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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Seven in every 10 victims of road crashes are youths aged between 15 and 29, the Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC) has said. Mr Oludare Fadogba, its Commanding Officer in charge of Jos Zone, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Jos on Sunday that Road Traffic Crashes (RTCs) had remained the leading cause of deaths among youths.
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The Audu-Faleke political organisation has slammed the Governor Yahaya Bello-led government in Kogi State over the mind-boggling vehicle purchase bazaar involving the administration. In a statement on behalf of the group by its Director, Media and Publicity, Duro Meseko, they noted that it was the height of insensitivity to the current appalling plight of Kogi indigenes for the government to […]
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A commercial motorcyclist and his female passenger have been killed in a crash at the Sango end of the Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway. The accident involved a motorcycle, tricycle and a commercial bus. While the motorcyclist and the tricycle rider were heading for Sango, the commercial bus was said to be going to the Ijoko area of the state. The three were […]
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The ongoing strike by the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN) on Friday reduced loading activities at depots in Apapa, Lagos, raising the prospects of another round of supply challenges especially outside the South-West. Loading at Apapa depots, where many marketers load petroleum products to other states, was hampered by the non-availability of oil workers to […]
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Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Lagos Sector Command read the riot act to motorists and the general public to desist from taking laws into their hands. This is coming after the agency said its Road Marshals are being assaulted while carrying out their lawful duty in the state.
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