ANAMBRA POLICE ACTION ON THE CULT CLASH THAT RESULTED IN THE FATAL INJURY OF FOUR PERSONS AT AFOR NAWFIA MARKET. (PHOTO). #PRESS RELEASE

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 ANAMBRA POLICE ACTION ON THE CULT CLASH THAT RESULTED IN THE FATAL INJURY OF FOUR PERSONS AT AFOR NAWFIA MARKET The Anambra State Police Command wishes to provide a comprehensive update on the cult-related attack that occurred on the evening of 7th December 2025 at Afor Nawfia Market, along the Onitsha–Awka Old Road. It will be recalled that operatives of the Command attached to the Special Anti-Cult Squad, Enugwu-Ukwu, had, four days earlier, acting on credible intelligence about a planned rival cult confrontation, arrested two dangerous suspects and recovered a firearm from them. The arrested suspects have been assisting the Police with valuable information aimed at preventing further cult-related violence within Awka and its environs. Despite these proactive efforts by the Command operatives, some members of the same gang, on the evening of 7th December 2025, operating in a black Lexus Jeep with registration number yet unknown, stormed Afor Nawfia Market and opened fire indiscr...

13 IMPORTANT THINGS TO KNOW ABOUT PROPOSED FOURTH MAINLAND BRIDGE. (PHOTO).


 13 important things to know about proposed Fourth Mainland Bridge


By Adedamola Ogunbewon


Lagos Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu has said that the long-awaited commencement of the construction of the Fourth Mainland Bridge will begin in the first quarter of 2024.

Sanwo-Olu disclosed this during the Lagos West Senatorial District Town Hall Meeting at the Balmoral Convention Centre, Sheraton, Ikeja.

Emphasising a gradual construction approach, the Governor assured that tenants and landlords affected by building demolitions in the process will receive fair compensation.

Here are thirteen things to know about the Fourth Mainland Bridge:

1.⁠ ⁠The bridge, when completed, would become the second longest in Africa with three toll plazas, nine interchanges, a 4.5-kilometre Lagoon Bridge and an eco-friendly environment. The project will also give birth to the longest of all the bridges connecting Lagos Island to the mainland.

2. The Fourth Mainland Bridge is a 38km-long bridge project by the Lagos State Government, connecting Lagos Island through Langbasa and Baiyeku in Ikorodu across the Lagos Lagoon to Itamaga, in Ikorodu.

3.⁠ ⁠The construction of the bridge was initially slated for 2017 and was scheduled to be completed in 2019 with approximately N844 billion set aside for it then. However, the project did not commence at the set date.

4.⁠ ⁠The bridge is a 2 x 4 lane carriageway cross-sectional road with permission for Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) Lane and future road contraction.

5. The idea of the bridge was conceptualised by the government of former Governor Bola Ahmed Tinubu.

6. In December 2022, Lagos State through the Office of Public Private Partnership announced CCECC-CRCCIG CONSORTIUM as the preferred bidder for the proposed 4th Mainland Bridge project. The preferred bidder will execute the project according to plans presented by the state government.

7. The construction of the bridge will come 57 years after the state’s creation on May 27, 1967, and 34 years after the delivery of the Third Mainland Bridge in 1990.

8. The bridge was initially expected to be completed by 2019 but that never happened, Gov Sanwo-Olu has vowed however that construction will begin by the end of the first quarter of 2024.

9.  ⁠In 2021, it was said that the project, estimated to cost about $2.5 billion, would be delivered through public-private partnership initiative and tolled for two years.

10. ⁠In 2022, it was disclosed that the Fourth Mainland Bridge, upon commencement, was projected to be completed in 2027.

11.⁠ Eight roads, including the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway and Igbogbo-Lagos, would be aligned with the Fourth Mainland Bridge.

12.⁠ The bridge will serve as a complement to the Eko, Carter, and Third Mainland Bridges and help to reduce traffic.

13.⁠ ⁠⁠It is expected to span about 37 kilometers, starting from Abraham Adesanya in Ajah, on the Eti-Osa-Lekki-Epe corridor and traversing the North West towards the Lagoon shoreline of the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway via Owutu/Isawo in Ikorodu.

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