APM Terminals has unveiled new Truck Safety Programme featuring what the company described as “carefully researched and tested standard operating procedures for outside truck drivers delivering or picking up containers” The Company in a statement explained that the initiative would be put into effect by the end of 2016 throughout its global terminal network.
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CONCRETE ROAD: CEMENT MANUFACTURERS TASK FGN ON POLICY FRAMEWORK
In the drive towards attracting investments in the construction sector, aid local content and improve capacity utilization in the cement-manufacturing sector, the major cement producers have tasked the Federal Government on the need to formulate policies to encourage concrete pavements design. According to the manufacturers, concrete remains the most cost-effective road material on the basis of both initial and life-cycle […]
Continue reading »AJAH FLYOVER BRIDGE CONSTRUCTION: TRAFFIC DIVERSION STARTS TODAY
The Lagos State Government on Friday announced the commencement of the construction of Ajah Reinforced Concrete Flyover, just as it said that vehicular movement in and Around Ajah roundabout would henceforth be disallowed from Tuesday, June 7, 2016. The State’s Commissioner for Works and Infrastructure, Engr. Ganiyu Johnson, in a statement he signed said the Bridge which would be constructed […]
Continue reading »20 ESCAPE DEATH AS FUEL TANKER CRASHES INTO CARS, TRAILER IN ABA
Over 20 persons escaped death in Aba, Abia State, yesterday, when the brake of a fuel tanker failed and it crashed into two cars before ramming into a trailer as all the vehicles moved in the same direction. Vanguard gathered that the fuel tanker with registration number, Anambra: NEN 571 XA and the other vehicles including the trailer, a Mack […]
Continue reading »HOW N16BILLION MASS TRANSIT SURE-P FUND WAS SQUANDERED
Over N16billion of Subsidy Reinvestment and Empowerment Programme (SURE-P) funds released by the Goodluck Jonathan administration in 2012 for the Public Mass Transit Revolving Fund (PMTF) was squandered, the International Centre for Investigative Reporting icirnigeria.org has found. The fund, administered as a revolving loan by The Infrastructure Bank (TIB) was given out in form of Mass Transit Vehicles to 31 […]
Continue reading »CHISCO BUS: MAJOR DISASTER AVERTED
According to a report monitored via FRSC news update, what would have been another major disaster to hit a troubled Nation was averted in the early hours of today when a fully loaded 59 passenger-capacity luxury bus belonging to Chisco Transport veered off the road and landed in a ditch. Fortunately no life was lost. Fatigue on the part of […]
Continue reading »ABUJA-KADUNA RAIL LINE READY FOR COMMERCIAL USE IN JULY – AMAECHI
Minister of Transportation, Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi has assured that the Federal Government under President Muhammadu Buhari will ensure the sustenance of the Abuja-Kaduna rail project upon completion. “Is it sustainable? The answer is yes because it is on its own. If you say whether it will be subsidized, it will be. We are working out the details of how much […]
Continue reading »LAGOS MOBILE COURTS CONVICT 159 TRAFFIC OFFENDERS IN ONE WEEK
One hundred and fifty-nine traffic offenders in Lagos State have been convicted by the state mobile courts in the last seven days. Our correspondent learnt that 115 of the convicts were private car owners, while 30 were commercial drivers. Also, 10 tricycle owners and four motorcycle owners were among those convicted.
Continue reading »FRSC SETS UP SPECIAL INTERVENTION PATROL FOR OKENE-LOKOJA-GEGU ROAD
On Tuesday, the Zonal Commanding Officer, Federal Road Safety Corps, Zone RS8SQ, Assistant Corps Marshal John Meheux inaugurated the Special Intervention Patrol along the Okene-Zariagi-Lokoja-Koton Karfe-Gegu corridor to arrest the increasing rate of fatal road accidents. This corridor serves as gateway to about 26 states of the Federation and shares boundaries with the Federal Capital Territory.
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