Week 11 Joints are still undergoing removal & replacement.When that is all done,we begin casting. Each joint needs a whole day for casting. This coming week,we will be taking a few people to see the progress on the bridge and you’ll be able to see it through their eyes


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21aBjQRGIpQ
https://twitter.com/tmbrehab/status/1312820888983818242?s=19

WERENI, WHAT IS THE UPDATE, OP BETTER BE CAREFUL. I EXPECTED BEFORE AND AFTER PICTURES OF THE PROGRESS MADE SO FAR.

What Tinubu could not do for years

Another person is doing it.

Well such man can not be president if this country

A man who carries bullion van with looted funds around where ever he travels to can't be given a chance to dry our resources

Say no to Godfatherism
Say no to Tinubu 2023

Ydyd

Is good here

How many years them wan use repair bridge


Check my signature

Sanwo Eko

Ok

Lanrelagboi:
Week 11 Joints are still undergoing removal & replacement.When that is all done,we begin casting. Each joint needs a whole day for casting. This coming week,we will be taking a few people to see the progress on the bridge and you’ll be able to see it through their eyes

Thanks for this news but is there any update about the light rail that was to be carrying Lagos people since June 2013?

Lagos light rail’ll be ready in June – Fashola
January 9, 2013

The Lagos State Governor Babatunde Fashola on Tuesday said the first phase of the state Blue Light Rail project would be completed by June this year(2013).

He expressed confidence that Lagosians would start enjoying the services of the rail project immediately.

The first phase would run from Marina and terminated at Okokomaiko area in Ojo Local Government.

Fashola spoke during an inspection of ongoing projects in the state which took him and his cabinet members to Orile-Iganmu, Alimosho and Ejigbo areas among others to assess the level of works being done by contractors.

The governor, who inaugurated the trackwork of the blue light rail at Alaba Suru, Coker-Agunda Local Council Development Area, said the level of work on the road and those of the National Theatre and Alaba-Mile 2 rail stations, would ensure early completion

He said, “In order to finish the project, the contractor did not go on vacation during the festive period. This will ensure that the project is delivered on time for the use of Lagosians.

“The first section of this rail, which started from National Theatre, Orile-Iganmu to Mile 2 Bus Stop, would be fully completed with the tracks laid.

“Construction work will continue on the project from Orile-Iganmu to Marina, the expansion work on the road from Mile 2 to Okokomaiko will also be intensified.

“This is what we do with the loan collected by the government. We don’t use our loan to pay salaries and other recurrent expenditure, what we do with our loan is to provide capital projects that would serve the residents.

“When the project is completed, the state would be at par with other major cities of the world.”

http://www.punchng.com/news/lagos-light-railll-be-ready-in-june-fashola/

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Nice job. Hopefully this can be extended to other critical parts of Lagos. Our cars are suffering

clown

We ve bin suffering since it's closure

PRADOleleyi:
Sanwo Eko

Is it for the federal or state government?

Where is the update?? This thing is taking too long o jare, the holdup is killing. I spent two hours from yaba to island on Friday. A twenty minutes journey on normal day.

Is that all you will say.
What of the pix of where they started from and where they are now.
Well, January will soon come and hope you won't ask for the extension. Because nigerian don't stand by their word.

chinchonglee:
We ve bin suffering since it's closure

Will the suffering have been less if the light rail was up and running since June 2013 as promised by Fashola?
Where is all the money for the light rail after seven years if no show?

anonimi:
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TTC in talks to sell old trains to Lagos. Are they safe enough?
AUGUST 10, 2011

As Toronto trainspotters gleefully take maiden rides on the TTC's Rocket, commuters in Lagos, Nigeria may be about to get some new trains of their own. Our old ones.

A TTC spokesperson has confirmed that the commission is negotiating with a private group to sell up to 260 used train cars to the West African megacity's new transit project.

"I can confirm that the TTC is in discussion with a third party that wants to purchase trains for Lagos," said commission spokesperson Brad Ross. "Over a period of time, they will be taken out of service and then transported over to Nigeria."

The cars being considered for sale are the TTC's old H-5 and H-6 models, which will be decommissioned as the TTC rolls out its new fleet of Rockets. Ross predicts the earliest they could be shipped to Nigeria is sometime in 2012.

