Tag Archives: Apapa

The Guardian reports that The Apapa-bound carriageway of the Apapa Marine Beach Bridge will be closed from today for 29 days in its ongoing rehabilitation, the site manager, Mr. Simon Barakat, has said. Barakat, who spoke yesterday, appealed to road users to be patient and use alternative routes. “We will close the Apapa-bound carriageway on Friday evening, and it will ...

The Guardian reports that the Burma Street Residents’ Association in Apapa area of Lagos State has appealed to the governor, Akinwunmi Ambode, to take decisive measures against the menace of articulated vehicles and trucks causing chaotic traffic in the area. According to The Guardian, the worried residents and aggrieved business operators in the area lamented that until something urgent is ...

This article makes an attempt to capture some lessons learned by the ongoing urban transformation of Lagos—one of the fastest-growing cities in the world. Despite the movement of the federal capital to Abuja during the regime of erstwhile head of state, General Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida in 1991, metropolitan Lagos has remained the country’s dominant economic, social, and financial centre as ...

The upgrade of Ikorodu township, a rapidly expanding settlement in Lagos State, to a contemporary eco-city development is in top gear as the government’s consultant has unveiled a new and ambitious programme to review the city’s spatial dynamics. The coming master plan hopes to cover a period of 20 years from 2016 to 2036. So far, the State’s Ministry of ...