The Lagos State Traffic Management Agency made this known on Thursday in information released on its social media.
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The statement was made on Tuesday by the Chairman of Lagos State Taskforce, CSP Shola Jejeloye at the agency’s headquarters, Safety Arena, Bolade Oshodi, Lagos in reaction to the spate of lawlessness and pocket of protests by hoodlums and miscreants when the Lagos State Taskforce impounded a commercial bus popularly known as ‘Danfo’ and a Toyota Avalon for driving against traffic along Egbeda-Idimu Road in the early hours of Tuesday.
The US-based comedian, who returned briefly to Nigeria, lensed the set of photos on a busy street in the heart of Lagos Island
The accident, which occurred just opposite the scene of Thursday’s tanker fire accident, that left nine dead and 54 vehicles burnt, was inward Lagos, involving two commercial buses that had head-on collision
Even in the United Kingdom and United States of America, there is hardly any where you visit that you do not see road contraction, reconstruction, expansion or maintenance in progress. Bridges are being built here and there, new roads are being constructed, old ones are being expanded, all in the bid to further develop the transportation system. And one of the shocking facts is that in most, if not all the places, you find Nigerians as part of the system brainstorming and coming up with ideas on how to make things better
A city without an effective and respectable means of transportation cannot fall into the class of mega cities. It will only remain a city. What we have now as transportation system is degrading and demeaning for humans
My biggest hunch is that these drivers want the old order retained at all cost. The old order that sees them violating traffic and driving rules at all cost
The group, in a statement by its Secretary, Ken Emerole, described Ambode’s plan and preparedness for the initiative as “solid”
Governor Ambode revealed this in an interview with journalists
The group equally urged the State Government to include tricycles, known as Keke NAPEP and Marwa, in the ban
My appeal to Governor Ambode is that he should remain focused and refused to be distracted by a few people in his quest to end the activities of criminals, especially kidnappers, by outrightly banning the operation of okada and phasing out the operations of yellow buses
on February 6, Governor Akinwunmi Ambode announced that the government plans to restructure the operations of ‘danfo’ buses for a an efficient, well-structured and world-class mass transport system
The bus was said to have exploded at the Costain area
The state’s Chairman of the association, Alhaji Adefowope Olorode, made the appeal in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Lagos