The Corps Marshal of the Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC), Mr. Boboye Oyeyemi, has said Nigeria lost three per cent of its Gross Domestic Product (GDP) to road accident in 2015. The loss, according to him, amounts to $131,817,676,080, adding that the economic losses have been grievous and monumental.
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LAGOS MOVES TO FURTHER RESOLVE THIRD MAINLAND BRIDGE GRIDLOCK
The Lagos State Government says it has started the construction of an alternative road from the Olopomeji area to further decongest the gridlock in the Iyana Oworoshoki area leading to the Third Mainland Bridge. The Commissioner for Transportation, Dr Dayo Mobereola, who spoke in Alausa, Ikeja, on Monday, explained that the move was part of efforts to end gridlock on […]
Continue reading »SOLDIERS VANDALISE KAI VEHICLE OVER ARREST
An operational vehicle of the Lagos State Kick Against Indiscipline has been allegedly vandalised by rampaging soldiers in the Ojuelegba area of the state. The soldiers, who reportedly queried KAI officials for arresting a trader and his wheelbarrow, allegedly smashed the windscreen and wing mirrors of the vehicle.
Continue reading »DRIVER, ARRESTED FOR TRAFFIC OFFENCE, CRUSHES LASTMA OFFICIAL
A taxi driver, Sunday Agbariko, has crushed an official of the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority, identified as Olayemi Isiaka. Agbariko crushed Isiaka’s leg on Monday at the Ojota yard of the agency while attempting to escape with his car that had been impounded.
Continue reading »ROBBERS ATTACK CBN BULLION VANS, KILL TWO POLICEMEN
Two mobile policemen were killed in the early hours of Tuesday at Hawan Kibo along Jos-Abuja road as armed robbers attacked a convoy of bullion vans belonging to the Central Bank of Nigeria. Our correspondent gathered that the bullion vans and their retinue of armed mobile policemen escorts had left Jos in the early hours of Tuesday enroute Abuja.
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