The Lagos state government acquired ownership of the Lekki Concession Company (LCC) and the Lekki-Epe expressway toll gate in December 2014, TheCable can report.The LCC had in February hiked the toll payable by vehicles plying the route, a move antagonistic to one of Lagos' stated reasons for the acquisition.In August 2013, the administration of ex-governor Babatunde Fashola had requested a [...]
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The Human and Environmental Development Agenda (HEDA) has requested Akinwumi Ambode, governor of Lagos state, to give an update on the state's acquisition of parts of the Lekki-Epe expressway.Olanrewaju Suraju, chairman, HEDA resource centre, said Lagosians deserve to know why there has been delay in the acquisition of the Lekki-Epe road and the contract terms and agreement entered into by [...]

The Lekki Concession Company Limited (LCC) says from February 1, 2018, motorists using the toll gate at the Victoria Island end of the Lekki-Epe expressway and Lekki-Ikoyi link bridge would have to pay more money.Currently, cars are levied N120, sport utility vehicles (SUVs) N150 and commercial buses N80 at the toll gate, while cars pay N250 and SUVs, N300 at [...]

While many residents of Lekki have been trapped by flood, the situation in neighbouring Victoria Island is not so different.Lekki and Victoria Island are upscale neighbourhoods in Eti Osa local government area of Lagos state.A video of a foreigner paddling canoe on Ahmadu Bello way on Victoria Island is currently trending on Twitter.See video below:Oyibo man paddling his canoe in [...]

Knights of the Order of Saint Mulumba in collaboration with the Family and Human Life Unit of the Catholic Archdiocese of Lagos will hold a reparation vigil on abortion.Charles Mbelede, Metropolitan Grand Knight, Lagos Metropolitan Council of the Order, disclosed this at a press conference in Lagos.He said the programme will hold at the Church of Transfiguration, Lekki, on Friday.Mbedele [...]

BY MATHEW ADEDAYOUntil the Nigerian government changes its approach to Public-Private Partnership (PPP) and learns to respect the agreements they sign and the rule of law, the country’s infrastructure may continue to languish in the quagmire of decay and dereliction.All over the world, concession is seen as a means of reducing the deficit in infrastructural provision engendered by the disproportionate growth [...]

Davido, a Nigerian musical artiste and performer, on Tuesday took to his Snapchat page to share a video of himself firing a gun from the balcony of his house in Lekki.The video showed David Adedeji Adeleke, as he was named at birth, firing one shot into the air and walking back into his house.The interesting part of the video was where [...]

Two persons have died in an early morning fire incident which razed over 100 shanties in Kuramo, near Lekki in Lagos.Rasak Fadipe, director of Lagos state fire service, told NAN that the burnt bodies of a man and a woman were recovered at the scene.“The shanties spread to about four plots of land. We got information that the fire started [...]