This was revealed by the Federal Road Safety Corps in a traffic advisory sent out by its spokesperson, Commander Bisi Kazeem
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The four victims were said to have been trapped inside the fuel tanker, which fell on its side and caught fire, along with another tanker it scrubbed on the side
Our correspondents, who took a trip on Section One of the ongoing reconstruction of the expressway project on Sunday, observed that construction works were ongoing on the Lagos bound carriageway of the Long Bridge
The territory equally led the accident chart in October, accounting for 123 out of 775 road crashes
The Project Supervisor, Kayode Ibrahim of the Federal Ministry of Power, Works and Housing, made the confirmation in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Lagos
The sector commander advised motorists to avoid speeding and also to obey traffic rules and regulations
With free-flow of traffic on the newly rehabilitated portions of the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, the Federal Controller of Works, Lagos, Godwin…
The communities had at various times protested the protracted power outage in their communities
Geddes made the assertion when the Assistant-Inspector General of Police in charge of Zone 2, Kayode Aderanti, inspected the ongoing rehabilitation of the roads
The Sector Commander of FRSC in Ogun State, Clement Oladele, disclosed this to News Agency of Nigeria in Abeokuta on Tuesday.
He said that the fuel-laden tanker fell in the early hours of Tuesday morning
He said that more warning signs and crash barriers had been deployed to the highway to ensure free flow of traffic and check accidents
Also, officers of the Federal Road Safety Corps cordoned-off the area to prevent other losses but they, however, did not confirm the number of deaths from the accident
Fashola, who briefed the media in Lagos on his first year in office, said the long bridge at the Lagos-Ogun States border on the road had to be shut because a lot of construction work was ongoing underneath it
Clement Oladele, the Sector Commander, FRSC in Ogun State, disclosed this to News Agency of Nigeria in Abeokuta on Wednesday
According to Bisi Kazeem, the FRSC’s Head, Media Relations and Strategy, the Corps Marshal, who was on physical inspection of the portion, was visibly disturbed by the hardship being experienced by commuters due to the temporary closure of the section of the road
Section one of the project spans from Ojota in Lagos State to the Sagamu Interchange in Ogun State.
A statement by Hakeem Bello, Special Adviser, Communications, to the Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, said the move was to speed up work
Sources said the accident occurred at about 4pm at Ogunmakin area of the expressway
Last week, motorists and commuters at some point in time spent over seven hours crossing both ends of the expressway for a journey that ordinarily was less than 30 minutes
Fashola gave the directive during an inspection tour of the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway on Friday
NAN reports that the construction company had narrowed the four-lane Long Bridge linking Warewa in Ogun State to Berger Bridge at the Lagos-Ogun States boundary to two lanes.