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Video: Five Cowrie (Falomo) Bridge today

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7brWM2lhIu8?si=D1Wzi0BAei0Asgax

There have been massive traffic jams in Lagos today and they have been caused by the closure of the Independence Bridge for repairs.

The Lagos State Government announced that the Independence (McEwen) Bridge would be closed from from Wednesday, 19th March, to Monday, 26th May, 2025, but today is the first day that motorists have really felt the impact of the closure.

Motorists used the Five Cowrie (Falomo) Bridge and the Lekki-Ikoyi Link Bridge as alternatives and the traffic from these bridges backed up to the Third Mainland Bridge.

The most affected streets are Akin Adesola and Ozumba Mbadiwe Streets on Victoria Island, Alfred Rewane (Kingsway) Road, Awolowo Road, Alexander Avenue, Gerard Road and Bourdillon Roads in Ikoyi, Admiralty Way, Freedom Way and the Lekki-Epe Expressway in Lekki.

Here are the reactions of motorists.

Kate Amaka Henshaw @HenshawKate

@Gidi_Traffic @followlastma
Roads are blocked from Ikoyi, Victoria Island to Lekki/Epe expressway...
What is happening??🤔
Its really bad!!

Osi @Osi_Suave

Why is the island blocked

Tinubu sneak enter lagos for night when i no know.

Very weird.

Osi @Osi_Suave

The govt has to reconsider this bridge closure.

Its utter choas on the island today.

Osi @Osi_Suave

How can the govt close a major access road in and out of the island with no alternatives.

Traffic was from bonny camp to Ikate this morning

Like why can't you do things with sense.

Osi @Osi_Suave

Except that bridge is reopened it's going to be like this for fhe next one month.

Oseni Rufai @ruffydfire

Almost 5 hours in traffic burnt all my expensive fuel

Lagos state government thank you ooo

Couldn’t get to work

My day messed up

Weldone ooo

Freedom @winkie4life

What the hell is happening in Lagos, VI, Falomo @followlastma

LASTMA @followlastma

The heavy gridlock is as a result of the Closure McWen bridge(Independent bridge).

Freedom @winkie4life

Today is different please. How does that affect awolowo road. I mean, it's a standstill right now. Passengers are stranded

LASTMA @followlastma

Most of the Motorists could not access Bonny camp and McWen bridge.

They have been making use of the alternative routes which Awolowo road is one of them.

Bizzle Osikoya @bizzleosikoya

Only God knows what is causing this crazy traffic in lagos

Jubril A. Gawat @Mr_JAGs

Independence Bridge repair, Bonny Camp to Onikan closed.

Previous thread:

Lagos To Close Independence Bridge For Two Months
https://www.nairaland.com/8371012/lagos-close-independence-bridge-two


Photo 1) Admiralty Circle Toll Plaza, Lekki.

Photo 2) Falomo Roundabout.

Video: Ozumba Mbadiwe Avenue, Victoria Island.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnoIYwacTHY?si=NDwKWFFHGnT1RFvK

Keji @ZeeZaynab2

Lagos traffic is unpredictable sometimes
Cos tell me why I left the house 8am and I got to work 11am

Like journey of 45 minutes and I spent almost 3 hours from Obalende to Lekki
Hmmmm just Lekki here 😫

Anyways just stay in your house if you stay in Lagos cos nothing for you

DJames @djameskickit

This Lagos traffic 😫 I got up at 8am and recorded a mix for radio, entered traffic at 9:45am for a 10 minute drive to the station, 3 hours later we still haven’t made it 😂

Wale Adebajo @waleadebajo

Ikoyi and Victoria Island is on lock down due to road renovation/Construction. Now rain has started. 3 hours and counting. People are walking! We need solution to this please. We can't be spending productive time in #Traffic #lagos

Wallflowa @yetuunde

I still can’t believe I trekked from Ikoyi to VI earlier today and about to board 4000 naira bus to Ajah cuz nothing will make me enter that traffic to the mainland.. Lagos is really not a real place.

Tester_k @tester_kome

Lagos traffic said ‘walk, my child.’ And I had no choice🥲🤣

Started my journey from Eko Hotel… Where are you trekking from?

Five Cowries (Falomo) Bridge


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3Cx9jYFBZo?si=pVgrY5lDU8TKdic1

Five Cowries (Falomo) Bridge from the opposite side.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIa-SgAbLx4?si=HA2_vTRx-V6IiWQV

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpDSqsKa3bs?si=o-hhXMH51CMvK2n-

Goodness Ada Armstrong @Adabekee

My view of the admiralty way/ Ikoyi link bridge traffic from @Cafeonenig Lekki.

