The Lagos State Authorities, via the Lagos State Site visitors Administration Authority (LASTMA), has launched a complete, State-wide 24-hour visitors administration operation and a multi-agency city regeneration enforcement drive throughout main corridors and nightlife zones.
The strategic intervention, which is designated “Operation Ember Months Stability,” is designed to make sure seamless vehicular mobility, improve public security, and implement environmental rectitude in anticipation of the standard surge in motion in the course of the festive season.
This disclosure is contained in an announcement signed by the Normal Supervisor of LASTMA, Mr. Olalekan Bakare-Oki, the place he famous that the company has deployed its personnel to important visitors intersections, corridors, and nightlife hubs, guaranteeing round the clock operational protection.
Bakare-Oki stated that this amplified presence on main arterial routes – together with Ikorodu Road, Apapa-Oshodi Expressway, Lekki-Epe Hall, and Agege Motor Highway – goals to actively ameliorate gridlock, discourage street indiscipline, and heighten security consciousness amongst motorists and commuters in the course of the heightened journey interval.
He averred that LASTMA’s operational enlargement will likely be complemented by a multi-agency activity pressure, coordinated by the Particular Adviser to the Governor on Transportation, Hon. Sola Giwa, which has additionally launched into a major city regeneration and environmental rectitude enforcement operation.
250 Unlawful constructions demolished
Bakare-Oki revealed that LASTMA, in collaboration with different companies, demolished over 250 unlawful shanties, eliminated deserted autos and evacuated makeshift encampments that obstructed vehicular motion in addition to created safety challenges.
He stated, “LASTMA, in collaboration with companies like Kick In opposition to Indiscipline (KAI), LAMATA, the Nigeria Police, LAWMA, and the Public Works Company, performed a sweeping clearance train at Apapa, Ijora, and Costain under-bridges. The operation resulted within the demolition of over 250 unlawful shanties, the elimination of derelict autos, and the evacuation of makeshift encampments that severely obstructed vehicular passage and created safety vulnerabilities.
“Notably, the invention of a dummy firearm and a number of other harmful weapons hid inside a makeshift construction in the course of the train underscored the pressing necessity of the enforcement motion and validated the State Authorities’s resolve to protect security and public order.
“Extra so, to make sure sustained vehicular fluidity within the newly reclaimed areas, all industrial bus operators who beforehand engaged in unlawful roadside loading across the cleared under-bridges have been systematically relocated to designated parks and terminals.’’
In keeping with him, the Lagos Metropolitan Space Transport Authority (LAMATA) has been directed to right away assume management of all newly cleared open areas, integrating them into the State’s mass transit infrastructure, notably inside the Ijora transport hall, to foster orderly transportation and aesthetic city renewal.
Additionally, the LASTMA boss knowledgeable that the authority’s institutional readiness was demonstrated via the swift and coordinated intervention of its Rescue Staff on the scene of a a number of heavy-duty truck collision alongside Kara Bridge on Wednesday, September 29, 2025 – a tragic incident that claimed six lives.
He acknowledged that the deployment of high-capacity restoration and towing equipment prevented further fatalities and mitigated a resultant visitors paralysis that prolonged to the Third Mainland Bridge hall.
Bakare-Oki identified {that a} related immediate response was executed for one more articulated truck crash on the Otedola Bridge on Thursday, September 30, 2025, guaranteeing full visitors restoration.
What it’s best to know
In a associated improvement, the Lagos State Authorities had assured residents alongside the Eti-Osa–Lekki–Epe Expressway hall that it’s taking steps to ease the perennial visitors gridlock within the space, with the graduation of rehabilitation of the roads.
The undertaking, which is able to cowl the stretch from Admiralty Junction to the Jubilee Bridge in Ajah, is aimed toward bettering visitors movement and enhancing street security alongside the busy hall.
Throughout a stakeholders’ assembly held to debate the rehabilitation plans, residents and group representatives, amongst different requests, known as for the short-term opening of the Lagos–Calabar Coastal Highway, to ease congestion which may be compounded when the rehabilitation work begins.
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