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Category: Transportation

  • Govt opens Oke-Afa Jetty

    Since the tragic Sunday on January 27, 2001, Oke-Afa has become the symbol of a collective loss to Lagos State. Close to a thousand Lagosians, running from blasts that brought the state into confusion, were drowned in its brackish waters. Yearly, the government holds a memorial service to mourn them.

    But last Tuesday, the Ejigbo Local Council Development Area (LCDA) turned the flip side of the tragedy when it delivered to the people a jetty at the spot, to ease the traffic gridlock around Ikotun-Egbe-Ejigbo and other adjoining neighbourhoods.

    Opening the facility, Governor Babatunde Fashola praised the Ejigbo LCDA chairman, Mr. Kehinde Bamigbetan, for beating the state government to the initiative. He said the jetty would boost water transportation.

    Fashola, who was represented by the Commissioner for Transportation, Mr Kayode Opeifa, said the state was pursuing aggressive development of its waterways in its bid to promote an intermodal transportation system that would ensure that Lagosians get to their destinations safely and at the least cost.

    He, therefore, called on private investors to use the jetty and tap into the vast economic opportunities on the on waterways. He said the waterways account for over seven million passenger traffic monthly.

    The government, Opeifa added, would continue to strengthen investments and sanitise  the state’s business environment.

    Earlier, Bamigbetan said the project started in 2012 as part of the council’s blueprint to help check the perennial gridlock on its roads.

    He said: “When I saw the challenges our people faced in commuting I decided to turn the searchlight into looking at the investment opportunities on this water, which in 2001 had consumed countless Lagosians. This project is therefore our own way of turning our tragedy into opportunity.”

    He said he was always at pains seeing people stranded at bus stops or resorting to trekking long distances to their homes at close of work, or from business, or stuck inside buses for hours.

    He said a firm, Tarzan, had earlier carried out a feasibility study, which showed that ferry from Ejigbo to Mile 2 takes only nine minutes, and to Lagos Island, takes 15 minutes, while to Ibeshe, seven minutes.

    “What this means is that someone going to work around 7.00am can get to his office at Broad Street before 8.00am, or within 20 minutes if he is going to Mile 2 or Ibeshe,” he said.

    He added that the council embarked on the project upon conviction that it was viable. He disclosed that the jetty cost N35million.

    The building, he said, was constructed to have shops, offices, and an expansive parking lot, waiting room and relaxation centre. There is a car park space, which can contain 50 vehicles in the front yard as well as across the road. The jetty building is built beside the victims of January 27, 2011 bomb explosion cenotaph.

    The jetty, he said, would ease transportation as it would provide waterways option for residents of Idimu, Ejigbo, Ikotun and Ijegun, who are going through nightmare commuting everyday to Mile 2 and Lagos and beyond.

    In his own remarks, the Managing Director of the Lagos State Waterways Authority (LASWA) Mr. Adeyinka Marinho, praised the council chairman for the initiative and called on other council chairmen to bring the dividends of democracy closer to the people at the grassroots.

    Marinho, who was represented by Mr. Pekun Falase, promised to make good use of the jetty and ensure the standardisation of ferries that would soon begin to use the facility to ensure the safety of lives and property of residents and users.

  • Ikuforiji unveils plan for transportation in Lagos

    unique feature of a mega city is an effective and efficient transportation system and this is one of the major areas the Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Hon. Adeyemi Ikuforiji, has promised to focus on if elected governor.

    Outlining his programmes during the public declaration of his intention, Ikuforiji declared that the issue of   transportation would be tackled holistically.

    He said he would declare a state of emergency on roads, after convening a “road summit” to help develop the infrastructure in the state.

    ”We will embark on massive rebuilding and expansion of roads, the completion of the light rail network and expansion of the water transportation in  Lagos.”

    He promised to  put in place a minimum standard for Lagos roads and pledged to ensure that all rural roads would be graded and more areas opened up to create shorter distances and connect communities.

    “We will hold ourselves accountable to the highest standards of regular road maintenance, in fact, this will be incorporated into road construction contracts,”Ikuforiji said.

    The speaker said it is high time a tram system is introduced complement the public transportation system, adding that he will introduce it and create bicycle routes to encourage biking by people instead of driving every time.

    “Overhead bridges will be built where necessary all over Lagos, to reduce the incidents of motorist-pedestrian accidents.

