Bella Ifasola
Lagos – A man has been arrested for vandalising a segment of the Third Mainland Bridge railings in Nigeria’s Lagos State, police said on Wednesday.
Yakubu Yusuf was arrested following information received by Onikan Division of the Lagos State Police Command on the activities of some vandals operating along the Old School of Nursing area of the Third Mainland Bridge.
The police command wrote on social media platform X: “Officers of Onikan Division after receiving information of the activities of some vandals who were vandalizing the railings of the bridge by Old School of Nursing inward Third Mainland Bridge, arrested one Yakubu Yusuf ‘m’ aged 28 and twenty one (21) long pieces of aluminum railings were recovered.
“Investigation is on to arrest other fleeing suspects.”
Third Mainland Bridge is the longest of three bridges connecting Lagos Island to the mainland, the others are the Eko and Carter bridges.
It was the longest bridge in Africa until 1996 when the 6th October Bridge located in Cairo was completed. The 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.