LAGOS AUGUST 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Third Mainland Bridge is one of the three longest bridges in Nigeria crossing the lagoon, connecting Lagos Island to the mainland. Linking Iyana-Oworo on the mainland to Adeniji Adele on the island, this bridge which is about 11.8 kilometre in length was built by Julius Berger Nigeria Plc. Though phase one…
LAGOS JUNE 11TH (NEWSRNAGERS)-The Lagos State Police has stopped an American from committing suicide on the Third Mainland Bridge. The Police disclosed the development in a statement shared on its X account yesterday. According to the the statement, the American, who is in his early 30s, was driven to the bridge by his baby mama…
LAGOS MARCH 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-An eyewitness has narrated how divine intervention saved the lives of some 70 passengers onboard a long TATA bus on the ever busy Third Mainland Bridge in Lagos this Good Friday morning. In a brief narrative under a video that is now going viral, the eyewitness stated how an iron bar forced…
LAGOS MARCH 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Chairman of the Tricycle Owners and Operators Association of Nigeria (TOOAN) Zone H, Lagos State, Mr Akintoye Benson is dead. Benson, who was also an aide to the Chairman of the Lagos Chapter of the National Union of Road Transport Workers, Musiliu Akinsanya, aka MC Oluomo, reportedly died on Thursday night…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A woman said to be in her thirties has decided to end it all by jumping into the lagoon on Third Mainland Bridge, Lagos State. It was learnt that the woman had disembarked from a cab and headed towards the railing of the bridge. She was said to have consequently plunged into…
LAGOS AUGUST 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-I was driving on Third Mainland bridge and had a flat tyre just before the Yaba turning. As I pulled off the road to change the tyre, a police man approached me asking what the problem was. Before long he had called his colleagues and they were helping me change my car…
LAGOS JULY 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Lagos journalist and member of Crime Reporters Association of Nigeria (CRAN), Mr Frank Oshonogor and other passengers escaped death by a whisker when the commercial bus in which they were travelling to Obalende, Lagos lost control and crashed onto the pavement of the Third Mainland bridge and almost plunge into Lagos lagoon….
LAGOS MAY 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Four female passengers of a commercial bus have died in a fatal accident that occured on the Third Mainland Bridge in Lagos. Other passengers of the vehicle sustained varying degrees of injury in the crash which occurred in the early hours of Sunday, May 1. The Lagos State Sector of the Federal Road…