    “My government will develop the necessary software infrastructure to train supervising personnel; introduce and maintain a 200km light rail network that will connect the farthest places in Lagos

    He further promised to dredge the waterways in Lagos in order to allow for the introduction of the “lite boat” transport system.

    According to him, “it took many months   of hard work and exchange of ideas with some of the finest brains that our #Lagos can boast of to arrive on the above blue-print for transportation”.

  • Multi-billion Naira tank wagons rot on rail tracks

    Multi-billion Naira tank wagons rot on rail tracks

    The 40 tank wagons imported between 2012 and 2013 by the Nigeria Railway Corporation (NRC) for the haulage of petroleum products from the Apapa Ports to other locations are rotting away at the railway yards.

    Some of the wagons are at the Apapa Yard. Others were sighted at the Ebute-Metta work yard.

    The corporation, as part of strategic upgrading of its services, took delivery of the tank wagons in 2012 and  2013.The first 20 came in 2012. The last 20 were delivered last year. Each has an inbuilt capacity of 100,000 litres of petroleum products. The 40 wagons could haul four million litres of petroleum. They cost billions.

    The wagons are expected to relieve the roads of heavy trucks that weaken them and decongest the ports and Apapa roads of petroleum tankers. Each tanker’s maximum capacity is 33,000 litres.

    The Federal Government’s initial enthusiasm about the new deliveries and their capacity to transform haulage of this essential commodity across the country, especially to the North, had been shortlived as it has been hampered by other factors.

    The wagons, it was discovered, has not been functioning because most of the tank farms around Apapa are not accessible. Many of the oil marketing companies were said to have flouted the planning regulations while constructing their tank farms by failing to build rail access into their facility.

    Though officials of many of these oil companies refused to comment on the issue when contacted, a top official of the NRC who spoke on condition of anonymity, said, virtually all the tank farms at Apapa are guilty of building their farms without consideration for the use of railway, making their farms inaccessible to rail services.

    “Out of all the oil majors operating tank farms in Apapa, only Mobil and Oando are said to be accessible and are presently hauling products from their farms through the railway.”

    He said the failure to link these tank farms with the rail lines caused a delay in the realisation of the goal of hauling petroleum products by rail.

    The Director, Mechanical, Electrical and Signal, Mr. Fidet Okhiria, an engineer, who corroborated this assertion, said the corporation was addressing the issue by laying rail tracks through all the tank farms in Apapa.

    He said: “By the time the tracks are laid into these tank farms, thousands of tons of cargo and oil would be lifted weekly and this will assist in decongesting Apapa and take the pressure off the roads.

    He said taking oil by rail from Lagos to Kano can be done within 72 hours, and urged oil firms to take full advantage of the service.

    “We believe our customers would have more confidence in us after upgrading these tracks. This is because it would assure them that we have reliable tracks and wagons, and can better safeguard their commodities,” Okhiria said.

    “What we are doing now,” he said, “is that we are setting the tracks into the fuel dumps that hitherto had no tracks for easy access.  They are on railway land and the agreement is that they should carry their products through railway.”

    He said this phase would be completed by November.

    “The contractor has assured us that the laying would be completed by November. When this is completed, we would erase the complaints by some of our prospective customers that the present system is more costly and are using that excuse to continue to patronise tankers,” Ohhiria said.

    He said though the rail tracks are still the narrow gauge, they have been upgraded from 60 pap to 85 pap, which makes the tracks stronger and could withstand the pressure assoc

    “We are changing the tracks from 60 to 85 rail pap. So instead of the rail tracks breaking off as a result of heavy load or pressure, it will endure.

    “We have two types of rails in Apapa. The first category is tracks for passenger service while the other is for cargo service. We access containers from cargo tracks. In Apapa, only the Flour Mill factory complied and that’s why their products are being evacuated to the North through the rail. We presently load about 600, 000 tons of goods from Flour Mills per month to Kano.

  • NB partners FRSC on ‘don’t drink and drive’

    NB partners FRSC on ‘don’t drink and drive’

    The seventh edition of the Don’t Drink and Drive campaign by the Nigeria Breweries (NB) Plc took off on a remarkable note recently, when it signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC).

