THE ever-busy Apapa-Oshodi Expressway will be closed to traffic from next Thursday, the Lagos State government has announced.

Coming barely a fortnight after the Third Mainland Bridge was re-opened to traffic after almost two months of closure, the Apapa-Oshodi expressway will be partially closed in order to carry out piling operations for the construction of the Okota-Itire Overhead Link bridge.


Announcing the partial closure at a joint press conference at the Bagauda Kaltho Press Centre, Alausa, the Special Adviser to the Governor on Works, Mr. Ganiyu Johnson, said the operation, which would be in three phases, would last 120 days.


Johnson said the first phase, which involves piling operation on the Oshodi-bound side of the expressway, would last 45 days during which only heavy-duty trucks would be allowed passage in some sections of the road while light vehicles would be diverted.


During this period, light vehicles going to Oshodi from Apapa are expected to drive through Adeshina Street (by Ijesha Bus-stop), Agunlejika Street (Agunlejika Bus-stop), while vehicles going to Surulere could drive through Ijesha Road-Lawanson/Itire Road-Iyana-Itire and link their destinations.


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People should be prepared to work from home or relocate temporarily

Anything that will be good will hurt at the beginning.
I think it is better for the death traps called road be fixed.