Traffic snarls are already a major economic problem in the Nigerian capital, a booming city that will reach an estimated population of 25 million by 2015. A new above-ground rail system designed to carry 1.5 million people a day has already broken ground, and Lagos Governor Babtunde Fashola has said it "will be the most multi-dimensional and most impactful" of the government's efforts to reduce traffic congestion.

Fashola visited Toronto earlier this year to inspect the TTC trains.

The Lagos deal would be the first of its kind for the TTC. Decommissioned cars are usually sold for scrap metal and can fetch up to $1,500 dollar each. While Ross declined to discuss specific figures, he says the sticker price for Lagos is "significantly more" than scrap prices, putting the potential profits to the TTC in the millions of dollars.

It is not unusual for technology from western nations to end up in poorer countries. Marketplaces in Africa and Asia are flooded with North American clothes, computers, and even cars, but the purchase of larger technology like trains is rarer.

The cars will have to be significantly refurbished to fit existing infrastructure in Lagos, and some Nigerian media reports have lamented that the government appears to have settled on "tokundo," or used, trains instead of brand new vehicles.

Although half the cars are more than 30 years old, Ross is adamant they are perfectly safe and are only being decommissioned for capacity reasons. But he also admitted the TTC is not required to make sure the cars meet any safety standards before selling them.

"Once sold, it's up to the new operator to ensure they are in good working order," he said. "They do need to be maintained much more frequently than the new trains, simply because of their age. At some point they will run out their useful life."

Murtaza Haider, director of the Institute of Housing and Mobility at Ryerson University, said the age of the cars is definitely a cause for concern.

"We should be ensuring that there is some service life left in these vehicles and we're not going to be playing havoc with the lives of those who would ride these vehicles," Haider said. "There's metal fatigue, and that metal fatigue could result in dangerous conditions. I would be paying a close watch on this for the next ten years to see how many accidents do happen in Lagos."

He also warned that while rail systems are glamorous as far as transit infrastructure goes, they are not always as effective at reducing congestion as other options. Nevertheless, new rail systems are frequently preferred because governments can take advantage of kickbacks from large contracts.

According to media reports, the cost estimates for the Lagos rail project have varied wildly from $1.2 billion to $30 billion. In 2010, a Nigerian government watchdog accused Fashola's government of widespread corruption.

"More often than not, politicians favour rail transit because it is more expensive," Haider said. "It's almost useless in some cases, and less productive in most cases, than a bus system. But you can't buy busses for $30 billion. You can inflate prices and make a lot of money buying a rail system."

From: https://nowtoronto.com/news/next-stop-nigeria/

ojuoluwani:
LAGOS State Governor, Babatunde Fashola, yesterday, gave a breakdown of how his administration expended the N160 billion World Bank loan it acquired, saying the state maintained a healthy debt profile.

Fashoa, who spoke during his commemoration of 2,700 days in office and achievements in the last 100 days, in Alausa, Ikeja, said long overdue refund would go a long way in reducing the debt profile of the State, which he said the Federal Government recently published to mislead the public.

He said, “Recently, our political adversaries issued statements that we have borrowed N160 billion. What they have not told you is what we are doing with the money.”

Enumerating his government’s activities within the period under consideration he said; “In the last 100 days, we have commenced work on providing street lighting on the Muritala Muhammed Way in Yaba.

This is 10 kilometres of public lighting which will be completed by the end of this month. On Eko Bridge, Carter Bridge, Ikorodu Road, Lekki-Epe Expressway and every street and highway where there is street lighting in Lagos, it is the Lagos State Government that supplied the poles, the bulbs, the diesel and the maintenance.

“The only major highway we are not managing for street lights is the 3rd Mainland Bridge.

Fire engines, to secure lives, rail transport from Okokomaiko to Marina, with four stations of eight kilometres completed, and work heading to Marina, with piles appearing near the Eko Bridge every day are the places your Government is spending money. The expansion of the Lagos Badagry Expressway to a 10-lane highway is another place where your Government is spending money.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2014/10/lagos-spent-n160-bn-world-bank-loan-fashola/

Owaincouncil:
Is that all you will say.
What of the pix of where they started from and where they are now.
Well, January will soon come and hope you won't ask for the extension. Because nigerian don't stand by their word.

You are very correct.
There should be BEFORE and AFTER pictures to make better sense of updates.

okay

Abeg make una do quick

The daily traffic is draining me!