    Thanking the FRSC for being a great partner in executing the past editions of the campaign, NB Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer Mr Nicolaas Vervelde said since its launch, the company has held 27 rallies in major cities across the country to sensitise and build the capacities of commercial and private vehicle drivers, motorcycle and tricycle riders and other road users on responsible consumprion of alcohol.

    Vervelde said the Don’t drink and drive campaign is about spreading the messages of responsible consumption of alcohol which the company would continue to communicate through strategic partnership with print and electronic media especially during this “Ember” period and beyond.

    He said as part of strengthening this year’s edition, public enlightenment campaigns would be held in four cities across Nigeria namely Port Harcourt, Lagos, Onitsha and Markurdi, while there would also be capacity building workshops for officers of the Federal Road Safety Corps, and the of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW).

    He said: “We anticipate that messages communicated through these avenues will further enhance awareness of roa safety and encourage positive changes on driver’s behaviour in relation to alcoholic consumption.

    The FRSC Corps Marshal Mr. Boboye Oyeyemi, praised the strong partnership between the agency and the Nigeria Breweries, adding that the MoU would further strengthen the partnership.

    He said the don’t drink and drive campaign has endured over the years because of the corporate interst of the Nigeria Breweries in safeguarding people’s lives and property on the nation’s highways.

    He challenged road users to show restraint in drinking especially when driving. He said too much alcohol in the blood; “reduces the sense of judgement of the driver, increases among others, the risk of committing speed violation, wrongful overtaking and other dangerous acts that could compromise safety.”

    Oyeyemi who challenged other corporate organisations to copy the good steps of the brewery giant, said FRSC would be looking forward to more support from all corporate organisations to further spread the message of safety.

    Oyeyemi, who said his men would go all out to ensure the success of the “DDD” campaign said the Corps has taken delivery of alcolizers from the Ministry of Works and these would be deployed by his men nationwide to arrest any driver driving under the influence of alcohol.

    “We want to make sure that we deployed the evidence based alcolizers as well use our radars and we would ensure that those caught are promptly referred to our mobile courts for quick adjudication of their cases,” he said.

    He said the agency would go all out in the next few weeks in its bid to reduce road crashes and deaths in the “Ember months”.

    The highpoint of the event was the inauguration of the Nigeria Breweries Special Corps Marshal, led by the Managing Director, Vervelde.

    Vervelde said the 3,000 special corps are employees of the company who have volunteered to carry out patrol, coordinate traffic and other perform other road safety activities within and around Lagos.

  • Multi-billion Naira tank wagons rot on rail tracks

    The 40 tank wagons imported between 2012 and 2013 by the Nigeria Railway Corporation (NRC) for the haulage of petroleum products from the Apapa Ports to other locations are rotting away at the railway yards.

    Some of the wagons are at the Apapa Yard. Others were sighted at the Ebute-Metta work yard.

    The corporation, as part of strategic upgrading of its services, took delivery of the tank wagons in 2012 and  2013.The first 20 came in 2012. The last 20 were delivered last year. Each has an inbuilt capacity of 100,000 litres of petroleum products. The 40 wagons could haul four million litres of petroleum. They cost billions.

    The wagons are expected to relieve the roads of heavy trucks that weaken them and decongest the ports and Apapa roads of petroleum tankers. Each tanker’s maximum capacity is 33,000 litres.

    The Federal Government’s initial enthusiasm about the new deliveries and their capacity to transform haulage of this essential commodity across the country, especially to the North, had been shortlived as it has been hampered by other factors.

    The wagons, it was discovered, has not been functioning because most of the tank farms around Apapa are not accessible. Many of the oil marketing companies were said to have flouted the planning regulations while constructing their tank farms by failing to build rail access into their facility.

    Though officials of many of these oil companies refused to comment on the issue when contacted, a top official of the NRC who spoke on condition of anonymity, said, virtually all the tank farms at Apapa are guilty of building their farms without consideration for the use of railway, making their farms inaccessible to rail services.

    “Out of all the oil majors operating tank farms in Apapa, only Mobil and Oando are said to be accessible and are presently hauling products from their farms through the railway.”

    He said the failure to link these tank farms with the rail lines caused a delay in the realisation of the goal of hauling petroleum products by rail.

    The Director, Mechanical, Electrical and Signal, Mr. Fidet Okhiria, an engineer, who corroborated this assertion, said the corporation was addressing the issue by laying rail tracks through all the tank farms in Apapa.

