Students of the Kogi State University, Anyigba on Thursday grounded activities in the state capital, Lokoja by protesting against the long strike by members of Academic Staff Union of Universities. The students in their thousands occupied the popular Ganaja Junction, blocking roads as earlier as 7:30am, thereby disrupting activities in some part of the town. The angry students demanded the […]
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Commuters plying the ever-busy Benin-Auchi-Okenne Highway are groaning as a result of the pains they experience travelling through the road due to its dilapidated state, especially the four kilometres stretch after the Benin bypass, Obagie, Iruekpen, Ekpoma, Ewu, Jattu and Okpella axis. In fact, it is not possible for any vehicle to drive for two minutes without encountering bad spots, […]
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Hundreds of commuters plying the Kaduna–Abuja Road were on Wednesday stranded as angry motorists blocked the road following the accidental killing of a traveller by men of the Department of State Security (DSS) along the expressway. It was learnt that the victim and her five children who boarded a commercial vehicle from Abuja to Kaduna was hit by a stray […]
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The police have arraigned eight men, including four teenagers, before an Ebute-Meta Magistrate’s Court for allegedly vandalising 48 BRT buses during a protest. The cost of repairs of the vandalised vehicles was estimated at N139m. It would be recalled that about two weeks ago, a 22-year-old hawker, John Nnamdi, was crushed to death at the Maryland end of the Ikorodu […]
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Barely few weeks after NIPCO Plc reopened its seven Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) Filling Stations in Benin, Edo State, after they were shutdown for several days by aggrieved motorists in protest against the hike in price of gas, the motorists are threatening fresh showdown with the company, THISDAY has learnt. Over 4,000 motorists, who use CNG as vehicular fuel […]
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No fewer than six students of Ekiti State University, Ado Ekiti, are feared dead in an auto crash involving a car and a commercial bus on Monday. The accident occurred around 7.30pm in front of the institution’s main gate. An eyewitness account said that six persons died from the impact of an head-on collision of the two vehicles.
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Many youths have continued with street trading and hawking in the traffic despite the stance of the state government to go tough on anyone doing so. A few days after Governor Akinwunmi Ambode stated his resolve to enforce an existing law prohibiting these activities, the bustle of street trading has not disappeared. Following the crisis provoked by the death of […]
Continue reading »Duties on shipping business at the ports have shot up astronomically in the wake of the new flexible foreign exchange rate policy of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN). Already, the Federal Government has launched the implementation of the new policy, which customs and clearing agents lament has hiked duties by about 40 per cent. The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) […]
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At least 10 people were killed Tuesday in a head-on collision between two trains in the southern Italian region of Puglia, fire service officials said. Footage showed emergency services racing to extract people from the wreckage of smashed carriages thrown across a single track near the town of Andria, near Bari. The chief of the firefighting service in Bari said […]
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Irked by two major accidents involving his buses which claimed 22 lives in Abia and Bayelsa states, Management of Peace Mass Transit (PMT) yesterday threatened to henceforth sack and prosecute any driver that consumes alcohol while driving on the roads. The company reeled other disciplinary as well as precautionary measures against drivers to checkmate the increasing spate of road traffic […]
Continue reading »The Oyo State Police Command on Saturday said it would arraign all the arrested transporters and other suspects who were involved in the Friday clash between two rival transport unions in Ibadan, the state capital. The peace in the city was tainted with violence on Friday, as members of the National Union of Road Transport Workers and the Road Transport […]
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The Acting Managing Director, Nigerian Railway Corporation, (NRC), Engr. Fidet Okhiria, speaks on the railway infrastructure development plans of the Federal Government in this interview with Punch Correspondent. What are the economic benefits of the proposed Lagos-Calabar rail tracks? Without a good transport and logistics system, the commerce of a country cannot progress. Lagos-Calabar is targeting all […]
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