LAGOS SEPTEMBER 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Disturbed by the sharp increase in petrol prices, car owners are abandoning their vehicles to purchase motorcycles and tricycles for private transport. A cross-section of Kano residents, who spoke to Sunday Vanguard, lamented that they could no longer cope with the continued rise in petrol prices, hence their decision to seek alternative…
LAGOS OCTOBER 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A 25-year-old man, identified as Bulus Auma, has committed suicide after reportedly losing two tricycles to robbers in Jos, the Plateau capital. According to NAN, the Jos police command said Asuma was a resident of Angwan Rukuba in Jos north LGA. The tricycle rider was said to have earlier lost a tricycle,…
LAGOS OTOBER 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A female motorist reportedly crushed three passengers, including a pregnant woman and a girl, to death in Agege area of Lagos State. The accident happened on Iju-Ishaga Road around 4pm on Saturday, October 15, 2022, when the woman’s car hit a tricycle conveying the passengers inward Agege. According to Punch report, all the…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Two persons were feared killed and many vehicles destroyed after members of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW), tricycle operators and traders from Ladipo spare parts market clashed at Five-Star bus stop on Oshodi-Apapa expressway yesterday. Stray bullets reportedly hit the deceased, said to be traders. The incident forced traders…
LAGOS JUNE 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A legal practitioner, Olukoya Ogungbeje, has filed a suit at the Federal High Court in Lagos to challenge the ban imposed by the state government on the operations of commercial motorcycles, popularly known as okada, and tricycles otherwise known as keke. Ogungbeje asked the court to declare that the ban, as issued…
LAGOS MAY 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Lagos State Government will from July introduce what it describes as First Mile and Last Mile (FMLM) mobility solution to replace banned Okada and tricycle. Transportation Commissioner Frederick Oladeinde, speaking yesterday at the 2020 ministerial press briefing at the JJT Park, Alausa, Ikeja, said: “Following the restriction of motorcycles and tricycles for…
LAGOS MAY 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The popular Udensi Roundabout, few metres to the old Ebonyi State Government House, Abakaliki, was on Thursday afternoon thrown into pandemonium following a clash between Traffic Wardens of the Nigeria Police and some armed Soldiers. An eyewitness, who pleaded anonymity, said trouble started when some Traffic Wardens impounded a tricycle for allegedly…
LAGOS JANUARY 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-There was chaos in major areas of Lagos State as Task Force has commenced arresting commercial motorcycles and tricycles even before the February 1st take off announced by the government. Many commercial motorcycle and tricycle drivers were crying, lamenting over the forceful seizure of the bikes. Some said they got the bikes…