    He said: “By the time the tracks are laid into these tank farms, thousands of tons of cargo and oil would be lifted weekly and this will assist in decongesting Apapa and take the pressure off the roads.

    He said taking oil by rail from Lagos to Kano can be done within 72 hours, and urged oil firms to take full advantage of the service.

    “We believe our customers would have more confidence in us after upgrading these tracks. This is because it would assure them that we have reliable tracks and wagons, and can better safeguard their commodities,” Okhiria said.

    “What we are doing now,” he said, “is that we are setting the tracks into the fuel dumps that hitherto had no tracks for easy access.  They are on railway land and the agreement is that they should carry their products through railway.”

    He said this phase would be completed by November.

    “The contractor has assured us that the laying would be completed by November. When this is completed, we would erase the complaints by some of our prospective customers that the present system is more costly and are using that excuse to continue to patronise tankers,” Ohhiria said.

    He said though the rail tracks are still the narrow gauge, they have been upgraded from 60 pap to 85 pap, which makes the tracks stronger and could withstand the pressure assoc

    “We are changing the tracks from 60 to 85 rail pap. So instead of the rail tracks breaking off as a result of heavy load or pressure, it will endure.

    “We have two types of rails in Apapa. The first category is tracks for passenger service while the other is for cargo service. We access containers from cargo tracks. In Apapa, only the Flour Mill factory complied and that’s why their products are being evacuated to the North through the rail. We presently load about 600, 000 tons of goods from Flour Mills per month to Kano.

  • ‘Officers ’ll be rewarded’

    The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) has urged its officers and men to work harder and be diligent in the discharge of their duties to attain the Corp’s strategic goals.

    The Zonal Commanding Officer, Godwin Ogagaoghene, gave the charge at his Ojodu office, during the third quarter retreat for commanding officers and other senior officers of Zone RS2, Lagos.

    Ogagaoghene said “the retreat has become a tradition, courtesy of RSHQ instruction that every zone convene a retreat quarterly. It is a platform to dialogue on issues confronting them as a zone.”

    The retreat with the theme “Consultation, reward and punishment,”he said, is set to address the attainment of the Corps strategic goals.

    He said the zone has carved a niche for itself in the time past, with other commands looking up to it for leadership.

    “We must not fail in providing the required leadership to other commands, most especially at this critical time when the nation is contending with terrorism and the Ebola Haemohargic Virus scourge.

    “We must give direction for others to follow vis-a-vis the challenges we face in the discharge of our civic responsibilities.”

    Ogagaoghene, stressed further that Lagos-Ibadan expressway  is one of the major arteries through which goods and services from the Sea Port are conveyed to major cities in the country. Abuja, the nation’s capital would be strangulated of essential goods if the Lagos-Ibadan artery is blocked. Like they say, when Lagos sneezes, other states of the nation catch cold. The nation expects a lot from us. We must not therefore disappoint corps marshal, management of FRSC and the nation, who have entrusted this position of high responsibilities in our hands.”

    The FRSC boss appealed to the officers to always consult, to proffer solutions to myriad of problems that confront the zone and FRSC at large. “We must be proactive; we must look forward and ensure that our zone is not bedevilled by the unusual challenges that crippled other zones.”

  • ‘Officers ’ll be rewarded’

    The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) has urged its officers and men to work harder and be diligent in the discharge of their duties to attain the Corp’s strategic goals.

    The Zonal Commanding Officer, Godwin Ogagaoghene, gave the charge at his Ojodu office, during the third quarter retreat for commanding officers and other senior officers of Zone RS2, Lagos.

    Ogagaoghene said “the retreat has become a tradition, courtesy of RSHQ instruction that every zone convene a retreat quarterly. It is a platform to dialogue on issues confronting them as a zone.”

    The retreat with the theme “Consultation, reward and punishment,”he said, is set to address the attainment of the Corps strategic goals.

    He said the zone has carved a niche for itself in the time past, with other commands looking up to it for leadership.

    “We must not fail in providing the required leadership to other commands, most especially at this critical time when the nation is contending with terrorism and the Ebola Haemohargic Virus scourge.

    “We must give direction for others to follow vis-a-vis the challenges we face in the discharge of our civic responsibilities.”

