Seeing Lagos through the windows of the Red Line
By the time we made a stop at Agege, some of my colleagues wondered how we got there. For sure, because of the usual busy roads in Lagos, it will…
Lagos Green Line: From China with love
By Uche Nnadozie Public transportation will never be the same again as Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu has once more masterminded another truly inspiring #GreaterLagosRising project which will completely transform how Lagosians…
Lagos Red Line: Sanwo-Olu closes infrastructure development ahead commercial operations
Penultimate week, Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu commissioned the last major infrastructure piece for the Lagos Red Line rail project. The infrastructure is the trademark over-pass or fly over at the Ogunmokun…
With a train every 18 minutes, it’s bye-bye cars, hello Lagos Blue line!
On 12 August, the Lagos Rail Mass Transit's (LRMT) Blue Line upscaled the number of trips per day from 54 to 72. This increase excludes Sunday service when traffic is…
Protests: Lagos paid Sanwo-Olu in his own coin
In its quest to secure the future and boost the earning capacity of the teeming youth population in Lagos State, Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu has come up with a novel idea…
Tinubu’s reforms will save Nigerians, not policy flipflops
If you are reading the Financial Times and the article is titled "Shock Therapy Alone Will Not Cure Nigeria’s Economic Ills," you might think the publication is a disgruntled political…
Lagos Red Line rolls off, makes lives, living better
A few days ago, the Red Line rail project rolled off to great cheer. This is following delays caused by operational reasons relating to the rail tracks signalisation. Sharing the…
How Sanwo-Olu is impacting job creation for youths in the transportation sector
Public transportation is one of the most critical sectors of a fully urbanised city like Lagos. What the city lacks in land mass it compensates with the huge number of…
LASTMA’s evolution and quest for public accountability
Founded on 15 July 2000 by the then Governor Bola Tinubu, Lagos State Transport Management Agency (LASTMA) has blazed the trail in traffic management nationwide. In the period, it has…
LAGFERRY: With Lagos, every trip is a show
The birth of Lagos Ferry Services Company (LFSC) (better known as LAGFERRY) and its continued growth has given birth to a different kind of tourism leveraging the time-honoured geographical advantage of…