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3rd Mainland Bridge Is Getting Weak, It Might Collapse At Anytime (Shocking Video)

The Third-Mainland Bridge is one of the three bridges linking Lagos Island to the mainland. It was named Third-Mainland Bridge because it is the third of the three bridges that connects Lagos Island with the Mainland – the other two being the Eko and Carter Bridges.

The Third-Mainland Bridge is the longest of the three bridges. The Third-Mainland bridge starts from Oworonshoki which is linked to the Apapa-Oshodi expressway and Lagos-Ibadan expressway, and ends at the Adeniji Adele Interchange on Lagos Island.

DMW’s star rapper, Dremo took to Instagram page sharing a video of a dilapidated Third mainland bridge. He wrote: “The 3rd mainland bridge is getting weak, this is something we need to fix!! #SaveLifes cc @jidesanwoolu @akinwunmiambode @profosinbajo @muhammadubuhari !!”.

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The 3rd mainland bridge is getting weak , this is something we need to fix!! #SaveLifes cc @jidesanwoolu @akinwunmiambode @profosinbajo @muhammadubuhari !!

A post shared by 𝘿𝙍𝙀𝙈𝙊 (@dremodrizzy) on Apr 16, 2019 at 4:44am PDT

The Third-Mainland Bridge has a total length of 11.8 km. It was the longest bridge in Africa until 1996 when the 20.5 km long “6th October Bridge” located in Cairo, Egypt was completed in 1996. It is the longest Bridge longest in West Africa. The official name of the bridge is “Ibrahim Babangida Bridge”. However, the bridge is rarely called by that name.

The Third-Mainland Bridge is an eight-lane bridge. It offers breath-taking views of the Lagos Lagoon, the University of Lagos Waterfront and Makoko, a shanty town built on the Lagos Lagoon. Less than N1Billion naira was spent by the Babangida administration to complete the Third Mainland Bridge after the abandoned project was restarted. In 2013, N1.05billion was spent on repair works on the Third Mainland Bridge and additional works on the bridge’s expansion joints.

Recall that the Lagos State Government temporarily shut down the Third Mainland Bridge from midnight of August 23 to midnight of August 26, 2018, for Investigative Maintenance Test to be carried out. The State’s Commissioner for Works and Infrastructure, Mr Ade Akinsanya, in a statement appealed for the cooperation, support and understanding of all motorists and residents during the closure.

Akinsanya said: “The 3rd Mainland Bridge which was opened about 30 years ago by the then military government has had haphazard maintenance and repairs in the past which the present Federal Government is committed to correct by carrying out proper and continuous maintenance and repairs on it.”

The four-day closure, according to Akinsanya, was to enable the contractors to assess the true state of the bridge after which works would commence by the end of the year (2018) or early in 2019.

Let’s hope it doesn’t collapse… And pray the government responds swiftly.
Source: ambassadorofi.blogspot.com