    Ogagaoghene, stressed further that Lagos-Ibadan expressway  is one of the major arteries through which goods and services from the Sea Port are conveyed to major cities in the country. Abuja, the nation’s capital would be strangulated of essential goods if the Lagos-Ibadan artery is blocked. Like they say, when Lagos sneezes, other states of the nation catch cold. The nation expects a lot from us. We must not therefore disappoint corps marshal, management of FRSC and the nation, who have entrusted this position of high responsibilities in our hands.”

    The FRSC boss appealed to the officers to always consult, to proffer solutions to myriad of problems that confront the zone and FRSC at large. “We must be proactive; we must look forward and ensure that our zone is not bedevilled by the unusual challenges that crippled other zones.”

  • NB partners FRSC on ‘don’t drink and drive’

    NB partners FRSC on ‘don’t drink and drive’

    The seventh edition of the Don’t Drink and Drive campaign by the Nigeria Breweries (NB) Plc took off on a remarkable note recently, when it signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC).

    Thanking the FRSC for being a great partner in executing the past editions of the campaign, NB Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer Mr Nicolaas Vervelde said since its launch, the company has held 27 rallies in major cities across the country to sensitise and build the capacities of commercial and private vehicle drivers, motorcycle and tricycle riders and other road users on responsible consumprion of alcohol.

    Vervelde said the Don’t drink and drive campaign is about spreading the messages of responsible consumption of alcohol which the company would continue to communicate through strategic partnership with print and electronic media especially during this “Ember” period and beyond.

    He said as part of strengthening this year’s edition, public enlightenment campaigns would be held in four cities across Nigeria namely Port Harcourt, Lagos, Onitsha and Markurdi, while there would also be capacity building workshops for officers of the Federal Road Safety Corps, and the of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW).

    He said: “We anticipate that messages communicated through these avenues will further enhance awareness of roa safety and encourage positive changes on driver’s behaviour in relation to alcoholic consumption.

    The FRSC Corps Marshal Mr. Boboye Oyeyemi, praised the strong partnership between the agency and the Nigeria Breweries, adding that the MoU would further strengthen the partnership.

    He said the don’t drink and drive campaign has endured over the years because of the corporate interst of the Nigeria Breweries in safeguarding people’s lives and property on the nation’s highways.

    He challenged road users to show restraint in drinking especially when driving. He said too much alcohol in the blood; “reduces the sense of judgement of the driver, increases among others, the risk of committing speed violation, wrongful overtaking and other dangerous acts that could compromise safety.”

    Oyeyemi who challenged other corporate organisations to copy the good steps of the brewery giant, said FRSC would be looking forward to more support from all corporate organisations to further spread the message of safety.

    Oyeyemi, who said his men would go all out to ensure the success of the “DDD” campaign said the Corps has taken delivery of alcolizers from the Ministry of Works and these would be deployed by his men nationwide to arrest any driver driving under the influence of alcohol.

    “We want to make sure that we deployed the evidence based alcolizers as well use our radars and we would ensure that those caught are promptly referred to our mobile courts for quick adjudication of their cases,” he said.

    He said the agency would go all out in the next few weeks in its bid to reduce road crashes and deaths in the “Ember months”.

    The highpoint of the event was the inauguration of the Nigeria Breweries Special Corps Marshal, led by the Managing Director, Vervelde.

    Vervelde said the 3,000 special corps are employees of the company who have volunteered to carry out patrol, coordinate traffic and other perform other road safety activities within and around Lagos.

  • Multi-billion Naira tank wagons rot on rail tracks

    Multi-billion Naira tank wagons rot on rail tracks

    The 40 tank wagons imported between 2012 and 2013 by the Nigeria Railway Corporation (NRC) for the haulage of petroleum products from the Apapa Ports to other locations are rotting away at the railway yards.

    Some of the wagons are at the Apapa Yard. Others were sighted at the Ebute-Metta work yard.

    The corporation, as part of strategic upgrading of its services, took delivery of the tank wagons in 2012 and  2013.The first 20 came in 2012. The last 20 were delivered last year. Each has an inbuilt capacity of 100,000 litres of petroleum products. They cost billions.

    The wagons are expected to relieve the roads of heavy trucks that weakens them and decongest the ports and Apapa roads of petroleum tankers. Each tanker has a maximum capacity of 33,000 litres.

