A commercial motorcyclist was crushed to death by a heavy duty truck at Daleko area of Lagos on Thursday.
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GROUP, FIRM FIGHT CRIME AMONG OKADA RIDERS
The Amalgamated Commercial Motorcycle and Tricycle Owners, Repairs and Riders Association of Nigeria, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Clevland Investment Management Limited “to curb crime amongst its members using ICT.” The President of ACOMORAN, Babangida Maihula, at the event in Abuja on Wednesday said there had been complaints that some motorcyclists and tricycle riders perpetrate crimes in their […]
Continue reading »OKADA BAN: 30 MILLION NIGERIANS WILL LOSE JOBS – ACOMORAN
The Amalgamated Commercial Motorcycle Owners and Riders Association of Nigeria, has asked the Federal Government to jettison its plan to ban okada in the country saying 30 million people would be rendered jobless. The organisation alleged impersonation by a faction which had held a meeting with officials in the the Ministry of Transport. The National President of ACOMORAN, Alhaji Muhammad […]
Continue reading »CRIME: FED GOVT TO COMPILE BIOMETRIC DATA OF OKADA RIDERS
The Federal Government will soon embark on biometric data capturing of all commercial motorcycle and tricycle operators in the country to check crimes perpetrated with the use of tricycles and motorcycles. The capturing would be done in collaboration with the Amalgamated Commercial Tricycle and Motorcycle Owners, Repairers and Riders Association of Nigeria. The National President of ACOMORAN, Alhaji Shehu Babangida, […]
Continue reading »BAN ON OKADA, KEKE WILL AFFECT NIGERIA’S ECONOMY – AMAECHI
The Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, has said that motorcycles and tricycles should not be banned nationwide because doing so would affect the nation’s economy negatively. Amaechi said this on Tuesday in Abuja at the celebration of the national day of Amalgamated Commercial Tricycle and Motorcycle Owners, Repairers and Riders Association of Nigeria. The minister advised state governments not to […]
Continue reading »I MADE N10,000.00 DAILY FOR CARRYING ROBBERS – OKADA RIDER
Twenty-year-old Oluwole Sunday is not your average commercial motorcyclist. In fact, the only thing “commercial” about his okada business is that while other okada riders transport members of the public from one point to another in the Lagos metropolis, he made his money by transporting robbers on their daily operations. But that didn’t last. His “business” was shut down recently […]
Continue reading »LEGIONNAIRE ARRESTED FOR STEALING MOTORCYCLES IN LAGOS
A member of the Nigerian Legion, Lagos State, Umam Hamid, has been arrested by the Lagos State Police Command for allegedly stealing no fewer than four motorcycles in the Agege area of the state. Based on information gathered, the mode of operation of the 48-year-old Borno State indigene was to stop motorcyclists on the road and allege that they were violating […]
Continue reading »NAVAL OFFICER SHOOTS OKADA RIDER IN KOGI
The Network on Police Reform in Nigeria has called for an investigation of Navy Commander Otuh Bassey, who shot an okada rider, Muhammed Idachaba in Idah, Kogi State. Idachaba was shot on Tuesday, 26 July, 2016 after Bassey allegedly frog-matched him and told him to kneel as punishment for claiming right of way with the naval officer who was riding […]
Continue reading »IGR PALAVA: OKADA RIDERS PROTEST SHARP INCREASE IN PRICE OF NUMBER PLATES IN AKURE
The City of Akure, Ondo State was practically grounded to a halt on Thursday when the motorcycle riders popularly known as Okada took to the street in protest of the sharp unilateral increase of the cost of acquiring commercial number plates by the State Authorities.
Continue reading »HORROR AS TRUCK CRUSHES OKADA RIDER TO DEATH
A commercial motorcyclist died on Tuesday in the Iwo Road area of Ibadan after he fell into the path of a fast moving truck. He was said to be carrying a female passenger who escaped death. His death led to a protest by his colleagues, while his remains was deposited at the Adeoyo State Hospital morgue, Yemetu, Ibadan.
Continue reading »SEVERAL CASUALTIES AS ATMA AND OKADA RIDERS CLASH IN ANAMBRA
There was pandemonium in Anambra on Wednesday as unspecified number of people sustained injuries, while a pick-up van belonging to Anambra Traffic Management Agency (ATMA) was badly damaged following a clash between officials of the agency and commercial motorcycle operators, who resisted the former from impounding their motor-cycles.
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