•South Africa Flag A bus plunged off a bridge into a ravine and caught fire on Thursday in South Africa, killing 45 of the 46 people on board, the transport ministry said. An eight-year-old child was the sole survivor and had been taken to hospital with serious injuries, reports AFP. The vehicle had been heading […]
•Accident scene A yet-to-be-identified tricycle rider has been crushed to death after the compactor of a refuse truck fell from a bridge in the Surulere area of Lagos State. It was learnt that the incident happened on Tuesday evening, reports The PUNCH. The truck, owned by the Lagos Waste Management Authority, was said to be […]
•Malian flag Thirty-one people were killed in Mali yesterday and 10 others wounded when a bus travelling toward Burkina Faso fell off a bridge in the country’s southeast, the Transport ministry said. It added that the accident occurred at around 5:00 pm (1700 GMT) at a bridge crossing the Bagoe river. “A bus that was […]
•FRSC officials controlling traffic The Ogun State Sector Command of Federal Road Safety Corps today issued a traffic alert to the motoring public disclosing the complete blockage of Ota-Idiroko Road in the Ado-Odo/Ota Local Government Area of the state. The gridlock was said to have been caused by multiple crashes involving a truck, two tricy...
•Lagos Port access bridge The Lagos State government has announced that traffic will be diverted at the Ijora 7Up end of the marine bridge from February 2 to May 10. The Commissioner for Transportation, Oluwaseun Osiyemi, made this announcement in a statement recently. According to the commissioner, the decision to divert traffic is for compre...
•Marine Bridge in Lagos Traffic will be diverted at the Ijora 7up end of the Marine Bridge from February 2 to May 10, the Lagos State Government announced today. The decision to divert traffic is for comprehensive maintenance of the bridge. This was contained in a statement issued today by the Commissioner for Transportation, Oluwaseun [&helli...
•Scene of accident An unidentified trailer driver has reportedly fallen off the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway bridge between Berger, Lagos State, and Isheri, Ogun State, a police officer told our correspondent today. It was gathered that a trailer had crashed into the bridge, leaving the front part of the trailer hanging off the edge of the bridge, ...
•Babajide Sanwo-Olu Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, says the construction of the long-awaited 37km Fourth Mainland Bridge will begin by the end of March or April. The governor stated this today in an address at the Lagos West Senatorial District Town Hall Meeting held at the Balmoral Convention Centre, Sheraton, Ikeja, the state capi...
•3rd Mainland Bridge The Lagos State Government has reiterated the federal government’s plan to temporarily close the Third Mainland Bridge from Tuesday next week. A statement by Oluwaseun Osiyemi, the Commissioner of Transport, Lagos, said that the bridge would be shut at 11a.m from January 9, 2024. Osiyemi explained that the Federal Ministry...
•Third Mainland Bridge The federal government has announced plans to close the Iyana Oworonshoki-Adeniji Adele section of the Third Mainland Bridge from 11:00 a.m. on Tuesday, January 9, 2024. The federal controller of Works in Lagos State, Olukorede Kesha, announced this in a statement yesterday. Ms Kesha said the closure would be done on the...