    The Federal Government’s initial enthusiasm about the new deliveries and their capacity to transform haulage of this essential commodity across the country, especially to the North, had been shortlived as it has been hampered by other factors.

    The wagons, it was discovered, has not been functioning because most of the tank farms around Apapa are not accessible. Many of the oil marketing companies were said to have flouted the planning regulations while constructing their tank farms by failing to build rail access into their facility.

    Though officials of many of these oil companies refused to comment on the issue when contacted, a top official of the NRC who spoke on condition of anonymity, said, virtually all the tank farms at Apapa are guilty of building their farms without consideration for the use of railway, making their farms inaccessible to rail services.

    “Out of all the oil majors operating tank farms in Apapa, only Mobil and Oando are accessible and are presently hauling products from their farms through the railway.”

    He said the failure to link these tank farms with the rail lines caused a delay in the realisation of the goal of hauling petroleum products by train.

    The Director, Mechanical, Electrical and Signal, Mr. Fidet Okhiria, an engineer, who corroborated this assertion, said the corporation was addressing the issue by laying rail tracks through all the tank farms in Apapa.

    He said: “By the time the tracks are laid into these tank farms, thousands of tons of cargo and oil would be lifted weekly and this will assist in decongesting Apapa and take the pressure off the roads.

    He said taking oil by rail from Lagos to Kano can be done within 72 hours, and urged oil firms to take full advantage of the service.

    “We believe our customers would have more confidence in us after upgrading these tracks. This is because it would assure them that we have reliable tracks and wagons, and can better safeguard their commodities,” Okhiria said.

    “What we are doing now,” he said, “is that we are setting the tracks into the fuel dumps that hitherto had no tracks for easy access.  They are on railway land and the agreement is that they should carry their products through railway.”

    He said this phase would be completed by November.

    “The contractor has assured us that the laying would be completed by November. When this is completed, we would erase the complaints by some of our prospective customers that the present system is more costly and are using that excuse to continue to patronise tankers,” Ohhiria said.

    He said though the rail tracks are still the narrow gauge, they have been upgraded from 60 pap to 85 pap, which makes the tracks stronger and could withstand the pressure assoc

    “We are changing the tracks from 60 to 85 rail pap. So instead of the rail tracks breaking off as a result of heavy load or pressure, it will endure.

    “We have two types of rails in Apapa. The first category is tracks for passenger service while the other is for cargo service. We access containers from cargo tracks. In Apapa, only the Flour Mill factory complied and that’s why their products are being evacuated to the North through the rail. We presently load about 600, 000 tons of goods from Flour Mills per month to Kano.

  • ‘Officers ’ll be rewarded’

    ‘Officers ’ll be rewarded’

    The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) has urged its officers and men to work harder and be diligent in the discharge of their duties to attain the Corp’s strategic goals.

    The Zonal Commanding Officer, Godwin Ogagaoghene, gave the charge at his Ojodu office, during the third quarter retreat for commanding officers and other senior officers of Zone RS2, Lagos.

    Ogagaoghene said “the retreat has become a tradition, courtesy of RSHQ instruction that every zone convene a retreat quarterly. It is a platform to dialogue on issues confronting them as a zone.”

    The retreat with the theme “Consultation, reward and punishment,”he said, is set to address the attainment of the Corps strategic goals.

    He said the zone has carved a niche for itself in the time past, with other commands looking up to it for leadership.

    “We must not fail in providing the required leadership to other commands, most especially at this critical time when the nation is contending with terrorism and the Ebola Haemohargic Virus scourge.

    “We must give direction for others to follow vis-a-vis the challenges we face in the discharge of our civic responsibilities.”

    Ogagaoghene, stressed further that Lagos-Ibadan expressway  is one of the major arteries through which goods and services from the Sea Port are conveyed to major cities in the country. Abuja, the nation’s capital would be strangulated of essential goods if the Lagos-Ibadan artery is blocked. Like they say, when Lagos sneezes, other states of the nation catch cold. The nation expects a lot from us. We must not therefore disappoint corps marshal, management of FRSC and the nation, who have entrusted this position of high responsibilities in our hands.”

    The FRSC boss appealed to the officers to always consult, to proffer solutions to myriad of problems that confront the zone and FRSC at large. “We must be proactive; we must look forward and ensure that our zone is not bedevilled by the unusual challenges that crippled other zones.”