The Rapid Response Squad of the Lagos State Police Command has arrested two suspected members of a car-snatching syndicate. The RRS officials were said to have recovered eight stolen vehicles from the suspects, who reportedly stole vehicles in different parts of the state and transferred them to Abeokuta, Ogun State, where they repainted and resold them.
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No fewer than six passengers were killed and 12 others injured in a motor accident along Anyigba-Ajaokuta road on Saturday. An eye witness account told our correspondent that the accident, which involved a Toyota bus with registration number MKD 841 XA and A Golf car with registration number LKJ 335 CV, occurred at Ojuwo-Olijo in Ofu LGA of Kogi State.
Continue reading »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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Uncertainty is dogging in the supply of petroleum products for local consumption as some banks overseas have suspended short and medium-term credit lines to their Nigerian counterparts due to the inability of marketers to pay matured foreign currency obligations of over $950 million. The Guardian learnt at the weekend that unless the Federal Government intervened in the payment of the […]
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While the FRSC’s free safety checks continue across the country, with a future possibility of clampdown on users of fairly used tyres, the popular Tokunbo tyre market on Alhaji Amusa Street, Mushin, Lagos, is still booming with business activities. On a visit to the place recently, a 40-ft container, laden with Tokunbo tyres was seen offloading. Buyers were on hand, […]
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The Federal Government few days ago signed an agreement with the China Civil Engineering Construction Company (CCECC) for the construction of the Lagos-Calabar coastal railway line at $11.117billion Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Chibuike Amaechi said the first segment of the rail line, which comprises Calabar, Uyo, Aba and Port-Harcourt will be ready within two years.
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The Lagos State Government on Wednesday disclosed that it had effectively restructured N25.3 billion credit facility, which local and international lenders granted it to buy back the Lekki Concession Company (LCC), the concessionaire of the Lekki-Epe expressway.
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It was mayhem in Maryland, Lagos today as irate mob descended on and extensively damaged close to 20 BRT buses following the death of a street hawker who was said to have been knocked down, allegedly by a BRT bus. The damaged BRT buses were among the recently procured buses injected into the BRT Scheme and managed by Primero Transport […]
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As part of measures to support Nigeria’s National Automotive Industry Development Plan (NAIDP, representative of Suzuki Motors in Nigeria, Boulos Enterprises Limited said it will soon begin to roll out Suzuki vehicle in the country. The organisation, which ceased its representation of a three-wheeler, Piaggio earlier in the year, told The Guardian in Lagos that it has made progress in […]
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The Nigerian Railway Corporation says it has increased its capacity for goods haulage, especially dry products, in the Lagos district with the intention to capture more freight business this year. It also said the corporation planned to improve its movement of petroleum products as more oil companies showed interest in using the train to transport their products across the country.
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No fewer than 1,000 bus drivers staged a protest march through the streets of Ilorin on Monday over the arrest of one their members by the Kwara State Road and Traffic Management Agency. The driver was said to have been arrested by the officials of KWARTMA for allegedly flouting traffic regulations. He was said to have contacted his colleagues who […]
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No fewer than 25 persons have been seriously injured after an overloaded truck belonging to Dangote Cement rammed into seven vehicles at the Odukpani Junction in Cross River State. The truck, which was reportedly overloaded with bags of cement, was said to have lost control due to the recklessness of the driver. The unregistered truck, which had the number ICT-11F-050 […]
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