Transports

LASG URGES TRANSPORT OPERATORS TO GET ACCREDITED To further promote the safety and security of drivers and passengers in the commercial transport system, the Lagos State Government has urged all Transport Operators within the State to get accredited at the Public Transport and Commuter Service Department (PTCS) of the Ministry of Transportation. In a release by the State Ministry of Transportation on Friday, the Director, Public Transport and Commuter Services, Mr. Ajewole Ashaolu, stated that the accreditation was vital for the procurement of Vehicle Body Tag, Driver’s Badge, Stage Carriage Permit and Terminal Access Permit as part of documents required for operation within the metropolis. Ashaolu explained that all commercial passenger vehicle operators, owners, drivers and conducto...

In a sustained efforts towards making the highways safer and eradicating all incidences of road traffic crashes and its attendant fatalities, the Corps Marshal, Federal Road Safety Corps, Dr Boboye Oyeyemi has urged Administrators of Local Governments in the country to relocate markets from the highways, noting that this will help the existing operational efforts of the FRSC towards enhancing the safety of the entire motoring population. FRSC AMBULANCE According to Bisi Kazeem, the Corps Public Education Officer, the Corps Marshal made this call while decrying the recent road traffic crash caused by break failure and loss of control that claimed multiple lives at the Ibaka area of Akungba Akoko, Akoko South-West Local Government Area of Ondo State on Saturday evening. Lament...

  WE WERE NOT INVOLVED....LAGBUS REACTS Contrary to the narratives being circulated across social media in respect of a bus belonging to Lagos Bus Services Limited, (LBSL) captured at the Secretariat Bus Stop this morning. While giving a background to the video, the Managing Director of LBSL,  Idowu Oguntona stated that Bus 240171 in the video was heading towards Oshodi from Berger around 8 a.m when some armed individuals disembarked from a particular yellow vehicle in front of the bus at the Secretariat Bus Stop, on the Lagos Ibadan Expressway and headed towards the direction of the bus . “One of our buses during the normal cause of operations ran into approaching armed people this morning. When the people were sighted armed and heading towards our bus, commuters in the bus s...