Second Rainbow News Today

According to the National Bureau of Statistics, Nigeria’s inflation rate climbed to 29.90 per cent in January 2024 from 28.92 per cent recorded in the previous month.

Checks by Vanguard indicated that the presence of trucks and tankers has caused many accidents and loss of lives. It also indicated that the police, Federal Road Safety Corps, FRSC and other traffic-related agencies have encountered different challenges in the process of managing traffic and maintaining law, order as well as security in Apapa and its environs.

The Governor of Lagos State, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, on Tuesday, ordered the arrest of a soldier and three other motorcyclists for taking one way at the Lagos-Badagry Expressway.

The Lagos State Task Force has said it would crush no fewer than 130 motorcycles seized from commercial bike operators in the Alakija

15 tankers impounded for indiscriminate parking on Oshodi-Apapa Expressway. The Director, Public Affairs and Enlightenment Department

Freight forwarders alleged that the Call-Up system for trucks which was initially issued for N27,000 is now being hoarded and made available to very few cabals, who are now reselling it for N150,000.

Giwa said the “Commissioner for Transportation, Mr. Oluwaseun Osiyemi, myself and other team members are already fine-tuning a working visit to have on-the-spot assessment of the current situation with the aim to resolve the gridlock.

When contacted, Head of Operation, Lagos State Traffic Enforcement Management Committee on Apapa gridlock, Adekoya Hassan, said there were plans to enforce the Lagos State Traffic Law against indiscriminate parking on bridges around Apapa and environs soon.

The Nigerian, with a Twitter handle: @alilmoonn, said that he had never been so scared in his life than that day.

The retail price of petrol has continued to increase across the country, reaching a high of N540 per litre in some filling stations.