•A section of Kara bridge
Repair works on the Kara Bridge, on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, are expected to resume fully tomorrow.
While the rehabilitation on the bridge was suspended on Saturday owing to gridlock, the exercise is set to restart, reports Channels TV.
The Federal Controller of Works in Ogun State, Layi Komolafe, who announced this, said the replacement of expansion joints on Kara Bridge outward Lagos is “a must.”
“Therefore, I am formally informing the house and seeking the cooperation of everyone, especially FRSC Lagos (always willing & ever ready), Lagos State Police Command, Lagos State Ministry of Transport (LASTMA), etc., to help manage the traffic as we intend to commence full operation at this section on Wednesday, 4th March, 2026,” he said in a statement yesterday.
“This is very important as the traffic build-up will mostly affect vehicular movement inside Lagos. Thank you all.”
He appealed to motorists and other road users to comply with directives from the relevant authorities.
However, there are concerns regarding the feasibility of this timeline. FRSC authorities expressed some level of uncertainty that the work might not restart on Wednesday.
Last month, the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) announced that repairs on the Lagos–Ibadan Expressway will need at least two months for full completion.
“Following discussions with the contractor and the Controller of Works, it was agreed that a period of about six weeks to a maximum of two months will be used to complete the work. Some of these repairs need time to properly seal,” the Lagos State Sector Commander of FRSC, Ganiyu Hamzat.
Hamzat said certain damaged sections of the road have been causing vehicles to collide while trying to dodge oncoming or unsuspecting vehicles.
“We discovered that some of the bad portions of the road cause vehicles, while trying to dodge oncoming or unsuspecting vehicles, to ram into one another, thereby creating unnecessary accidents,” he said.
The Lagos-Ibadan Expressway is one of Nigeria’s busiest and most important routes. It connects the country’s economic nerve centre to the South-East, South-South, and other regions of the nation.
