Eti Osa-Lekki-Epe Expressway Tolling to commence Dec 16

Lekki Concession Company (LCC), has concluded plans to commence tolling at  the Conservation Plaza (TP2), the second toll plaza situated along the Eti-Osa Lekki-Epe Expressway between Chevron HG and Oluwa Nisola House, with effect from 12am on Sunday 16, December 2012.

Toll tariffs at the Conservation Plaza will be the same as the Admiralty Circle Plaza
Okada - N50.
Authorised commercial danfo buses - N80
Salon cars and tricycles - N120
SUVs, minibuses, pickup trucks - N150
Light trucks - 250, heavy trucks - 350

Six year old boy, others die in fire explosion.

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A six-year-old boy was on Sunday burnt to death in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, while trying to jump down from a bus, which caught fire on the Lagos/Ibadan Expressway.

The deceased was among the 18 passengers in a bus coming from Lagos, which ran into a tanker that  earlier had an accident.

An witness said that the articulated  vehicle  was found around 7.30 a.m to have fallen, with its side on the median of the expressway.

According to him,‘’I found out that the fuel it was conveying had  spilled.  About 30 minutes later, I saw some people  trying to scoop the fuel, but some firefighters later arrived and chased the people away. They sprayed all the surroundings of the tanker to prevent explosion. Later, they left.

‘’Around 9.30 a.m, I heard a loud sound which was followed by a thick smoke from the articulated vehicle. I also saw some people  scampering out of another bus a few metres away.

‘’The bus was coming from Lagos and because  traffic was already building, the driver tried overtaking other vehicles when the bus’ exhaust pipe scratched an iron by the side of the road and sparked, igniting fire.’’

He added that, it was the fire that trailed the fuel, which made the fallen tanker to explode afterwards.

Fatal accident on Benin-Lagos Expressway

An early morning auto accident on the Benin-Lagos Expressway yesterday claimed the lives of 13 passengers.

Three others were injured.

The victims included 16 male passengers who left Lagos for  Onitsha, Anambra State in a Toyota Hiace commercial bus marked YB 610 EPE with the inscription ‘Anambra Mass Transit’. 

According to Mr. Bisi Kazeem, Deputy Corps Public Education official of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) at the Toll Gate near Ovia North East council area of Edo State, the ill-fated bus had a collision with  an IVECO truck with registration number AAA 962 XB.

Kazeem attributed the cause of the carnage to violation of road traffic by one of the vehicles at a village near Ohusu, Edo State.