LAGOS MARCH 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The Chief Executive Officer, CEO, and Chairman of the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority, LASTMA, Chris Olakpe, is dead. It was learned that Olakpe, a retired Assistant Inspector-General of Police died on Sunday, as confirmed by LASTMA’s Director of Research and Statistics, Isaac Adetimiro. He also said Olakpe did not show any…
LAGOS JANUARY 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-An official of the Lagos State Traffic Management Agency (LASTMA) has allegedly committed suicide. He was said to have allegedly hung himself at Opebi near the popular Adebola House. None of the sympathizers could say what led to the action. The Nation learnt that he was recently redeployed from his Alausa base,…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A LASTMA official has lost his life in a most sad manner after being attacked by hoodlums popularly known as ‘area boys’ in Lagos. Ola Oyeshina, an official of the Lagos State Transport Management Authority has lost his life after being attacked by two hoodlums in the Apapa area of the state. Oyeshina…
LAGOS JUNE 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The fear of Lagos State Traffic Management Agency (LASTMA) may be the beginning of wisdom for all Lagos motorists, as the law enforcement officers have lately gone tough on traffic offenders. Unlike in the last four years when the officers were barred from making arrests, the new administration had returned LASTMA to…
LAGOS JUNE 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu has announced a 100 percent increase in the allowances of Lagos State Traffic Management Authority officials. Sanwo-Olu announced the increase when he visited the LASTMA headquarters at Oshodi, Lagos. Sanwo-Olu promised that the increase would commence from the end of July 2019 while also saying that…
LAGOS JANAUARY 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The family of late Adeyemo Rotimi Oke, a traffic officer with the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority traffic officer, who was killed by a policeman, while on duty, has received the ten million Naira compensation, promised by the Lagos State Government. In a statement signed by LASTMA’s Head, Public Affairs, Mamud Hassan,…
LAGOS JUNE 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Scores of people were reported to have roasted to death as result of a fuel-laden tanker that exploded along the Otedola Bridge axis of Berger in Lagos with the blaze engulfing at least forty other vehicles. The tanker was heading out of Lagos towards the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway when the crash occurred, causing…