Lagos State Government has acquired a large land at Ojo for construction of a trailer park to tackle gridlock in Apapa and other areas caused by indiscriminate parking of articulated vehicles.
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The Truck Transit Parks [TTP] project planned by the Nigeria Shippers’ Council [NSC] is estimated to cost N4.8 billion. Minister of Transportation Rotimi Amaechi said at NSC’s breakfast meeting in Lagos recently that the Truck Transit Parks are to be located in eight places around the country.
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It is indeed inscrutable why authorities in Abuja and most state capitals have not been serious about finding a lasting solution to the menace haulage trailers and trucks have constituted to road users across the country. Have the authorities been helpless, complicit or clueless? These are the pertinent questions one can ask, especially in Lagos (nation’s commercial capital) where the […]
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Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Ibe Kachikwu, has called for support of business mogul, Aliko Dangote, in building Truck Transit Parks (TTPs) across the country.
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In an attempt to curb the menace of heavy goods vehicles (HGVs) on the federal highway corridors, the Minister of Transportation, Mr. Chibuike Rotimi Ameachi, on Tuesday disclosed that the federal government is set to establish truck transit parks on major routes and roads within the country.
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The Federal Ministry of Transportation in collaboration with the Nigerian Shippers’ Council (NSC) and Kings Communications Limited have concluded plans for a two-day national summit on establishment, management and operations of Transit Truck Parks, TTPs, in Nigeria.
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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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