LAGOS JANUARY 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Lagos State Truck and Cargo Operators’ Committee (LASTCOC) said no fewer than 19 hoodlums involved in extorting and assaulting truck drivers, along the Lagos-Badagry Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) corridor, were arrested yesterday. This is coming after the attack on truck drivers along the Tin Can Island port corridor…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The delay in generating call-up tickets for truckers to access Apapa ports for dropping off empty containers and picking up laden goods has been fuelling ticket racketeering at the port. In the past, it used to take two to three days for truckers that entered the Lilypond Terminal in Ijora, which is…
LAGOS MAY 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Corruption has become an integral norm at Lagos ports and all efforts to curb the menace by authorities at various levels seem to have failed. Extortion and brutality of truckers have become a game played by both state and non-state actors along the port corridors. Investigations have so far revealed that no…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Truckers and importers have decried multiple extortion experienced in the hands of ‘area boys’ across the roads in Lagos state. The area boys are to be inflicting hardship on the truck owners and truck drivers by making life and business difficult for them. Speaking with Daily Sun on the menace, truck owners…