew to […]
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Lagos State Governor, Mr Akinwunmi Ambode on Tuesday embarked on extensive inspection of on-going projects across the State, where he equally flagged off the world class Epe-Marina Lagoon reclamation project aimed at giving a quantum leap to the tourism potentials of the State. Governor Ambode, who was accompanied on the inspection tour by top government functionaries, said the lagoon reclamation […]
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The Lagos State Government on Monday has defended the enforcement method of its Special Offences Task Force which favours the removal of number plates of erring vehicles over clamping down and towing of vehicles. The government also denied allegations of highhandedness against officials of the Task Force and those of the Special Offences Tribunal (Mobile Court), describing the coterie of […]
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The Lagos State Government on Wednesday disclosed that it had effectively restructured N25.3 billion credit facility, which local and international lenders granted it to buy back the Lekki Concession Company (LCC), the concessionaire of the Lekki-Epe expressway.
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Riding on the massive goodwill that trailed the unveiling of the 1st Phase of the Oworo Modern Bus Park, a project targeted at easing the perennial traffic gridlock often experienced at the Oworo end of the third mainland bridge, the Lagos State Government has commenced the immediate construction of the 2nd Phase of the project which is the inward-third-mainland-bridge side […]
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The Lagos State Government on Friday said its decision to serve eviction notices to Tarzan Marine Enterprises and Metro Ferry, both operators of commercial jetties in the State, was in line with overriding public interest and quest to ensure strict adherence to safety measures and international best practices. In a statement signed by the Managing Director of the Lagos State […]
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The Lagos State Government on Sunday restated its commitment to sanitize the water transportation system so as to ensure improved, efficient and safe mode of movement of people and goods on its waterways. Managing Director of the Lagos State Waterways Authority (LASWA), Ms Abisola Kamson in a statement said the government had recently embarked on stock taking and repositioning by […]
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Some pedestrians on Monday expressed delight at the pace of the ongoing construction of the pedestrian bridge in the Berger axis of the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway. Gov. Akinwunmi Ambode of the Lagos State had approved the construction of the bridge following several complaints by users of the road. The pedestrians said in Lagos that the bridge would reduce the rate of […]
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