There is pandemonium in the popular Obalende part of Lagos Island following a clash between factional members of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW). Daily Trust reports that several gunshots were heard in the area as hoodlums suspected to be members of the transport union took on one another. United Nigeria Airlines begins […]
There was chaos in Obalende, Lagos State on Thursday morning after gunshots rent the air during a clash between rival groups within the National Union of
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Informal economy: Is it a problem, a solution, or both?
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Tue Feb 09 2021
The expression “informal economy” encompasses a huge diversity of situations and phenomena in the country. However, working in the informal economy is often characterised by small or undefined workplaces, unsafe and unhealthy working conditions, unregulated, low levels of skills and productivity, low or irregular incomes, long working hours, and lack of access to information, markets, finance, training, and technology. The activities that occur outside the legal framework are considered informal. The informal economy can be seen either as the nature of the enterprise operation or the nature of employment relationship that exists in the business. That said, millions of Nigerians especially those that reside in the economic hub of the country, Lagos State –live, work, trade and produce in this informal economy and also engage the vulnerable citizens. From context observation, the informal sector in Nige
Sanwo-Olu, IGP: Is Apapa traffic mayhem beyond solution?
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…We’re helpless, Police, FRSC, LASTMA lament
COMMUTERS were trapped for hours in the perennial gridlock along the Oshodi/Apapa Expressway, yesterday, as the Policemen, the Federal Road Safety Corps, FRSC, and officials of the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority, LASTMA, could not control the chaotic traffic situation on the axis.
From Jakande bus-stop, inward Apapa to Otto-Wharf, a journey that ought to take three minutes, took close to six hours.
Vanguard observed that the newly created exit point at Freedom bus-stop, in front of the Ports and Terminal Multi-purpose, was blocked, a situation that rendered policemen, FRSC personnel, and LASTMA officials helpless.