LAMATA News

LAMATA Conference on Public Transportation opens in Lagos
As part of its commitment to ensure an efficient and effective transport system for Lagos State, the Lagos Metropolitan Area Transport Authority (LAMATA) is today flagging off its maiden Annual National Conference designed to create a platform for discussing transport challenges facing emerging megacities in Nigeria, especially Lagos. Read More...

Gov. Fashola dedicate Lagos BRT to Lagosians
In yet another demonstration of the Government of Lagos State to ease movement of people, Governor Babatunde Raji Fashola (SAN) has launched the Mile 12 – CMS Bus Rapid Transit (BRT Lite) system confirming its commitment to the implementation of an integrated inter-modal transport system. Read More...

Lagos BRT rolls off March 17
The first ever Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) system will commence operations in Lagos, Nigeria, on March 17, 2008, Managing Director of the Lagos Metropolitan Area Transport Authority (LAMATA), Dr. Dayo Mobereola has announced. Read More...

World Bank Vice President praises LAMATA
World Bank Vice President, Africa Region, Dr. Oby Ezekwesili has commended the efforts of the Lagos Metropolitan Area Transport Authority (LAMATA) in the quest of the Lagos State Government to reform the transport sector. Read More...

Fashola warns against road cutting
The Lagos State Government will henceforth prosecute anybody or organisation that deliberately cut roads in Lagos without government permission.

Governor Babatunde Raji Fashola gave the warning during the commissioning of the 2.2-kilometre Command Secondary School Road, Lagos rehabilitated by the Lagos Metropolitan Area Transport Authority (LAMATA). Read More...

Dr. Dayo Mobereola, Managing Director, Lagos Metropolitan Area Transport Authority (LAMATA), disclosed this in a chat, and informed that four water routes have been identified for the commencement of water transportation. Read More...

Drive carefully on Ikorodu Road, LAMATA boss advises motorists

Managing Director of the Lagos Metropolitan Area Transport Authority (LAMATA) Dr. Dayo Mobereola, has appealed to motorists driving on Ikorodu to exercise restraints while using the road now under reconstruction. Read More...

LAMATA boss assures of better, modern transport system
…Condoles with victims of Molue crash

The Managing Director of the Lagos Metropolitan Area Transport Authority (LAMATA) Dr. Dayo Mobereola has assured Lagosians of a better transport system before a new administration comes into the saddle in May this year. Read More...

Lagos State Government approves BRT on Mile 12 to TBS corridor

At last, Lagos residents will be heave a sigh of relief from the hectic transportation system as the first phase of the Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) project of the Lagos State Government gets underway. Read More...

LAMATA BEGINS RECONSTRUCTION OF AGBOYI, IJEGUN-EGBA JETTIES

The riverine communities of Agboyi in Agboyi-Ketu Local Council Development Area and Ijegun Egba in Oriade Local Council Development Area are being given a new lease of life by the Lagos Metropolitan Area Transport Authority (LAMATA) with the commencement of the rehabilitation of jetties serving them. Read More...

Railway: FG Must Provide Funding For Intra-State Links – LAMATA boss

For the proper functioning of the railway system, the Federal Government needed to collaborate with state governments by providing enough funds for those states embarking on intra-state railway links. Read More...

LAMATA Seeks Private Sector Investments In Transport

The quest to implement a world-class inter-modal transportation system has been taken to London where the Managing Director of the Lagos Metropolitan Area Transport Authority (LAMATA), Dr. Dayo Mobereola called on investors to invest on transportation in Lagos. Read More...

LAMATA Boss Wants Coordinated Plan On Road Repairs

Managing Director of the Lagos Metropolitan Area Transport Authority (LAMATA), Dr. Dayo Mobereola has advocated a coordinated plan between the Federal and state governments on the repair of Federal roads in their domain. Read More...

LAMATA boss wants coordinated plan on road repairs

Managing Director of the Lagos Metropolitan Area Transport Authority (LAMATA), Dr. Dayo Mobereola has advocated a coordinated plan between the Federal and state governments on the repair of Federal roads in their domain. Read More...

LAMATA Develops Rail Master Plan as Obasanjo approves Iddo-Alagbado Urban Rail Project

The Lagos Metropolitan Area Transport Authority (LAMATA) has developed a rail master plan, which would create seven rail lines for the city of Lagos. Read More...

LAMATA moves to repair Old Agege Motor Road

For thousands of commuters using the failing Old Agege Motor Road towards Abule Egba, help is on the way as the Lagos Metropolitan Area Transport Authority (LAMATA) is about effecting the repair of the vital road linking Agege with the Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway. Read More...

LAMATA commences road rehabilitation in Idi Araba

In its bid to ensure that all parts of Lagos Metropolis are linked within its network, the Lagos Metropolitan Area Transport Authority (LAMATA) has commenced the rehabilitation of roads in Idi Araba, in Mushin Council Area of the State. Read More...

Mobereola, LAMATA helmsman, canvasses transportation cost recovery

The Managing Director of Lagos Metropolitan Area Transport Authority (LAMATA), Dr. Dayo Mobereola, has advocated the need for a transportation recovery cost mechanism in Nigeria if the deplorable conditions of transportation infrastructure, especially roads, are to be effectively addressed. Read More...

LAMATA, ALABA MARKET TRADERS REACH CONSENSUS ON ROAD CLOSURE

In order to hasten construction work on the Alaba-Ojo-Igbede Road, the Lagos Metropolitan Area Transport Authority (LAMATA) and sectional heads at the Alaba International Market have agreed to close the Alaba International Market road to traffic for two weeks. Read More...

