Lagos state government yesterday said there would be partial restriction of movement on Ikorodu Road to enable it replace the dilapidated and disused steel pedestrian bridge at Fadeyi Bus Stop with a new footbridge. In a statement issued by the Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Works and Infrastructure, Mr. Olujimi Hotonu, the government said in its continuous drive to protect the lives of pedestrians on the highway, the disused pedestrian bridge would be pulled down to give way for a new one worthy of the status of the state. To eff ect the removal of the bridge, the state government said the main carriage lanes of the Ikorodu Road would be closed to traffi c for two nights on Saturday, September 23, between 11pm and 6am, and Sunday 24, between 11pm and 4am, while the service lanes would be open to traffi c.
According to the government, all traffi c both inward Lagos and outward Ojota will be diverted to the service lanes. While soliciting for the cooperation and support of all road users especially motorists plying the corridor to observe all the precaution signs on the road, the state government said it had put in place eff ective traffi c management strategies to manage the traffi c during the period of closure. Th e government said the notice of partial restriction of the road became expedient to enlighten motorists and other road users to utilise alternative routes to avoid delay, as well as obey traffi c offi cers deployed on the road to ease movement. While regretting the inconveniences the partial restriction would cause, the government appealed for caution, noting that the ultimate goal of the plan was to safeguard lives and improve traffi c on the corridor.
Tor Tiv urges prayers over insecurity in Sankera
By Daniel Agbo Makurdi Th e Tor Tiv V, Prof. James Ayatse, has called for prayers over the insecurity in Sankera geopolitical zone, especially Katsina Ala, which led to the killing of some traditional rulers among other citizens. Tor Tiv, who stated this yesterday when Traditional Rulers from Shitile in Katsina- Ala local government area of Benue state, visited him in his palace, said it was high time the Tiv nation began to pray for God to intervene in the killings. Earlier, leader of the delegation, the district head of Michihi, Chief Ordorugh Ada, said they were at the palace to pay homage and to intimate Tor Tiv of the continuous killing of traditional rulers of Shitile in katsina ala. Th e traditional rulers which were accompanied on the visit by some of their prominent sons among whom were Prof. Iyorwuese Hagher, Ambassador
Chive Kaave, said apart from the two traditional rulers killed many others had also fallen by the swords of the criminals in the area. It would be noted that Sankera geo-political zone in Benue North-east, which comprises Katsina Ala, Ukum and Logo local governments, recently became notorious by activities criminals “who have continued to kill innocent souls almost on a weekly basis.”
