Browsing: Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway

NEMA Zonal Coordinator, South-West, Ibrahim Farinloye, confirmed the development to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) Friday in Lagos.

It was gathered that the explosion woke the Lagos subrub residents from their sleep. The blast burnt nearby houses and shops.

Babatunde Akinbiyi, Public Relations Officer, Ogun Traffic Compliance and Enforcement Corps, said this on Tuesday.

Babatunde Akinbiyi, Public Relation Officer, Ogun Traffic Compliance and Enforcement Corps, said this on Tuesday in a statement issued to newsmen.

According to a statement signed by Commissioner for the Environment and Water Resources,  Tunji Bello, the ongoing road rehabilitation works being done by Julius Berger Nigeria Limited for the Federal Government involves the necessary expansion of the old culvert underneath the expressway which is inadequate to contain storm water runoff from the catchments.

The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the NLC Lagos State chapter of the congress joined their Ogun counterpart to stage the protest.

Motorists and commuters plying the Sango-Ota/Lagos-Abeokuta highways experienced challenges getting to their destinations due to the ongoing construction at Tipper Garage on the Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway.

The Itori Unit Commander, Shamaki Yerima, made this known in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria on Sunday in Ota.

Babatunde Akinbiyi, Spokesperson, Traffic Compliance and Enforcement Corps, confirmed the incident to the News Agency of Nigeria in Abeokuta.

Ebunoluwa Akinkumi, Area Commander of TRACE in Ewekoro-Ifo, told the News Agency of Nigeria that the accident occurred on Wednesday about 9.05a.m.

Four others sustained varying degrees of injury in the lone accident which occurred at Dalemo Junction.

Babatunde Akinbiyi, the spokesperson for Ogun Traffic Compliance and Enforcement Corps, confirmed the incident to newsmen in Abeokuta.

The police charged Dare, whose address was not provided, with stealing and fraud.

The News Agency of Nigeria learnt that scores of students of the school took to the road upon receiving news that an unidentified student was hit and killed by a vehicle when crossing the highway.

The News Agency of Nigeria reports the protesters blocked the NNPC axis of the Abeokuta-Sagamu Road, thus making it difficult for civil servants to resume for work at the Oke Mosan Ogun State Government Secretariat.

Babatunde Akinbiyi, spokesperson for Ogun Traffic Compliance and Enforcement Corps, confirmed the accident to the News Agency of Nigeria in Abeokuta.

The Ogun State Command of Federal Road Safety Corps said seven people died, while 10 others sustained injuries in a multiple accident that happened at Toll-Gate on the Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway on Saturday.

The Ogun Command of Federal Road Safety Corps on Friday said that three persons died while one person sustained injuries in an accident involving a truck and a Bajaj motorcycle around Toll-Gate on Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway.

The Ogun Traffic Compliance and Enforcement Corps on Sunday said that one person died, while two others sustained injuries in a road accident that occurred at Onihale area, near Owode-Ijako, on the Lagos-Abeokuta expressway.

Two persons were confirmed dead and six others injured in a fire accident involving a petroleum tanker at Bible College Bus-stop along the Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway on Thursday night.