Council boss commends LAMATA over repair of Old Ojo road

The Chairman of Oriade local council development area, Prince Saliu Adio Shekoni has commended the Lagos Metropolitan Area Transport Authority (LAMATA) for taking over the rehabilitation of the 7.45-kilometre long Ojo road, which is already unleashing the business potential of the area held down by the damaged road. Read More...

LAMATA to tackle traffic congestion in Surulere

Traffic congestion at the Adeniran Ogunsanya Road intersection with Bode Thomas Road in Surulere will be reduced by the time the repairs being carried out by the Lagos Metropolitan Area Transport Authority (LAMATA) on damaged portions on Bode Thomas Road have been completed. Read More...

LAMATA rehabilitates Saka Tinubu, other roads in Victoria Island

Five core roads in Victoria Island are to be rehabilitated by the Lagos Metropolitan Area Transport Authority (LAMATA) as part of efforts by the transport agency to develop a network of roads that are core to public transportation and general vehicular movements. Read More...

Tinubu Okays Bus Franchise scheme on Iyana-Ipaja-Ikotun-Ijegun route

A Bus Franchise scheme designed to reform bus services in Lagos State has been endorsed by the Governor, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, who announced that the scheme would start on the Iyana-Ipaja-Ikotun-Ijegun route. Read More...

LAMATA Boss seeks collaboration with local government on road maintenance

The Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of the Lagos Metropolitan Area Transport Authority (LAMATA), Dr. Dayo Mobereola has sought the cooperation of local government chairmen, councillors and engineers in ensuring constant maintenance of roads to ease the problem of transportation in the state. Read More...

Tinubu commissions Ipakodo Road on Thursday

Lagos State Governor, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu will on February 2nd 2006 formally commission for use the 2.33-kilometre Oba Sekumade Road, Majidun/Ipakodo in Ikorodu West Local Council Development Area of the state. Read More...

Governor Tinubu pledges integrated public transportation system

Lagos State Governor, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has underscored moves being made by the state government to shift emphasis from the use of private vehicles and road transportation towards an integrated public transportation system worthy of one of the largest mega cities in the world. Read More...

Our road network will be motorable all-year round, LAMATA boss

The need to make roads under the Lagos Metropolitan Area Transport Authority, LAMATA, declared road network motorable all-year round has been reinforced by the authority’s Managing Director and Chief Executive, Dr. Dayo Mobereola. Read More...

LAMATA boss seeks enforcement of “no parking” on walkways

The Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of the Lagos Metropolitan Area Transport Authority, LAMATA, Dr. Dayo Mobereola, has enjoined local government chairmen to help enforce non-parking of vehicles on pedestrian walkways. Read More...

LAMATA boss harps on importance of the environment to governance

For any government to succeed, it must place the importance of the environment on its priority list, Managing Director/Chief Executive of the Lagos Metropolitan Area Transport Authority, LAMATA, Dr. Dayo Mobereola has stressed. Read More...

Alimosho council boss pledges support for LAMATA’s bus route franchise scheme

The chairman of Alimosho Local Government, Hon. Jimoh Ajao, has pledged the council’s support for the Lagos Metropolitan Area Transport Authority (LAMATA) Pilot Bus Route Franchise scheme, billed to come into operation in 2007. Read More...

New Fatai Atere Way lifts commerce, transport activities

Commercial and transportation businesses are upbeat on the hitherto abandoned Fatai Atere Way on which the Lagos Metropolitan Area Transport Authority, LAMATA, is carrying out major repair works. Read More...

New Ijegun road boosts economic activities

On the 3rd of June 2005, Ijegun, the sleepy community in the suburbs of Lagos State came alive as His Excellency Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Governor of Lagos State, commissioned the Ikotun/Ijegun. The 3.4-kilometer road was rehabilitated with N501 million in fulfillment of the electioneering promises of the State Governor to the people to develop an effective and efficient public transportation throughout the State. Read More...

World Bank chief commends LAMATA, okays projects

World Bank Director, Operational Quality and Knowledge services, Africa Region, Mr. Gerard Byam, has expressed satisfaction with road projects being executed by the Lagos Metropolitan Area Transport Authority (LAMATA) to ease transportation in the Lagos metropolis. Read More...

LAMATA to repair 101 roads in 2005

Ahead of this year’s rainy season, the Lagos Metropolitan Area Transport Authority (LAMATA) has slated about 101 roads for repairs and rehabilitation to ensure a hassle-free drive during the season. Read More...

LAMATA CHALLENGES BUSINESSMEN TO INVEST IN ASPHALT

The Lagos Metropolitan Area Transport Authority, LAMATA, has challenged private investors to plough money into asphalt production in the country. Read More...

State of Lagos Roads

Everywhere one turns to in the Lagos Metropolis, there is visible evidence of on-going road rehabilitation works being executed by Lagos State agencies, including LAMATA and its counterpart agencies, the protracted heavy rains notwithstanding. Read More...

Lamata Board Of Directors Tour Project Sites

The Board of Directors of the Lagos Metropolitan Area Transport Authority, LAMATA, recently went on a tour of various sites on which the organization is currently carrying out maintenance and rehabilitation works. Read More...

Lamata Has Not Dumped Light Rail System

There has been considerable curiosity by media correspondents of recent over a purported intention by the Lagos State government and Lagos Metropolitan Area Transport Authority, LAMATA, to “dump” the light rail system included in its transport reform plans. Read More...