A truck driver, Semiu Ayodele, 32, on Friday appeared before an Ikeja Chief Magistrates’ Court in Lagos, charged with theft of two pallets of Malta Guinness drinks valued N350,000.00. Ayodele, who resides at No. 12, Adetola Street, Sango, Ogun State, is facing a two-count charge of conspiracy and stealing. The prosecutor, Sgt. Joseph Ajebe, told the court that the offences […]
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The men of the Nigeria Customs Service, Ogun State Area Command, have impounded seven truck-loads of unprocessed wood, allegedly being exported out of the country illegally. The vehicles, with foreign number plates, majorly of the Republic of Benin, were said to have been intercepted last Friday by customs operatives in the Ijoun area, in the Yewa North Local Government Area […]
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The Lagos Mobile courts were busy at different locations in the metropolis Monday trying suspects arrested for different offences bordering on traffic and environmental offences. At Ikeja, the Court under magistrate Nurudeen Layeni convicted 15 offenders, 12 were arrested for street trading and were fined N3000 each or 1 month imprisonment while two others were convicted for street fighting that […]
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It was bloodbath on the highway when no fewer than 30 male passengers died in the Adeosun area of the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway on Sunday after a trailer conveying them tumbled down the road. Over 50 other people sustained varying degrees of injuries in the crash, while two rams were killed. The accident occurred on the portion of the expressway which had […]
Continue reading »Some truck drivers operating at the Lagos ports in Lagos recently expressed deep concern over growing trend of extortion by the government agencies at the ports. The drivers, in separate interviews with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), said the extortion was responsible for the unending vehicular traffic in the vicinity of the port. A driver, Mr Sadiq Alade, told […]
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No fewer than four persons were in the early hours of yesterday sent to their early grave, when a truck sped off the Agege Motor road and smashed into some vehicles packed on the roadside in the opposite direction. The deceased and some six others currently in the hospital were passing the night inside three Volkswagen buses, popularly called Danfo […]
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If a rapid development must be achieved in Nigeria’s haulage industry, the General Manager, SIFAX Haulage and Logistics Limited, Saheed Lasisi, has declared that stakeholders must of necessity embrace mergers and strict enforcement of standards. In a recent interview monitored through The Guardian, Lasisi was reportedly quoted as saying that the haulage industry in the country is an ‘’emerging” one, […]
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The Anambra State Government on Thursday announced its plan to restrict articulated vehicles from plying its roads between the hours of 6am and 7pm to prevent road crashes. The state Commissioner for Transport, Ifeanyichukwu Ejikeme, said this during an interview with our correspondent in Awka, the state capital. He explained that the state had earmarked N2bn to build truck parks […]
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The Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR), Warri Zonal Office on Thursday said it had impounded a truckload of petroleum over alleged diversion of products, just as it sealed 15 petrol stations over offences bordering on under-dispensing, hoarding and receiving diverted products in Delta and environs. The Assistant Director of Operations, DPR Warri Zonal Office, Mr. Ovadje Obukaroro, who confirmed this, […]
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The Infrastructure Bank (TIB) has reassured motorists using the Lagos-Ibadan express road of speedy completion of the N167 billion road project. This was disclosed in a statement made available to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos on Friday. The statement quoted the bank’s Managing Director, Mr. Kunle Oyinloye, as assuring motorists not to be despaired by the current […]
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The Chairman, Nigerians Against Theft In the Maritime Sector (NATIMS), Dr. Jonas Bankole, on Monday said some private jetty operators still allowed illegal discharge by ships in their terminals. Bankole made the disclosure while speaking with newsmen in Lagos. He said that the development constituted a major revenue leakage for the Federal Government. In a statement earlier released by the […]
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The Nigerian Postal Service, NIPOST has revealed that it intercepted financial instruments worth over N83. 9 billion in foreign currencies meant for illegal transfers from January to December, 2015. The acting postmaster general of the service, Enoch Ade Ogun revealed this in his 2016 Pan African post day celebration message in Abuja. Ogun, in his remarks, stated that the monetary […]
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