https://www.vanguardngr.com/2019/09/lagos-records-over-70of-nigerias-vehicular-traffic/

ON SEPTEMBER 1, 2019 7:27 PM

BY BANKOLE

Lagos State records more than 70 per cent of Nigeria’s vehicular traffic, in spite of its small landmass. The Federal Controller of Works in the state, Mr Adedamola Kuti, made the observation in an interview with newsmen in Lagos on Sunday.

Kuti said that the traffic situation was a major challenge to road rehabilitation in the state, Nigeria’s commercial centre. He called on the motoring public to cooperate with contractors handling road projects to enable timely completion of the projects.

“There is no alternative to having a motorable road; we realise that many times it is the road we want to fix that motorists have to pass through.

“Managing traffic to allow road rehabilitation is a problem for us; we appeal to the public to realise that there is no gain without pain.

“We appeal to motorists in Lagos to cooperate with us and with traffic management agencies during road rehabilitation.

“If vehicles are diverted to another route during road rehabilitation; we urge motorists to please cooperate; it may be inconvenient but the situation will not be forever,” he said.

Their controller said that It was essential to make roads better for the citizens. He urged media organisations to help to educate the public on the need for the cooperation, saying that the Federal Government prioritised infrastructure development and needed public support.

“Where we need to work at night, we have been doing that. For example, the entire surfacing of the Third Mainland Bridge was done at night.

`’The work we did at Outer Marina was done throughout the night, even the Dorman Long at Ojuelegba was done at night,’’ he said. The controller said that the Federal Ministry of Works, Housing and Power had zero tolerance for illegal occupation of bridges.

“We are not going to tolerate any form of business under bridges. Infrastructure must be protected; therefore, illegal businesses there must go.

“The public is not allowed to sell petroleum products under the bridges.

“These are not what we should allow, and we will keep reporting to the appropriate authorities to see how we can dislodge these illegal occupants.

“Illegal activities undermine the strength of our bridges,” he said.

Lagos is the smallest state in Nigeria, having a land area of about 3,345kmsq. The state claims to have a population of about 17.5 million.

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Mynd44

AJE!

Eko oni bajé

Wow

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Messed up city of slump and squalor

Why can’t there be a law to restrict people from migrating en masse to a state?

If migration is not curbed, then Lagos will explode soon coz every tribe just want to stay in Lasgidi.

Even those northerners that tried smuggling themselves with bicycles self ain’t left out.

Nigeria needs to be restructured such that each region will be able to control their resources and inturn control their population as they want.

Okay hun.

The newyork of naija.

Guessed statistics though. This is Statistics after 4 bottles of origin bitters with isiewu. Lol

a whole 70%?. abuja, ph, and other cities will have 1% if so... i smell lies though

17.5 million lol nigerians and fake population numbers

Lagos is almost same size as new york and london combined ? Tell me another story

Lazy statistics.

Impossible factually and statistically.

The air pollution from one molue alone is enough carbon footprint to rival that of a giant chemical plant.

So what would be Rivers traffic and others



Blatant lie

Maybe 50% but 70% is a bit far fetched.

People ll just sit in their toilet and be lying anyhow... Manipulating figures

Person just wake up early morning start to dey blow lie

If only Lagos is 70% then how many is

Kano
Rivers state
Anambra
Abuja
Akwaibom
Edo state
Kaduna etc

Not 35, or 45 or 55% that would be slightly believable, a whole 70%. It's lies like these that cause global warming.

techwahala:
a whole 70%?. abuja, ph, and other cities will have 1% if so... i smell lies though

It's a big lie.

big lie

Truly, Lagos has more vehicles than all the states in the country but the 70% might be exaggerated.

Useless false claim. Some people will just open their mouths and spew whatever nonsense that comes out of it

AryaSand:
Maybe 50% but 70% is a bit far fetched.

Even 20% is far fetched

70%...make una still fear God na biko.


It should be about 19%

Is that a good thing or a bad thing?

Lagos is a country within country but this percentage is something else.

DauraIsAGoal:
Even 20% is far fetched

Lazy youth spotted. The amount of gasoline and AGO being consumed in all states is a good indication of traffic population.

Hmm