{"id":61025,"date":"2025-02-11T10:07:46","date_gmt":"2025-02-11T10:07:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=61025"},"modified":"2025-02-11T10:07:46","modified_gmt":"2025-02-11T10:07:46","slug":"lagos-to-shut-roads-for-marathon-on-february-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/02\/11\/lagos-to-shut-roads-for-marathon-on-february-15\/","title":{"rendered":"Lagos to Shut Roads for Marathon on February 15"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Jesusemen Oratokhai<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Lagos State Government has announced an eight-hour road closure and traffic diversion for the 2025 Access Bank Lagos City Marathon on Saturday, February 15.<\/p>\n<p>Commissioner for Transportation, Oluwaseun Osiyemi, stated that the marathon will run from 5:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m., affecting major routes from the National Stadium, Surulere, to Eko Atlantic, Victoria Island.<\/p>\n<p>Key roads, including Ikorodu Road, the Third Mainland Bridge (inbound Island), Alfred Rewane Road, Admiralty Way, and Ozumba Mbadiwe Avenue, will be temporarily closed.<\/p>\n<p>Traffic management agencies will be deployed to enforce restrictions and guide motorists on alternative routes.<\/p>\n<p>While the Third Mainland Bridge will be closed to Island-bound traffic, it will remain open for those heading to the Mainland.<\/p>\n<p>Osiyemi urged motorists to plan ahead and use designated alternative routes to minimize disruptions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Jesusemen Oratokhai The Lagos State Government has announced an eight-hour road closure and traffic diversion for the 2025 Access Bank Lagos City Marathon on Saturday, February 15. Commissioner for Transportation, Oluwaseun Osiyemi, stated that the marathon will run from 5:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m., affecting major routes from the National Stadium, Surulere, to Eko [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":61026,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61025"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61027,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61025\/revisions\/61027"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}