{"id":82647,"date":"2026-02-11T06:34:38","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T06:34:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=82647"},"modified":"2026-02-11T06:34:38","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T06:34:38","slug":"lagos-to-partially-close-lagos-abeokuta-expressway-for-four-weeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2026\/02\/11\/lagos-to-partially-close-lagos-abeokuta-expressway-for-four-weeks\/","title":{"rendered":"Lagos to Partially Close Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway for Four Weeks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Huldah Shado<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Lagos State Government has announced a four-week partial closure of the Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway for rehabilitation works by the Federal Ministry of Works.<\/p>\n<p>The closure begins Wednesday, February 11, and ends Wednesday, March 11, covering the stretch from U-Turn Bus Stop to Sango Tollgate, affecting both inbound and outbound lanes, the Commissioner for Transportation, Oluwaseun Osiyemi, said.<\/p>\n<p>The project will be executed in two phases to reduce traffic disruption. Phase One, affecting Abeokuta-bound traffic, runs from February 11 to March 4, with vehicles diverted to one half of the carriageway, about 20 metres from the work zone. Full access will be restored after each section is completed.<\/p>\n<p>Osiyemi assured motorists that traffic management measures will be in place throughout the project to ease movement and minimise inconvenience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Huldah Shado The Lagos State Government has announced a four-week partial closure of the Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway for rehabilitation works by the Federal Ministry of Works. The closure begins Wednesday, February 11, and ends Wednesday, March 11, covering the stretch from U-Turn Bus Stop to Sango Tollgate, affecting both inbound and outbound lanes, the Commissioner [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":82648,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82647","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\/82647","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=82647"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82649,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82647\/revisions\/82649"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}