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FEC approves N18.874bn for renovation of 3rd Mainland Bridge R
ABUJA—THE Federal Executive Council, FEC, yesterday, approved the sum of N18.874 billion for repair works at the 3rd Mainland Bridge in Lagos. The contract was awarded to an Italian construction firm, Borini Prono, which originally constructed the bridge. Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Mr. Babatunde Fashola told newsmen, shortly after the FEC meeting presided by …
Interventions to unlock Apapa traffic jam: Too little, too late?
MOTORISTS plying the Mile Two to Tin Can Island end of the Oshodi-Apapa Expressway have since last week enjoyed some relative respite from the traffic jam that has locked down the area for several weeks, thanks to the intervention of the Nigerian Navy and other security agencies. The Navy had in a bid to bring …
NGO, Lagos government partner to keep street kids off crime
Ijongo Life Changing Foundation, a Lagos-based non-governmental organisation, is partnering with the Lagos State government to empower street kids spread across the state. This was announced at a press conference yesterday in Mosafejo Police Station, Oshodi. The foundation aims at fighting crime, rehabilitating crime suspects, impacting positively on the youths and uniting the once-displaced but …
Lagos Water Corporation unveils mobile platform for billing, collection
The Managing Director of Lagos Water Corporation (LWC), Mr Muminu Badmus on Sunday said the Corporation had launched its billing and collection platform tagged ‘LWC mobile.’ Badmus told newsmen in Lagos that the billing system is in conformity with the present administration ‘s cashless policy. “The platform is to improve efficiency in the processes of …
Tinubu denies ownership of Visionscape, tells Ambode to reverse self
Former governor of Lagos sate, Bola Ahmed Tinubu has denied ownership of Visionscape, the foreign company presently managing refuse in the state and also urged Governor Ambode not to be ashamed to reverse himself if the experimentation has failed. Addressing over 350 members of the Association of Waste Managers of Nigeria who embarked on a …
Pandemonium as Lagos officials begin market demolition
Officials of the Lagos State Government have begun the demolition of the Araromi Oke-Odo Ile-Epo market in the state. The demolition exercise, which is ongoing at the time of this report, has created pandemonium in the market and its environs. This newspaper had earlier reported that the officials invaded the market with bulldozers early Friday …
Lagos plans 57 collection centres to reduce plastic pollution
The Lagos State Government says it will establish collection centres in 57 council areas to reduce plastic pollution across the state. Adebola Shabi, Special Adviser to the Governor on Cleaner Lagos Initiative, made this known during a news briefing on Friday in Lagos. Shabi said that the plastic collection centres would be established in conjunction …
Inferno: LASG shuts FESTAC Link-Bridge indefinitely for repairs
..Diverts traffic through alternative routes By Olasunkanmi Akoni The Lagos State Government will today, Thursday, April 19th, commenced actual repair work on the distressed FESTAC Link-Bridge, Amuwo-Odofin Local Government Area of the state. announcing total closure of the bridge to pave the way for uninterrupted work. There had been partial closure on a side of …
LASG to award Fourth Mainland Bridge contract June
The Lagos State Government will in June award contract for the construction of the Fourth Mainland Bridge, an official said on Wednesday. The state Commissioner for Works and Infrastructure, Mr Ade Akinsanya, gave the assurance at a ministerial press briefing at Alausa, Ikeja. He said that the state was collating technical proposals and evaluating costs …
2019: Oba Akiolu gives Buhari conditions for Lagos support
lagos—Oba of Lagos, Rilwanu Akiolu I, has said the only way the people of Lagos will support President Muhammadu Buhari’s second term re-election ambition is to grant the state a special status. Akiolu made the remarks, while speaking yesterday, during the second quarter of 2018 Town Hall Meeting with residents, at Apapa Amusement Park, Lagos. …
