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July 14, 2020 No Responses

Transport Unions, FRSC Sign Covid-19 Safety Measures Agreement

Stakeholders in the transport sector in Kaduna State, on Monday, signed an agreement to comply with the post COVID-19 safety guidelines as the sector resumes full operation after lockdown. The agreement was reached during a meeting with the Kaduna Sector...

May 21, 2020 No Responses

NIMASA Explains Preliminary Investigation On Wellhead Fire

By citybusinessnews@yahoo.com The Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) has sent an investigative team to unravel the circumstances surrounding fire incident at a wellhead offshore, Ondo State. The incident involved a barge bel...

February 10, 2020 No Responses

Minister To Contractors: Make Benin-Auchi-Okene Highway Passable Before Rainy Season

The Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, has ordered the contractors handling the dualisation of the Benin-Auchi-Okene Highway to endeavour to complete one side of the road before the rainy season sets in.Fashola gave the directive in Benin on...

January 27, 2020 No Responses

Lagos Bans Commercial Motorcycles, Tricycles On Major Highways

Lagos State Government has announced the restriction and ban of commercial motorcycles (Okada) and tricycles (Keke) in six local government areas of the state with effect from Feb. 1.The Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Mr Gbenga Omotoso, made this k...

January 26, 2020 No Responses

FRSC Cautions Personnel Against Corrupt Practices

The Oyo State Sector Commander, Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Mrs Uche Chukwurah has warned officers and men of the corps to refrain from taking bribes from motorists or risk being sacked.Chukwurah gave the warning on Sunday at a thanksgiving...

January 25, 2020 No Responses

FRSC Boss TO Personnel: Impound Any Trailer Carrying Containers Without Proper Latching

The Corps Marshal , Federal Road Safety Corps, Dr Boboye Oyeyemi has decried the continuous carriage of containers by flatbed trailers without proper latching on the highways and ordered immediate impoundment of such vehicles by patrol teams anytime they...

December 18, 2019 No Responses

Nigeria Takes Delivery Of Special Mission Vessel

As part or measures to broadly tackle insecurity in Nigeria’s waterways, up to the Gulf of Guinea, the country has taken delivery of the first special mission vessel under the Deep Blue Project.Chairman of the Project Monitoring Team for the...

December 16, 2019 No Responses

FRSC Deploys 1,500 Personnel To Kano Highways

The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Kano State Command, has deployed no fewer than 1,500 personnel and 21 patrol vehicles to major highways in the state to ensure effective traffic management and enforcement during the Yuletide.Similarly, the command had dep...

December 7, 2019 No Responses

Yuletide: FRSC Cautions Drivers In Sokoto, Kebbi, Zamfara

The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) Sokoto Zonal Office, has warned drivers to avoid overloading and speeding as part of measures to ensure accident-free Yuletide.Assistant Corps Marshal (ACM) and Zonal Commanding Officer, Kayode Olagunju, gave the warning wh...

December 7, 2019 No Responses

NADDC DG, FRSC Boss For Nigeria Auto Awards

All is now set for the 2019 Edition of the Nigerian Auto Journalists Association (NAJA) Awards slated to hold December 17, 2019 at the Eko Hotels and Suites, Victoria Island, Lagos.Expected at the ceremony as special guests are Jelani Aliyu, ...

December 5, 2019 No Responses

Nigeria To Fast-Track Rescue Of 19 Kidnapped Tanker Crew

– Three days after nineteen crew members of a tanker vessel were kidnapped by pirates off Bonny Island, Nigeria, the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) has announced its readiness to fast-track maritime security architecture.Acco...

November 27, 2019 No Responses

FRSC Records 8,527 Road Accidents, 4,163 Deaths In 11 Months

The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) recorded 8,527 Road Traffic Crashes (RTC) across Nigeria between January and Wednesday, November 27, 2019.According to the Corps Public Education Officer, (CPEO) Mr Bisi Kazeem, 4,163 people were killed in the crashes durin...

October 23, 2019 No Responses

Ceat Declares Improved Gross Earnings

For the second quarter ended September 30,2019, Tyre Firm, Ceat Limited Earnings Before Interest, Tax, Depreciation and Amortization (EBITDA) and gross margins witnessed growth in comparison to the previous quarter.Managing Director of the company, Anant Goenk...

October 16, 2019 No Responses

Lagos Port Records Highest Incidents As Global Piracy Declines

The first nine months of this year saw fewer incidents of piracy and armed robbery against ships than the corresponding period of 2018, the International Maritime Bureau (IMB) said in its latest report.However, the Gulf of Guinea remained a high...