Can you imagine driving from Osborne Estate lasn-lasan to Adeniji now takes 90 minutes?

I cant even imagine those that joined the traffic from Falomo, or even VI..

Biko, make una do quick, E dakun

NaijaOlosho:
What Tinubu could not do for years

Another person is doing it.

Well such man can not be president if this country

A man who carries bullion van with looted funds around where ever he travels to can't be given a chance to dry our resources

Say no to Godfatherism
Say no to Tinubu 2023

You realize that bridge is owned by the Federal Government and remains the responsibility of the Federal Government. And am sure have no idea of when Tinubu was governor....
Your own hate is on another level.
cos you have no idea what you a hating on, you are just hating left and right, you hate no get direction.
Help your self ohhh.

Nah eh! No qualms
This is so sophisticated

EkO is getting there

...

Ok

NaijaOlosho:
What Tinubu could not do for years

Another person is doing it.

Well such man can not be president if this country

A man who carries bullion van with looted funds around where ever he travels to can't be given a chance to dry our resources

Say no to Godfatherism
Say no to Tinubu 2023

Things you should be worried about instead of Tinubu

1. Potopoto road in the East
2. Ohu/Osu in the East
3. Inequality of male/female child
4. Selling daughters in the name of marriage
5. Female child not able to inherit her father property

NaijaOlosho:
What Tinubu could not do for years

Another person is doing it.

Well such man can not be president if this country

A man who carries bullion van with looted funds around where ever he travels to can't be given a chance to dry our resources

Say no to Godfatherism
Say no to Tinubu 2023

Continue wailing, that is Tinubu's intension, his aims and goals are coming to pass, he doesn't want his name to leave the mouth of Nigeria and a rent-free occupied space in children of baby factories brain, he would have used the bullion van in the midnight like others, but he used it in the day to generate reactions from jobless people.

My naija people are too fixed on ROAD! Why not develop WATER, RAIL & AIR transports? Our roads will always be overloaded, congested and strained when it's the major means of transportation. When will our leaders be proactive and innovative?

Samsimple:
How many years them wan use repair bridge


Check my signature

at least it better they are doing it

MinorityOpinion:
Things you should be worried about instead of Tinubu

1. Potopoto road in the East
2. Ohu/Osu in the East
3. Inequality of male/female child
4. Selling daughters in the name of marriage
5. Female child not able to inherit her father property

How do you know that she is from the East, and not one of those burden bearers of Ogbeni Ojuyobo's thieving ways?
Maybe the witches broom of the Association of Past/Present Criminals, APC has turned you into one? Se aje abi oso ni e ni?

anonimi:
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FreeGlobe:
In Lagos, Alpha Beta, as consultants, gets 10 percent of whatever Lagos State generates monthly. If this statement confuses you, you are not alone. There are just a few things you need to keep in mind though: Lagos State generates roughly 31 billion Naira a month. Ten percent of that is going to a consultancy firm owned by the former governor of Lagos State, Bola Tinubu. 75% of the revenue generated by Lagos State comes from taxes.

If you need to read the paragraph again, you are not alone. However, the truth of the matter is that Alpha Beta Company has been the tax consultant to the Lagos State government since 1999, when the former governor Tinubu began his tenure.

That year, Alpha Beta Company had definitely succeeded by delivering a dramatic rise in monthly state revenue from about 600 million Naira to 7.7 billion Naira. A laudable achievement indeed, but it would have been less so if the citizens of Lagos State knew what they had traded it in for. Alpha Beta Company had charged the state of Lagos a whopping one billion Naira a month for their services.

Now, just to reiterate, Tinubu owns Alpha Beta Company. Tinubu was also at the time, the Governor of Lagos State. Alpha Beta Company became the tax consultant for Lagos State in 1999, and they charged roughly 13% of the entire state revenue.

Today, Alpha Beta Company is still the tax consultant for the state. They now charge roughly 10% of the entire state revenue and Tinubu still owns it. The only thing that has changed is that Tinubu is no longer the Governor of Lagos State, or so it says on paper. With utmost respect to the office of State Governor, Tinubu is still very much in control of the state’s affairs, or at the very least, its revenue.

Despite all feelings of being scandalized here, one must look at the big picture. Governor Fashola is still working for Bola Tinubu. If he was not, things might have changed. New relationships would have been forged with the State Government and interest groups. However, the standings beg the question: what has really changed since then?

