Some transport operators in Lagos State on Thursday said they were not part of the arrangement with the Nigeria Union of Road Transport Workers to reduce transport fares during the February 23 elections.
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The Independent National Electoral Commission says it is strengthening its Memorandum of Understanding with transport unions to ensure a hitch free election.
Alhaji Nojeeem Yasin, President of the National Union of Road Transport Workers on Saturday maintained silence on the postponement of the general elections in the country.
The National Union of Road Transport Workers, Lagos chapter, says all the vehicles assigned to move election personnel and materials to various polling units are in good condition.
An Ikeja High Court on Wednesday sentenced to death, Saheed Arogundade, Chairman, National Union of Road Transport Workers, Boudary/Aiyetoro Unit, Lagos State, for the murder of a 32-year-old policeman, Gbenga Oladipupo.
The Independent National Electoral Commission has reached pact with the Federal Road Safety Commission and National Union of Road Transport Workers on the transportation of election officials in Kebbi.
President of the National Union of Road Transport Workers, Alhaji Najeem Usman-Yasin, has warned members of the union nationwide against being used as political thugs during the general elections.
The Independent National Electoral Commission and National Union of Road Transport Workers have signed Memorandum of Understanding for the provision of vehicles for the transportation of election materials in Nasarawa state.
Usman-Yasin said this while speaking with newsmen in llorin on Saturday,
He said the motive was also to guarantee safe, smooth and early movement of electoral materials to voting centres across the country.
Corps Marshal, Boboye Oyeyemi, stated this at an event to commemorate “2018 United Nations Decade of Action on Road Safety and Injury Prevention” in Abuja on Thursday.
Agbede said: “We are an affiliate of the NLC, we shall obey its directives. So we have no choice than to join the strike anytime we’re called upon to do so,” Agbede told the transport correspondent of the News Agency of Nigeri in Lagos.”
The suspects are all males with ages ranging from 20 years to 32 years.
Olugbade Olagunju, the Secretary, NURTW in FCT, made this known in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria on Monday in Abuja.
Governor Aminu Masari, who made this disclosure while giving out the vehicles to the beneficiaries on Friday in Katsina, said the vehicles would create more employment opportunities in the transport sector.
Dibal Yakadi, Commissioner of Police, Niger, confirmed on Monday that one person was killed and 13 suspects were arrested in a clash between the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) members and students of the Federal Polytechnic, Bida.
The remains of the late Alhaji Taofeek Oyerinde, the Chairman of National Union of Road Transport Workers, Oyo State Chapter, have been buried.
The Oyo State Governor, Senator Abiola Ajimobi, has described the sudden death of the state Chairman of the National Union of Road and Transport Workers, Alhaji Taofeek Ayorinde, popularly known Fele, as very depressing and tragic.
There is panic in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, following the death of the state Chairman of the National Union of Road Transport Workers, who also heads the South West zone of the union, Alhaji Taofeek Oyerinde, popularly known as Fele.
Oluwabunmi Babatunde, the NURTW Chairman in Shao, Moro Local Government Area of Kwara, on Friday in Shao said the Buhari administration’s intervention on road projects across the country was unprecedented.
Lawanson made the assertion in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Lagos.