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 APRIL 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The National Industrial Court of Nigeria (NICN) has sacked the Lagos State Parks and Garages Management Committee led by Musiliu Akinsanya, popularly known as MC Oluomo and ordered the reinstatement of the operations of the Road Transport Employers Association of Nigeria (RTEAN) in Lagos State. Justice Maureen Esowe, yesterday, ruled that the…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The Lagos State Government has summoned aggrieved bus drivers under the aegis of the Joint Drivers Welfare Association of Nigeria (JDWAN), members of the National Union of Road and Transport Workers (NURTW), and Road Transport Employers Association of Nigeria (RTEAN) to a showdown meeting on Wednesday to resolve issues bothering on extortion…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-No fewer than three members of a rival group belonging to the Road Transport Employers Association of Nigeria, RTEAN, were feared dead while several others sustained injuries during a clash at Iyana-Iba, Ojo Local Government Area of Lagos State, yesterday. It was learned that a similar clash happened in the Surulere area…
LAGOS JANUARY 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Lagos State Government has signed an agreement for the collection of what it called “Consolidated Informal Sector Transport Levy” designed to harmonise dues collected by government from commercial motorists at parks and garages. The agreement was signed between the state government, local government, various transport unions and some government agencies. According…
LAGOS OCTOBER 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-At least three people have been confirmed killed with many others seriously injured as two factions of transport unions clashed between Wednesday night and Thursday in the Mile 2 area of Lagos state. THEWILL gathered that the clash is not unconnected with the ongoing battle for the control of motor parks between…
LAGOS JANUARY 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A 25-year- old man Sunday Patrick has drowned in a hotel owned by National President of Road Transport Employers Association of Nigeria (RTÈAN), Comrade Osakpamwan Eriyo. Patrick was reported to have been confirmed dead at the hospital where he was rushed to. Sources said he went to swim at the Mega Touch…