Undisclosed sources claim that Tinubu’s role in installing Fashola as Governor of the State is the biggest hindrance for the present regime. An agreement between Fashola and Tinubu over the duration of the tenure of governorship, as well as the selection of certain cabinet members paints a vivid picture on the sort of bind Fashola is in. At the moment however, one wonders whether or not he finds it at convenient as he used to, or if he ever did.

What is clear, however, is that there appears to be a lot of money changing hands, and the masses are still bewildered over the fate of roughly 31 billion Naira in revenue per month. There are a number of allegations regarding Fashola’s spending penchants. Here are just a few of them that beg to be disproved:

1. That in 2009, Fashola gave N250 million to the Rotimi Akeredolu-led executive of the Nigeria Bar Association (NBA) for the NBA conference held in Lagos, at a time when Lagos teachers and doctors were on strike for improved welfare package.

2. The Babatunde Raji Fashola Government within six months, January to June 2009, spent N420 million on the hiring of private security – to guard who? – despite his heavy investment in the Police Force through the State Security Trust Fund.

3. Babatunde Raji Fashola spent N1.5 billion to demolish the Bank of Industry (BOI) building, paying a company introduced by one Tunji Olowolafe in cash transfer, only for him and his cronies to claim the land adjacent to it.

4. The Babatunde Raji Fashola Government awarded a part of Western Avenue (Funsho Williams Road), about two kilometres road for N7.7 billion, just between Abalti Barracks and Costain. And without the construction of any bridge, the project was carried out by Julius Berger. This project must certainly be investigated.

5. Between January and June 2009, the Babatunde Raji Fashola Government claimed to have fuelled 225 vehicles in his office alone with N135 million. These figures amount to about N800,000 per day at a time that petrol was sold for N65 per litre. The Government always got fuel cheaper, but Babatunde Raji Fashola claimed to have bought it at N85 per litre.

6. Between January and June 2009, Babatunde Raji Fashola’s Chief of Staff and Personal Assistants expended N290 million in sending text messages and phone calls on their lines.

7. It is also very sad to know that the Babatunde Raji Fashola Government awarded the construction of a road and drains inside Gbagada General Hospital for over N1.8 billion to the same Tunji Olowolafe’s company (DEUX Projects Limited).

8. The sum of N1.5 billion of un-appropriated funds, without approval, was claimed to have been spent on the demolition of Oshodi.

9. The Helicopter Deal was a big fraud. The helicopter was not built for any kind of emergency evacuation, rescue or to even combat urban fire. Over N5 billion has been spent on the two helicopters. And the seal of Lagos State is not on it, and it is not even in Lagos but in the Niger Delta making money for some private people in Government. The whole helicopter deal stinks to high heavens; it constitutes the biggest governmental fraud of all times and confirms the rot in the State. See THISDAY December 19, 2009.

10. The Senior Special Assistant, SSA (Media) to Babatunde Raji Fashola spent N183 million in six months on press coverage and editors outside the approved budget but funded directly from the Governor’s Office.

11. In a State where children are sitting on the floor in classrooms, where unemployment is rampant and poverty pervasive, Babatunde Raji Fashola paid the wife of a controversial pastor over N600 million in two years for Christmas decorations for about six streets in Lagos.

12. In six months, between January and June 2009, Babatunde Raji Fashola spent monies on several faceless organisations, subventions, grants and donations such that they quickly pocketed N2 billion.

Most of these allegations were compiled by the True Face of Lagos, the same group that petitioned against Fashola to the House of Assembly and the EFCC. The Lagos State Government is under the proverbial microscope and the masses are watching wit rapt attention.
http://www.lestweforgetnaija.com/index.php/articles/item/120-tinubu-fashola-alpha-beta-and-the-taxation-rape-of-lagos

three:
The erstwhile Managing Director of AlphaBeta, the Lagos State consultant on IGR took to twitter to share his petition to the EFCC via the law firm Adetunji Shoyoye and Associates.

He Accuses the firm among other things of corruption and money Laundering.

https://twitter.com/DapoApara/status/1037577498220015616?s=19

See tweets and petition below.... \



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When last have you asked your governor in the East how they are spending your money, you can talk about all these because Lagos has transparency. If you put the same energy in your state, you might be better off than Lagos.