The Ogun State Police Command on Sunday arrested four truck hijackers in the Ijebu area of the state, and recovered the truck and the goods inside intact. The suspects had reportedly hijacked a truck with number plate, EPE 72 XJ, loaded with new tyres, in Lagos and were travelling to the eastern part of the country, before they were intercepted […]
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NPA CERTIFIES 1,500 TRUCKS, SETS UP COMMITTEE TO INVESTIGATE ALLEGED EXTORTION OF TRUCK DRIVERS
The Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) has certified not less than 1,500 trucks as part of measures to enforce minimum standards for operators at Lagos seaports According to NPA, the development is expected to bring sanity to the movement of goods within and around the ports. Speaking at a meeting with representatives of Association of Nigerian Licensed Customs Agents (ANLCA) and […]
Continue reading »TRUCK DRIVER IN COURT OVER ALLEGED THEFT OF DRINKS WORTH N350,000.00
A truck driver, Semiu Ayodele, 32, on Friday appeared before an Ikeja Chief Magistrates’ Court in Lagos, charged with theft of two pallets of Malta Guinness drinks valued N350,000.00. Ayodele, who resides at No. 12, Adetola Street, Sango, Ogun State, is facing a two-count charge of conspiracy and stealing. The prosecutor, Sgt. Joseph Ajebe, told the court that the offences […]
Continue reading »OGUN CUSTOMS IMPOUND SEVEN TRUCK-LOADS OF SMUGGLED WOOD
The men of the Nigeria Customs Service, Ogun State Area Command, have impounded seven truck-loads of unprocessed wood, allegedly being exported out of the country illegally. The vehicles, with foreign number plates, majorly of the Republic of Benin, were said to have been intercepted last Friday by customs operatives in the Ijoun area, in the Yewa North Local Government Area […]
Continue reading »LAGOS MOBILE COURTS GET BUSY: CONVICT SUSPECTS FOR DIFFERENT OFFENCES
The Lagos Mobile courts were busy at different locations in the metropolis Monday trying suspects arrested for different offences bordering on traffic and environmental offences. At Ikeja, the Court under magistrate Nurudeen Layeni convicted 15 offenders, 12 were arrested for street trading and were fined N3000 each or 1 month imprisonment while two others were convicted for street fighting that […]
Continue reading »DISASTER! 30 DIE AS SPEEDING TRAILER TUMBLES DOWN EXPRESSWAY
It was bloodbath on the highway when no fewer than 30 male passengers died in the Adeosun area of the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway on Sunday after a trailer conveying them tumbled down the road. Over 50 other people sustained varying degrees of injuries in the crash, while two rams were killed. The accident occurred on the portion of the expressway which had […]
Continue reading »EXTORTION BY GOVERNMENT AGENCIES TERRIFY TRUCK OWNERS, DRIVERS
Some truck drivers operating at the Lagos ports in Lagos recently expressed deep concern over growing trend of extortion by the government agencies at the ports. The drivers, in separate interviews with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), said the extortion was responsible for the unending vehicular traffic in the vicinity of the port. A driver, Mr Sadiq Alade, told […]
Continue reading »TRUCK CRUSHES FOUR TO DEATH IN MUSHIN
No fewer than four persons were in the early hours of yesterday sent to their early grave, when a truck sped off the Agege Motor road and smashed into some vehicles packed on the roadside in the opposite direction. The deceased and some six others currently in the hospital were passing the night inside three Volkswagen buses, popularly called Danfo […]
Continue reading »HAULAGE INDUSTRY MUST EMBRACE MERGERS AND ENFORCEMENT OF STANDARDS FOR RAPID GROWTH
If a rapid development must be achieved in Nigeria’s haulage industry, the General Manager, SIFAX Haulage and Logistics Limited, Saheed Lasisi, has declared that stakeholders must of necessity embrace mergers and strict enforcement of standards. In a recent interview monitored through The Guardian, Lasisi was reportedly quoted as saying that the haulage industry in the country is an ‘’emerging” one, […]
Continue reading »ANAMBRA TO RESTRICT TRAILER MOVEMENT ON ROADS, PLANS N2BILLION TRAILER PARKS
The Anambra State Government on Thursday announced its plan to restrict articulated vehicles from plying its roads between the hours of 6am and 7pm to prevent road crashes. The state Commissioner for Transport, Ifeanyichukwu Ejikeme, said this during an interview with our correspondent in Awka, the state capital. He explained that the state had earmarked N2bn to build truck parks […]
Continue reading »TRUCK SEIZED, 15 PETROL STATIONS SEALED BY DPR IN DELTA STATE
The Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR), Warri Zonal Office on Thursday said it had impounded a truckload of petroleum over alleged diversion of products, just as it sealed 15 petrol stations over offences bordering on under-dispensing, hoarding and receiving diverted products in Delta and environs. The Assistant Director of Operations, DPR Warri Zonal Office, Mr. Ovadje Obukaroro, who confirmed this, […]
Continue reading »INFRASTRUCTURE BANK RESTATES COMMITMENT TO COMPLETION OF LAGOS-IBADAN EXPRESSWAY
The Infrastructure Bank (TIB) has reassured motorists using the Lagos-Ibadan express road of speedy completion of the N167 billion road project. This was disclosed in a statement made available to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos on Friday. The statement quoted the bank’s Managing Director, Mr. Kunle Oyinloye, as assuring motorists not to be despaired by the current […]
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