TRAGEDY AVERTED AS TANKER FALLS OFF AIRPORT ROAD BRIDGE, CRASHES INTO BUSES

Many people avoided death by the whiskers yesterday as a petrol tanker skidded off the bridge at Toyota bus-stop, Apapa-Oshodi Expressway on its way to Airport Road and fell on three commercial buses parked at the bus stop. The accident occurred around 4:30p.m. Thankfully, no live was lost in the incident as the diesel-laden tanker crushed everything in its sight, […]

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FRSC DEPLOYS PERSONNEL, LOGISTICS TO ACCIDENT-PRONE ROUTES AGAINST EID-EL-FITRI

The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) on Sunday deployed 20,000 personnel including special marshals, as well as 500 patrol vehicles, 50 ambulances, 85 motor bikes, and 15 tow trucks to accident-prone routes as part of measures to ensure sanity on the nation’s highways during the Eid-el-Fitri Sallah. In statement made available to the media in Abuja, the Head of Media […]

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USED CAR IMPORTATION: LOCAL AUTOMAKERS DEMAND FULL IMPLEMENTATION OF 70% TARIFF

The Federal Government and local automobile manufacturers have disagreed on the enforcement of a 70 per cent tariff on imported used vehicles. While the latter want the Federal government to commence the enforcement with immediate effect the second phase of the imposed 35 per cent tariff on imported used vehicles to discourage their importation, the government says it will only […]

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ONE YEAR ON, PARENTS OF 11 STUDENTS CRUSHED TO DEATH BY TRUCK AWAIT JUSTICE

It was exactly one year yesterday that the lives of 11 students of Olabisi Onabanjo University (OOU), Ago-Iwoye, Ogun State, were prematurely cut short in a fatal motor accident. They were crushed to death by a container-laden truck on Friday, June 26, 2015, which they boarded from the Lagos garage in Ijebu-Ode. The victims, Asade Christianah Ibukun, Law 200 level; […]

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