 The governor of Lagos State, Babajideh Sawaloo, on Saturday reopened the Apogba Bridge in the state over 15 months after a fire outbreak at the market in Iit and Varend. Road users and motorists around the area were thrown into panic on the 23rd of March when an elite man in fire broke out at Apogba markets destroying several wooden shops. Vehicles packed under the bridge were also raced by the inferno which enveloped a large section of the bridge. Following the fire outbreak, the Lagos State government shut the co-bridge with alternative routes and asked for diverting traffic and for the safety of motorists. This is to formally let all our citizens, especially users of the Apogba and of the co-bridge that after a very extensive repair work that the federal minister works at the back of the point in collaboration and with support from the Lagos State government, we have seen the effects of a collaborative effort. A lot of you would have wanted this to happen earlier than now but because of the extent of work that has to be done on the bridge, because of the extent of the destruction that happened on the bridge, we cannot take the risk to have opened it earlier before now. And so it's with great delight that we have done a compressive test with the contractors from Federal Ministry of Works and we believe that this end, this portion of Apogba of the co-bridge will now be fit for motorists. Like has been said, the work has not ended. This part has been completed but the work on the entire bridge has not been completed. There are lots of other bearings that still have to be done on the entire stretch of the bridge going all the way to Alaka. So what the Federal Ministry of Works have worked with us is that in future there will be closure or very, very short closure, very, very short closure that probably will not be more than a week, two weeks, or three weeks at different sections so that they can jack up the bridge, the other part will be incomplete. So you get notified about fresh news updates.