Federal Road Safety Corps has announced that it was not going back on its plan to commence the enforcement of the installation of speed limiting device by commercial and haulage vehicles operators in Nigeria from April 1. Sector Commander of the FRSC, Federal Capital Territory, Mr. Sunday Oghenekaro, who made this known while speaking to newsmen in Abuja, urged commercial […]
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The Ogun State Police Command on Sunday arrested four truck hijackers in the Ijebu area of the state, and recovered the truck and the goods inside intact. The suspects had reportedly hijacked a truck with number plate, EPE 72 XJ, loaded with new tyres, in Lagos and were travelling to the eastern part of the country, before they were intercepted […]
Continue reading »The Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) has certified not less than 1,500 trucks as part of measures to enforce minimum standards for operators at Lagos seaports According to NPA, the development is expected to bring sanity to the movement of goods within and around the ports. Speaking at a meeting with representatives of Association of Nigerian Licensed Customs Agents (ANLCA) and […]
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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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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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