Some suspected illegal oil transporters and their tankers were on Tuesday, January 16, 2018, handed over to the Uyo Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) for proper investigation and possible prosecution.
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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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APM Terminals Apapa has said it is a victim of the menacing Apapa gridlock, just like other stakeholders doing business in the port community.
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The National Association of Road Transport Owners (NARTO) has supported calls for the establishment of the Truck Transit Parks (TTPs), to reduce fatigue and accidents for long-distance truck drivers in the country.
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The operatives of the Rapid Response Squad (RRS) of the Lagos State Police Command have arrested two suspected robbers who specialise in attacking and robbing motorists and commuters in Mile 2 area of Lagos State.
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There was a time when truck driver Kevin Kimmel knew little about the scourge of human trafficking. That all changed when he pulled into a gas station in New Kent County, Virginia, on the morning of January 6, 2015. Kimmel recalls a quiet scene with few other people around. Yet a “kind of unusual” family recreational vehicle parked nearby caught […]
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The Lagos State Government has warned drivers of trucks and other articulated vehicles against speeding and harassing of other road users. The government said it would intensify the enforcement of the Lagos State Traffic Law 2012 to reduce accidents as the year ended. The Chief Executive Officer of the Lagos State Drivers Institute, Philip Ogunlade, spoke at a sensitisation organised […]
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Lafarge Africa Plc has inaugurated a logistics academy to train drivers, transport company owners, employees and other stakeholder groups involved in the logistics process of its business. The Group Managing Director, Lafarge Africa, Mr. Michel Puchercos, said the academy was conceptualised to move the operations of the company and its key stakeholders to a proficient level, towards impacting the business […]
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The Diversion For 24-year-old Osas Uwagie, an indigene of Edo State and a tanker driver, nothing better explains why he diverted a tanker loaded with 33 thousand litres of diesel than bad company. Osas who was said to have been recruited by a Lagos-based oil and gas firm (name withheld) was en-route Abuja to supply the said products. He, however, diverted […]
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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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Transport workers of Dangote Group of Industries have made a passionate plea to the management to improve their working conditions to make life better for them. The drivers were reacting to a recent advertorial in some national daily newspapers where the management of Dangote Industries Limited offered to pay N500,000 as reward to anybody with useful information that could lead […]
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Capacity building or training for Truck Drivers has never been one of the strong points of haulage companies in Nigeria. Many believe that training truck drivers is none other than a clear waste of scarce resources. Some even believe that Truck Drivers are ‘untrainable’! (We will be coming up with an extensive study of this unhealthy paradigm in some weeks’ […]
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