TRANSPORTATION

…Lagos-Ibadan Highway, Abuja-Kano Highway, and Abuja-Keffi-Lafia Highway, have the highest number of crash Minister for Works and Housing, Mr. Babatunde Raji Fashola has expressed worries over the increasing number of crash on the highways, saying road accidents claimed more lives in January 2021, than the combination of COVID-19 and malaria. Fashola disclosed this on Wednesday while briefing Sate House Correspondents …

New transportation infrastructure has been commissioned in Yaba by Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu four years after the project was conceived. L-R: Onisabe of Igbobi-Sabe, Oba Owolabi Adeniyi; Lagos Deputy Governor, Dr. Obafemi Hamzat; Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu; Managing Director, Lagos Metropolitan Area Transport Authority (LAMATA), Engr. Abimbola Akinajo; Commissioner for Transportation, Dr. Frederic Oladeinde and CEO, Quattro Alchemy, Prince Aderoju Ademoroti during …

Nigeria aviation as approved the operation of Dr. Obiora Okonkwo’s United Nigeria Airline after fulfilled all mandatory requirement for the operation, the Airline will kick start its first operation tomorrow Friday February 12, 2021. The United Nigeria Airline will be the first commercial flight to be operated with EMB145 aircraft type, and will depart the domestic wing of Murtala Mohammed …

BY: RAPHEAL OLUSEGUN A propeller aircraft in the fleet of a chartered carrier Jedidiah Air on Friday hit a fence at General Aviation Terminal (GAT), local wing of the Murtala Muhammed Airport, Lagos. The aircraft: King Air was reparking when it rammed into the fence at the tarmac close to a facility used by Bristow Helicopters. According to eyewitnesses, the …

The Nigeria Transportation Commissioners Forum (NTCF) has lent its support for the restriction of heavy-duty vehicles movement during the day to reduce the upsurge in accidents reported across the country. The forum said if heavy duty vehicles restrict their movements to night time it would reduce incidences of carnage on the roads. This is coming on the heels of the …

Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu at exactly 12.30pm, bought his ticket, flagging off commercial activity at Terminal 2, Oshodi Transport Interchange (OTI). Sanwo-Olu paid the sum of N5,000 even as he was presented a guest riders card by the terminal operator. The governor who was accompanied by members of the cabinet, later rode on one of the buses, with the …

BY RAPHEAL OLUSEGUN Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) Lagos Zone to begin arrest of unlatched containerised trucks on Monday Any truck or articulated driver driving an unlatched vehicle on Lagos roads would be arrested and prosecuted, the Zonal Commander Assistant Corps Marshal Imoh Etuk has said. Etuk in a statement issued by the Zonal Public Education Officer DRC Ijeoma Ajuzie …