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Lagos Govt Bans All Articulated Trucks From Using Ojuelegba, Dorman Long Bridges

In a bid to reduce loss of lives and property in the state and in a bid to prevent further casualties, the Lagos State government has restricted all articulated trucks from using Ojuelegba & Dorman Long Bridges. The ban was…

Oru Leonard Emerges Winner of 2023 ATACA Election, EXCOS Sworn in

Given the outcome of Abuja Transportation and Aviation Correspondent (ATACA), 2023 election held on the 3rd, February, 2023, The Editor, News Dot Africa, Oru Leonard Oru has been sworn in as the chairman. Mr Oru was announced as the candidate…

Confusion As Motorists, Travellers Get Locked In Abuja-Keffi Expressway #Traffic Congestion

It was a Saturday of confusion and anger for travelers and other commuters on the ever busy Abuja-Keffi Expressway due to an unprecedented traffic congestion on the inter state road. Findings by The Street Reporters Newspaper showed that the congestion…

Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, Death Trap for Pedestrians – Reps Member Tells FG

…Urges Fashola to Construct Pedestrian Bridges The lawmaker representing Oluyole Federal Constituency, Tolulope Akande-Sadipe, (APC) has urged the Federal Government to urgently construct pedestrian bridges along Lagos-Ibadan Expressway within the metropolis of Ibadan, Oyo State. Akande-Sadipe, said this today, after…

Delta State Government Re-awards Ayakoromo Bridge Contract

Delta Governor and Vice-Presidential Candidate of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Senator Dr Ifeanyi Okowa, on Tuesday announced that his administration had re-awarded the Ayakoromo Bridge contract to Setraco Nigeria Limited, assuring that the project would be completed as promised. Okowa…

Rights Group Says Buhari’s Committed To His Cousins In Niger Republic, Faults Halting Of Eastern Railway Project

Civil rights advocacy group, Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, (HURIWA) on Friday, faulted the non-completion of the narrow-gauge eastern railway corridor, saying President Muhammadu Buhari is rather committed to completing the $1.96 billion, 284-kilometer Kano-Katsina-Maradi railway project to Niger…

21,438 Vehicles Failed Roadworthiness Test, 1,120 Traffic Offenders Prosecuted In Abuja – Candido Reveals

Nigeria’s Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) on Friday hinted that between January and November 2022, 21,438 vehicles in Abuja failed roadworthiness test while the Mobile Court tried about 1,120 traffic offenders. Abdullahi Candido, the Secretary of Transportation for FCTA, made…

Lagos Red Line To Move 3.5m Passengers Weekly As Lawmakers Confirm 85% Project Completion

The chairman of the Lagos State House of Assembly Committee on Transportation, Hon. Temitope Adewale, has disclosed that trains in the Red Line of the State’s rail mass transit will move 500,000 passengers daily. This amounts to 3.5 million passengers…

Ughelli-Asaba Road Dualisation: Delta Government Revokes “Sector A” Contract

Delta Government, on Friday, announced the revocation of the contract for Sector A of the Ughelli-Asaba dual carriage project due to poor performance by the contractor. Commissioner for Information, Mr Charles Aniagwu, told journalists in Asaba that the decision to…

Lagos Commercial Buses Issue Strike Notice, Paint Pictures of Unbelievable Conspiracies & Extortions

Drivers of commercial buses in Lagos State have declared their intention to go on strike. The Joint Drivers’ Welfare Association of Nigeria (JDWAN) at a Press Conference at Rights House, Ikeja, Lagos on Friday issued the notice on behalf of…

HURIWA Doubts Buhari’s Sincerity With Ndigbo Over 2024 Completion Date for 2nd Niger Bridge

…Says Buhari Regime Deceived Ndigbo Prominent civil rights advocacy group, Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA), on Tuesday, criticized the regime of the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) for shifting the completion date for the multibillion naira 2nd…