Lagos State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode has expressed his determination to mitigate the high level of road carnage which has resulted in loss of 416 lives and 2, 498 injured persons in the last year on Lagos roads as he commissioned the Ojodu computerized Vehicle Inspection Centre. The Centre, one of the 57 to be built in all the Local […]
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The University of Ilorin has said that its two prototype designs of an automobile speed limiting device are attracting corporate investors. Prof. Sulyman Age-AbdulKareem, the Director of the University’s Laboratory of Product Centre, said this on Wednesday after a routine meeting of the Speed Limiter team in Ilorin. Age-Abdulkareem said that already the corporate investors had started bidding to invest […]
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The Nigerian federal government has spent over N84 million for the transportation of air passengers between Kaduna and Abuja since the closure of the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja. The sum was shared among three motor companies that provided 29 vehicles in total to transport the passengers during the Abuja airport closure. Chisco Motors provided eighteen vehicles, Auto Star Executives […]
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A Professor of Human Physiology and Dean, Faculty of Basic Medical Sciences at the Federal University, Ndufu-Alike Ikwo, Ebonyi State, Prof. Robert Nneli, and five others on Thursday died in a multiple auto crash that occurred along the Ezzamgbo axis of the Abakaliki/Enugu Expressway. The Sector Commander of the Federal Road Safety Corps in Ebonyi State, Mrs. Stella Uchendu, who […]
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The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has confirmed two persons dead by hit and run vehicles along Lagos/Ibadan Expressway. A statement by Spokesman for the agency, Mr Ibrahim Farinloye, in Lagos on Saturday quoted NEMA South-West Zonal Coordinator, Alhaji Suleiman Yakubu, as saying that the victims may have been knocked down in the morning. “A motorcyclist was found in front […]
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The Federal Road Safety Commission, FRSC, has deployed 25,000 personnel and 869 vehicles for a special patrol to enhance road safety during the forthcoming Easter celebrations. The deployment includes 267 motorcycles, 106 ambulances and 22 tow trucks for the special patrol exercise scheduled to run from April 13 to April 18. The spokesperson of the FRSC, Bisi Kazeem, said in […]
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Corps Marshal of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Dr Boboye Oyeyemi, has ordered the recall of the Corps Rivers Sector Commander, Mr Ayodele Kumapayi, for cutting the hair of some female personnel. In an SMS to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Tuesday, Spokesman of the Corps, Mr Bisi Kazeem, said other officers concerned were also recalled. Photos […]
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The Sector Commander, Federal Road Safety Corps, FRSC, Lagos Command, Hyginus Omeje, has warned the personnel of the Corps to be safety conscious by not stopping erring motorists by force. Mr. Omeje told the News Agency of Nigeria on Sunday that he was nearly killed by a commercial driver who faced him with his vehicle in an attempt to escape. […]
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Commuters on Wednesday morning faced a hard time going about their businesses after multiple accidents caused heavy traffic on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway The gridlock is linked to accidents involving three trucks. The Federal Road Safety Commission said in a text message that the incidents involving container-loaded trucks “caused total blockade on both sides of the Lagos /Ibadan express way this […]
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The President, Nigerian Society of Engineers (NSE), Engr. Otis Anyaeji has expressed satisfaction with the result oriented research activities and reverse engineering presently going on under the leadership of the current Director General, Defence Industries Corporation of Nigeria (DICON), Maj. Gen. Bamidele Ogunkale who is also a member of NSE. He made this expression during a courtesy visit to the […]
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Four persons were said to have been burnt to death while two others were injured when a loaded fuel tanker fell and exploded around Fidiwo area along Lagos/Ibadan Expressway on Tuesday. The four victims were said to have been trapped inside the fuel tanker which fell on its side, and caught fire, along with another tanker it scrubbed on the […]
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The Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC) in Anambra has described accidents and injuries involving commercial motorcyclists as alarming. Mr Sunday Ajayi, the Sector Commander in the state, expressed the view when he addressed some 800 motorcyclists during a sensitisation programme in Awka on Sunday. He said the operators were lucky that Anambra government had not outlawed their operations in the […]
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