LAGOS State Governor, Akinwunmi Ambode, recently added his voice to the call for ailing ports in other parts of the country to be revived to enable them take some of the load off Lagos which is presently choking on account of unabating traffic gridlock caused by tankers heading to or leaving the ports at Apapa. According to him: “As it is now, other ports in Nigeria must begin to work immediately to decongest gridlock in Lagos”.  

INTERMITTENT interventions by the Federal Government, the Lagos State government and some private stakeholders have always provided a ray of hope for an end to the lingering traffic gridlock in Apapa and environs. Unfortunately such interventions only bring short term solutions, thus failing to achieve the much-desired long term objective. But this has not stopped those concerned from continuing to make promises on how to contain the problem.

She was a factory worker at Warehouse Bus-stop and was returning home on that fateful Tuesday when she was knocked down by a commercial motorcyclist at Mile 2 Oke

Our children now cough. Some have eye and skin problems; in fact, there are different kinds of illnesses in town

THE opinion in many quarters is that traffic gridlock in Apapa and environs has persisted because government has not shown enough political will to enforce sanction against owners of tankers and trucks.