Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu has promised that the Agege Pen Cinema Flyover will be ready for commissioning in six months’ time.

When the Lagos State government in December 2017 moved bulldozers and other heavy-duty construction equipment into the heartlands of Agege, a densely populated suburb of Lagos, to pull down structures earlier marked for demolition, in readiness for a flyover that would crisscross Oba Ogunji Road/Pen Cinema area over a railroad crossing and landing in Agunbiade Street/Oke-Koto area of the community, it was a welcome development resident warmly embraced.

The Nigerian Railway Corporation has begun demolition of structures along its track corridors at Pen Cinema, Agege in line with its new vision of giving the people best rail transport system. A visit to the area yesterday saw heavy weight caterpillars demolishing structures shortly after Pen Cinema down to Mangoro area where a lot of…

Commuters plying the Pen Cinema en-route Stadium road to Ogba are beginning the New Year carrying over the burden they have endured in recent years. While road users in other parts of Lagos are heaving a sigh of relief over the rehabilitation of some critical roads in their areas, it is a rough deal for…

The Contractor handling construction work on the Pen Cinema fly-over bridge project, HITECH Construction Company Limited, has assured residents of completing the road by May 2019. Project Manager on site, Mr. Willie Barkhuisen disclosed this during a technical visit to the construction site by members of the Nigerian Society of Engineers, Ikeja Branch and officials…

The Lagos State Government, yesterday, announced further restriction of vehicular movement at the Agege Intersection between railway crossing and Church Street along Agunbiade Street in Agege.   The state government said the restriction is meant to fasten the pace of work and ensure the delivery of the project on schedule.     In a statement…

Lagos State Governor, Akinwunmi Ambode, has pledged to complete the international airport road, and the Oshodi interchange project by December 2018. Also to be delivered in December is the Flyover Bridge at Pen Cinema, Agege. The governor disclosed this yesterday during an on-the-site assessment of the projects. He said the airport project was crucial because…

The brutal and hasty manner with which houses were demolished in Abule-Egba, by the Lagos State government, to pave the way for the construction of the Jubilee Bridge in 2016 has also become the lot of residents of Agege, a suburb of Lagos.

As part of efforts to enhance the free flow of traffic along the Agege axis on Lagos Mainland, the construction of a flyover at the Pen Cinema junction in Agege recently commenced. The flyover bridge, which will be constructed from Oba Ogunji through Ijaiye Road to Agunbiade, will be 700 metres long with improvements that…

To accelerate the ongoing construction of Pen Cinema flyover, the Lagos State government yesterday said it would enforce partial restriction of movement within Agege axis starting from Thursday, January 4, 2018. The partial and complete restriction, which it said might come in late would be for between three to six months. In a statement by…