Governor Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos State on Thursday met with representatives of APM Terminals to advance the development of the Badagry Deep Sea Port project, restating his administration’s key strategic imperative to creating a friendly environment to encourage private sector participation in driving economic development in the State. At the meeting which took place in London, United Kingdom, Ambode said […]
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R.T. Briscoe Plc. has said it has no regrets losing the 11-year old business relationship it had with the Ford Motor Company under its BriscoeFord automotive subsidiary. The company said this, recently, in reaction to Ford Motor Company’s decision to retain Coscharis Motors that was sharing the dealership with Briscoe as its sole representative in Nigeria. Ford Motor Company had […]
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A total of 4,116 buses valued at N37 billion have been delivered to beneficiaries nationwide under the Federal Government’s Public Mass Transit Revolving Fund (PMTF) Scheme. Adekunle Oyinloye, Managing Director of The Infrastructure Bank, said this in a paper he presented at a workshop for chief executive officers of mass transit companies in Abuja. Oyinloye said the buses were released […]
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The Managing Director of the Katsina State Road Management Agency, Alhaji Abdul Mohammed, on Tuesday said that when he assumed duty in the agency last year, he discovered that over N14 bn belonging to the agency had either been stolen or was missing. He told the Katsina Commission of Inquiry probing the immediate past regime of former Governor Ibrahim Sheu […]
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The Lagos State Government has warned drivers of trucks and other articulated vehicles against speeding and harassing of other road users. The government said it would intensify the enforcement of the Lagos State Traffic Law 2012 to reduce accidents as the year ended. The Chief Executive Officer of the Lagos State Drivers Institute, Philip Ogunlade, spoke at a sensitisation organised […]
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The Federal Government says it has been saving a total of $4m (N1.22bn) daily in fuel import bill since May 12, this year when it stopped paying subsidy claims to importers. The Minister of Budget and National Planning, Senator Udo Udoma, who confirmed the figure, said the liberalisation policy in the oil sector had also led to a 30 per […]
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There was pandemonium on Wednesday at the Costain area of Lagos State as an official of the Lagos State Management Authority and a bus driver were reportedly beaten to a pulp. It was reported that officials of LASTMA had allegedly apprehended the bus driver at the Costain bus stop, for allegedly violating a traffic rule. It was alleged that an […]
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No fewer than eight persons died in a crash on Sunday evening on Hadejia-Kano Road in the Kaugama Local Government Area of Jigawa State. The accident involved a KIA car with number plate, AS30DBT, and a Honda Sport Civic, with number plate, ZAK238AA. PUNCH learnt that five other persons sustained varying degrees of injury in the accident.
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Bisi Kazeem (Head, Media Relations and Strategy, Federal Road Safety Commission) Speed limiters would curb accidents on Nigeria roads. We started this campaign on speed limiters with advisory enforcement. In the Federal Road Safety Commission, we use a four-prong approach system to achieve our goals. This includes education, subtle force, persuasion and enforcement/prosecution. Advisory enforcement is when we stop commercial […]
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The Federal Road Safety Corps has issued traffic citations to 2,800 commercial motorists for their failure to instal the speed limiting device on their vehicles. The corps described the citations as an advisory enforcement, which did not attract penalties or fines, a statement on Sunday in Abuja, by Bisi Kazeem, the Head, Media Relations and Strategy, FRSC, said. The statement […]
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No fewer than two persons have been confirmed dead while four others were seriously injured after a tanker, loaded with petrol, went up in flames at Kara-Aiyetoro, Ogun State end of the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway. It was learnt that the tanker was travelling from Lagos State to Ibadan, Oyo State, at top speed, when it lost control and crashed into a […]
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The Police Command in Kaduna State on Tuesday confirmed the kidnap of the immediate past Minister of Environment, Mrs Laurentia Mallam and her husband, Mr Pius. The Command’s spokesman, ASP Aliyu Usman, told the News Agency of Nigeria in Kaduna that the two were abducted along Bwari/Jere axis on Kaduna-Abuja highway on Monday evening.
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