If you don’t have to go home now, watch a movie, read a book, jist, chill with your friends and go home when people are sleeping.

Take it easy out there (esp mainlanders)🤗



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gK6Ggiev0PA?si=yxtXtIubYMKIy42e

Lol... This is one of the things that make u miss Lagos wen u outta town .. it feels like a banny missing em sugar daddy

Lagos is overrated
Lagos is overrated
Lagos is overrated
Lagos is overrated
Lagos is overrated
Lagos is overrated
Lagos is overrated
Lagos is overrated Lagos is overrated
Lagos is overrated Lagos is overrated
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Lagos is overrated Lagos is overrated
Lagos is overrated Lagos is overrated

From ebute metta junction on 3rd mainland bridge to lekki I spent good 3hrs this morning.

It's normal in Lagos...make them dey jam themselves

You can't survive in Lagos if you didn't grow up there.

Once there is heavy rain in Lagos expect the roads to become clogged with traffic, this is typical of Lagos State

One tribe just


japa


to



LAGOS



today.

That's not entirely true, most survive but it takes grit and lots of patience

Exceed15:
You can't survive in Lagos if you didn't grow up there.

Dubai of Africa

Na wah...

What should we fry?


Should we start posting pictures of hold ups all over Nigeria?

What happened to alternative routes n alternative means of transport

If you were born and raised in Lagos, Nigeria especially in the 80s or 90s, you will understand that Lagos is overrated
What we enjoyed back in the day is gone with the wind

Make I mind my business sha before Dem say na jealousy dey worry me 🤣

PheelzAlmighty:
Lagos is overrated
Lagos is overrated
Lagos is overrated
Lagos is overrated
Lagos is overrated
Lagos is overrated
Lagos is overrated
Lagos is overrated Lagos is overrated
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Lagos is overrated Lagos is overrated

Lol, mumu... place wey your brothers dey die to live. Place wey Obi carry 250M go hide when he dey governor...

Lol. Mgbeke Wan dey feel funky

Mgbeke wan dey feel funky. Wahala all the chinedus sef🤣🤣🤣

Thank God I left lagos...I can't be facing this. Una well done ohhhhhhh

An unplanned city

You go love Lagos

It takes patience to live and survive in Lagos,
From Ordinary Chevron round about to Wilmot point in VI, I hear am Today. I regreted making that journey

Is the president in Lagos

PheelzAlmighty:
Lagos is overrated
Lagos is overrated
Lagos is overrated
Lagos is overrated
Lagos is overrated
Lagos is overrated
Lagos is overrated
Lagos is overrated Lagos is overrated
Lagos is overrated Lagos is overrated
Lagos is overrated Lagos is overrated
Lagos is overrated Lagos is overrated
Lagos is overrated Lagos is overrated

That's what those ara oko without opportunity to visit Lasgidi would likely say

Nogeria is just chopping gbas gbos suffer, since 1960s, then more pronounced in 2015 till date.

fayomim:
Thank God I left lagos...I can't be facing this. Una well done ohhhhhhh

Thank you o

Lol, Okoro go see these pictures think say na London e dey😁😁😁

Mabuggi88:
M*mu man those you call okoro are even the ones gradually purchasing those pictures there, be implicating yourself, woke for nothing

Lol, see this ewu, una go just wake up cook rubbish from una mind, shouting nzogbu nzogbu, money na water, water na water... lol bumkum, you see Alakija building, you see Otedola building, you see Adenuga mansion, and so on, you see real houses...

Ohraykon:
oloriburuku omo agbado na tribalism go kill you las las

If I say make I insult you now, dem go say I too do, make I use this one forewarn you.when una meet una match, una go dey cry tribalism upandan... lol... weaklings... una go dey live nylon house dey throw stone upon pezin wey carry RPG and nuclear ballistic missiles... after you cry tribalism finish, rain go con fall? Abi if I no like my ppu first, na abacha munchers with thick forest for chest and women wey get bear bears I suppose like?

Bia, illiterate Obinna, I no dey mood tonight. Your gaslighting and guilt-tripping no fit work on me. No let me insult you go fight your wife for house o.

Peace.

femi4:
What happened to alternative routes n alternative means of transport

Sometimes using so-called alternative routes in Lagos is like jumping from fry pan to fire

Lagos a place for strugglers and hustlers