The Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, on Saturday said repair works on a 600m stretch outbound the Kara Bridge section of the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway had been completed.
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Before then, the road was closed to traffic, leading to several kilometres of traffic, which spread right into the heart of the seat of power in Lagos State, Alausa
According to information available to The Eagle Online, the tanker caught fire at about 7:10pm
Abiodun made the call when members of the Senate Committee on Works, led by its Chairman, Senator Adamu Aliero, paid him a courtesy visit on Thursday in Abeokuta
The most pronounced of the breakdowns, according to the FRSC, occurred with an overloaded truck travelling on speed out of Lagos conveying a container, but lost control around the Kara Bridge and crossed the road divider, thus blocking traffic on both sections of the Expressway
This was revealed by the spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ferdinand Nwonye, in a statement
The Federal Road Safety Corps on Wednesday said an early morning accident involving two articulated trucks on the Kara Bridge end of the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway caused a total shutdown of traffic.
The Federal Road Safety Corps says its major headache remains people driving against traffic along Lagos-Ibadan Expressway following traffic diversion on Kara Bridge section to continue reconstruction.
Site preparation on the 600 metres Lagos outbound diversion which began on Thursday was concluded at about 11:50 a.m. on Tuesday.
Kayode Ibrahim, Federal Ministry of Works and Housing engineer supervising the project, told NAN on telephone in Lagos on Sunday that the decision was reached after a meeting of the relevant stakeholders.
The Federal Road Safety Corps says it has deployed 100 personnel to control traffic on Lagos-Ibadan Expressway following resumption of diversion to continue reconstruction.
No fewer than 31 persons including children sustained various degrees of injuries in an accident involving a luxury bus opposite Nasfat around Mowe on Lagos-Ibadan expressway on Saturday.
The Ogun Command of the Federal Road Safety Corps on Friday said that a child died while five others sustained injuries in a lone accident at Ayobo, near Alapako-Ogunmakin, on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway.
The Sector Commander of FRSC in Ogun, Clement Oladele, disclosed this in a statement issued by the corps’ Public Education Officer, Florence Okpe, and made available to the News Agency of Nigeria in Ota, Ogun.
The accident involved an Iveco truck and a Toyota Hiace bus before Ishara bridge, Ogere.
Consequently, he said that that construction work had resumed on the Lagos-Ibadan expressway and that traffic diversion for work to continue on the Kara bridge section would begin before weekend.
The Federal Road Safety Corps Command in Ogun on Sunday confirmed the death of one person following an accident that involved a truck and a Bajaj motorcycle around Nipco Petrol Station on Lagos-Ibadan Expressway.
The Ogun Command of Federal Road Safety Corps said four persons died while four others sustained various degrees of injuries in an accident involving a vehicle around Romana Oil and Gas on the Lagos-Ibadan expressway.
Generator explosion has led to a fire outbreak in Kara market located along the Berger end of the Lagos-Ibadan expressway.…
The Ogun Command of Federal Road Safety Corp on Saturday said that three persons died while three others sustained injuries in an accident that involved a vehicle around Lufuape,near AP Turning Point on Lagos-Ibadan Expressway.