Ganiu Lawal, Assistant Director, Public Affairs of the LSPWC, told the News Agency of Nigeria that the massive rehabilitation drive was to meet up with the state government’s vision of zero potholes and gridlock.
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The Federal Controller of Works in Lagos, Olukayode Popoola, told the News Agency of Nigeria on Friday in Lagos that Section 3 of the project between Agbara and Badagry was experiencing accelerated construction due to increased funding.
David, representing Badagry in Lagos State House of Assembly, told a Constituency Stakeholders’ Meeting on Thursday in Ibereko, Badagry, that the road remained a “painful nightmare of every Badagry resident.”
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the protesters blocked the expressway with two articulated vehicles at Agbara, preventing vehicles from coming or going out of the area.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that at least 10 persons died and four others missing after a boat en route Badagry capsized at Kirikiri, Lagos on Wednesday.
Addressing a news conference in Lagos on Wednesday, Setonji David, the lawmaker representing Badagry Constituency II in the Lagos State House of Assembly, said the road had become a “national embarrassment”.
The Onimeke of Imeke Kingdom told the News Agency of Nigeria on Saturday that motorists were facing untold hardship since the contractors abandoned the highway linking Nigeria with other other ECOWAS countries six months ago.
Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu on Friday gave marching orders for the completion of the Trade Fair – LASU Gate portion of the Lagos-Badagry expressway within eight months.
Kuti told journalists that government would endeavour to ensure free-flowing traffic in spite of ongoing construction works.
Special Adviser, to Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu on Works and Infrastructure, Aramide Adeyoye to said that the diversion was to enable the contractors launch beams at the Alakija Interchange Bridge.
The Federal Government has begun palliative works on the Agbara-Seme Border section of Lagos-Badagry Expressway to reduce the hardship being experienced by motorists, passengers and residents of the area.
Following the expiration of the seven-day abatement notices served on the owners of illegal shanties and traders along the Lagos-Badagry Expressway, the Lagos State Government on Tuesday commenced the cleanup exercise along the road.
Performing the flag off, the Lagos State Deputy Governor, Dr. Kadri Obafemi Hamzat, stated that the return to the road not only marks the fulfillment of a promise made during a recent visit on June 2, 2019 to the people of the State by the Sanwo-Olu Administration, but is also designed to bring relief to commuters who daily experience hardship on the road.
The Managing Director of the Federal Roads Maintenance Agency, Nurudeen Rafindadi on Wednesday, assured motorists of speedy completion of repairs on the Lagos-Badagry Expressway.
Thousands of Badagry residents and some tertiary institution students on Monday defied a heavy rainfall to protest the deplorable state of the Lagos/Badagry Expressway, describing it as a road of anguish and pain.
An early morning infeno on Wednesday consumed no fewer than 13 shops located at the Agbara Market, along the Lagos-Badagry Expressway in Lagos.
Normalcy returned to the Alaba Rago produce market in Lagos on Thursday after Wednesday’s violence that forced the traders to close shop midday.
The Federal Government has begun rehabilitation, reconstruction and expansion works on the Agbara-Seme Border section of Lagos-Badagry Expressway, the News Agency of Nigeria reports.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that they made their views known while speaking with newsmen on Tuesday on the sidelines of the opening of the Joint Border Post by Nigeria and Benin Republic at Seme-Krake, Badagry, Lagos State.
Some angry Lagosians have announced a planned blockade of the Lagos-Badagry Expressway on October 30 and 31, 2018.