The Corps Marshal of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Mr Boboye Oyeyemi, on Monday said all commercial vehicles coming into the country from January 1, 2017 must be fitted with speed limiter. Oyeyemi stated this in Kaduna when he visited the FRSC Sector Command for routine interaction with personnel to strengthen operational duties and general service delivery. Oyeyemi represented […]
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SENATE PASSES MOTION TO BRING BACK TOLL GATES
The Senate has passed a motion for the reintroduction of toll gates on Federal roads in the country. In the motion, Suleiman Nazif, a Senator from Bauchi North, who sponsored it, expressed dismay over the state of roads in the country, saying they had become a “national shame and embarrassment”. He said the re-establishment of toll gates would solve “the […]
Continue reading »HISTORY IS MADE AS FIRST SHIPMENT USING SELF-DRIVING TRUCK TAKES PLACE
The road to autonomous trucking reached a major milestone with the announcement on Tuesday of the completion of the world’s first shipment using a self-driving truck by Otto and Budweiser. If you’re in Colorado Springs, you might buy a can of beer that was shipped by a self-driving (Autonomous) truck.
Continue reading »60-YEAR-OLD DRIVER RAPES MENTAL PATIENT
There was chaos at Iya Abiodun bus stop, Ifo, Ogun State, after a security guard, Abdullahi Muhammed, caught a 60-year-old trailer driver, Lawal Bankole, allegedly having sex with his wife, Tope, on their matrimonial bed. The two men could have killed each other but for the intervention of residents who separated them. The suspect was said to have fled the […]
Continue reading »NIGERIA COMMITTED TO TRANS-SAHARA HIGHWAY PROJECT – FASHOLA
The Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Mr Babatunde Fashola, says that the Federal Government is committed to the dualisation of the entire section of the trans Sahara route in Nigeria. The minister gave the assurance while declaring open the 65th session of the Trans Saharan Road Liaison Session on Monday in Abuja. Fashola, who was represented at the occasion […]
Continue reading »NSCDC ARRESTS TANKER DRIVER FOR ADULTERATING FUEL
The Lagos State Command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps has arrested a driver, Adebiyi Yusuf, for allegedly engaging in illegal oil bunkering and adulteration of diesel. Thirty-two-year old Yusuf was apprehended along with one Paul Ifeakandu on Saturday on the premises of a complex on Jimoh Odutola Street, Surulere, Lagos, where they were reportedly selling the product. […]
Continue reading »TRUCK KILLS MOTHER, CHILDREN IN IBADAN
Four persons were killed in Oja Oba Market in Ibadan, Oyo State, on Tuesday after the driver of a truck with number plate, AGL 883 XQ, lost control of the truck and rammed into vehicles and the victims. Several other people were said to have sustained varying degrees of injury in the accident. An unidentified woman and her two children […]
Continue reading »DRIVER ABSCONDS WITH N7.2M FUEL, GIRLFRIEND, GUARANTOR REMANDED
The police in Lagos have arrested a 25-year-old woman, Joy Okeke, after her boyfriend, Ofoagbu Ekene, reportedly diverted 40,000 litres of diesel worth N7.2m and fled. Okeke was apprehended along with a teacher, Lukman Kelani, who was said to have stood as a guarantor of the fleeing suspect at Northbridge Oil, which employed him as a driver. The company had […]
Continue reading »CUSTOMS IMPOUNDS 37 VEHICLES OF SMUGGLED RICE
No fewer than 37 vehicles loaded with illegally imported bags of rice have been impounded by men of the Ogun State command of Nigeria Customs Service, while three suspects were also arrested in connection with the crime. Briefing journalists at its Idi-Iroko Border Station on Wednesday, the Deputy Comptroller in charge of Enforcement, Mohammed Gagyo, said the vehicles loaded with […]
Continue reading »FAYOSE INAUGURATES ROAD, SEEKS MORE SUPPORT
Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, has said he would never take the love and support the people of the state are showing to him for granted. The governor, who said it was not in his character to repay good with evil, added that this had always prompted him to give his best to the people despite the economic rating and […]
Continue reading »SENATE SLAMS FERMA, SAYS AGENCY LACKS CAPACITY FOR ROAD MANAGEMENT
The Senate on Wednesday decried the deplorable state of roads across the country, saying that the Federal Roads Maintenance Agency lacks the capacity to handle the task of road management. The Senate also canvassed the need to invite private investors in road infrastructure through the concession of some federal highways.
Continue reading »NSA HANDS OVER TWO AIRCRAFT FROM PRESIDENTIAL FLEET TO NAF (PICTURES)
The National Security Adviser, Maj. Gen. Babagana Monguno (Rtd), handed over two aircraft in the Presidential fleet to the Nigerian Air Force. Monguno handed over the two aircraft, Augusta AW101 Very Important Personality Helicopters to the Minister of Defence, Mansur Dan Ali, in the presence of the Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Sadique Abubakar, his Army counterpart, Lt. Gen. […]
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