Tired of paying for multiple tickets on the Oyigbo – Port Harcourt route, commercial drivers plying the route blocked the road, causing serious traffic on Monday. The drivers, who said they would not leave the road until they got assurances from the leadership of the National Union of Road Transport Workers, NURTW, said they can…
COVID-19: Transporters in Edo Directed not to Pick Passengers without Nose Mask
[responsivevoice] Members of the Edo State chapter of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) may henceforth not pick passengers not wearing nose masks, as part of measures to check the spread of the second wave of coronavirus (COVID-19). A directive to this effect was given Thursday by the state government during a sensitization…
NURTW President Warns Members Against Violence
Najeem Yasin, president of National Union of Road Transport Workers NURTW, has warned members of the union to refuse monetary inducement from politicians who might want to lure them into politically motivated violence. Yasin reminded members that the union has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC on the movement…
Yuletide: FRSC Calls for Safe Driving
As part of efforts to reduce incidences of road traffic crashes, before and during Christmas and New Year celebrations, the Federal Road Safety Commission, FRSC has flagged off this year’s ’ember months’ public enlightenment Campaign in Lagos. The campaign was flagged off on Tuesday in Lagos State with a call on motorists to imbibe care…
NURTW Leader Assaults Driver At Ojota Garage
Abu Jamiu, a commercial bus driver at the Ojota New Garage, Ikorodu road, Lagos has alleged that he was assaulted by Ifeolu Adenusi, a leader of the National Union of Road Transport Workers, NURTW suffering multiple machete cuts to the head, wrist, arms and legs in the process. Jamiu alleged that the NURTW leader popularly…
Former NURTW Boss paraded in Lagos for gun possession
Mukaila Lamidi aka Auxila, former chairman of the National Union of Road Transport Workers, NURTW, Oyo State chapter was on Tuesday paraded in Lagos State by men of the state’s Police command. Lamidi was arrested on May 10 by a combined team of police anti robbery squad, following a confessional statement by Abdulazeez Amao, an…
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