LAGOS DECEMBER 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) said it has commenced the 50 percent slash in the price of interstate transport fares for Nigerians travelling during this Yuletide. Recall that President Tinubu on Wednesday, December 20, approved a 50% rebate for inter-state travels and 100% for train travels for Nigerians wishing…
LAGOS JUNE 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The extortion menace that is currently impacting on haulage businesses on the Nigeria’s Apapa port corridor has now become institutionalised as truck owners and drivers now include money for extortion as part of their operational cost. They also said that the extortionists have become so brazen are ready to kill, maim and…
LAGOS MARCH 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) has suspended its Lagos chapter’s Chairman, Musiliu Akinsanya, popularly called Mc Oluomo, indefinitely over alleged misconduct, insubordination, and inciting members of the state chapter against the apex body. The development followed earlier query sent to the NURTW boss in Lagos over alleged misconduct in…
LAGOS MARCH 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-The National Union of Road Transport Worker, Lagos Chapter has promise to partner with the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency in the War Against Drug Abuse (WADA) and illicit traficking. This was done when the NDLEA Lagos State Commander, Barr. Callys Alumona and some of his management team paid a courtesy visit…
LAGOS JUNE 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The crisis rocking the Edo State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) turned bloody on Wednesday as a former Special Adviser to Governor Godwin Obaseki on political matters, Mr Edo Aguebor, was attacked by people suspected to be thugs at the Egor Local Government Area Secretariat of the party. Aguebor, who…
LAGOS JANUARY 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-No fewer than seven persons have been killed while many were seriously injured as members of the National Union of Road Transport Workers clashed in Effin, Ohaukwu Local Government Area of Ebonyi State. Though details of what led to the clash were still sketchy at the time of filing this report, a…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Ajeromi-Ifelodun Local Government Area in Lagos has banned activities of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW), motorcycle (Okada) and tricycle (Keke Marwa) operators in Ajegunle. Its chairman, Fatai Ayoola in a statement, said the ban on activities of NURTW and other commercial transport operators would remain effective pending conclusion of…
LAGOS JUNE 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The National Union Of Road Transport Workers has commended the Federal Government for lifting the ban on Inter state travel in the country. Acting General Secretary of the union, Kabiru Yau, called on the government to subsidise operation cost for motorists. He said the guidelines outlined by the government for the resumption…