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Magboro Gas Leakage: NNPC depressurizes, isolates rupture pipeline
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By Prince Okafor
As a move to control the gas pipeline breakage along Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has isolated and depressurized the pipeline.
This came even as the corporation assured of safety around the scene of the gas pipeline rupture.
The gas pipeline breakage which occurred at the early of Wednesday had created panic along with gridlock around the axis, forcing motorist into an alternative route.
According to the Federal Road Safety Corps, Corridor Commander, Lagos-Ibadan-Egbeda Corridor, DCC Kehinde Hamzat, “We have a case of gas pipeline explosion around Punch Newspaper, Magboro. The pipeline got burst while men of Julius Berger, the construction company working on Lagos-Ibadan expressway were excavating a surface for Worksite. This has led to a standstill traffic situation on both sections of the expressway.
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Festus Eze, a motorist and resident of Kano State, said he had witnessed the banditry along the Abuja-Kaduna and the Lokoja-Okene roads.
by SaharaReporters, New York
Dec 16, 2020
Nigerian motorists have identified about ten most insecure and dangerous roads across the country, as travellers continue to face abduction and armed robbery on the roads.
Those who spoke to SaharaReporters lamented that deadly attacks on major roads had increased.
A motorist in Niger State, Sarki Ahmed, identified the Birnin-Gwari and Abuja-Kaduna roads as flashpoints for gruesome activities of kidnappers and armed robbers.
Those who spoke to SaharaReporters lamented that deadly attacks on major roads had increased.
by SaharaReporters, New York
Dec 15, 2020
Nigerian motorists have identified about ten most insecure and dangerous roads across the country, as travellers continue to face abduction and armed robbery on the roads.
Those who spoke to SaharaReporters lamented that deadly attacks on major roads had increased.
A motorist in Niger State, Sarki Ahmed, identified the Birnin-Gwari and Abuja-Kaduna roads as flashpoints for gruesome activities of kidnappers and armed robbers.
“The situation now in Niger State is terrible,” Ahmed told SaharaReporters. “The Birnin-Gwari Road is the most dangerous in the North-West for now, and that is the road that connects from Niger to Kaduna. Bandits have their branch on that road. Immediately they stop cars, they kidnap people, and they are still doing that.
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Olusegun Ogungbemide, Lagos state FRSC sector commander, disclosed this while lamenting the gridlock caused by police officers along Ibafo area on the expressway.
According to NAN, Ogungbemide said the police officers, who were part of a convoy, had engaged in one-way driving, causing a major traffic jam.
He said the police officers threatened to shoot at the FRSC operatives who requested that they follow the right lane to ease the gridlock.
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“The FRSC personnel on traffic control noticed a standstill traffic situation on the outward Lagos section of the Lagos-Ibadan expressway and made efforts to track the cause of the heavy movement,” he said.