NO fewer than seven persons died in an early morning accident at NIPCO filling station axis on the Lagos-Ibadan expressway on Saturday. Mrs Florence Okpe, the Spokesperson, Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) in Ogun confirmed the incident in a statement in Abeokuta. Okpe stated that the crash, which occurred at …
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LAGOS Residents are currently scooping diesel from a tanker that fell around Capital Oil Filling Station outward Lagos on the Lagos Ibadan Expressway as the Lagos State Fire and Rescue Service mitigates possible fire outbreak. The diesel spilled from a 33,000 litres tanker which reported accidentally lost control while conveying …
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No fewer than 11 persons lost their lives in a ghastly road accident involving a truck and 18 seater Toyota Hiace bus on the Benin-Lagos Expressway on Thursday while eight others sustained various degrees of injuries. Tribune Online gathered that the accident occured at about at 11:00 am around Ovia …
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Federal Ministry of Works and Housing, has announced the suspension of further work on the ongoing reconstruction of the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, in order to reduce possible gridlock during the Eid-el- Kabir, Sallah celebration. The Federal Controller of Works, Lagos Engr. (Mrs) Olukorede Kesha, announced this in a statement on …
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NO fewer than 20 persons have been confirmed dead and six others injured, in a fatal crash at Lagos-Ibadan expressway and Mokwa, Niger state. The Assistant Corps Marshal and Corps Public Education Officer, Bisi Kazeem in a statement obtained by Vanguard in Abuja, said the Ibadan crash involved a Toyota …
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The Inspector-General of Police, Usman Baba, has directed urgent reorganisation of the security architecture on highways in response to the Commissioners of Police in charge of the Lagos, Ogun, and Oyo state commands’ briefings on the security situation on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway. The Force spokesperson, Olumuyiwa Adejobi, in a …
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Twenty-five-year-old final year student of the Moshood Abiola Polytechnic, Ogun State, Oluwatobiloba Orekoya, and her sister, Aminat, a graduate awaiting NYSC call-up, were among an unspecified number of travelellers waylaid and kidnapped by suspected Fulani bandits on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway on Friday, October 28, 2022. Their elder sister, Oluwaseyi, and …
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THE secretariat area of the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, was on Monday flooded, thereby worsening the existing traffic on the expressway in Lagos. The gridlock spanned the flooded secretariat area to the Long Bridge area of the expressway. Our correspondent, who passed by the road, noticed that vehicles struggled to wade through …
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On Saturday night, eleven persons perished in a multi-vehicle collision close to the Isara Bridge in Ogere off the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway. In the ensuing inferno, seven other persons were injured to differing degrees. On Sunday in Abeokuta, Mr. Ahmed Umar, the Sector Commander of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) …
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The federal government has stated that the Lagos-Ibadan expressway will be commissioned next month. This was stated on Thursday by Mu’azu Sambo, minister of state for works and housing in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in New York. Sambo added that the Second Niger Bridge will be …
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