{"id":73014,"date":"2025-08-13T17:34:35","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T17:34:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=73014"},"modified":"2025-08-13T17:34:35","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T17:34:35","slug":"lagos-to-divert-traffic-in-ikoyi-for-two-days-over-drainage-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/08\/13\/lagos-to-divert-traffic-in-ikoyi-for-two-days-over-drainage-works\/","title":{"rendered":"Lagos to Divert Traffic in Ikoyi for Two Days Over Drainage Works"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Onilede Titi Faith<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Lagos State Government will divert traffic along Osborne Road, Ikoyi, for two days to allow for critical drainage upgrades.<\/p>\n<p>The diversion will run from 10:00 p.m. on Friday, August 15, 2025, to midnight on Sunday, August 17, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>The project involves installing a cross culvert linking new drains on Modupe Alakija Crescent to an underground channel beneath Osborne Road near Foreshore Towers.<\/p>\n<p>To manage the disruption, the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA), will implement a contraflow system on Osborne\/Alfred Rewane Road.<\/p>\n<p>The affected stretch, about 100 metres from Modupe Alakija Crescent to the Alfred Rewane Road junction will see outbound traffic rerouted into a temporary lane, while inbound traffic will be restricted to a single lane.<\/p>\n<p>Motorists can also take alternative routes via Oba Adeyemi Oyekan Avenue to Glover Road, Lugard Avenue, or Cameron Road.<\/p>\n<p>The government assured the road will reopen fully by Monday, August 18, 2025, and urged patience, with LASTMA officers on hand to ensure smooth movement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Onilede Titi Faith The Lagos State Government will divert traffic along Osborne Road, Ikoyi, for two days to allow for critical drainage upgrades. The diversion will run from 10:00 p.m. on Friday, August 15, 2025, to midnight on Sunday, August 17, 2025. The project involves installing a cross culvert linking new drains on Modupe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":73015,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73014","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\/73014","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\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73014"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73016,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73014\/revisions\/73016"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}